Division/Committee: [COMSCI] Committee on Science

NSF and ACS are working together to advance sustainable chemistry by investing in research, infrastructure, workforce development, and stakeholder partnerships. This joint event will focus on challenges and opportunities relevant to:

Partnerships between academia, industry, and government in sustainable chemistry to spur research towards innovation gaps.
Data infrastructure and tools to support and enable sustainable chemistry research.
Workforce development to equip chemists with tools for green and sustainable chemistry and systems thinking to address sustainable development goals.

The panel discussions will feature thought leaders from academia, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations, who will provide insights on how the chemistry community can capitalize on the increasing federal emphasis on sustainable chemistry and partnerships, highlighting current programs, funding mechanisms and resources of the NSF and ACS relevant to sustainable chemistry.

Panel 1: Opportunities.

The scope: What are the opportunities for advancing sustainable chemistry across sectors for: (a) Fundamental research; (b) Applied research towards UN Sustainable Development Goals; (c) Needs for commercialized products/processes that arise from innovations in sustainable chemistry.

What are the innovation gaps that need to be addressed through fundamental chemistry research?

Panelists:

Ken Moloy, NSF
Gerard Baillely, P&G
Chris Hewitt, BASF
Watson Loh, Associate Editor, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Panel 2: Challenges and opportunities for facilitating information and frictionless data sharing

Scope: What are the major challenges that stand in the way of frictionless information and data sharing across sectors?

Intellectual property
Workforce development
Infrastructure
Protocols/architecture/protocols

Who are the stakeholders who have to be engaged to address these?

What is needed to encourage and facilitate information owners to share information/data with others? Such as industry with non-industrial partners, publishers with non-journal subscribers, etc?

What type of infrastructure is needed? What type of data sharing protocols are needed?

Panelists:

Ryan Jorn, NSF
Dianne Ripberger, PepsiCo
Andrea Jacobs, CAS
Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, ES&T’s Executive Editor

George Richter-Addo

University of Oklahoma

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