The I Chemistry Conference of West Bahia aimed the meeting of the academic community of west Bahia state developing research activities at graduate level and postgraduate ones in several chemistry areas, mainly the analytic chemistry, natural products, theoretical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemistry teaching, spectroscopy, materials science, photochemistry and catalysis. Through the plenary lectures, short courses and poster presentation, invited researchers from other institutions and mainly students could share experiences as well as plan collaborations from multi and interdisciplinar nature, enabling a greater scientific aggrandizement of the research developed by emergent groups distributed along the inland cities of Brazil.