Skip to main content

FIPSE-6

FIPSE-7, July 6-8, 2026

FIPSE-7 will take place at the Makedonia Palace Hotel
in Thessaloniki, Greece

It is the seventh conference in the series that was initiated in 2012. An overview of the format of each day of the conference is given below.
The details of the technical program can be found HERE. Information about the conference site is HERE.

Structure of each Daily Session

Each day, the program has two invited keynotes that define a broad set of open problems in the day’s topical area.

In addition,  three to five additional short presentations define one challenging open research problem each in the technical area under consideration.

The tentative program for each day looks as follows:

Morning Session: 8:45 – 13:00

  • 08:45 – 09:00    Welcome and mission of the day
  • 09:00 – 09:45    First Keynote
  • 09:45 – 10:00    Discussion
  • 10:00 – 10:45    Second Keynote
  • 10:45 – 11:00    Discussion
  • 11:00 – 11:30    Coffee break
  • 11:30 – 12:30    Short presentations 15 min each
    • ONLY 10 minutes for each presentation
    • ONLY 8-9 slides
    • Plus 5 minutes for discussion
  • 12:30 – 13:00    Further Discussion

.

Lunch: 13:00 – 14:30

.

Afternoon Session: 14:30 – 16:30

  • 14:30 – 16:00    Discussion of open problems in small groups
  • 16:00 – 16:30    Small groups report to all

END of the Day: 16:40 (Approximate)

Speakers are strictly required to limit their presentations to the allotted time. Plenary speakers should spend more than 70% of their time discussing and defining challenging OPEN problems.

Short presentations have just enough time to define a single open problem succinctly.

 

 

Purpose of the

FIPSE Meetings

The main purpose
of a FIPSE meeting is to
define the most important
open problems
of the topics discussed.

This is achieved through
discussions,
discussions,
and more discussions.

Discussion of Open Problems

Each day of the conference is devoted to a single topic of Process Systems Engineering. The FIPSE trustees select the three topics and the corresponding leader. These day-leaders further define the topic and, with the help of the FIPSE trustees, select the invited speakers.

The invited two speakers for each day make a 45-minute morning presentation. These presentations focus 70% of their time on defining a few significant open research problems the community should address in the next 5 to 10 years.

In the second half of the morning session, 4 short talks are presented. They are selected from proposals submitted ahead of the conference. These talks will also be listed in the conference program.

The morning session concludes with suggestions on making the afternoon discussions most productive.

In the afternoon session, the participants break into groups of 6-8 members. They discuss further and define the open problems of the day’s topic in greater detail. Each group reports to all participants, and another round of discussions follows where all participants are involved. The day organizer(s) and the two invited speakers, with some help from the graduate students present, keep a record of what was discussed.

Over the following six months, the day organizer(s) and the invited speakers produce a draft manuscript that describes what was discussed and concluded at the conference. This draft is circulated among all FIPSE participants for comments and suggestions for improvement before submission to a leading journal. All who contribute substantial edits become co-authors. This publication aims to inform the general community and motivate researchers to help solve the defined challenges or to pursue alternative ones.