Wednesday: 10.00to10.20
Stage 1
Price Increase Campaigns: Offsetting inflationary cost increases to protect margins
Dr. Peter Colman Partner and shareholder, Simon-Kucher & Partners
CHEMUK2019
NEC, Birmingham, UK
10th & 11th May, 2023
Speaker Programme
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Chemicals, Ingredients, Raw Materials
- All Categories
- BREXIT
- Business & Operations Management
- Chemicals, Ingredients, Raw Materials
- Digitalisation
- Health, Safety, Environment, Regulatory
- Laboratory, Research & Development
- Logistics, Storage, Handling & Fulfilment
- Plant, Process, Flow & Control
- Sector Focus
- Skills, Training, HR & Recruitment
- Sustainability, Green & BioEconomy
Wednesday: 10.20to10.40
Stage 1
The Chemicals Industry: The end of business as usual
David Hughes CEO, New Normal Consulting
Wednesday: 10.00to11.00
Stage 2
‘Transitioning to bio-based chemicals'
Session Host: Caroline Wilcock Stakeholder Engagement Manager - BioVale
Guest Speakers:
Adrian Higson
Managing Director, NNFCC
Helen Shiels
Business Development Manager, Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC
Svea Braak
Technical Applications Manager, Clariant
Wednesday: 10.00to10.15
Stage 3
Formulation Stability: What is it, Why does it fail and What can I do about it?
Dr Jim Bullock Director, iFormulate Limited
Wednesday: 10.15to10.30
Stage 3
Polymeric-based drug delivery systems for veterinary use
Shilpa Mistry Head of Pharma, UK & Ireland at Chemlink Specialities
Wednesday: 12.40to13.00
Stage: 1
Chemcycling and resource efficiency
Dr. Geoff Mackey and Dr. Darren Budd Dr. - Geoff Mackey - Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Director, BASF plc / Dr. Darren Budd - Commercial Director, BASF UK & Ireland, BASF plc
JOINT SPEAKERS
Dr. Geoff Mackey
Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Director - BASF
Dr. Darren Budd
Commercial Director, BASF UK & Ireland, BASF plc
Wednesday: 12.30to13.00
Stage 2
What does emerging environmental policy tell us about the future of chemical regulation?
Session Host: Caroline Raine Technical Director - National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC)
Panellists
Chris Hughes
Head of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology - National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC)
Nishma Patel
Policy Director - Chemical Industries Association (CIA)
Simon Tilling
Partner, Steptoe & Johnson UK LLP, UK
Wednesday: 12.00to12.20
Stage 4
Applied machine learning to accelerate development of formulations and chemical processes
Dr Gareth Conduit CTO, Intellegens
Wednesday: 12.20to12.40
Stage 4
Workforce Transformation with Data Science and Analytics
Allison Buenemann Industry Principal, Seeq Corporation
Wednesday: 13.00to13.40
Stage 2
FEATURE SESSION: How the Solvents Industry is adapting to a greener future
Session Host: Andrew Norman General Secretary - Solvents Industry Association
Guest Speakers
Luke Goldsmith
Commercial Manager - Coryton Advanced Fuels Ltd
Dr Elske Leenders
Marketing Manager Solvents - Shell Chemicals & Sustainability
Wednesday: 13.40to14.00
Stage 2
Chemistry: a catalyst for change - Royal Society of Chemistry
Professor Gill Reid President-Elect of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2020 - 2022)
Wednesday: 14.00to15.00
Stage 2
FEATURE SESSION: Bioeconomy offers Net Zero solutions for the chemicals supply chain
Session Host – Dr. Liz Fletcher Director of Business Engagement and Operations, Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBiolC)
Guest speakers:
Dr. Russell Clarke
Senior Business Engagement Manager - Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBiolC)
Dr. Fraser Brown
Head of Chemistry, Ingenza Ltd
Dr. Stephen Wallace
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Nikos Tsiapis
Research Lead, Impact Solutions Ltd
Miranda Lindsay-Fynn
Commercial Director - Bio-Sep
Wednesday: 15.00to16.00
Stage 2
A Sustainable future for Adhesives and Sealants - Hosted by BASA
Session Host: Jim Palmer J P Consultancy Ltd - BASA Technical Officer
Guest Panellists:
Steve Farnworth
Managing Director - Itac Adhesives
Jenny Barnett
SHEQ Manager - F Ball and Co Ltd
Lorna Williams
Executive Officer and General Secretary, British Adhesives & Sealants Association.
Dr. Norman Keane
Director of Innovation Ingevity
David Park
Public Affairs Manager British Coatings Federation Limited
Caroline Raine
NCEC & BASA Consultant
Dr. Geoff Mackey
Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Director - BASF
Wednesday: 15.00to15.20
Stage 4
Optimising the costs of UK REACH registrations - lessons learned from EU REACH registrations
Jana Travnickova Regulatory Queen, REGARTIS
Wednesday: 15.20to15.40
Stage 4
Wednesday: 15.40to16.00
Stage 4
India's Draft Chemical (Management and Safety) Rules: Know your obligations and start preparing
Shisher Kumra Executive Director, Global Product Compliance
Wednesday: 16.00to16.30
Stage: 1
RSC SME Showcase - supporting UK deep tech chemistry, for people and the planet - featuring presentations from Stoli Chem and Barton Blakeley
Session Host: Andrew Waterworth Industry Engagement Manager at Royal Society of Chemistry
Guest Speakers:
Dr. Nikolay Cherasov
Founder and Managing Director -Stoli Chem
Christopher Barton
CEO - Barton Blakeley
Wednesday: 16.00to16.20
Stage 3
Industrial-Scale Manufacture of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Solid Sorbents for Energy-Efficient Carbon Capture
Dr. Selina Ambrose Technical Manager - Promethean Particles
Thursday: 10.00to10.20
Stage 2
Green Thermal & Clean Molecules: Introducing The Next Generation of Decarbonised Energy Solutions
Valentin Fontaine Manager, Sustainability Solutions ENGIE Impact
Thursday: 10.20to10.40
Stage 2
Biosurfactants- revolutionising green sustainable surfactants
Richard Lock Managing Director, Holiferm ltd
Thursday: 11.00to12.00
Stage 2
RSC Sustainability Panel Session
Session Host: Jessica Evans Membership Recruitment Executive - Industry Royal Society of Chemistry
Featured Panellists:
Dr Florence Gschwend
CTO and Co-founder – Lixea
Maria Conway
Section Leader II- Wind & Marine & Protective Coatings RD&I – AkzoNobel
Thursday: 12.20to12.40
Stage 1
‘The Value of Outsourcing Your Chemical Projects to a Contract Manufacturer’
Rodney Steel – BCMPA and Dr. Adrian J Wiggett – Libra Speciality Chemicals Ltd
JOINT SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS
Rodney Steel
Chief Executive, BCMPA
Dr. Adrian J Wiggett
Contract & Toll Manufacturing Sales Manager - Libra Speciality Chemicals Ltd
Thursday: 12.40to13.00
Stage 1
Quo vadis, European chemical industry? - The Brussels perspective
Dorothee Arns Director General, Fecc
Thursday: 12.00to12.20
Stage 2
"Bio-Based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA) keynote presentation "
David Newman Managing Director, Bio-Based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA)
Thursday 12.20to12.40
Stage 2
“Changing Chemistry for Good: using waste, non-food biomass to produce sustainable, safer chemicals that replace NMP/DMF at scale with new, short. local, resilient supply-chains."
Dr. Sarah Hickingbottom General Manager - Circa Group
Thursday: 13.00to14.00
Stage 2
How on Earth do you get from source to bottle?
Session Host: Kirsty Mawhinney Director CCUK, Sustainability Pillar Lead
Judi Beerling
Technical Director - Pertech Associates Ltd
Lawrence Clarke
Technical Sales Manager - Holiferm
Richard Lock
Managing Director - Holiferm
Rachael Davison
Technical Services Manager - Barentz EMEA
Narinder Bains
Managing Director - Ineuvo
Melanie Geer
Business Development Manager – Formulation - CPI
Thursday: 13.40to14.00
Stage 4
“Navigating the UK Innovation Ecosystem” with Innovate UK KTN and CPI
Graeme Cruickshank, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, CPI and Debra Jones, Knowledge Transfer Manager, Chemistry – Innovate UK KTN
Joint Speaker
Debra Jones
Knowledge Transfer Manager, Chemistry - Innovate UK KTN
