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SUMMARY:[ALL STAFF] OPENING REMARKS & KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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LOCATION:2nd Floor - Archie M Griffin Grand Ballroom\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Agentic Chemistry
DESCRIPTION:The talk describes building an agent that can precisely describe and reason about chemical structures and reactions\, e.g.\, to support the chemist with unsupervised multi-step retrosynthetic analysis where the agent can maintain specific chemical considerations throughout the investigation.
CATEGORIES:AI-ACCURACY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Lego for Production: Composable Building Blocks for Real Software
DESCRIPTION:Every new project used to start from scratch. It doesn't anymore. This session walks through the composable building blocks our team has designed to turn new projects from multi-month efforts into multi-day ones — without sacrificing the things that make software real: security\, reliability\, and automated CI/CD from day one.\n\nWe'll cover three blocks in order. First\, the foundation: a repeatable serverless AWS architecture that runs at $10–20 per year per solution\, is secure by default\, and can be dropped into a new project in minutes instead of weeks. Second\, the reasoning behind it: the ADRs that shaped the architecture\, including the real constraints and pain points that forced our hand\, and why the design we landed on is the one that survives contact with production. Third\, the accelerator on top: our Claude tools and standards plugin\, which encodes our conventions and lets us rapidly develop solutions on top of the foundation without drifting into inconsistency.\n\nThen we'll show it working. A live demo walks through spinning up a new project from the blocks — from empty repo to deployed\, production-grade application with full CI/CD pipelines in place — compressing what used to take months into days\, with genuine production code rather than a throwaway prototype at the end of it.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:3rd Floor - Cartoon Room\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:What Happens After You Adopt AI
DESCRIPTION:When Cloud Services adopted agentic coding assistants\, we got the productivity boost everyone promises — and an immediate problem nobody talks about: code reviews became the bottleneck.\n\nThat pressure led us to build CRAB\, an AI-driven code review bot now running across all ~120 of our repos. But solving one bottleneck revealed a repeatable pattern. We applied the same approach to security compliance — turning policies scattered across four locations into automated\, auditable artifacts — and to documentation-as-code\, eliminating double-maintenance while giving our AI tools the full context they need.\n\nThis talk walks through the journey from that first pain point to a suite of AI-augmented workflows\, organized around the three things every team cares about: speed\, risk\, and cost. &nbsp\;You'll leave with a practical model for finding your own "what comes next" opportunities.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - US Bank Conference Theater\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Demystifying Cybersecurity: A Behind the Scenes Look
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever found yourself wondering what the Enterprise Information Security team actually does? Cybersecurity is often seen as complex\, restrictive or even mysterious - but most people never see what happens behind the scenes. This session will dive deeper into the world of cybersecurity\, touching on the current security landscape\, the impact of AI\, the people behind the wheel\, what we actually do and even a brief look at some of the threats we deal with on a daily basis. No scare tactics\, no blame - just a clear and casual look at why cybersecurity matters and how it benefits all of us.
CATEGORIES:SECURITY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/4ac290c108a724c6b0c36aeef46b4f01
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SUMMARY:Newly Single: A PatentPak Optimization Story
DESCRIPTION:How cross-team collaboration and smart data engineering freed up 200 hours of compute time\, half a petabyte of storage and valuable cluster resources - consolidating redundant processing across multiple products into one unified content pipeline!
CATEGORIES:SPEED & EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:2nd Floor - Senate Chamber\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/d5e35e5e582c2d47101471d0880e6f7d
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SUMMARY:BioCurator: Automated Bioactivity Curation from Scientific Literature Using On-Premises Multimodal LLMs
DESCRIPTION:BioCurator is a production-grade\, fully on-premises AI curation ecosystem that transforms heterogeneous scientific literature — peer-reviewed manuscripts\, patents\, and supplementary files across publishers formats — into quality-assured\, structured bioactivity data for CAS products including BioFinder. Built on a self-hosted vLLM inference stack\, the system orchestrates a modular pipeline with audit-tracked persistence layer\, and an extraction engine. A Quality-by-Design normalization layer and a React-based Scientist-in-the-Loop (SiTL) review interface close the curation loop\, with every expert correction feeding back as labelled ground truth for iterative prompt refinement. The architecture is now being generalized beyond bioactivity to other domains data extraction\, establishing BioCurator as a domain-agnostic\, enterprise-scale agentic curation engine operating entirely within CAS data governance boundaries.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:2nd Floor - Senate Chamber\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/337da006297c1884272c2ec41988ed64
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SUMMARY:The GenAI Divide
DESCRIPTION:Despite rapid adoption of generative AI\, most organizations are seeing little real business impact. This session examines why GenAI pilots often fail after early success\, where measurable value is actually emerging\, and how systems built on trusted tools like Claude deliver results when learning and workflow integration are done right. Designed for engineers and leaders\, the talk focuses on making better GenAI bets over the next 12–18 months.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Meet CAS Newton and CAS Anywhere: A New Force in Research\, Wherever You Work
DESCRIPTION:CAS has shipped AI inside its applications before\, but this is something new. Meet CAS Newton: the first standalone customer-facing AI product from CAS\, a greenfield agentic application that lets researchers explore CAS Content Collections conversationally across chemistry\, life sciences\, retrosynthesis\, and more. Delivered weeks ahead of schedule\, this session pulls back the curtain on what CAS Newton unlocks for researchers\, the architecture decisions behind it\, and where we go from here.
CATEGORIES:AI-PRODUCTS
LOCATION:1st Floor - US Bank Conference Theater\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Talking about Tautomers - A Cheminformatics Story
DESCRIPTION:Tautomers are different ways to depict the same substance\, and their existence in chemistry causes all sorts of wrinkles for us. &nbsp\;The Phoenix project is introducing a lot of exciting new ideas to CAS content\, some of which you can learn about in other Tech Day talks this year. &nbsp\;One of their new ideas about tautomers had some unforeseen consequences for products and our user experience! &nbsp\;I'll talk about about how something as seemingly tiny as a change to tautomers can result in changes all the way across CAS from content to product\, and I'll talk about what we're trying to do to reap all the benefits and mitigate the downsides.
CATEGORIES:CHEMINFORMATICS
LOCATION:3rd Floor - Cartoon Room\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Maximizing Efficiency with Ivanti Request Offerings and Jira Integration
DESCRIPTION:Transform your service delivery by transitioning from manual\, email-based processes to structured\, automated Ivanti Request Offerings and integration with third party platforms (i.e. Jira). This session demonstrates how to standardize requests and reduce administrative overhead.\nKey Takeaways\n•&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;Automate Processes: Eliminate manual email and paper-based request systems.\n•&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;Reduce IT Workload: Lower administrative burdens through automated workflows.\n•&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;Optimize Resources: Shift engineering talent away from repetitive manual fulfillment tasks.\n•&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;Boost Productivity: Standardize service delivery to accelerate turnaround times.\n•&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;Enhance Experience: Drive end-user satisfaction via intuitive self-service portals.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:SPEED & EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/55c150a465e5743fc7fcdbbfe7708c5f
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SUMMARY:Cheminformatics for Software Engineers 101 -- Structure Formats
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers software engineers a practical introduction to cheminformatics through the lens of chemical structure formats. We'll explore why structure formats are a surprisingly rich and nuanced topic\, then survey the most common formats encountered in real-world chemistry software — including CCT\, BMV XML\, Molfile\, SMILES\, InChI\, and others. \n\nFor each format\, we'll weigh the trade-offs: what it excels at\, where it falls short\, and what kinds of tasks are straightforward versus frustrating. The talk will also touch on how open-source libraries like CDK and RDKit can be leveraged to read\, write\, and interconvert these formats — giving developers practical footholds for working with chemical data in their own projects. No chemistry background required.
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LOCATION:3rd Floor - Cartoon Room\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Introducing the Lithium API
DESCRIPTION:The Lithium API is taking a novel approach to making all CAS data available to customers--something that has never been done before--using GraphQL and MarkLogic. In this talk\, I'll explain what the Lithium API is\, what purpose it serves\, and how it works at a high level. I'll also describe the more interesting challenges the team is facing and demonstrate how the API is used by customers.
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LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:The Scientific Knowledge Platform (SKP): A Modern Curation Solution
DESCRIPTION:Timely and accurate curation of scientific data by trained scientists is a core tenet of CAS. The products with which our customers access this data are routinely updated to provide them with the best solutions for their work\, yet the software used internally by our analysts has not had a major overhaul in nearly 40 years. It is a conglomeration of dozens of disparate programs built over decades in software platforms that are showing their age\, and running on hardware that is no longer supported. The development of the Scientific Knowledge Platform aims to bring analyst-facing programs to the same level as customer-facing solutions by creating more streamlined\, integrated\, and powerful web-based programs. This will bring all curation tasks\, from content ingestion to document and structure analysis\, to substance registration and reactions into a single unified platform. Additionally\, modern AI capabilities are leveraged for a variety of routine tasks\, freeing up valuable analyst time for the intellectual value they bring to CAS and our customers.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - US Bank Conference Theater\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Accelerating Data Quality in CO: Transforming Ingestion\, Review\, and Harmonization
DESCRIPTION:This presentation showcases how the Scientific Domain Expansion team within Content Operations transformed and modernized our approach to data ingestion\, review\, and harmonization—significantly increasing efficiency\, scalability\, and overall data quality. Previously\, creating and validating new XML datasets required substantial manual effort\, often involving 4–6 team members and covering less than 10% of mapped data over multiple review cycles spanning several days. Similar challenges arose when validating MarkLogic ODH updates\, where achieving comprehensive data coverage through manual checks alone was not feasible.\n\nTo address these limitations\, we implemented a more scalable and automated approach by leveraging ODH production data\, MarkLogic scripts\, and Excel-based validation techniques. These tools allow us to perform bulk checks across entire datasets\, quickly identify mapping issues\, and collaborate with developers to validate updates and catch errors early in the process.\n\nAs a result\, tasks that once required days of effort and multiple reviewers can now be completed by a single individual in minutes to hours—delivering faster turnaround times\, increased coverage\, and improved confidence in data quality.
CATEGORIES:SPEED & EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:2nd Floor - Senate Chamber\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:TECOPS: Crank up the volume--turn down the noise; volume = automated capabilities; noise = interrupts
DESCRIPTION:TECOPS is ramping up the next phase of automation to introduce automated upgrades for all the things. Self service will be available to enable teams fast\, automated execution for common tasks. Join us as we highlight what you can expect in the upcoming months and the many benefits we will all gain as we complete this next phase of centralized operations.
CATEGORIES:SPEED & EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:[ALL STAFF] LUNCH & ENTERTAINMENT
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LOCATION:2nd Floor - Archie M Griffin Grand Ballroom\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:There and Back Again: Hybrid Chemical Name Resolution for Reducing LLM Hallucination
DESCRIPTION:Chemical name resolution remains a critical task in scientific data extraction because unresolved or incorrectly matched names directly increase hallucination rates in downstream LLM workflows. This presentation describes our journey from pure vector search using Titan embeddings and Amazon S3 Vectors to a hybrid chemical name resolution system that combines deterministic token matching\, semantic retrieval\, and LLM-based chemical reasoning. Using real patent-extraction examples\, we show where vector similarity performs well\, where it fails on subtle chemical differences\, and how a hybrid architecture can re-rank candidates\, explain structural equivalence\, and improve confidence in extracted chemical entities. The presentation will focus on practical lessons for building reliable AI-assisted indexing pipelines (Phoenix) where chemical precision matters more than generic semantic similarity.
CATEGORIES:AI-ACCURACY
LOCATION:3rd Floor - Cartoon Room\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:The Remix in Action: From Rapid Build to Production Handoff
DESCRIPTION:It's easy to talk about speed and reusability in the abstract. This session makes it concrete by following one project end-to-end. It started as a stakeholder request\, was built by remixing our existing building blocks (serverless AWS architecture\, Claude tools and standards plugin\, one of our frontend options)\, was shaped through live Tackle Team Tuesday sessions with the business\, shipped to production with full CI/CD\, and has now been fully handed off to and is owned by the receiving team.\n\nWe'll live-demo the app\, walk through which blocks were reused versus custom-built\, show what "production-ready" actually meant in concrete terms (CI/CD\, observability\, tests\, documentation\, on-call)\, and give a candid account of the handoff itself — what worked\, what we'd do differently\, and what made the receiving team willing to take ownership instead of sending it back.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Boxes\, Arrows and the Truth: What Your Architecture Drawing Is Missing
DESCRIPTION:Most drawings have a story to tell but are missing the critical components to tell it completely. Drawn from a career of IT architecture across some of the most complex environments in enterprise technology\, this talk delivers lessons learned\, tips\, and tricks for creating drawings that stand completely on their own\, answering Who\, What\, Where\, When\, and Why before anyone asks a question. You will walk away knowing the difference between a drawing and an architectural document\, what good drawing practices actually look like in the real world\, and how a well-constructed drawing directly strengthens your security posture\, satisfies audit requirements\, and holds up against compliance frameworks like CIS\, NIST\, and PCI. Crayons optional but encouraged.
CATEGORIES:AI-PRODUCTS
LOCATION:1st Floor - US Bank Conference Theater\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Hacked by Hollywood: The Psychology Behind Our Clicks
DESCRIPTION:Unpacking why social engineering works\, how attackers exploit human behavior\, and where Hollywood gets hacking wrong. This discussion will explore social engineering tactics\, the different platforms threat actors target\, and attacks can look like in real-life.
CATEGORIES:SECURITY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Spark Weave - Spark Orchestration Framework
DESCRIPTION:Spark Weave is an orchestration layer built on top of Apache Spark that lets you define and run multi-job data pipelines as a single\, managed workflow. Rather than wiring together spark-submit calls by hand\, you describe a set of jobs\, declare what data each one produces and consumes\, and the framework handles all the other stuff like dependency resolution\, parallel execution\, failure isolation\, and resume.
CATEGORIES:SPEED & EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:2nd Floor - Senate Chamber\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:One platform\, infinite intelligence: our Snowflake story - Data warehousing\, analytics\, and AI — all in one place\, all working together
DESCRIPTION:What makes Snowflake extraordinary isn't any single feature — it's the whole. This session takes you inside how we've leveraged Snowflake as our unified data platform: from a rock-solid cloud data warehouse that scaled with our business\, to governed data sharing and near-zero-copy data collaboration\, to powerful analytics that turned raw information into trusted insights. And now\, with Snowflake AI layered across it all — Cortex AI\, intelligent search\, ML-powered pipelines\, and generative capabilities — our platform doesn't just hold our data\, it understands it. We'll walk through the data assets we've built\, the wins we've delivered\, and how every layer of Snowflake — storage\, compute\, collaboration\, and AI — is working together to drive our business forward. One platform. No limits.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Sharper Boxes\, Cleaner Crops: Recent Improvements to the OSR Pipeline for Chemical Structure Extraction
DESCRIPTION:Optical Structure Recognition (OSR) — the pipeline that detects molecular structure images on patent and journal pages and converts them into InChI and SMILES strings — has advanced rapidly thanks to modern deep learning\, yet its end-to-end accuracy is still bounded by two upstream steps: how precisely the detector localizes each structure\, and how cleanly the cropped image is passed to the OCR model. This presentation will share two recent improvements to our internal pipeline. First\, the structure detection model has been retrained on the latest YOLO architecture\, which removes Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) and Distribution Focal Loss (DFL) in favor of a leaner inference path\; the new weights deliver more precise mask segmentation and tighter bounding boxes\, improved recall on structures the previous model missed (including starting compounds in reaction schemes and substances embedded in tables)\, the elimination of thirty or more Markush fragments that were previously captured as false positives\, and meaningfully faster inference — with the maintainers reporting up to 43% gains on CPUs and the path now open to deployment on CPU and edge devices. Second\, an optional post-processing step based on Maximum Connected Components (MCC) has been introduced between detection and OCR to clean residual artifacts from the mask-cropped image\, with a known caveat for tightly-spaced table layouts where the white space between the structure and surrounding ink is too narrow for the algorithm to safely separate\; in those cases\, the pipeline still produces a usable OCR output that an analyst can finish cleaning. Both changes are intended to reduce the volume of "junk" that subject-matter experts (SMEs) must clean during curation\, with at-scale SME validation as the natural next step.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:2nd Floor - Senate Chamber\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Tool\, Not Crutch: An Early Career AI Playbook
DESCRIPTION:Between us\, we've lived three versions of early career engineering: before AI tools\, the transition to using them\, and onboarding with them from day one. The difference is night and day. Claude Code let us ramp up on complex codebases in weeks instead of months\, take on cards we would have avoided\, debug infrastructure issues independently\, review senior engineers' code with confidence\, and turn toil — like parsing a chaotic SharePoint to usable cost data — into real business value.\n \nWe also found the trap: when you let AI do the work without doing the learning\, speed becomes an illusion. This talk shares the workflows that made us productive\, the moment we realized we were leaning in too hard\, and the simple habits that keep AI as a tool instead of a crutch. You don't need to be an AI expert to walk away with something you can use Monday morning.\n\n
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - US Bank Conference Theater\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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SUMMARY:Turning It Up to 11: How M365 Copilot Amplifies How We Work at CAS
DESCRIPTION:Microsoft 365 Copilot is moving from pilot to broader availability at CAS\, and now is the right time to share what we’ve learned. This session will showcase real world M365 Copilot use cases from the last six months. Focusing on how Copilot can accelerate writing\, summarize complex information\, and support technical and project work without replacing human judgment. Attendees will see practical examples\, honest lessons learned\, and guidance on how to get value from Copilot as it becomes more widely available.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
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URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/f4bab7f5b897f4f4b6b55f5aafcdb276
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DTSTART:20260721T180000Z
DTEND:20260721T184500Z
SUMMARY:Interactive Retrosynthesis
DESCRIPTION:This presentation chronicles the transformative journey of our retrosynthesis capabilities\, from the constraints of the legacy ARChem platform to a modern\, fast\, and highly interactive solution powered by an IAP (Information Access Platform) architecture. We will share the story of what we faced\, how we solved it\, and what new doors have opened as a result.
CATEGORIES:RETROSYNTHESIS
LOCATION:3rd Floor - Cartoon Room\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/cf55ba02972709cfa424cda2fa8d1738
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DTSTAMP:20260728T033903Z
DTSTART:20260721T190000Z
DTEND:20260721T194500Z
SUMMARY:Agent Runtimes in the Open: Observability with LangFuse and AgentCore
DESCRIPTION:As AI agents move from experimentation to production\, robust observability becomes essential. This presentation explores how Langfuse and AgentCore enable end-to-end observability for agentic systems by providing structured tracing\, evaluation\, and performance insights. We discuss how these tools help developers understand agent behavior\, debug failures\, monitor costs and latency\, and continuously improve reliability in real-world deployments.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/9f4ecc0100fb7a0fe5e5a12ace6a6bfd
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DTSTAMP:20260728T033903Z
DTSTART:20260721T190000Z
DTEND:20260721T194500Z
SUMMARY:When AI Answers the Page: Automating Infrastructure Remediation
DESCRIPTION:Join Cloud Services as we share the story of our quest to build custom AI agents that perform end-to-end remediation of monitoring alarms. We'll walk through the journey from manually triaging and resolving issues to having AI automation handle a growing majority of alarm response in our Hadoop and OpenStack environments — including the architecture decisions\, lessons learned\, and what's next.
CATEGORIES:AI-EFFICIENCY
LOCATION:1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
SEQUENCE:0
UID:193a178dac9a37fb9d39d182b6f08741
URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/193a178dac9a37fb9d39d182b6f08741
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DTSTAMP:20260728T033903Z
DTSTART:20260721T190000Z
DTEND:20260721T194500Z
SUMMARY:Building Agents That Actually Work: Hard-Won Lessons from the Scifinder Agent
DESCRIPTION:Building an agent that demos well is easy\; building one that holds up in production is a different sport. Drawing on lessons from shipping the Scifinder agent\, this talk covers the gotchas that show up across any agent application: context rot and message trimming\, when prompt caching helps versus hurts\, designing observability from day one\, and detecting and handling the hallucinations. Whatever type of agent your building\, you'll leave with concrete things to instrument and traps to avoid.
CATEGORIES:AI-PRODUCTS
LOCATION:1st Floor - US Bank Conference Theater\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/c864870124459a6837c8e27b9fae4511
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DTSTAMP:20260728T033903Z
DTSTART:20260721T190000Z
DTEND:20260721T194500Z
SUMMARY:Toward a Smarter\, More Modern CAS Substance Registry
DESCRIPTION:The CAS Registry® file is the most authoritative collection of chemical substances in the world. It has been built over more than 60 years from paper structure sheets to basic online registration\, stereoregistration\, and specialist review and corrections. As any chemist knows\, but developers may not appreciate\, there can be multiple ways to draw the same chemical substance that are equally correct. Conversely\, there can be subtle\, but crucial differences between compounds that must be taken into account when determining if it is a new or existing registration. And as powerful as our existing registration software is\, there are limitations that mean our customers do not always get the most accurate chemical representation possible. Collaborative efforts in Project Phoenix between Content Operations\, Content Tech\, and DAI employees in Columbus and across the globe are working to minimize these limitations and build the Registry of the next 60 years. At the core of this effort is a modern Apache Spark pipeline on AWS EMR that processes hundreds of millions of substance records at scale\, driven by graph-theoretic algorithms that transform chemical structure representations between formats and compute structural identity through layered canonicalization correctly unifying substances drawn differently while distinguishing subtly distinct compounds.\n\nCentral to the new architecture is the Component Expression\, a unified XML representation capturing each substance's complete structure\, stereochemistry\, and metadata in a single schema-validated document\, which serves as both the standardized registry format and the direct input for holistic identity determination across all components of a substance. Equally important is the deliberate modernization of the underlying codebase\, translating decades of chemical logic from legacy C and proprietary systems into maintainable\, well-tested Java and Python\, enabling registry rule changes to be implemented and deployed in days rather than months\, and building a platform the next generation of CAS developers can confidently build upon.
CATEGORIES:REGISTRY
LOCATION:3rd Floor - Cartoon Room\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
SEQUENCE:0
UID:d3448e493c534ceb131a458d78c0b953
URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/d3448e493c534ceb131a458d78c0b953
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DTSTAMP:20260728T033903Z
DTSTART:20260721T200000Z
DTEND:20260721T204500Z
SUMMARY:[ALL STAFF] MUSIC BINGO
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:2nd Floor - Archie M Griffin Grand Ballroom\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
SEQUENCE:0
UID:c8d0782f04fa33ce9c14662221c268fd
URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/c8d0782f04fa33ce9c14662221c268fd
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DTSTAMP:20260728T033903Z
DTSTART:20260721T210000Z
DTEND:20260721T214500Z
SUMMARY:[ALL STAFF] LIVE PERFORMANCE & CLOSING REMARKS
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CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:2nd Floor - Archie M Griffin Grand Ballroom\, 1739 North High Street; Columbus\, Ohio 43210
SEQUENCE:0
UID:aa65c0e0f1716d5d980cf31b08f62f37
URL:http://castechday2026.sched.com/event/aa65c0e0f1716d5d980cf31b08f62f37
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