Flagship Events
Workshops & Webinars
Outreach & Engagement
A rolling programme of interactive workshops and expert-led webinars, shaped by the AIchemy community and our ECR Committee.
Webinars
Monthly online talks with academic, industry, and policy speakers.
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Workshops
Focused one-day events to upskill researchers and professionals.
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Schools & Public
Activities, workshops, and exhibitions designed to engage local school children and the wider public.
Inspiring the next generation, promoting curiosity in AI and Chemistry, and engaging with the community through hands-on experiences and creative outreach.
AIchemy Conferences
Annual conferences showcasing the Hub’s activities and cutting-edge AI & chemistry research.
Industry Showcases
Events connecting academia and industry to foster collaboration and innovation.
Upcoming Events
24 october – 2 november 2025
River of Light festival @Liverpool
AIchemy Hub will be part of the River of Light Festival in Liverpool from 24th October – 2nd November 2025.
With the theme ‘The Science of Light’ and free to attend, it’s an event not to be missed!
11 NOVEMBER 2025, 10:00 – 16:30
AI Infused Sustainable Manufacturing Symposium
Co-hosted with Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing Hub (SCHEMA) to explore new AI methods and digitalisation strategies and their integration with the design and manufacturing of sustainable chemicals and materials.
19 november 2025, 14:00 – 15:00
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
>_ Dr. Lauren Ye Seol Lee – UCL
Talk Title: Bridging Molecular Design and Synthesis: AI and Automation for Reaction Optimisation
>_ Omer Omar – CEO, Apoello
Talk Title: Screening first, AI on top
26 november 2025, 09:00 – 17:00
Agentic AI In Chemistry symposium
Join us for a one-day deep dive into the future of AI in chemistry, where the focus will be Agentic AI. This symposium will explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as autonomous agents, are transforming the way we design, predict and accelerate chemical discovery.
8 – 12 December 2025
Winter School: Robotics and Ai for Chemical Materials
The Robotics and AI for Materials Chemistry Winter School is a five-day intensive training programme focused on digital and automated chemistry, robotic systems, and AI-driven scientific discovery.
27 JANUARY 2026
New Starters in AI for Chemistry
This ECR Symposium will bring together recently appointed academics, postdoctoral researchers and late-stage PhD students who are developing and deploying AI at the chemistry interface. Submission is now open for oral and poster abstracts!
13 – 17 April 2026
CAMMLS
The CaMML School is a five-day programme designed to This training will encompass a number of talks and practical sessions, focusing on the basics of machine learning, machine learning interatomic potentials and graph neural networks.
Past Events
Explore highlights, recordings, and key takeaways from our previous events.
22 October 2025, 15:00 – 16:00
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
>_ Prof. Bingqing Chen – UC Berkeley.
Talk Title: Energy and Forces are all you need
>_ Yuxing Zhou – University of Oxford
Talk Title: Device-scale simulations of memory materials enabled by fast and accurate interatomic potentials
30 SEPTEMBER 2025, 09:30 – 16:30
OPEN CHEMISTRY ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (OChRA) Workshop
Join us for an interactive workshop where we will introduce OChRA, an open-source framework that connects robotic platforms and automated laboratory instruments into unified, programmable workflows.

19 SEPTEMBER 2025, 10:00 – 15:45
RAG models and AI agents in Chemical Discovery and Development Workshop
Join us for a one-day workshop focused on the transformative role of new AI technologies in chemical discovery and development.

8 – 9 SEPTEMBER 2025, 10:30 – 16:30
UK AI Research Symposium 2025
UKAIRS will bring together researchers from a diversity of disciplines, with the goal of shaping the UK’s research priorities, identifying cross-fertilisation opportunities, and informing the narrative around the challenges to delivering AI that benefits society and the economy.

17 SEPTEMBER 2025, 14:00 – 15:00
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
>_ Prof. Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli – The bittersweet lesson of scaling in AI for materials
>_ Yushu Han – Accelerated Porosity Screening Using a Multichannel Colorimetric Array

31 JULY 2025, 09:30 – 16:30
Inorganic Informatics: From Rules to Embeddings
This workshop explores the principles and practice of inorganic informatics, focusing on the development of SMACT for rule-based and embedding-driven materials discovery hosted at Imperial College.

23 JULY 2025, 14:00 – 15:00
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
Speakers:
>_ Prof. Jason Hein – Real-Time Data and Modular Robotics for Scalable Workflow Automation
>_ Sriram Vijayakrishnan – Autonomous Mobile Robots For Exploratory Synthetic Chemistry

21 JULY 2025, 10:30 – 16:30
(Gen)AI in Chemistry Education Workshop
Join us to explore how (Gen)AI is reshaping undergraduate chemistry education, with real examples, benefits, and challenges discussed at this interactive workshop hosted at Imperial College.

18 JUNE 2025, 13:00 – 13:30
AIchemy Frontier Fund Launch Webinar
Join our webinar to learn about our new funding call, eligibility, application tips, timelines, and Q&A with the team.

21 may 2025, 18:30 – 21:00
Pint of Science @ Liverpool
Discover how AI is revolutionising chemistry, engineering, and even the nuclear industry.
Come for the cutting-edge science, stay for the cold pints and curious conversations.

21 May 2025, 15:00 – 16:00
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
Speakers:
>_ James Odgers – Approximate Bayesian Inference for Spectroscopy with Varying Pure Component Signals
>_ Prof. Abigail Doyle – Development of ML methods for reaction optimization and prediction

23 APRIL 2025, 14:00 – 15:00
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
Speakers:
>_ Nessa Carson – Don’t throw your data away! Gaining meaningful insights from high-throughput chemistry
>_ Linden Schrecker – Efficient Data Collection for Efficient Decision Making in Process Development

19 MARCH 2025, 14:00 – 15:00
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
Speakers:
>_ Prof. Philippe Schwaller – Teaching Language Models to Speak Chemistry: From Design to Synthesis
>_ Yuan Li – High-throughput robotic chemical titration using computer vision.

17 MARCH 2025
AIchemy Inaugural Annual Conference
Hear from leading experts in AI and Chemistry in a day of short talks, panels, and networking – exploring AI’s transformative role across Optimisation, Generative AI / Large Language models, Human in the Loop / Robotics, and AI tools for Chemistry.

19 FEBRUARY 2025
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
Speakers:
>_ Dr. Fadwa El Mellouhi – Data-driven Materials Discovery
>_ Ross Urqurhart – Machine Learning Potentials: Beyond Potential Energy

22 JANUARY 2025
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
Speakers:
>_ Dr. Sterling Baird – So, you want to build a self-driving lab?
>_ Dr. Austin Mroz – Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization in Chemistry: Open Challenges and Major Consideration

11 DECEMBER 2024
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
Speakers:
>_ Prof. Felix Strieth-Kalthoff – Machine Learning hits the Lab: Experiment Planning with Bayesian (Co-)Pilots
>_ Kelvin Wong – Analysing Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Data with Neural Network Accelerated Monte Carlo Sampling

20 NOVEMBER 2024
AIchemy’s Monthly Webinar Series
Speakers:
>_ Dr. Adam Clayton – Self-Optimising Approaches for Flow Synthesis
>_ Abdoulatif Cisse – HypBO: Accelerating Black-Box Scientific Experiments Using Experts’ Hypotheses

23 OCTOBER 2024
AIchemy’s monthly WEBINAR series – inaugural webinar
Speakers:
>_ Prof Anna Slater – Automation and Flow: Opportunities for Supramolecular Chemists
>_ Annabel Basford – Streamlining the discovery of porous organic cages

5 SEPTEMBER 2024
AIchemy Digital Launch
EVENT
Hear from our Hub’s co-Directors along with other members of the Leadership Team, discover our research priorities, upcoming activities & events, and funding opportunities — and help shape the future of the Hub.










