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[Archived] Strategy for strengthening the ability to generate new themes in materials development - How to cross the devil's river in the age of AI - Event report

This is an event report for the PFCC webinar "Strategies to Strengthen the Creation of New Themes in Materials Development - How to Cross the Devil's River in the AI Era" held on March 26, 2025.

This webinar featured Hiroki Torii of Preferred Computational Chemistry, Inc. Many people participated in the very meaningful session, which focused on the theme of how to overcome the "devil's river" that is the first hurdle from research and development to commercialization. Even if you were unable to attend the webinar, we hope you will take a look at the materials and videos below and use them as hints for your research and development strategy.

Participant comments

  • It was helpful as a way to organize things.
  • The content was appealing to management as well.
  • The world is changing dramatically with the use of AI

Overview of the Webinar

One of the missions of research and development is to create new themes that will lead to the next business. In the process of bringing technology to market, it is said that there are three difficult points called the "Devil's River," "Valley of Death," and "Darwin's Sea." In particular, the Devil's River, which is the phase that connects research to development, is an extremely uncertain area in which it is necessary to search for a good combination of countless elemental technologies and potential customer needs, and how to overcome this is an important challenge for material manufacturers. In this seminar, we will break down the Devil's River into two information processing steps, discuss the direction of measures and the scope for AI use for each step, and introduce how computational chemistry and materials informatics (MI), which have been attracting attention in recent years, can contribute to this. Finally, we will introduce our Matlantis, a computational chemistry material design tool that utilizes AI technology.

Download materials and watch videos here

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