Industry

For specialists, managers, and early-career professionals in the process industries, the DECHEMA Forum offers a high‑value, low‑friction way to advance your strategy, your network, and your innovation pipeline. Whether you submit an abstract for a talk or join as a participant, you’ll be part of an interdisciplinary environment designed for rigorous scientific exchange and practical industrial outcomes. This is where business development meets recruiting, and where R&D collaborations turn into implementable solutions—on industrial scale.

Why attend or speak?

• Accelerate Business Development: Meet decision‑makers and technology leaders across chemistry, bio‑based processes, energy, and digitalization. Build partnerships that shorten time‑to‑market and de‑risk scale‑up.
• Recruit and Be Recruited: Engage directly with late‑stage PhD candidates, postdocs, and early-career specialists. Identify future hires with the exact skills your organization needs—or showcase your team’s mission to attract top talent.
• Forge R&D Collaborations: Connect with academic groups and industrial peers working on the same pain points—feedstock transition, process intensification, digital twins, and sustainability metrics—so you can co-develop solutions faster.
• Shape the Industrial Transition: Contribute to the conversation on replacing fossil raw materials and energy sources while staying competitive globally. The focus is on pragmatic ideas that are actually implementable in plant environments.

Workshops: Deep Dives with Tangible Outcomes

Beyond a diverse lecture programme, the Forum’s interactive workshops (1.5 hours each) are built to deliver practical value: explore a topic in depth, test assumptions, and leave with actionable insights. Recent workshop themes include:

• The future of chemical parks
• Bio‑based value chains and (waste) water: state‑of‑the‑art or mission‑critical challenge?
• Innovation with Enterprises: Navigating Partnerships with Industry Giants
• Quantifying sustainability: What can Life Cycle Assessment do for application‑oriented research and for companies?

These sessions are geared towards solution design—how to implement at scale, how to measure progress, and how to align stakeholders across R&D, operations, and corporate strategy.

Submit or Participate

• Submit an abstract: Showcase your industrial case study, joint research, pilot results, or scale‑up strategy. Talks that demonstrate measurable impact—technical, economic, and sustainability metrics—are especially valued.
• Propose a workshop: If you have an idea that demands an interactive format, you’re warmly invited to submit through the Call for Papers until 15 February 2026.
• Join as a participant: If you’re evaluating technologies, scouting partnerships, or building your network for recruiting and collaboration, the Forum offers concentrated access to the people and knowledge you need.

Bring your toughest challenges—and your most promising ideas. At the DECHEMA FORUM, you’ll find the partners, talent, and proof points to move from concept to competitive advantage.