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Keynotes (0900-11.30)

Welcome to Sustainable Industry Live.

  • What is our reason for being here today?
  • How will you get the most out of your time?
  • Why is this meeting so important?
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Emma Fromberg
Course Director 

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What impacts will the change of Government have on energy intensive industry?

  • Understand the key new energy policies and initiatives proposed by the Labour Government, and how they might impact your business.
  • What will be the Labour Government's approach to encouraging and enabling energy efficiency measures for industry?
  • Should businesses expect an increase in non-commodity costs caused by new energy schemes i.e. hydrogen, nuclear?
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David Kipling
Chief Executive Officer 

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Choosing right from right. Decision making in sustainable innovation.

  • Approaches for considering trade-offs in innovation projects
  • How to address some of the barriers that might be holding back projects in areas such as Industrial Symbiosis
  • Opportunities to influence future innovation funding programmes for Materials and Manufacturing
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Amy Peace
Innovation Lead - Circular Economy 

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Knowing is only half the battle

  • How can we get past measuring & reporting to reducing our footprint without compromising profitability or quality?

  • How do we avoid “random acts of innovation”, and establish a controllable process for using data and tech to drive sustainable operations?

  • What are the approaches that minimize competing and overlapping technology projects and expenditures?

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Sean Robinson
Manager - Software Solutions

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Net Zero: Embracing electrification and decarbonisation for scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions

  • Adopting EV and electrification on the path to net zero

  • Making the most of flexibility to reduce costs and generate revenue

  • Strategies to meet your net zero targets and an introduction to carbon removals

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Naomi Nye 
Head of Sales 

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Innovation through collaboration – progressing advanced materials research for a sustainable future

  • What is the Centre of Expertise in Advanced Materials and Sustainability (CEAMS) and how are we helping industry transition to sustainable and circular manufacturing?

  • What are the routes to accessing world class expertise and advanced capabilities to accelerate innovation?

  • What is CEAMS role in advancing the national materials strategy

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William Sampson 
Professor of Materials Modelling in the Department of Materials

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Roundtables (12.00 - 14.15)

STREAM 1 - Reduce Energy

Smart Energy: Pinpointing hotspots and future proofing data collection

  • How can data collection and analysis improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions?

  • What steps can R&D teams take to prioritise decarbonisation projects for future innovation?

  • How can advanced EMS systems and data analytics enhance energy efficiency and sustainability?

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Peter Lai 
Continuous Improvement and Industry 4.0 Lead 

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Zeeshan Qamar 
Sustainability & Climate Change Technical Lead

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The hidden costs of downtime

  • How can real-time energy monitoring and data analytics optimise machinery performance and reduce downtime costs?​

  • What are the best practices to correlate predicted machinery costs with actual costs? What are the consequences on cost per part?

  • Could AI and machine learning help create a forecasting model for machinery efficiency and costing analysis?

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Agnes Ragondet
Group Sustainability Director 

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How can digitalisation drive sustainability? Opportunities and threats of new technologies

  • How can we identify areas where technologies support sustainability and amplify their impact?

  • How can we recognize the negative impacts of digital technologies and minimize them?

  • Let’s zoom in on  AI as we are now in an AI era – a lot is said about its environmental impact, is this hype?

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Kris Kuplis
Digital Transformation Director

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STREAM 2 - Scale Circularity

Reuse and Recycle – a practical discussion on collaborating for value in the circular economy

  • What examples of system thinking and collaboration are considered good practise?

  • How can data-driven insights enhance decision-making for reducing emissions in purchased goods and services?

  • What actions can we take as individuals and collectively to make the biggest improvements?

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Benn Godfrey
Vice President - Procurement 

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Scope 3: Data-driven strategies for categories 1 & 11

  • What are your challenges in gathering and using data for Scope 3 emissions, and how can they be overcome?

  • How can data-driven insights enhance decision-making for reducing emissions in purchased goods and services?

  • How can companies integrate Scope 3 data into their overall sustainability strategies?

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Daniel Lintell
Sustainability Lead 

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The first steps on your sustainability journey: How to mobilise, plan, and execute

  • Creating practical roadmap – How to integrate sustainability to core of business strategy – how and what are the practical first steps business has taken.

  • Start small, think big – how to identify priorities and quick wins.

  • Resource mobilization – Engaging stakeholders and leveraging partnerships.

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Anil Thomas 
Operations Director

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Scope 3: Opportunities in exchanging sustainability impact data through the supply chain

  • How scope 3 influences the entire company impact especially within manufacturing

  • Practical ways on how to work together within your supply chain and set joined reduction scenarios

  • How data exchange frameworks such as PACT – Pathfinder can help?

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Noelle Harvey
VP Product
Yuzedata

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Frans-Willem de Kloet
CEO
Ecochain

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Building sustainability into plants, assets and processes

  • How can we tap into automation and other tech assets for richer data to explore for improvement without introducing risk?

  • The data scientists have come up with potentially interesting insights – how can they translate back into shop floor systems and processes?

  • What does an effective plant-level improvement team look like in terms of roles and goals?

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Sean Robinson
Manager - Software Solutions 

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Optimising your buildings and processes performance to deliver energy, carbon and cost reduction

  • How does building energy optimisation integrate in to your wider Net-zero strategy?

  • What impact will building fabric improvements, renewable energy generation and waste energy recovery have on your carbon reduction plan?

  • How does science-based data interrogation enable investment-grade decision making?

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Adam Goves
Lead – Manufacturing & Infrastructure

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Is manufacturing sustainability a challenge or opportunity? Explore with Professor Iain Crosley

  • Get clarity on the revenue opportunities and competitive advantage of a long-term sustainability strategy

  • Recognise the potential roadblocks and how to get around them

  • Get ideas on how to maintain and build on the improvements you’ve already made & understand which technologies you need to be thinking about deploying

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Ian Crosley
Director

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What impacts will the change of Government have on energy intensive industry?

  • Understanding the key new energy policies and initiatives proposed by the Labour Government, and how they might impact your business.

  • What will be the Labour Government's approach to encouraging and enabling energy efficiency measures for industry?

  • Should businesses expect an increase in non-commodity costs caused by new energy schemes i.e. hydrogen, nuclear ?

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Martin Gaffney
Sales Director

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Choosing right from right.
Decision making in sustainable innovation

  • What trade-offs do you typically make?

  • What is causing these trade-offs?

  • What innovations are you looking for?

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Chaco van der Sijp
Innovation Lead - Manufacturing

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Onsite solar, unlocking financial & sustainable value. How industrial leaders leverage onsite solar for short & long-term gains

  • How can onsite solar generation drive both environmental value and financial performance in your operations?

  • What are the options for producing low-cost, sustainable energy directly at your industrial sites?

  • How can you effectively scale solar energy deployment while ensuring long-term value and operational resilience?

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Xander Penney
UK Development Director

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Composites are vital for enabling the UK’s net zero targets, but they’re currently unsustainable

  • Why are composites vital for net zero, and is the sustainability of the materials important?

  • What are the biggest blockers for composite materials to be circular and sustainable?

  • How do we tackle them?

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Jack Alcock,
Technology Development Manager-
Materials - National Composite Center 

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Net Zero: Embracing electrification and decarbonisation forScope 1, 2, and 3 emissions

  • Adopting EV and electrification on the path to net zero

  • Making the most of flexibility to reduce costs and generate revenue

  • Strategies to meet your net zero targets and an introduction to carbon removals

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Naomi Nye 
Head of Sales 

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Jake Miller 
Electric Assets Lead

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Henry Royce Institute: How collaborating with academia can support your sustainability goals

  • What is the UK's National Advanced Materials Institute, and how can we support industry?

  • How can industry access and leverage Royce’s offerings such as cutting-edge expertise and facilities, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with innovative projects like CEAMS to support their sustainability journey?

  • How can we influence the government to inform national materials strategies, roadmaps and future policy?

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Edidiong Asuquo
Senior Application Scientist

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Michelle Ledward
Research Engagement Manager

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Lunch (14.15 - 15.15) 

Workshops (15.15 - 16.30)

Energy reduction = The heart of your strategy

  • How can you use your brains and not your wallets to deliver your sustainability ambitions?

  • How can you use your current skills in being efficient, and use them to deliver energy savings?

  • How to build a sustainability strategy for your company

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Steve Evans 
Director of Research
Industrial Sustainability

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Your pathway to scalable circularity

  • Circularity: an opportunity for innovation and entrepreneurial joy, not a threat

  • Scalable circular solutions require product, business model archetype and brand strategy innovation

  • Circular Solution Space: A methodology for harnessing circular complexity

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Marcel den Hollander
Professor Circular Design & Manufacturing

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Solving real life sustainability challenges together

  • Cross-sector collaboration and knowledge sharing

  • Explore how the approaches which underpin a circular economy can drive ideation in your industry

  • Co-design solutions to current sustainability challenges you are facing in your business)

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Dr. Vicky Lofthouse 
Sustainable Innovation Consultant

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Q&A (16.30 - 17.00)

Drinks reception and de-brief (17.00 - 20.00)

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