Day 1 – Monday 9th March

Main Conference DeVere Tortworth
10:00 – 10:45Registration / Tea & Coffee Westminster Lobby / The Orangery
10:45 – 13:45Session 1 – Chair: Gill Smith Westminster Suite
10:45 – 11:00Welcome & IntroductionProfessor Richard Whitby
(University of Southampton)
11:00 – 11:45 Computer-Assisted Design of Complex Organic Syntheses –
50 years on [This talk is sponsored by CAS]
Professor Peter Johnson
(University of Leeds)
11:45 – 12:30 Gathering molecules: representations and machine learning
with minimal data
Professor Jonathan Goodman
(University of Cambridge)
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch DeVere 1853 Restaurant
13:45 – 15:45 Session 2 – Chair: Professor Simon Coles Westminster Suite
13:45 – 14:30 Introduction to ML and Structured matrix methods for
learning outliers
Professor Mahesan Niranjan
(University of Southampton)
14:30 – 15:00 Applying AI to retrosynthesis in the wilderness Mikołaj Sacha
(Molecule.One)
15:00 – 15:15 Reproducibility in Chemistry Dr Mark Warne
(Deep Matter)
15:15 – 15:45 Tea & Coffee & Exhibition The Orangery
15:45 – 17:35 Session 3 – Chair: Professor Richard Whitby Westminster Suite
15:45 – 16:00 Accurate excited states calculations on near term quantum
computers
Jules Tilly
(Rahko)
16:00 – 16:15 Making sense of predicted routes:
the use of data as evidence for predictions in SciFinder
Paul Peters
(CAS)
16:15 – 16:30 What is the importance of false reactions
for efficient data-driven retrosynthetic analysis?
Dr Quentin Perron
(IKTOS)
16:30 – 16:35 Combining artificial intelligence with structured high quality
data in chemistry – delivering outstanding predictive
chemistry applications
Dr Abhinav Kumar
(Elsevier)
16:35 – 17:05 Intelligence from Data. Towards Prediction in Organometallic
Catalysis
Dr Natalie Fey
(University of Bristol)
17:05 – 17:10 IKTOS: Introducing the Poster Session Dr Quentin Perron & Dr Adam Skiredj
(IKTOS)
17:10 – 17:20 Collect Room Keys Westminster Lobby
Evening Activities DeVere Tortworth
18:30 – 19:30 Drinks & Poster Session [Poster Prizes sponsored by IKTOS]
& Exhibition
The Orangery
19:30 Dinner Westminster Suite

Day 2 – Tuesday 10 March

MorningDeVere Tortworth
06:30 – 09:00 Breakfast DeVere 1853 Restaurant
Main ConferenceDeVere Tortworth
09:00 – 11:00Session 4 – Chair: Dr Samantha KanzaWestminster Suite
09:00 – 09:30Chemistry ontologies and artificial intelligence Dr Colin Batchelor
(Royal Society of Chemistry)
09:30 – 10:00 UDM – a community-driven data format for the exchange of
comprehensive reaction information
Dr Jarek Tomczak
(Pistoia Alliance)
10:00 – 10:30Retrosynthesis via Machine Learning Dr Marwin Segler
(Benevolant.ai)
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & Coffee & Exhibition The Orangery
11:00 – 13:45 Session 5 – Chair: Dr Natalie Fey Westminster Suite
11:00 – 11:30 From mechanisms to reaction selectivity Professor Per-Ola Norrby
(AstraZeneca)
11:45 – 12:15 Automated mining of a database of 9.2M reactions from the
patent literature, and its application to synthesis planning.
Dr Roger Sayle
(NextMove Software)
12:15 – 12:30 The Semantic Laboratory Dr Samantha Kanza
(University of Southampton)
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch DeVere 1853 Restaurant
13:45 – 16:30 Session 6 – Chair: Professor Harris Makatsoris Westminster Suite
13:45 – 14:45 ASKCOS: data-driven chemical synthesis Dr Connor Coley
(MIT)
14:45 – 16:15 Discussions/Tea & Coffee & Exhibition The Orangery / Westminster Suite
16:15 – 17:45 Session 7 – Chair: Dr Wendy WarrWestminster Suite
16:15 – 16:45 Integrating AI with Robust Automated Chemistry:
AI Driven Route Design and Automated Reaction
& Route Validation
Dr Mario Latendresse
(SRI Biosciences)
16:45 – 17:45 A Non-Deterministic Chemputer for Running Chemical
Programmes
Professor Lee Cronin
(University of Glasgow)
Evening Activities DeVere Tortworth
18:30 – 19:00 Exhibition & Drinks Reception Sponsored by CAS SciFinder The Orangery
19:00 Formal Conference Dinner Westminster Suite

Day 3 – Wednesday 11th March

Morning DeVere Tortworth
06:30 – 09:00 Breakfast DeVere 1853 Restaurant
Main ConferenceDeVere Tortworth
09:15 – 11:00 Session 8 – Chair: Martin ElliottWestminster Suite
09:15 – 09:30 Data-driven exploration of the catalytic reductive
amination reaction
Dr Benjamin Deadman
(Imperial College – ROAR)
09:30 – 09:45 Machine-Assisted Flow Chemistry for Organic Synthesis Dr Christopher A Hone
(Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE))
09:45 – 10:00 Encoding solvents and product outcomes to improve
reaction prediction systems
Dr Ella M Gale
(University of Bristol)
10:00 – 10:30 Evolutionary computing strategies and feedback
control for directed execution and optimisation of
chemical reactions
Professor Harris Makatsoris
(King’s College, London)
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & Coffee & Exhibition The Orangery
11:00 – 13:45 Session 9 – Chair: Professor Jonathan Goodman Westminster Suite
11:00 – 11:30 Computational design via metal-driven self-assembly:
From molecular building blocks to emerging functional
materials
Professor Fernanda Duarte
(University of Oxford)
11:30 – 11:45 Predictive models for assessing conditions of hydrogenation
reactions
Dr Timur Madzhidov
(Kazan Federal University)
11:45 – 12:15 Retrosynthetic Software for practicing chemists: Novel and
efficient in silico pathway design validated at the bench
Dr Hugo Viana
(Merck)
12:15 – 12:30Summing up and Close of MeetingProfessor Richard Whitby
(University of Southampton)
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch DeVere 1853 Restaurant
13:45 – 14:30 Informal Discussion Session with Tea & Coffee Westminster Suite