FOPAM 2026, the conference on "Foundations of Process/product Analytics and Machine learning" organized by CACHE, is July 26-30, 2026, at the Historic Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.

FOPAM is intended to be the premier forum for researchers from industry and academia to discuss current status and future directions of data analytics and machine learning in the process industries.

Conference Format

The format of the conference is 3-1/2 days of presentations and discussions preceded by an optional 1-1/2-day workshop. The conference itself begins on Monday evening, July 27, with an opening keynote. Over the subsequent three days, AM and PM sessions will follow a format of two talks, followed by audience Q&A and technical discussions with the two speakers and an invited discusser.

Audience research contributions will be through posters based on pre-submitted abstracts. A light breakfast and buffet lunch will be provided Tuesday-Thursday. Two of the afternoons will be used for the poster sessions, outings, and unstructured activities. On the last evening, a reception/banquet and brief rapporteur analyses will conclude the conference.