The 9th Global Summit on Process Safety (GSPS) was held in Qingdao from October 28 to 29. This was the first time GSPS was held in China. It coincided with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of deep cooperation between the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety (AIChE CCPS) and China University of Petroleum (East China), and was co-hosted by the two sides. Haoshui Wang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the China Occupational Safety and Health Association (COSHA), and former Member of the Party Leadership Group and Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Emergency Management, and Anne O’Neal, President of AIChE, served as honorary chairs of the conference. Shakeel Kadri, Chief Engineer of AIChE and Director and CEO of CCPS, and Dongfeng Zhao, Director and Professor of the Safety, Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation Technology Center at China University of Petroleum (East China), served as conference chairs.

With the theme “Excellence in Process Safety Driving Corporate Competitiveness,” the conference featured 10 keynote presentations, 2 panel discussions, a Closed-Door Leaders’ Forum on Process Safety， and more than 80 presentations across 5 tracks. Topics covered process safety leadership, artificial intelligence applications, enterprise risk management, asset integrity, energy transition, and other fields. More than 1,000 process safety experts and representatives from industry associations, enterprises, universities, and research institutes from over 20 countries and regions—including China, the United States, India, Japan, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, and the Netherlands—attended the conference in person. The event drew attention from media outlets including Xinhua Net, China Emergency Management News, China Chemical Industry News, Science and Technology Daily, and Qingdao News Network.

At the conference, on behalf of AIChE, Shakeel Kadri presented the “AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety Fellow” (CCPS Fellow) to Professor Zhao Dongfeng, in recognition of outstanding individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and dedication in the professional field and have long been committed to advancing CCPS. To date, a total of 65 individuals worldwide have received this honor. This is the first time a Chinese scholar has been awarded this distinction.

Opening Ceremony

Keynotes

Panels

Closed-Door Leaders’ Forum on Process Safety

Tracks

Summary of the Closed-Door Leaders’ Forum & Closing Remarks

Summary of the Closed-Door Leaders’ Forum

Posters & Exhibitions

The conference was organized by the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at China University of Petroleum (East China), Fengxingshu (Beijing) Culture Technology Co., Ltd., and the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety, and co-organized by Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. and Qingdao Oasis Technology Development Group.

The conference received media support from WeChat public accounts including “Safety and Environmental Protection Huicuiyuan,” “UPC HSE,” “HSE Center,” “Zhu’an,” and “Zuoben Chemical Vision.”

The conference received strong support from sponsors.