PROGRAM

CNPEM-IBM School Sustainable Materials & AI  

From 07 to 09 April, 2025 

LNNano/CNPEM Auditorium and online

Day 1 – 07/04/2025

08:30 – 09:00   Registration  Organizing Comittee
09:00 –10:00 Opening CNPEM-IBM School on Sustainable Materials & Artificial Intelligence  

 

The Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory: Open facilities, Research, Innovation and Training  

 

Overview of Research and Future of AI at IBM Research

Diego Martinez
(CNPEM)
Rodrigo B. Capaz
(Director LNNano/CNPEM)
Bruno Flach
(Director IBM Research Brazil)
10:00 –11:30 Advanced Materials and Sustainability: Challenges, Opportunities, and Perspectives towards Green and Digital transition (Invited Lecture)  Iseult Lynch
(University of Birmingham, UK)
Break 
12:00 – 13:30 Introduction to Renewable Materials: From basic science to applications  Juliana da Silva Bernardes and Rubia Gouveia
(CNPEM) 
Lunch 
14:30 –16:00 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence: Materials Science perspective  Gabriel R. Schleder
(CNPEM) 
Break 
16:30 – 17:30 Introduction to Data   Leonardo Azevedo e Guilherme Lima
(IBM)
17:30 –18:00 Debriefing Raquel Chebabi
(IBM) 
18:00 –19:00 Official picture with all participants / Visiting LNNano facilities (Virtual Tour)  LNNano Specialists 
19:00 – 21:30 Social activity Quiosque CNPEM 

Day 2 – 08/04/2025

09:00 – 11:00  Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Foundation Models  Emilio Vital Brazil e Eduardo Soares
(IBM) 
Break 
11:30 – 13:30  Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Foundation Models  Emilio Vital Brazil e Eduardo Soares
(IBM) 
Lunch 
14:30 – 16:00  Knowledge Base  Leonardo Azevedo e Guilherme Lima
(IBM) 
Break 
16:30 – 18:00  Knowledge Base  Leonardo Azevedo e Guilherme Lima
(IBM)
18:00 – 18:30  Debriefing Raquel Chebabi
(IBM)

Day 3 – 09/04/2025

09:00 – 11:00  Generative AI for Sustainable Materials  Flaviu Cipcigan
(IBM)
Break 
11:30 – 13:30  Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD)  

Risk Assessment (KaRA Platform) 

Diego Martinez (CNPEM) and
Raoni Mendes (IBM) 
Lunch 
14:30 – 16:00   

Exploring Artificial intelligence in Experimental Lab  

 

Matheus Esteves (IBM) and
Bruno Focassio (CNPEM) 
 
Break 
16:30 – 17:30  Entrepreneurship and Innovation  Cláudia Caparelli (AIN/CNPEM)
17:30 – 18:00  Debriefing   Raquel Chebabi
(IBM Research Brazil)
18:00 – 18:30   


Closing 

Diego Martinez (CNPEM)
Rodrigo B. Capaz (Director LNNano/CNPEM)
Bruno Flach (Director IBM Research) 
18:30 – 19:30 

 

Visiting LNLS/Sirius / Tour Virtual (SĂ­ncrotron) Specialists and Researchers
(LNLS-Sirius) 

Speakers

Rodrigo Barbosa Capaz (LNNano/CNPEM)

Bruno Flach (IBM Research Brazil)

Iseult Lynch (University of Birmingham, UK)

Juliana da Silva Bernardes (LNNano/CNPEM)

Rubia Gouveia (LNNano/CNPEM)

Gabriel Ravanhani Schleder (LNNano/CNPEM)

Leonardo Azevedo (IBM Research Brazil)

Guilherme Lima (IBM Research Brazil)

EmĂ­lio Vital Brazil (IBM Research Brazil)

Eduardo Soares (IBM Research Brazil)

Flaviu Cipcigan (IBM Research Europe, UK)

Carlos Raoni Mendes (IBM Research Brazil)

Diego Stéfani Teodoro Martinez (LNNano/CNPEM)

Matheus Esteves (IBM Research Brazil)

Raquel Chebabi (IBM Research Brazil)

Cláudia Caparelli (AIN/CNPEM)

Bruno Focassio (LNNano/CNPEM)