My Activity
Presentations
From experimentation to insights: Leveraging hardware and software automation in pharma development
Journées de Chimie Organique JCO, Paris, France
Oct 2025
TBC
Biopharma Roundtable, Macclesfield, UK
Oct 2025
TBC
Lab of the Future, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sep 2025
TBC
Nature Automation in Chemistry, Hefei, China
Sep 2025
The digital present and future of chemistry
CheM62 Network Meeting, Liverpool, UK
Jul 2025
Bridging science & technology: Navigating the digital frontier
AIchemy Webinar Series
Apr 2025
FAIR principles & data stewardship
Paperless Lab Academy Europe, Milan, Italy
Mar 2025
A spoonful of sugar: Gaining pharma insights via a great user experience
Paperless Lab Academy Europe, Milan, Italy
Mar 2025
Developing a blueprint for effective data management between sponsor and vendor
Biotech Outsourcing Solutions, Manchester, UK
Nov 2024
Bridging science & technology: Navigating the digital frontier
RSC BMCS-CICAG Hot Topics: Robotics & Automation
Nov 2024
From molecules, to robots, to people
Women in Chemistry Day, Oxford University, UK
Oct 2024
AI & data in the process development space
RSC Digital Discovery webinar: Artificial Intelligence and Data in Drug Discovery and Development
Oct 2024
Navigating the digital frontier: Chemical data for people and robots
Women in Industry Day, King's College London, UK
Oct 2024
How not to waste a chemist's time: Chemical insights through great user experience
ChemTalks, Basel, Switzerland
Sep 2024
Elevating data quality in the age of automation
ACS National Meeting
Aug 2024
Roads to Success
EuChemS Chemistry Congress, Dublin, Ireland
Jul 2024
High-throughput electrochemistry to enable scaleup in pharma
EuChemS Chemistry Congress, Dublin, Ireland
Jul 2024
Elevating data quality in the era of self-driving labs
Future Labs Live, Basel, Switzerland
Jun 2024
AI in Publishing: Dos and Don'ts
#RSCPosterLive
Mar 2024
Championing "digital" at AstraZeneca
SCI Big Data III and Artificial Intelligence for Chemistry, London, UK
Feb 2024
High-throughput experimentation
ICIQ Marie Curie ITN, Tarragona, Spain
Nov 2023
Championing “digital” at AstraZeneca
2nd Automated Intelligent Chemistry, London, UK
Nov 2023
Talk to all your robots at once: A beginner Python conceptual workframe
ELRIG Drug Discovery, Liverpool, UK
Oct 2023
Better to best electronic lab notebook practices
20/15 Visioneers – Better to Best ELN Practices
Sep 2023
No such thing as magic! Enabling chemical insights through user experience
ILMAC Conference, Basel, Switzerland
Sep 2023
The future of chemistry
World Chemistry Leadership Meeting @ IUPAC CHAINS, The Hague, Netherlands
Aug 2023
Digital transformation of chemistry
World Chemistry Leadership Meeting @ IUPAC CHAINS, The Hague, Netherlands
Aug 2023
Championing "Digital" at AstraZeneca
Gordon Research Conference: High-throughput chemistry & chemical biology, New London, NH, USA
Jul 2023
Careers in Chemistry & High-Throughput Synthesis
Gordon Research Seminar: High-throughput chemistry & chemical biology, New London, NH, USA
Jul 2023
Electrochemistry in High-Throughput
57th RICT International Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, Paris, France
Jul 2023
Talk to all your robots at once: A beginner Python conceptual workframe
Future Labs Live, Basel, Switzerland
Jun 2023
Robots and automation for chemical reaction optimization
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
May 2023
Assessing the potential of mobile robotics in drug development
Pharma Automation & SmartLabs Congress, London, UK
Apr 2023
Automate the boring stuff: Talk to all your robots at once
Pharma Automation & SmartLabs Congress, London, UK
Apr 2023
Beyond the binary: LGBTQA in Chemistry
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Mar 2023
Robots and automation for chemical reaction optimization
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Mar 2023
Robots in the Lab
Chemistry World
Feb 2023
Robots and automation for chemical reaction optimization
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Feb 2023
The digital future of process chemistry & technology
The Digital Future of Process Chemistry & Technology, London, UK
Nov 2022
Automate your own HTE workflow
The Digital Future of Process Chemistry & Technology, London, UK
Nov 2022
Automate your own HTE workflow
World's First Cloud Lab, HTE, & Lab Automation Conference
Nov 2022
Future looking strategies for robotics & automation
SmartLabs & Pharma Data, London, UK
Sep 2022
Automated workflows: When should they actually be utilized?
SmartLabs & Pharma Data, London, UK
Sep 2022
Robots and automation for chemical reaction optimization
Monash University
Jul 2022
Industrial electrochemistry: From screening to scaleup
ESMEC European School of Medicinal Chemistry, Urbino, Italy
Jul 2022
Forging New Pathways
CompChemURG: Forging New Pathways
Jun 2022
Automate your own HTE workflow
High-Throughput Experimentation Summit, Basel, Switzerland
Jun 2022
Has the digital promise been met?
Future Labs Live, Basel, Switzerland
Jun 2022
Digital Needs of the Scientific Community
AI4SD AI 4 Scientific Discovery conference, Southampton, UK
Mar 2022
Scripting Chemistry Workflows for Automation Efficiency
Emerging Technologies in Organic Chemistry ETOC Symposium
Feb 2022
ChemCareers 2022: Digital Skills for Chemists
RSC ChemCareers symposium series
Jan 2022
Robots and automation in chemical reaction optimization
University College London Chemical & Physical Society
Jan 2022
Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation
AI3SD Autumn Seminar Series
Dec 2021
Industrial Electrochemistry: From Screening to Scaleup
Scientific Update: 7th Winter Process Chemistry Conference, York, UK
Dec 2021
Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation
IBM
Dec 2021
Data management: At the root of high-throughput experimentation
World's First Cloud Lab, HTE, and Lab Automation Oriented Virtual Conference, 20/15 Visioneers
Oct 2021
Sowing the seeds for discovery: Automated reaction optimization in agrochemistry
CatSci 10 year celebration: The Next Decade of Drug Development
Oct 2021
Data management: at the root of high-throughput experimentation
Applied Catalysis Hub & UK Catalysis Hub Meeting
Sep 2021
Automation and high-throughput experimentation careers
Imperial College London, London, UK
Sep 2021
Data management for high-throughput chemistry
VISTA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Data Science-assisted Synthesis
Jul 2021
Sowing the seeds of discovery: Automated reaction optimization in agrochemistry
University of Sydney
Jun 2021
High-throughput chemical reaction optimization
European Robotics Forum
Apr 2021
Optimization of a mechanistically-complex Stille reaction for agrochemical SAR exploration
ACS National Meeting
Apr 2021
Networking: Keeping science connected (Invited discussion host)
Celebrating Women in Chemistry
Mar 2021
Making HTE easier & more accessible to scientists
20/15 Visioneers
Feb 2021
Data, Digitalization & Artificial Intelligence
SCI
Feb 2021
Careers in chemistry research at Syngenta
e-YCN @ EuChemS Chemistry Congress
Aug 2020
Chemistry and automation
Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium, Oxford, UK
Feb 2020
Twitter and freelancing for chemists
Durham University MoSMed CDT, Durham, UK
Jan 2020
Organic Chemistry – but Faster (Invited research seminar)
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Oct 2019
Freelancing for chemists
ICIQ PhD Day, Tarragona, Spain
Jun 2019
Digital media for careers in chemistry
Women in Chemistry Conference, Nottingham, UK
Mar 2019
High-Throughput Reaction Optimization
RSC Careers & Networking Event, London, UK
Dec 2018
WHY make unnatural amino acids?
Out Thinkers, London, UK
Feb 2018
Cotton & Wilkinson Student Seminar Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Organized the seminar series and gave four of the talks on the chemistries of the transition metal elements.
Jun–Aug 2016
Law and Narcotics
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Oct 2011
Event organization
A list of events I've organized or helped to organize.
OUSS = Oxford University Scientific Society
| Date | Speaker/Title | |
|---|
| May 2025 | 26th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium | |
| (RSC HSG) Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers. | ||
| Mar 2025 | UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2025 | |
| (RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges. | ||
| Nov 2024 | RSC-BMCS/CICAG Hot Topics: Robotics & Automation | |
| (RSC CICAG) A half-day online symposium on robotics and automation in chemistry. | ||
| Nov 2024 | Automated Synthesis Forum | |
| A 2-day conference on data, automation, and the future of synthesis, in Oxford. | ||
| Sep 2024 | Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry | |
| (RSC CICAG) A popular, 2.5-day conference + workshop on all aspects of AI in chemistry, held at Churchill College, Cambridge. | ||
| May 2024 | 2nd RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postdoctoral Symposium | |
| Two plenary speakers and several postdoctoral research talks. | ||
| Mar 2024 | UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2024 | |
| (RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges. | ||
| May 2023 | 25th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium | |
| (RSC HSG) Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers. | ||
| Mar 2023 | UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2023 | |
| (RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges. | ||
| Sep 2022 | RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group 37th Postgraduate Symposium | |
| Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations | ||
| Mar 2022 | UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2022 | |
| (RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges. | ||
| Sep 2021 | RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group 36th Postgraduate Symposium | |
| Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations | ||
| Mar 2021 | UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2021 | |
| (RSC HSG) Popular, national competition for academics and industry synthetic chemists in the UK. Competing teams compose a retrosynthesis and forward synthesis of a complex natural product over several months, then present their results before a panel of judges. | ||
| Oct 2020 | SCI Automated Intelligent Chemistry conference | |
| (SCI YCP) Conference over two afternoons, to bring together experts from industry and academics/students alike, interested in developing or using automation within organic and medicinal chemistry | ||
| Sep 2020 | RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group 35th Postgraduate Symposium | |
| Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations | ||
| Jul 2020 | 2020 Retrosynthesis Competition Winners' Showcase | |
| Virtual webinar from SCI YCP and FCG | ||
| Jul 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Scott Bagley, Pfizer, and Richard Horan, GSK | |
| "Pd-catalysed preparation of cyclic alkenylsulfonyl fluorides: a new motif for sulfur-fluoride exchange"
"Control in process development: Evolution of the manufacturing route to vestipitant" |
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| Jul 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Stephen Thomas, University of Edinburgh, & Iustina Slabu, Johnson Matthey | |
| "Modern approaches to reduction reactions"
"Biocatalysed nitro reductions and main group catalysis for hydroboration reactions" |
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| Jun 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Kevin Lam, University of Greenwich | |
| "Electrons, cations, and radicals: An electrifying journey" | ||
| Jun 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Lars Baerfacker, Bayer Pharmaceuticals | |
| "Discovery of finerenone: An MR antagonist for the treatment of cardiorenal disease" | ||
| Jun 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Matthew Burns & Jean-Marc Henry, AstraZeneca | |
| "AZD5718: Route design to manufacture" | ||
| May 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Dave Lathbury, Astute Chemical Design | |
| "Early CMC studies in drug development, medicinal chemistry-chemical development interface" | ||
| May 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Liza Dunn, Bayer Crop Sciences | |
| "Pesticides are critical for public health" | ||
| May 2020 | SCI YCP-FCG webinar: Vicky Steadman, Eurofins | |
| "Discovery of a potent and orally-bioavailable macrocyclic cyclophilin inhibitor" | ||
| Mar 2020 | #RSCPoster Twitter conference | |
| Global Twitter-based poster conference run by the RSCA | ||
| Dec 2019 | 26th SCI Annual Review Meeting | |
| "Catalysis and Enabling Technologies for Synthesis" | ||
| Sep 2019 | RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group 34th Postgraduate Symposium | |
| (RSC HSG) Two plenary speakers and 8 postgraduate research talks, as well as flash presentations & poster session, held at AstraZeneca Macclesfield | ||
| May 2019 | 24th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium | |
| (RSC HSG) Five-day RSC organic chemistry conference with international plenary speakers | ||
| Feb 2019 | Dr Suzie Sheehy, Oxford University | Particle physics |
| (OUSS) Particle accelerators: from curiosity-driven research to life-changing technology | ||
| Jan 2019 | Dr Katherine Wheelhouse, GSK | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Don’t process chemists just make things bigger? | ||
| Nov 2018 | Prof Varinder Aggarwal, Bristol University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Organic synthesis in the 21st century, and why fish is always served with a slice of lemon | ||
| Nov 2018 | Prof Brad Gibson, University of Hull | Astrophysics |
| (OUSS) The death of planet Earth | ||
| Nov 2018 | Dr Elsa Sotiriadis, the Biofuturist | Biology |
| (OUSS) How biology became the next great software revolution | ||
| Nov 2018 | Prof Chris Fairburn, Oxford NHS Trust | Psychiatry |
| (OUSS) Developing effective psychological treatments | ||
| Oct 2018 | Prof Richard Barker, New Medicine Partners | Biomedical sciences |
| (OUSS) Bioscience: lost in translation? | ||
| Oct 2018 | Prof J Doyne Farmer, Oxford University | Economics |
| (OUSS) Prediction in economics and elsewhere | ||
| Oct 2018 | Richard Dinan, Applied Fusion Systems | Engineering |
| (OUSS) Will fusion reactors power space rockets? | ||
| May 2018 | Dr Josh Mouland, Manchester University | Biology |
| (OUSS) How light affects our internal body clocks | ||
| May 2018 | Prof Steve Goldup, University of Southampton | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Nanoscale machinery: from molecular machines to molecular asymmetry | ||
| Apr 2018 | Liz Parrish, BioViva Sciences | Gerontology |
| (OUSS) The woman who wants to genetically engineer you: gene and cell therapies to cure ageing | ||
| Mar 2018 | Prof Anders Sandberg, Oxford University | Physics |
| (OUSS) Physical eschatology: what can we say about the far future? | ||
| Feb 2018 | Libby Jackson, UK Space Agency | Engineering |
| (OUSS) Humans in space: what’s next? | ||
| Feb 2018 | Prof Jane McKeating, Oxford University | Biology |
| (OUSS) Oxygen tension regulates hepatitis virus replication & pathology | ||
| Feb 2018 | Dr Richard Smith, British Medical Journal | Science |
| (OUSS) The many defects in how we publish science | ||
| Feb 2018 | TOAD distillery | |
| (OUSS) Field trip | ||
| Jan 2018 | Dr Claire Patterson, AstraZeneca | Biopharmaceutics |
| (OUSS) A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down? | ||
| Jan 2018 | Dr Fabrizio Schifano, University of Hertfordshire | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Recent changes in drug scenarios and cognitive enhancers | ||
| Nov 2017 | Dr Colin Wright, Solipsys Ltd | Mathematics |
| (OUSS) Juggling: theory and practice | ||
| Oct 2017 | Prof Terezinha Nunes, Oxford University | Psychology |
| (OUSS) Using mathematics to understand the world | ||
| Oct 2017 | Prof Wade Allison, Oxford University | Physics |
| (OUSS) Trust, energy, and the environment – nuclear, please, 24/7! | ||
| 2016 | Cotton & Wilkinson student seminar series | Chemistry |
| A series of 18 talks over 9 evenings, on the chemistry of transition metal elements | ||
| May 2013 | Dr Eric Werner, Oxford University | Biology |
| (OUSS) Cancer Networks | ||
| May 2013 | Prof Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Life in the frozen state | ||
| May 2013 | Dr June McCombie MBE, Nottingham University | Science |
| Women's Lecture: Making the invisible visible | ||
| May 2013 | Prof Joe Sweeney, University of Huddersfield | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Big bad pharma | ||
| Apr 2013 | Prof Chris Cooper, University of Essex | Biochemistry |
| (OUSS) The science behind drugs and doping in sport | ||
| Feb 2013 | Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas, Cambridge University | Science |
| (OUSS) Unpredictability and change in science and technology | ||
| Feb 2013 | Prof Gero Miesenböck, Oxford University | Neuroscience |
| (OUSS) Optogenetics in neuroscience | ||
| Feb 2013 | Gary Taubes (author),
Prof Philip James, World Obesity Federation, Prof Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University |
Biology |
| (OUSS) Sloth, gluttony, or hormones? This house believes that hormones, not calories, make us fat (debate) | ||
| Feb 2013 | Prof Rob Stockman, Nottingham University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) From chemical weapons to chemotherapy | ||
| Feb 2013 | Prof Hugh Hunt, Cambridge University | Mathematics |
| (OUSS) Boomerangs, bouncing balls, and spinning things | ||
| Jan 2013 | Neuroskeptic (blogger) | Neuroscience |
| (OUSS) Getting the brain wrong | ||
| Jan 2013 | Prof Steve Jones, UCL | Biology |
| (OUSS) The joy of sects: rewriting the Bible as a scientific textbook | ||
| Jan 2013 | Jessica Richman, uBiome | Genetics |
| (OUSS) uBiome: Sequencing the human microbiome through citizen science | ||
| Nov 2012 | Prof Sir David Baulcombe, Cambridge University | Genetics |
| (OUSS) The dark matter of genetics | ||
| Nov 2012 | Dr Harry Witchel, Brighton & Sussex Medical School | Psychology |
| (OUSS) Reading the body language of engagement | ||
| Nov 2012 | Dr Mark Oxborrow, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Maser (microwave laser) at room temperature for the first time | ||
| Oct 2012 | Lord Ronald Oxburgh, House of Lords | Technology |
| (OUSS) Energy for all – but from where? | ||
| Oct 2012 | Mark Henderson, Wellcome Trust
George Monbiot, The Guardian Tracy Brown, Sense About Science |
Physics |
| (OUSS) The Geek Manifesto (panel discussion) | ||
| Oct 2012 | Prof Ian Fleming, Cambridge University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Short cuts: anecdotes from a research career | ||
| Oct 2012 | Prof Kieran Clarke, Oxford University | Biochemistry |
| (OUSS) A new fuel source for a human body | ||
| Jun 2012 | Chemistry at the Garden | Chemistry |
| Oxford Botanic Garden: audio trail and scientific poster session | ||
| Jun 2012 | Manchester Girl Geeks @ MOSI | Mathematics |
| Mathematical origami | ||
| Jun 2012 | Manchester Girl Geeks @ Manchester Mela | Mathematics |
| Mathematical origami | ||
| May 2012 | Prof David Nutt, Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs | Pharmacology |
| (OUSS) How the current drug laws hold back science | ||
| May 2012 | Andrew Hanson, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Confounding colour curiosities: the science of seeing colour | ||
| May 2012 | Prof Marian Dawkins, Oxford University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Optical flow, collective behaviour, and animal welfare | ||
| May 2012 | Dr Alison Foster, Oxford University | Botany/chemistry |
| (OUSS) The botanic garden: your modern medicine cabinet | ||
| Apr 2012 | Dr Aubrey de Grey, SENS
Prof Colin Blakemore, Oxford University Prof Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University |
Gerontology |
| (OUSS) This house wants to defeat ageing entirely (debate) | ||
| Mar 2012 | Dr Mark Briffa, Plymouth University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Personality – and a bit of aggression – in marine invertebrates | ||
| Mar 2012 | Oxfordshire Science Festival | |
| One-day festival | ||
| Feb 2012 | Prof Kevin Warwick, Reading University | Robotics |
| (OUSS) Human enhancement: a user’s guide | ||
| Feb 2012 | Dr Susan Ozanne, Cambridge University | Biology |
| (OUSS) You are what your mother ate: the developmental origins of Type 2 diabetes | ||
| Feb 2012 | Prof Alison Smith, Cambridge University | Bioengineering |
| (OUSS) Algal biofuels: prospects for green (and brown and red) energy | ||
| Feb 2012 | Dr Susanne Shultz, Oxford University | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Primate social evolution: new perspectives on an old question | ||
| Feb 2012 | Dr Peter Wothers, Cambridge University | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Gods, devils, and alcohol: their influence in chemical nomenclature | ||
| Jan 2012 | Dr Michael de Podesta, National Physical Laboratory | Metrology |
| (OUSS) How do you really know what the temperature is? | ||
| Jan 2012 | Prof Steve Jones, UCL | Biology |
| (OUSS) Incest and folk dancing: two things to avoid | ||
| Jan 2012 | Oxford Climate Forum | |
| Two-day conference | ||
| Nov 2011 | Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University | Astrophysics |
| (OUSS) Will the world end in 2012? The astronomical evidence | ||
| Nov 2011 | Royal Institution Science Societies' Dinner | |
| Cross-society dinner, with guests of honour Prof Sir Paul Nurse, Sir Roland Jackson, Prof Kevin Warwick, and Prince Edward | ||
| Nov 2011 | Mark Lynas | Science |
| (OUSS) Why scientists should take over the world | ||
| Nov 2011 | Rev Ron Lancaster, Kimbolton Fireworks | Chemistry |
| (OUSS) Fireworks: Principles and Practice | ||
| Oct 2011 | Laurie Winkless, National Physical Laboratory | Physics |
| (OUSS) Energy harvesting: raiders of the lost amp | ||
| Oct 2011 | Dr Chris Faulkes, QMUL | Zoology |
| (OUSS) Biodiversity and sociality in African mole rats: an evolutionary perspective | ||
| Oct 2011 | Dr Andrew Pontzen, Oxford University | Physics |
| (OUSS) What is cold dark matter? And is it heating up? | ||
| Mar 2010 | Oxfordshire Science Festival | |
| One-day festival | ||
Conferences Attended
A list of conferences I've attended, and those I've registered for soon.
= invited speaker
= organizer
| Conference title | Date | Location |
|---|
| Journées de Chimie Organique JCO | Oct 2025 | Paris, France |
| Biopharma Roundtable | Oct 2025 | Macclesfield, U |
| Lab of the Future | Sep 2025 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Nature Automation in Chemistry | Sep 2025 | Hefei, China |
| CheM62 Network Meeting | Jul 2025 | Liverpool, UK |
| 26th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium | May 2025 | Grasmere, UK |
| London Lab Automator Community Meetup | Apr 2025 | London, UK |
| Paperless Lab Academy Europe | Mar 2025 | Milan, Italy |
| Axe-Con Digital Accessibility Conference | Feb 2025 | Online |
| Active Learning in Pharma | Dec 2024 | Online |
| Biotech Outsourcing Solutions | Nov 2024 | Manchester, UK |
| RSC BMCS-CICAG Hot Topics: Robotics & Automation |
Nov 2024 | Online |
| ChemTalks | Sep 2024 | Basel, Switzerland |
| RSC BMCS-CICAG AI in Chemistry | Sep 2024 | Cambridge, UK |
| ACS National Meeting (Denver) | Aug 2024 | Online |
| EuChemS Chemistry Congress | Jul 2024 | Dublin, Ireland |
| Future Labs Live | Jun 2024 | Online |
| 2nd RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postdoctoral Symposium | May 2024 | Macclesfield, UK |
| CAMS: The State of Data Analytics | Mar 2024 | Cambridge, UK |
| UK National Retrosynthesis Competition | Mar 2024 | London, UK |
| #RSCPoster | Mar 2024 | Online |
| SCI Big Data for Chemistry | Feb 2024 | London, UK |
| New Frontiers in Synthetic Chemistry | Nov 2023 | London, UK |
| 2nd Automated Intelligent Chemistry | Nov 2023 | London, UK |
| ELRIG Drug Discovery 2023 | Oct 2023 | Liverpool, UK |
| 20/15 Visioneers Better to Best ELN Practices | Sep 2023 | Online |
| ILMAC | Sep 2023 | Basel, Switzerland |
| IUPAC CHAINS | Aug 2023 | The Hague, Netherlands |
| Gordon Research Conference: High-Throughput Chemistry & Chemical Biology | Jul 2023 | New London, NH, USA |
| Gordon Research Seminar: High-Throughput Chemistry & Chemical Biology | Jul 2023 | New London, NH, USA |
| RICT Intl Conference on Medicinal Chemistry | Jul 2023 | Lille, France |
| Future Labs Live | May 2023 | Basel, Switzerland |
| 25th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium | May 2023 | Grasmere, UK |
| Pharma Automation & SmartLabs Congress | Apr 2023 | London, UK |
| 10th UK National Retrosynthesis Competition | Mar 2023 | Online |
| Automated Synthesis Forum | Nov 2022 | Macclesfield, UK |
| The Digital Future of Process Chemistry & Technology | Nov 2022 | London, UK |
| World's First Cloud Lab, HTE, & Lab Automation Conference | Nov 2022 | Online |
| Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Synthesis Symposium | Sep 2022 | Toledo, Spain |
| Leverhulme Research Centre Biennial Symposium | Sep 2022 | Liverpool, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium | Sep 2022 | Nottingham, UK |
| SmartLabs & Pharma Data | Sep 2022 | London, UK |
| ESMEC European School of Medicinal Chemistry | Jul 2022 | Urbino, Italy |
| CompChemURG: Forging New Pathways | Jun 2022 | Online |
| EWOC Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry 2022 | Jun 2022 | Online |
| High-Throughput Experimentation Summit |
Jun 2022 | Basel, Switzerland |
| Future Labs Live | Jun 2022 | Basel, Switzerland |
| Pharmaceutical Mobile Robotics | Apr 2022 | London, UK |
| UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2022 | Mar 2022 | Online |
| AI 4 Scientific Discovery Conference | Mar 2022 | Southampton, UK |
| 1st Cambridge AI in Drug Discovery Conference | Feb 2022 | Online |
| Emerging Technologies in Organic Synthesis ETOC | Feb 2022 | Online |
| Scientific Update: 7th Winter Process Chemistry Conference | Dec 2021 | Leeds, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting: Hot topics in organic chemistry | Dec 2021 | London, UK |
| 5th SCS-Syngenta Symposium 2021 | Nov 2021 | Online |
| FROST8 conference on flow chemistry | Nov 2021 | Budapest, Hungary |
| Automated Synthesis Forum | Nov 2021 | Online |
| 20/15 Visioneers: World's first cloud lab, HTE and lab automation oriented virtual conference | Oct 2021 | Online |
| CatSci 10-year celebration: The Next Decade of Drug Development | Oct 2021 | Online |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium | Oct 2021 | Online |
| 4th BMCS-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry | Sep 2021 | Online |
| Applied Catalysis Group & UK Catalysis Hub Meeting 2021 | Sep 2021 | Online |
| VISTA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Data-Science-Assisted Synthesis | Jul 2021 | Online |
| Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry: EWOC2021 | Jun 2021 | Online |
| Scientific Update: Catalysis in the Fine Chemical Industry | Jun 2021 | Online |
| European Robotics Forum | Apr 2021 | Online |
| ACS National Meeting | Apr 2021 | Online |
| UK National Retrosynthesis Competition 2021 | Mar 2021 | Online |
| Organic Process Research & Development: |
Dec 2020 | Online |
| SCI Automated Intelligent Chemistry | Oct 2020 | Online |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium | Sep 2020 | Online |
| Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry: EWOC2020 | Aug 2020 | Online |
| Solvents & solvent selection in continuous manufacturing training course: |
Jul 2020 | Online |
| Flow chemistry & continuous processing: Scientific Update | May 2020 | Online |
| Oxford University Pharmacology Society Pharma R&D Symposium | Feb 2020 | Oxford, UK |
| Chemical development & scaleup in the fine chemical & pharmaceutical industries training course: Scientific Update | Jan 2020 | Pfizer, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January Meeting 2020 | Jan 2020 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting 2019 | Dec 2019 | London, UK |
| UK Automated Synthesis Forum 2019 | Nov 2019 | Glasgow, UK |
| New Synthetic Methods II | Oct 2019 | London, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate Symposium | Sep 2019 | Macclesfield, UK |
| International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | Jul 2019 | Cambridge, UK |
| ICIQ PhD Day | Jun 2019 | Tarragona, Spain |
| 24th Grasmere Lakeland Symposium | May 2019 | Grasmere, UK |
| Nottingham Women in Chemistry | Mar 2019 | Nottingham, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting | Jan 2019 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting | Dec 2018 | London, UK |
| Challenges in Catalysis VI | Nov 2018 | London, UK |
| Young Chemist in Industry | Nov 2018 | Stevenage, UK |
| BOSS XVI | Jul 2018 | Brussels, Belgium |
| Oxford Synthesis Summer Conference | Jun 2018 | Oxford, UK |
| RSC-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry | Jun 2018 | London, UK |
| Bristol Synthesis Meeting | Apr 2018 | Bristol, UK |
| Dial-A-Molecule: Predicting Reaction Outcomes | Mar 2018 | Cambridge, UK |
| RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January meeting | Jan 2018 | London, UK |
| SCI Annual Review Meeting | Dec 2017 | London, UK |
| Dial-A-Molecule: Exploring 3D Space | Nov 2017 | York, UK |
| International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | Jul 2017 | Oxford, UK |
| Technology Ventures Conference: Impact of AI | Jun 2017 | Cambridge, UK |
| OrgSyn 50 | Feb 2017 | Manchester, UK |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | Nov 2016 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | Nov 2015 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| ACS National Meeting | Aug 2015 | Boston, MA, USA |
| International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry | Jul 2015 | Cambridge, UK |
| Page Lectures | Jul 2015 | Huddersfield, UK |
| OMCOS 18 | Jun 2015 | Sitges, Spain |
| RSC North West Organic Division Meeting | May 2015 | Liverpool, UK |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | Nov 2014 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| UIUC Allerton Conference | Nov 2013 | Champaign, IL, USA |
| ACS National Meeting | Sep 2013 | Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Bristol Synthesis Meeting | Apr 2013 | Bristol, UK |
| ASE Annual Conference | Jan 2012 | Liverpool, UK |
| National Union of Students LGBT Conference | May 2010 | Liverpool, UK |
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