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FORMULATION FORUM: DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES


This is the second 2-day workshop organised by the Formulation Forum after the highly successful inaugural event in January 2018.

Synopsis
This is the second 2-day workshop organised by the Formulation Forum after the highly successful inaugural event in January 2018. Disruptive innovations can bring rewards to early uptakers and penalties to slow uptakers. But what is a disruptive technology and how do you spot the new disruptive technologies from the distractions of novelties and niches? How to extrapolate what is happening in other fields of science and technology into your field and ultimately formulation? What opportunities will AI in formulation optimisation and design bring for faster development of formulated products through prediction? Join us in January to be part of the thought-provoking event and discussions.

This event is looking to bring together all the elements of formulating for the future into one forum, to learn and discuss how formulations and formulating will be adapted and improved in the advent of new disruptive ideas, techniques and technologies. This event will also provide an unparalleled opportunity to meet, build partnerships and network with others working in the field of formulating with disruptive technologies. There will be opportunities to openly raise, identify and discuss the opportunities and challenges in the field and propose paths to realise and address them.

Attendees
Formulation Forum events are equally open to major companies, SME’s, academics and students from all areas, including scientists, engineers, patent attorneys, marketing experts and business managers with an interest in formulation innovation and science. For students and academics this is a unique opportunity to learn about some of the fascinating opportunities arising in formulation

SCI Members attending this meeting are able to claim CPD points.

Programme
Monday 21 January 2019

10.00  Registration and refreshments
  
10.45  Welcome from the SCI Formulation Forum - Disruptive Technologies
Dr Malcolm Faers, SCI Formulation Forum Chairman
  
10.55  Transforming formulation into a disruptive platform technology
Ian Shott, Arcinova

Session 1 - Modelling, AI and data processing in formulation

11.40  Modelling complex fluids for industrial applications
Dr Massimo Noro, UK Research & Innovation, Science and Technology Facilities Council
  
12.05  Making high performance computing essential to the formulation industry
Dr Breanndán Ó Conchúir, IBM
  
12.30  Lost in Formulation Space? Using the HLD system to aid predictive design in cosmetics
Dr Jonathon Booth, Croda

12.55  Lunch, posters and exhibition
  
14.10  SCI Formulation Forum innovation in formulation and formulation science award
Flash presentations from the short-listed nominees

Session 2 - Processing technology and hardware

14.40  Novel manufacturing techniques for formulation
Prof Harris Makatsoris, Cranfield University
  
15.05  Development of 3D printing and automation methods for the biofabrication of artificial tissues
Dr Sam Olof, OxSyBio
  
15.30  Refreshment break, posters and exhibition
  
16.00  Upscaling membrane emulsification techniques to industrially meaningful production quantities
Dr Marijana Dragosavac, Loughborough University
  
16.25  Panel Discussion - how do we overcome the barriers for new processing technologies?
  
17.10  Networking and refreshments
  
19.00 Conference dinner and Formulation Award presentation

Tuesday 22 January 2019

09.00  Welcome

Session 3 - Industrial examples of disruptive innovation

09.10  Oil dispersion formulation design - leveraging science for innovative solutions
Dr Malcolm Faers, Bayer
  
09.35  Towards robotic agriculture
Prof Simon Blackmore, Harper Adams University

Session 4 - Personalised Delivery in Formulation

10.00  Direct tissue engineering approaches for regenerative biology and medicine
Prof Suwan N. Jayasinghe, Bioengineering, BioPhysics Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University College
  
10.25  Refreshment break, poster and exhibition
  
10.55  Microneedles: Formulation and device challenges
Dr Faz Chowdhury, Nemaura Pharma Limited
  
11.20  Formulating for 3D printing personalised medicine
Dr Laura Ruiz Cantu, Nottingham University
  
11.45  Panel Discussion - how do we spot the new disruptive innovations?
  
12.30  Lunch, posters and exhibition
  
13.45  Initiatives from the SCI Formulation Forum
Various speakers from SCI Formulation Forum
  
14.00  CPI Update

Session 5 - Opportunities for disruptive science

14.05  Microfluidic approaches for accelerated stability studies of formulations under external fields
Prof João T. Cabral, Imperial College London

14.30  Discovery and application of unusual bacterial proteins for stabilising interfaces and surfaces
Prof Cait Macphee, University of Edinburgh
  
14.55  Controlling droplets in slippery situations
Dr Gary Wells, Northumbria University
  
15.20  Ionic liquids in formulations
Dr Malgorzata Swadzba-Kwasny, Queen’s University Belfast
  
15.45  Poster prizes and closing remarks
  
16.00  End of conference