Event format
- Sun – late afternoon: Registration, opening, programming, welcome party.
- Mon-Tue: full days of programming, with extended afternoon break for lunch, networking and poster sessions.
- Wed: half day of programming.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Sustainable mono-material product design with circular and biodegradable polymers
Prof. Eugene Y.X. CHEN
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Top-Down Synthesis of Chemically Recyclable Polyolefins
Dr. Massimiliano DELFERRO
Argonne National Lab, Department of Energy, USA
Versalis’ approach to plastic circularity through complementary solutions
Dr. Nicola FIOROTTO
Manager of R&D and Technological
Innovation, Versalis S.p.A.
The future of plastics from biomass and CO2
Prof. Gert-Jan GRUTER
University of Amsterdam, CTO Avantium, Netherlands
Polymers with inherent circularity
Prof. Minna Hakkarainen
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
PET as an example of sustainable polymers for the circular economy of plastics: the Plastipak case
Dr. Filippo LONGA
Plastipak Regional Director
Circular and non-persistent polyethylene-like materials from catalysis
Prof. Stefan MECKING
University of Konstanz, Germany
Phase separation: an effective tool to improve the performance and processability of vitrimers
Prof. Renaud NICOLAY
ESPCI-Paris Sciences & Lettres University, France
How can the plastics treaty stimulate plastics sustainability and circularity?
Prof. Michael NORTON
EASAC Environment Programme Director, Bruxelles, Belgium
The hidden champions: vi-PHB, polycarbonates & blends
Prof. Bernard RIEGER
Technical University of München, Germany
Fossil-identical bioplastics enable carbon sequestration at the end-of-life
Prof. Anthony J. RYAN
University of Sheffield, UK
One-pot catalysis: a privileged approach for sustainable polymers
Prof. Christophe THOMAS
Chimie-ParisTech, Paris, France
PLA and innovative biopolymers in the circular bioeconomy context
Dr. Mariagiovanna VETERE
Vice President NatureWorks & Co-President European Bioplastics, USA
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable plastics: a chemist’s perspective
Prof. Robert M. WAYMOUTH
Stanford University, USA