Chemcon

The annual flagship event of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), the “Chemical Engineers Congress”(Chemcon) occurs mostly in the month of december. This year the 73rd Annual Session of IIChE and Indian Chemical Engineering Congress, CHEMCON 2020 will be held during 27 – 30 December 2020 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha in the Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology campus at Bhubaneswar.  The Central Theme of this year’s CHEMCON will be ‘Optimal Utilization of Mineral Resources’. Contact: chemcon2020@gmail.com | Website:www.chemcon2020.com

During the event various scholars, professors, industrial experts, foriegn dignitaries and students from India and around the world share their research experience and get to know each other. It is a wonderful platform to advance your skills, get to know about research topics, explore newer tech. The event has merits by its own ways and being a part of it, is itself a great credit to oneself.

Here are some of my experiences of participating in chemcon 2019.

The first updates are rolled out in the month of september in their official website. Keep looking for updates regularly and try ton stick to the deadlone. Keep you abstract ready to update in the page. They usually have their own format it looked this way when I participated in 2019.

It takes about 2 months for them to reply back as to whether your abstract has been selected. They usually dont send a mail to tell you that you are not selected. But you can very well contact them to get more info by phone, as they dont respond well through mail. They decide- if you have to present your abstract as a paper or as a poster. They also roll out the designs for both of them but tooo lately, only a week before the actual event. Generally, this is how it looks, you can modify a bit and deviate from the prescribed design while making the poster(for which I participated), but its not the case for paper presentation. The paper has to strictly adhereto their prescribed conditions. You can very well use this design when you design a poster, not just for chemcon but anywhere.

The 72nd edition of chemcon on 2019 was organised by IIT delhi, and was attended by about 700 delegates all around the world. There were about 300 paper presenrtations and 40 posters(Tougher to get into). Prizes are not awarded in this conference. There were many plenary lectures by top subject and matter experts with loads of information. The event occurs for 4-5 days with a fully packed schedule.

Be well prepared with your presentation or posters as the people attending will have a lot of questions about it. There are certain things to remember, as its a conference of higher order, they give certificate of presentation to only one of the person in the team. You can raise a request prior to the conference and confirm about this. But you will get a participation ceritificate. You will have pay for the accommodation and registration separately, food is complimentary.

We took the Garib Rath express to reach Delhi’s HH Nizammudin stn, which is a 28 hour journey from chennai (where I live). The college is about 6 kms from the station in a place called Hauz Khaz. The city of Delhi is soo great with lots of places to visit and explore. The Red fort, lotus temple, Qutb Minar, India Gate, National War memorial, Akshardam, The central scretariat, Rashtrapathi Bhavan, the crowded markets of Sarojini nagar, chandhini Chowk, chatta chowk are awesome. Agra is just at 2 hours drive from Delhi, where the beautiful Taj stands.

One can also experience the greatness of the Mughal empire and the rich Indian culture in Delhi. We also got to taste the Great delicacies like Akbari dishes and also the Chola Batura. The place was famous for shawls and jewellary, and what not.

It was an awesome experience and one should never miss a chance to attend these kind of conferences where we have both fun and knowledge gain.