Thursday: 12.30to13.0
Stage 3
PROCESS INTENSIFICATION FEATURE SESSION - Hosted by PIN & PI Group at Newcastle University
Prof. Adam Harvey Professor of Process Intensification - Newcastle University
CHEMUK2019
NEC, Birmingham, UK
15th & 16th May, 2024
Speaker Programme
Keynote Speakers
Forum Sponsors
Chemical Process/Plant & Control
- All Categories
- 2023 Keynotes
- 2023 Panel & Feature Sessions
- Business, Operations & Asset Mgmt
- Chemical Process/Plant & Control
- Continuous Flow Chemistry/Processing
- Digitalisation/Automation & Enabling Tech
- Energy Mgmt/Process Intensification
- Health Safety Environ/Regulatory
- Lab/R&D/Analysis/Test/Innovation/Scale-up
- Logistics/Supply Chain/Storage/Handling/Fulfilment
- Pharma Focus
- Policy & Regs/Trade/Brexit/Support/Market Outlook
- Sector Focus
- Skills/Training/HR & Recruitment
- Sustainability/ Decarbonisation/Green Chemistry
Wednesday 10.40to11.00
Stage 2
KEYNOTE: Accelerating sustainability in the chemical industry with research databases
Dr. Suze Kundu Director of Researcher and Community Engagement at Digital Science - Dimensions
Wednesday 11.00to12.00
Stage 2
Commercial manufacture of existing chemicals using bio-based process
IBioIC Session Chair - Dr. Liz Fletcher, Director of Business Engagement and Operations, Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC)
Dr. Liz Fletcher
Director of Business Engagement and Operations, Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBiolC)
Dr. Beatriz Domínguez
Technical Manager – Biotechnology, Johnson Matthey
Dr Simon Grant
Project Manager at Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd
Jim Woodger
Managing Director, LanzaTech UK Ltd
Panel Host -Tony Heslop
Senior Sustainability Manager, BASF PLC
Wednesday: 11.00to12.00
Stage 3
Dr. Keri Goodwin – CPI Session Host
Chief Technologist - CPI
Dr. Mark Copley
Chief Engineer - Electrochemical Materials and Manufacturing - WMG, University of Warwick
Dr. Vishal Nayar
Business Development – UK-BIC - The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre
Wednesday: 11.40to12.00
Stage 4
KEYNOTE: Important factors to consider when designing pipework systems for corrosive chemicals
James Roper Head of Product Portfolio at Aliaxis UK
Wednesday: 11.00to11.15
Stage 5
Wednesday: 11.15to11.30
Stage 5
Wednesday: 11.30to11.45
Stage 5
Scaling up batch to flow to cut costs and energy in halve
Dr. Nikolay Cherkasov Managing Director - Stoli Chem
Wednesday: 11.45to12.00
Stage 5
‘’Dynamic Mixing for flow reactor Applications’’
Sara Rached Process Engineer - Autichem Ltd
Wednesday: 12.00to12.15
Stage 3
Principals To Successfully Combine Operations And Distribution Digital Transformation Technologies Into A One Platform Approach For The Chemical Industry
William Brown IIOT Solutions Architect - PowTechnology
Wednesday: 12.30to12.45
Stage 3
How to gain a minimum 5% energy saving on your production processes
Jisha Panikar Global Market Manager - Process Industries - Klüber Lubrication
Wednesday: 12.45to13.00
Stage 3
Breaking Records Together - Operational and Reliability Excellence
Gary Tyne Director - Pro-Reliability Solutions Limited
Wednesday: 12.00to12.30
Stage 4
‘Process Intensification’ Feature session – hosted by the Process Intensification (PI) Group at Newcastle University
Process Intensification Group
Joint Speakers
Prof. Adam Harvey
Professor of Process Intensification - Newcastle University
Dr. Jonathan McDonough
Lecturer - PI Group at Newcastle University
Wednesday: 12.30to12.45
Stage 4
Revolutionizing Heat Transfer: Innovative Solutions to Reduce Fouling and Improve Efficiency
Amol Palve Sales Manager- KLAREN Technology, Taprogge GmbH
Wednesday: 12.45to13.00
Stage 4
Online monitoring of Chemical and Bioprocesses using Raman Spectroscopy "The Lab comes to the Sample"
Kevin Fernandes Process Analytical Sales Specialist, Endress+Hauser
Wednesday: 12.00to12.15
Stage 5
“Scale up solid phase peptide synthesis in flow and reduce time to market for new drug development”
Duncan Guthrie Director - Vapourtec Ltd
Wednesday 12.15to12.30
Stage 5
Circa Group – Changing Chemistry For Good
Dr. Sarah Hickingbottom General Manager - Circa Group
Wednesday: 12.45to13.00
Stage 5
Mechanical Surface Energy Tester- Prediction of Bulk Flow Properties using 50mg quantity
Dr Vivek Garg Research and Consulting Engineer - The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich
Wednesday: 13.30to15.00
Stage 2
Dr. Catherine Mort
Knowledge Transfer Manager, Industrial Biotechnology - Innovate UK KTN
Amy Elliott Peace
Innovation Lead - Circular Economy at Innovate UK
Dr Alastair Sanderson
Unilever - Flue2Chem
Dr Holly A. Reeve
CEO and Co-founder of HydRegen Limited
Dr. Patrick Dodds
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Hexigone
Stefano Cocchi
Sales Development Manager - Kew Technology
Wednesday: 13.00to14.00
Stage 3
Dr Lukas Kuerten
Principal Scientist, Data Analytics - CPI
Wednesday: 14.00to15.00
Stage 3
Ryan Siddall
Head of Technical, North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC)
James Rogers
Site Head, Sterling Pharma Solutions
Will Reynolds
Flow Chemistry Development Chemist, Sterling Pharma Solutions
Stephen Byard
Principal Research Fellow, Science & Technology, Candidate Development, Quotient Sciences
Christine Gardner
Inspection and Packaging Technical Lead, GSK
Dr. Charles Heise
Associate Director - Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Wednesday: 14.00to14.15
Stage 4
Delivering Sustainable Operations through Collaboration on Emissions Reduction
David Anderson Director, Score Group
Wednesday: 14.30to14.45
Stage 4
Water Reuse Case Study from Dow Benelux
Colin Robinson Business Manager UK & Ireland, Evides Industriewater UK
Wednesday: 14.30to15.00
Stage 5
Digitalisation of the Chemical Industry – How will this impact labs of the future? - Laboratory News magazine - hosted GUEST KEYNOTE
Mike Lancaster Head of Innovation and Events at Chemical Industries Association
Introduced by:
Brian Attwood
Editor - Laboratory News
Wednesday: 15.00to16.30
Stage 2
2023 Bioeconomy ‘Pitch Event’ - Featuring multiple innovators supporting the future bioeconomy
Session Host: BIOVALE
Session Host / Featured Innovators
Chris Hiscocks (Session Host)
Enterprise Manager - Biovale
Aerseeds Ltd – Nature powered solutions for full ecosystem recovery
Bike Ayaskan & Begum Ayaskan, Founders
Matterhorn Studio – Enabling your first step towards AI-driven materials discovery
Jakob Zeitler, Research Scientist at Matterhorn Studio
LiquiBio Ltd – Edible scaffolding to simplify bioprocessing and create better tasting cultivated meat
Elijah Mojares, PhD, Chief Executive Officer
Nova Biochem Ltd – Developing sustainable alternatives to traditional petrochemicals from pulping and agricultural waste streams for flavourings, adhesives, plastics
Alexander Novitskiy CEO and CO-founder
New Wave Biotech – Bioprocess optimisation software to help alternative protein companies get to market quicker, cheaper and better
Zoe Law, CO-Founder & CEO
Mykor – Biotechnology and advanced materials company developing commercially viable and sustainable building materials made from waste and fungi.
Valentina Dipietro
Confirmed Judging Panel includes:
HASSAN MAHMUDUL – Judge
Investment Partner - Future Planet Capital
JONATHAN TUDOR – Judge
Partner – Clean Growth Fund
DR. GEOFF MACKEY – Judge
UK Country Manager – Plastics Europe
Stuart Ferguson – Judge
Investor - Sustainable Ventures
Wednesday: 15.00to15.15
Stage 3
KEYNOTE: Energy cost reductions and sustainability delivered
David Kipling Chief Executive Officer - On-Site Energy Ltd
Wednesday: 15.15to15.30
Stage 3
OT Cyber Security in the Chemical Industry
Ben Caley Lead for Connectivity and Cyber Security Products - Siemens
Wednesday: 15.30to15.45
Stage 3
"Staying Competitive with a User-Centric Approach to Manufacturing Software"
John Papastylianou CEO - Cyzag Ltd
Wednesday: 15.45to16.00
Stage 3
Importance of data from process valves, to ensure water treatment and other process plant
Greg Wainhouse Industry Manager Water - Burkert UK
Wednesday: 15.30to15.45
Stage 4
Leadership Matters - Good practice examples of process safety leadership
Ashley Hynds Technical Director, Process Safety - WSP UK Ltd
Wednesday: 15.45to16.00
Stage 4
A pharmaceutical manufacturer’s net zero journey
Anushka Devaser Associate Director - WSP UK Ltd
Thursday 10.00to11.00
Stage 2
Session Host & Panellists
Dr Anna Zhenova – Session Host
Founder and CEO - Green Rose Chemistry
Dr. Mark Gronnow
Process Development Unit Manager - Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC)
Dr. Yvonne Armitage
Director of Biotechnology, CPI
Dr. Paul Bello
Innovation Lead Industrial Biotechnology, Innovate UK
Dr. Andrew West
Chief Chemist, BioSep Ltd
Dr. Neil Renault
Scale-up Facilities Manager, IBioIC
Thursday: 10.30to11.00
Stage 3
Minding the gap: why monitoring your process is the counterintuitive next step in advancing your maintenance and reliability.
Peter McToal Digital Solutions Architect ABB Energy Industries
Thursday: 11.00to11.15
Stage 3
From Data to Insight: Using Self-Service Analytics to Extract Value from Time-Series Plant Data
Darren Steele Technical Advisor, IT Vizion, Inc.
Thursday: 11.30to12.00
Stage 3
BASF and Siemens DI Leading the Digital Transformation in Chemicals Production
BASF and Siemens DI
Dr. Darren Budd
Commercial Director, BASF UK & Ireland, BASF plc
Ajay Blah
Business Development Manager - Service at Siemens Plc
Thursday: 11.30to12.00
Stage 4
Neil Smith – Session Host
Head of Workforce Development - Cogent Skills
Justine Fosh
Chief Executive Officer - Cogent Skills
Thursday 12.30to13.00
Stage 2
KEYNOTE: Changing global chemical market, against the backdrop of current and future economic, environmental and performance trends and challenges
Richard Haldimann Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer, Clariant
Thursday: 12.00to12.15
Stage 3
Next generation batch reactor productivity and efficiency: An introduction to the PI QFlux Batch Reactor System
Andrew Wills Managing Director - Thermal Fluid Systems Ltd
Thursday: 12.15to12.30
Stage 3
Fibre optic temperature sensing of exothermic reactions in packed bed column reactors
Dr Lars Kahlman Engineering and Sales Consultant - Proximion AB
Thursday: 12.30to13.00
Stage 3
Joint Speakers
Prof. Adam Harvey
Professor of Process Intensification - Newcastle University
Dr. Sharon Velasquez Orta
PIGroup at Newcastle University
Thursday: 13.00to13.30
Stage 3
Jonathan Gunnell
Business Development Manager at CPI Biologics
Thursday: 13.30to13.45
Stage 4
Next Generation Emergency Response Information Provision
Chris Scott Crisis Services Manager - CHEMTREC®
Thursday: 13.45to14.00
Stage 4
Valuation of the Environment for COMAH Cost-Benefit Analysis
Carolyn Nicholls Managing Director - RAS Ltd
Thursday: 14.20to14.40
Stage 2
Novel biosurfactant manufacturing offering new options formulations to achieve Net Zero sustainable formulations.
Richard Lock Managing Director, Holiferm ltd
Thursday: 14.00to14.20
Stage 3
“Take a holistic approach to sustainable chemical production - combine energy, automation & digital systems"
Markus Brahmann Sales Director- EURA for Process Instrumentation Business - Schneider Electric
Thursday: 14.20to14.40
Stage 3
Improving Efficiency and Sustainability in the Process Industry
Michael S Blair MIET UK Executive Strategic Sales Manager & Client Business Transformation at Siemens
Thursday: 14.40to15.00
Stage 3
Your Roadmap to Technology Mastery
Rob Munro Industrial Associate with IfM Engage at Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University
Thursday: 14.00to14.15
Stage 5
Reducing Costs Of New Product Development And Manufacture Using Safe And Sustainable By Design Principles
Andrew Bourne Associate - WSP
