National Organizing Committee (NOC) Miroslav FikarNOC Chair Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovakia Martin KlaučoNOC Vice-Chair Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovakia Martin KalúzTechnical Advisor to NOC Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovakia Richard D. BraatzIFAC Conference Board Liaison Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA International Program Committee (IPC) Ali MesbahIPC Chair University of California Berkeley USA Rudiyanto GunawanIPC Vice-Chair University at Buffalo USA Leo H. ChiangIPC Vice-Chair for Industry The Dow Chemical Company USA Editors Radoslav PaulenEditor Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovakia IPC Technical Area Chairs Bioprocess Technology Sakis MantalarisTrinity College Dublin Ireland Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology Neda BagheriUniversity of Washington USA Environment, Energy and Sustainability Xiaonan WangTsinghua University China Modeling and Identification Helen DurandWayne State University USA Model-based Control and Optimization Johannes JäschkeNTNU Norway AI for Process Data Analytics and Monitoring Jin WangAuburn University USA AI for Control and Optimization Sergio LuciaTU Dortmund Germany Industrial and Manufacturing Applications Bea BraunThe Dow Chemical Company USA IPC Members Ahmad Al-DabbaghCA Frank AllgöwerDE Lidia AuretZA Julio BangaES Jie BaoAU Kristel BenaertsBE Larry BieglerUS Rahul BindlishUS Hector BudmanCA Cesar De PradaES Denis DochainBE Yining DongHK Frank DoyleUS Rolf FindeisenDE Ashlee Ford VersyptUS Masoud GolshanUS Bhushan GopaluniCA Martin GuayCA Juergen HahnUS Iiro HarjunkoskiFI Vassily HatzimanikatisCH Boris HouskaCN Morten HovdNO Benoit ChachuatUK John JorgensenDK Meiyappan LakshmananIN Dong-yup LeeKR Jay LeeUS Jong Min LeeKR Xiaoxia LinUS Radakrishna MahadevanCA Martin MönnigmannDE Sorin OlaruFR Leyla ÖzkanNL Gabriele PannocchiaIT Robert ParkerUS Rohit PatwardhanSA Radoslav PaulenSK Luis Ricardez-SandovalCA S. Joe QinHK Doraiswami RamkrishnaUS Jason ShoemakerUS Hirokazu SugiyamaJP Steffen WaldherrBE