IMFS August Programme
The 8th IMFS session will take place on August 5th. Register to participate!
International Manufacturing Forum Series 2021
The IMFS is a virtual conference series , held on the first Thursday of each month of the year. The series will start in 2021. Each Virtual Conference will last one day and will be focused on a specific topic which is within the rather broad manufacturing umbrella with an emphasis on Industry 4.0 and Direct Digital Manufacturing. The focus of the August meeting is “Natural Products and Manufacturing”. The Chairs of this meeting are Matteo Radice, Laura Scalvenzi and Fred Davis.
All timings are West European Summer Time (GMT +1)
| International Manufacturing Forum Series 2021
August 5th 2021 |
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| Time | Type | Title | Speaker |
| 10:00 | Introduction | The International Manufacturing Forum Series | Geoffrey Mitchell |
| 10:05 | Welcome | Welcome from President of the Polytechnic of Leiria | Rui Pedrosa |
| 10:10 | Session 1 | Chair | Fred Davis |
| 10:15 | Keynote 1 | Olive Composites | Juan-Pablo Ferrer |
| 10:45 | Qs & Discussion | ||
| 10:55 | Contributed 1 | Traditional Ethnobotanic medicine: valuing the loss of ethnomedicinal knowledge in Abruzzo region | Barbara Lamolinara; Polytechnic of Leiria |
| 11:10 | Qs & Discussion | ||
| 11:15 | Break | ||
| 11:30 | Keynote 2 | Natural oils | Raluca Dumitriu; Petru Poni Macromolecular Research Institute Iashi, Romainia |
| 12:10 | Qs & Discussion | ||
| 12:20 | Invited 2 | Edible film/package for frozen salmon | Ana Augusto
Polytechnic of Leiria |
| 12:40 | Qs & Discussion | ||
| 12:50 | Lunck Break | ||
| 14:00 | Session 2 | Chair | Laura Scalvenzi |
| 14:00 | Keynote 4 | Electrospinning immiscible natural materials | Fred Davis; University of Reading UK |
| 14:40 | Qs & Discussion | ||
| 14:50 | Keynote 5 | Natural antimicrobials for biomedical applications | Maria Luisa Gonzalez-Martin; University of Extremadura, Spain |
| 15:30 | Qs & Discussion | ||
| 15:40 | Break | ||
| 16:00 | Session 3 | Chair | Matteo Radice |
| 16:00 | Keynote 6 | Enzymatic Promiscuity for Polymer Chemistry | Antonio Biundo; University of Bari, Italy |
| 16:40 | Qs and Discussion | ||
| 16:50 | Keynote 7 | Engineering natural products to obtain Tissue Materials: from the 3D Simulation of prototypes to the pilot and industrial manufacturing processes | Joana Curto; University of Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 17:30 | Qs & Discussion | ||
| 17:40 | Keynote 8 | The Role of Natural Fibers in Advanced Composites | Alcides Lopes Leao; San Paulo University, Brazil |
| 18:20 | Qs & Discussion | ||
| 18:30 | Summary of Forum | Fred Davis | |
| 18:45 | Close | ||
The entire one day session will be recorded so as to provide an opportunity for many others to benefit from the programme. If you do not wish your presentation to be recorded please send an email to that effect to imfs@ipleiria.pt