AGENDA
Keynotes (0930-11.30)
Welcome to Sustainable Industry Live.
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What is our reason for being here today?
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How will you get the most out of your time?
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Why is this meeting so important?
Emma Fromberg
Course Director
What impacts will the change of Government have on energy intensive industry?
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Understand the key new energy policies and initiatives proposed by the Labour Government, and how they might impact your business.
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What will be the Labour Government's approach to encouraging and enabling energy efficiency measures for industry?
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Should businesses expect an increase in non-commodity costs caused by new energy schemes i.e. hydrogen, nuclear?
David Kipling
Chief Executive Officer
Choosing right from right. Decision making in sustainable innovation.
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Approaches for considering trade-offs in innovation projects
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How to address some of the barriers that might be holding back projects in areas such as Industrial Symbiosis
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Opportunities to influence future innovation funding programmes for Materials and Manufacturing
Amy Peace
Innovation Lead - Circular Economy
Knowing is only half the battle
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How can we get past measuring & reporting to reducing our footprint without compromising profitability or quality?
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How do we avoid “random acts of innovation”, and establish a controllable process for using data and tech to drive sustainable operations?
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What are the approaches that minimize competing and overlapping technology projects and expenditures?
Sean Robinson
Manager - Software Solutions
Roundtables (12.00 - 14.15)
STREAM 1 - Reduce Energy
Smart Energy: Pinpointing hotspots and future proofing data collection
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How can data collection and analysis improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions?
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What steps can R&D teams take to prioritise decarbonisation projects for future innovation?
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How can advanced EMS systems and data analytics enhance energy efficiency and sustainability?
Peter Lai
Continuous Improvement and Industry 4.0 Lead
Zeeshan Qamar
Sustainability & Climate Change Technical Lead
The hidden costs of downtime
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How can real-time energy data optimise machinery performance and reduce idle times?
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What practices correlate energy spend with operations to uncover inefficiencies?
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How can OEE methodology improve energy efficiency and minimise downtime?
Agnes Ragondet
Group Sustainability Director
How can digitalisation drive sustainability? Opportunities and threats of new technologies
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How can we identify areas where technologies support sustainability and amplify their impact?
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How can we recognize the negative impacts of digital technologies and minimize them?
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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?
Kris Kuplis
Digital Transformation Director
STREAM 2 - Scale Circularity
Reuse and Recycle – a practical discussion on collaborating for value in the circular economy
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What examples of system thinking and collaboration are considered good practise?
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How can data-driven insights enhance decision-making for reducing emissions in purchased goods and services?
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What actions can we take as individuals and collectively to make the biggest improvements?
Benn Godfrey
Vice President - Procurement
Scope 3: Data-Driven Strategies for Categories 1 & 11
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What are your challenges in gathering and using data for Scope 3 emissions, and how can they be overcome?
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How can data-driven insights enhance decision-making for reducing emissions in purchased goods and services?
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How can companies integrate Scope 3 data into their overall sustainability strategies?
Daniel Lintell
Sustainability Lead
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Anil Thomas
Operations Director
Scope 3: Opportunities in exchanging sustainability impact data through the supply chain
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How scope 3 influences the entire company impact especially within manufacturing
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Practical ways on how to work together within your supply chain and set joined reduction scenarios
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How data exchange frameworks such as PACT – Pathfinder can help?
Noelle Harvey
VP Product
Yuzedata
Frans-Willem de Kloet
CEO
Ecochain
Building sustainability into plants, assets and processes
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How can we tap into automation and other tech assets for richer data to explore for improvement without introducing risk?
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The data scientists have come up with potentially interesting insights – how can they translate back into shop floor systems and processes?
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What does an effective plant-level improvement team look like in terms of roles and goals?
Sean Robinson
Manager - Software Solutions
Optimising your buildings and processes performance to deliver energy, carbon and cost reduction
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How does building energy optimisation integrate in to your wider Net-zero strategy?
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What impact will building fabric improvements, renewable energy generation and waste energy recovery have on your carbon reduction plan?
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How does science-based data interrogation enable investment-grade decision making?
Adam Goves
Lead – Manufacturing & Infrastructure
Is manufacturing sustainability a challenge or opportunity? Explore with Professor Iain Crosley
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Get clarity on the revenue opportunities and competitive advantage of a long-term sustainability strategy
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Recognise the potential roadblocks and how to get around them
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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
Ian Crosley
Director
What impacts will the change of Government have on energy intensive industry?
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Understanding the key new energy policies and initiatives proposed by the Labour Government, and how they might impact your business.
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What will be the Labour Government's approach to encouraging and enabling energy efficiency measures for industry?
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Should businesses expect an increase in non-commodity costs caused by new energy schemes i.e. hydrogen, nuclear ?
Martin Gaffney
Sales Director
Choosing right from right.
Decision making in sustainable innovation
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What trade-offs do you typically make?
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What is causing these trade-offs?
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What innovations are you looking for?
Chaco van der Sijp
Innovation Lead - Manufacturing
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Henry Royce Institute: How collaborating with academia can support your sustainability goals
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What is the UK's National Advanced Materials Institute, and how can we support industry?
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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?
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How can we influence the government to inform national materials strategies, roadmaps and future policy?
Edidiong Asuquo
Senior Application Scientist
Michelle Ledward
Research Engagement Manager
Lunch (14.15 - 15.15)
Workshops (15.15 - 16.30)
Energy reduction = The heart of your strategy
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How can you use your brains and not your wallets to deliver your sustainability ambitions?
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How can you use your current skills in being efficient, and use them to deliver energy savings?
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How to build a sustainability strategy for your company
Steve Evans
Director of Research
Industrial Sustainability
Your pathway to scalable circularity
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Circularity: an opportunity for innovation and entrepreneurial joy, not a threat
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Scalable circular solutions require product, business model archetype and brand strategy innovation
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Circular Solution Space: A methodology for harnessing circular complexity
Marcel den Hollander
Prrofessor Circular Design & Manufacturing
The anti-workshop: Stories of failure to guide your success
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Products components and materials as asset classes? Maybe...
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Economies of scale or scope?
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A circular economy by intention and design? Always.