We are organizing a full-day pre-congress workshop at the IFAC World Congress 2026 in Busan, Republic of Korea on Sunday, August 23, 2026.
LLMs and Agents for Process Industries: Foundations, Applications, and Open Challenges
Co-organized by Prof. Bhushan Gopaluni (UBC), Dr. Mehmet Mercangöz (Imperial College London), and Prof. Chunhui Zhao (Zhejiang University). The workshop covers foundations of LLM agents, hands-on agent building, applications in process design / autonomous control / simulation, and a structured discussion of open problems.
See the workshop page for the full schedule, prerequisites, and registration details: /ifac2026/.