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CAS Tech Day 2026

Dave Paul

CAS

Systems Engineer/DBA

Columbus

About me

I will be circulating through all events, taking photos for CAS internal use.

8:00am EDT

[ALL STAFF] OPENING REMARKS & KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2nd Floor - Archie M Griffin Grand BallroomProfessor Tracey L. Sigers, MBA, MCE

9:00am EDT

Agentic Chemistry 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3James Law • Brian Habersberger Lego for Production: Composable Building Blocks for Real Software 3rd Floor - Cartoon RoomBrett Merold • Prithviraj Patel What Happens After You Adopt AI 1st Floor - US Bank Conference TheaterChris Clonch • Ashutosh Pardeshi Demystifying Cybersecurity: A Behind the Scenes Look 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2Alex Laffey Newly Single: A PatentPak Optimization Story 2nd Floor - Senate ChamberRavi Kargam • Lei Feng • Sumita Shome • Thien Nguyen

10:00am EDT

BioCurator: Automated Bioactivity Curation from Scientific Literature Using On-Premises Multimodal LLMs 2nd Floor - Senate ChamberNilesh Tawari The GenAI Divide 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2Wade Shepard • Erica Jackson Meet CAS Newton and CAS Anywhere: A New Force in Research, Wherever You Work 1st Floor - US Bank Conference TheaterAhmad Farag • Yen Lee • Zachary Baruch • Amjad Rammahi Talking about Tautomers - A Cheminformatics Story 3rd Floor - Cartoon RoomAndy Fedus Maximizing Efficiency with Ivanti Request Offerings and Jira Integration 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3Anthony Valenti • Sam Roop • Eric Dziengowski

11:00am EDT

Cheminformatics for Software Engineers 101 -- Structure Formats 3rd Floor - Cartoon RoomRebecca Haninger • Jonathan Caudill • Drishti Mittal Introducing the Lithium API 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2Nick Watts The Scientific Knowledge Platform (SKP): A Modern Curation Solution 1st Floor - US Bank Conference TheaterDavid Dastrup • Allison Dick • Laura Maurer Accelerating Data Quality in CO: Transforming Ingestion, Review, and Harmonization 2nd Floor - Senate ChamberKaarina Lokko • Sean Collins TECOPS: Crank up the volume--turn down the noise; volume = automated capabilities; noise = interrupts 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3Dawn Handy

12:00pm EDT

[ALL STAFF] LUNCH & ENTERTAINMENT 2nd Floor - Archie M Griffin Grand BallroomBeechcroft High School Marching Band

1:00pm EDT

There and Back Again: Hybrid Chemical Name Resolution for Reducing LLM Hallucination 3rd Floor - Cartoon RoomDmitrii Polshakov The Remix in Action: From Rapid Build to Production Handoff 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3Katie Hathaway • Kurt Lehmkuhl Boxes, Arrows and the Truth: What Your Architecture Drawing Is Missing 1st Floor - US Bank Conference TheaterKeith Templin Hacked by Hollywood: The Psychology Behind Our Clicks 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2Michaela Vojta • Mia Pinnix Spark Weave - Spark Orchestration Framework 2nd Floor - Senate ChamberAhmad Farag

2:00pm EDT

One platform, infinite intelligence: our Snowflake story - Data warehousing, analytics, and AI — all in one place, all working together 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3Andrew Hall • Ram Pathak Sharper Boxes, Cleaner Crops: Recent Improvements to the OSR Pipeline for Chemical Structure Extraction 2nd Floor - Senate ChamberNaum Sayfullin Tool, Not Crutch: An Early Career AI Playbook 1st Floor - US Bank Conference TheaterAbshir Ali • Destiny Schiff Turning It Up to 11: How M365 Copilot Amplifies How We Work at CAS 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2Justin Lane • Alberto Serrano-Chavez Interactive Retrosynthesis 3rd Floor - Cartoon RoomJunyan Wang • Paul Steffas • Gayathri Handa

3:00pm EDT

Agent Runtimes in the Open: Observability with LangFuse and AgentCore 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #3Daqi (Tony) Qian When AI Answers the Page: Automating Infrastructure Remediation 1st Floor - Great Hall Meeting Room #1 & 2Anatoli Ivanov • Michael McClintock Building Agents That Actually Work: Hard-Won Lessons from the Scifinder Agent 1st Floor - US Bank Conference TheaterMatthew Weimer Toward a Smarter, More Modern CAS Substance Registry 3rd Floor - Cartoon RoomHaitao Chen • Matthew Fleming • Clayton Threatt • Allison Dick

4:00pm EDT

[ALL STAFF] MUSIC BINGO 2nd Floor - Archie M Griffin Grand BallroomCourtney Werner

5:00pm EDT

[ALL STAFF] LIVE PERFORMANCE & CLOSING REMARKS 2nd Floor - Archie M Griffin Grand BallroomJames Pyle