There was a record registration of over 180 attendees of graduate students, post-docs, professors from different universities in the southern California area, as well as other industry professionals from local pharmaceutical companies (Amgen, Cytokinetics, and Terray Therapeutics). Even a local scouting troop joined the event to gain experience towards related science merit badges and families took part in the festivities as well.

18 graduate students and post-docs gave a mix of 20-minute lectures and 10-minute flash talks throughout the afternoon. The talks ranged from inorganic isolation of metal complexes with unique ligand interactions (such as diboroanthracene or a redox-active triptycene) to organometallics applications, like photoredox cross coupling systems or small-molecule reductions with N2, CO, or CO2. An industry professional from Amgen, and Stoltz lab alumna, Dr. Alexia Kim (PhD '23), joined the program to share the workflow of scaling highly exothermic reactions and quenching procedures to process scale. After the afternoon of talks, 37 undergraduate, graduate students, and post-docs shared posters of their recent and developing research alongside pizza and beverages.

The successful event was funded by sponsors such as Amgen, Cytokinetics, Terray Therapeutics, Southern California ACS Chapter, Resnick Sustainability Institute. CCE's administrative team alongside the Peters and Agapie Groups helped with logistics and day-of coordination.