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.
A rolling programme of interactive workshops and expert-led webinars, shaped by the AIchemy community and our ECR Committee.
Workshops
Quarterly, interactive sessions on key topics. Got an idea?
Webinars
Monthly online talks with academic, industry, and policy speakers. Know someone we should hear from?
Schools & Public
Activities, workshops, and exhibitions designed to engage local school children and the wider public.
Inspiring the next generation and engaging with the community.
Upcoming Events
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.
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
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.
19 SEPTEMBER 2025, 09:00 – 17:00
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.
Past Events
Explore highlights, recordings, and key takeaways from our previous events.
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
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
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, 2020
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 INAGURAL 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.