SPE Webinar
Increasing Polymer Sustainability Using AI
October 11, 2024; 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Online
Summary
Increasing consumer and regulatory pressure for circular polymer solutions, and replacing harmful additives, is putting pressure on manufacturers to innovate...quickly. Increasing recycled content, reducing embodied carbon, removing problem plasticizers…these all add complexity to optimizing polymers grades. Industry leaders are using AI to respond faster by harnessing its ability to simultaneously optimize large numbers of properties, and rapidly search through billions of possible combinations of raw materials and process parameters. Attend this webinar to see how AI is being used to increase the sustainability of polymers.
Learning Objectives:
- How AI can be used to design polymer grades while simultaneously optimizing mechanical properties and socio-environmental factors derived from Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
- How AI can help confidently reformulate grades to replace environmentally problematic additives
- How AI can be used to accelerate bringing products incorporating recycled content to market, while dealing with the challenges arising from highly variable feedstocks
Agenda
If you can't attend one or several sessions live, or if you want to review some concepts, the recordings will be available after each session.
Registration Information
| Free for all attendees |
Presenters
Dr. Steve Edkins
Director of Strategy
Citrine Informatics
Steve Edkins is the Director of Strategy and Operations at Citrine Informatics. He completed his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mat. Sci.) at the University of Cambridge in 2012, a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Postdoc at Stanford. Having worked at Citrine since 2018 he has helped many companies create value from their data and has a deep understanding of how AI can accelerate product development.
Stefan Keller
Senior Account Executive
Citrine Informatics
Stefan Keller is a Senior Account Executive at Citrine Informatics. Before that he worked for innovative materials & chemicals companies for over 20 years. At PolyOne (now Avient) he led a Corporate Strategic Account team responsible for driving the overall customer relationship and global business growth at key strategic clients. As OEM Business Development Manager at GE Plastics (now SABIC) he led the identification, assessment and closure of new business at major European based OEMs by targeting and developing partnerships to drive innovative material concepts. Stefan is a graduate engineer in plastics technology from the University of Applied Science in Würzburg, Germany.
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