Dear All, We are happy to share with you the details of CAPE Forum 2021. https://www.escape31.org/cape-forum-2021/ The CAPE Forum 2021 aims to attract PhD students from Europe and beyond with the purpose of creating a platform to review the recent progress, exchange ideas, increase the interaction between academia and industry and enhance the collaboration among the researchers. CAPE Forum 2021 will be conducted as a virtual event on June 10-11, 2021 just after ESCAPE-31. The CAPE Forum 2021 has the following program: Day 1 (June 10, 2021): Pillar 1: Data Analytics and Machine Learning (Metin Türkay and Fengqi You) Pillar 2: Modeling and Optimization (Lorenz T. Biegler and Ignacio E. Grossmann) Day 2 (June 11, 2021): Pillar 3: Integrated Product and Process Design (Claire Adjiman and Rafiqul Gani) Pillar 4: Education and Training (Fernando Martins and Gregoire Leonard and Seyed Soheil Mansouri, Jointly organized by EURECHA) Each pillar has 2 mentor faculty members. The structure of each pillar will be: 1 hr - presentation by by mentor 1 1 hr - presentation by by mentor 2 1 hr - presentation by PhD students (4-5 presentations) 1 hr - general discussion on challenges and opportunities We are accepting applications at the following link: https://forms.gle/etbbcQ19vGsbBE3B6 We look forward to having a fruitful CAPE Forum 2021. CAPE Forum 2021