NEC, Birmingham, UK
15th & 16th May, 2024
Speaker Programme
Keynote Speakers
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- 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
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- Logistics/Supply Chain/Storage/Handling/Fulfilment
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- Sector Focus
- Skills/Training/HR & Recruitment
- Sustainability/ Decarbonisation/Green Chemistry
Packaging Adhesives – the challenges of packaging and food contact regulation on adhesives manufacturers and their customers and suppliers
BASA – The British Adhesives & Sealants Association
Featured Speakers:
George Atkinson
Head of Policy -Valpak
Lorna Williams
Executive Officer and General Secretary, British Adhesives & Sealants Association.
Dr. Geoff Mackey
UK Country Manager – Plastics Europe
Caroline Raine
Independent Consultant
Solvents, Sustainability & NetZero
Solvents Industry Association General Secretary - Solvents Industry Association
Session Host/Joint Speakers
Andrew Norman
Hosted by Solvents Industry Association (SIA)
Stuart Barker
Head of Business Development, Tradebe Chemicals
Emmanuel Ehenemba
Technical and Product Quality Manager, TotalEnergies Marketing UK, Special Fluids
Preserving the skin microbiome: should this drive decisions in the choice of preservatives and biocides for skin care?
Cosmetics Cluster UK (CCUK)
SESSION HOST: Gill Westgate PhD
Director CCUK Ltd and University of Bradford, Centre for Skin Sciences.
Mojgan Moddaresi PhD, PharmD, FRSB, CBiol, MRSB
Personal Care Regulatory Ltd - Cosmetics Cluster UK (CCUK)
Oliver Worsley PhD
Co-Founder and CEO - Sequential Skin Ltd
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
UK Government - for a successful and sustainable chemicals sector
UK Government Sector Briefing – Featuring: Opening pre-recorded video address from: George Freeman, Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation
Opening pre-recorded video address from: George Freeman, Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation
George Freeman
Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation - Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Guest Panellist: Dr Matt Penrose
Head of CRD’s Strategy, Evidence and Engagement Unit, Health and Safety Executive
Guest Panellist: Melanie Foster
Head of Chemicals Strategy, Policy and Trade, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Guest Panellist: Andrew Waters
Head of Chemicals, Department for Business and Trade
Guest Panellist: Beccy Eggleton
Deputy Director, Chemicals and Critical Minerals, Department for Business and Trade
Innovating for Sustainability - Designing for consumer trust
Chris Finnegan Safety and sustainability science leader - Unilever SEAC
Online monitoring of Chemical and Bioprocesses using Raman Spectroscopy "The Lab comes to the Sample"
Kevin Fernandes Process Analytical Sales Specialist, Endress+Hauser
“Scale up solid phase peptide synthesis in flow and reduce time to market for new drug development”
Duncan Guthrie Director - Vapourtec Ltd
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
Joint Speakers
Ashley Quigley
Technical Development Manager for Home, Industrial & Institutional Care, Surfachem
Jacob Simpson
Marketing Coordinator, Surfachem
Laundry detergents that care for your clothes and the planet
Gesche Rauch Technical Application Manager, Clariant
Dr Lukas Kuerten
Principal Scientist, Data Analytics - CPI
Polymers regulations in the EU today and tomorrow
Tomáš Novotný Owner and Customer Happiness Manager - REGARTIS
30 months after BREXIT - a cost or an opportunity for Biocides & Pesticides?
Murray Smedley Managing Director, Barkwith Associates Limited
Session Host/Guest Panellists:
Neil Hollis
Regulatory Affairs Manager - BASF plc
James Dancy
Head of UK REACH service and policy - Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Mel Biring
Global Regulatory Strategies & Advocacy Manager – LUBRIZOL
Nishma Patel
Policy Director - Chemical Industries Association (CIA)
Chloe Alexander
UK Campaigner CHEM Trust
Darren Abrahams
Partner at Steptoe and Johnson LLP
Ciara Dempsey
Regulatory Affairs Manager - British Coatings Federation (BCF)
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
Selling Chemicals Responsibly – An introduction to the Control of Explosive Precursors and Poisons Regulations 2023
Kimberley May Detective Inspector Kimberley May from the Explosive Precursor Engagement Team, CBRE Protect, Homeland Security Group (HSG), Home Office
Speakers:
Panel Host -Tony Heslop
Senior Sustainability Manager, BASF PLC
Scott Winston
CEO - Pulpex
Vikki Callaghan
Packaging Lead, BASF PLC
Session Chair/Panellists
Session Host – Steve Brown
Healthcare Director - Mirius™ Global Hygiene Solutions
Dr David Ashworth
Senior Regulatory Compliance Analyst
Jim Thomas
Speaking on behalf of BCA - British Chemicals Association
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
The benefits of outsourcing chemical manufacturing – a BCMPA hosted panel discussion around the value added by 3rd party manufacturing and the ways in which CMO’s help to find solutions for their customers.
BCMPA – The Association for Contract Manufacturing, Packing, Fulfilment and Logistics
Panellists:
Panel Host: Emma Verkaik
Membership & Marketing Director - BCMPA – The Association for Contract Manufacturing, Packing, Fulfilment and Logistics
Steve Meyer
Managing Director - Cod Beck Blenders
Dave Roberts
Managing Director, Rutpen Ltd.
Martin Usher
Managing Director - Grotech Production Ltd
Construction Adhesives & Sealants - navigating the broad challenges facing suppliers
BASA – The British Adhesives & Sealants Association
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jane Thornback
Sustainability Policy Advisor - CPA (Construction Products Association)
Jenny Barnett
SHEQ Manager - F. Ball and Company Ltd
Sam Hodson
Technical Manager, Hodgson Sealants Ltd
Caroline Raine
Independent Consultant
Lorna Williams
BASA Executive Secretary - BASA
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
Session Host: Kirsty Mawhinney
Director CCUK, Sustainability Pillar Lead
Joana Pereira
Business Development Manager - Holiferm
Dr Kyla Orr
Scientific Director and co-founder - KelpCrofting Ltd
Dr. Andrew West
Chief Chemist, BioSep Ltd
Challenges (post-Brexit, post-Covid) facing UK chemical companies
Ian Cranshaw Head of International Trade and Regional Affairs - Chemical Industries Association
Safe Water - Opportunity and Challenge in Water Treatment
British Chemicals Association (BCA)
Session Host/Speakers
Panel Chair – Tom Laffey
Technical Director - ISHEM
Sean Forsythe
Technical Manager (Chemicals) at Feedwater Limited
Stuart Caldwell
Regulatory Manager, Biocide Regulation at Solenis
Wayne Thomas
Operations Director at Total Water Products Limited
Jonathan Gunnell
Business Development Manager at CPI Biologics
Microplastics in formulations: Challenges and possible solutions
Dr Jim Bullock Director, iFormulate Limited
Novel biosurfactant manufacturing offering new options formulations to achieve Net Zero sustainable formulations.
Richard Lock Managing Director, Holiferm ltd
Market ready and high performance - bio-based levulinates as a genuine replacement for petrochemical solvents
Jonathan Lane Global Business Development Manager - GFBiochemicals
Danny Lazell
Virtual Events Manager - AZoNetwork