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Why Attend
As a brand owner the pressure is on to achieve your sustainability mandate by the date you have committed to. However, it’s not an easy task to address the sheer volume of single-use and other fossil fuel plastic in your products and packaging. To increase your renewable plastic content you first need to decide how to address the problem – by introducing bio based polymers, biodegradable polymers or recyclate. Then, you need direct access to those at the forefront of scientific innovation in bioplastics and plastic circularity to find out what solutions are available, how they’ve worked in other applications and how they could work for yours.
Renewable Plastics Connect 2021 is a global event bringing together leading brands across all industry verticals with international suppliers offering cutting-edge renewable plastic solutions. You’ll be able to future proof your plastics strategy after hearing industry-wide updates on policy direction, market and investment trends, and will gain practical inspiration from cross-sector case studies of early bioplastic usage by both leading and emerging brands.
Advisory Board / Steering Committee
Özak Durmuş
Özak Durmuş, completed B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering at Hacettepe University and has been working in Ford Otosan since 2013. He has 6.5 years experience as Senior Engine Mount Design Engineer and 0.5 years as Sustainability Senior Engineer. He is also the co-founder and lead of company internal initiative ReCube(Recycle,Reuse,Reduce) project. He has experience in anti-vibration systems, engine mounts and brackets, sustainable material development & applications, circular economy and life cycle assessment.
Dr. Suneel Kunamaneni
Suneel Kunamaneni stands at the forefront of sustainability and inclusivity trend: packaging, agri-food and social care. He has spent the past ten years supporting social and eco innovation and entrepreneurship through his various teaching, mentoring, research and consultancy activities.
Suneel drives innovation ecosystems for developing and diffusing ideas and solutions to address pressing socio-environmental problems. A calculated risk taker with deep technical knowledge of materials, Suneel has championed commercialisation of eco materials and technologies with Universities, MNC labs, Startups and private technology licensors, and has built a reputation for developing new business strategies and incubating new business models that minimise the impact on the environment.
In his current role as an academic at Leeds Business School (UK), Suneel has also fed his insatiable interest in sustainable innovation in emerging countries and inclusive growth. His interest in emerging countries is rooted in his concerns that current growth-based business models cannot solve issues surrounding the environment, and affordable access to food and well-being. Suneel believes that entrepreneurship and mission-driven start-ups are key to challenging the status quo.
Suneel also advises social enterprises in the UK working on refugee entrepreneurship and mental health for the BAME community, thus facilitating the inclusion of marginalised communities. With his experience in both corporate technology innovation and social enterprise, Suneel offers new business models and strategies for a more sustainable and equitable world.
Suneel holds a bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University, a masters in Chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Science, a PhD in Polymer physics from University of Leeds, and an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School.
Alexis Figeac
Alexis has been a pioneer throughout his career. Looking into Artificial Intelligence and human-computer interaction in the 80’s, he seized the opportunity of German reunification to be at the forefront of economic transformation in East Germany at the Treuhandanstalt. He was involved with privatisation further afield in Eastern Europe before leading teams in the area of business restructuring at PriceWaterhouse.
Wanting to back good advice with money he joined Deutsche Telekom’s corporate venture capital entity, T-Venture, investing in and serving on the boards of numerous young ICT businesses.
Recognising the opportunity and necessity of a greener economy (he had invested in wind farms since 1995), he sought to establish one of the 1st cleantech Venture Capital funds in Germany in 2003. Alexis has been an early-stage investor and board member in a host of innovative green technology companies, also during his time as Partner at the Entrepreneurs Fund in London.
Through his 5-year tenure as Head of Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship at the UNEP Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Wuppertal, Alexis took his thinking on sustainability to a new level and implemented its practice at DAX-30 clients as well as advising developing countries. Moreover, he has been instrumental in furthering knowledge on the business models of Circular Economy, as the instigator and coordinator of the R²π consortium: highlighting successful cases, accompanying businesses on a Circular Economy ‘innovation journey’ and drafting policy recommendations for the EU, from which it received € 3 Mio. in funding. Alexis is recognised as an expert on CE and has published articles on the topic. As Head of Circular Economy at KPMG Germany, he advised a major Tier-1 automotive supplier on transforming its lead product according to Circular Economy principles.
His Venture Capital experience and sustainability expertise have led him presently to establishing Sustainability Investors’ 1st fund: it brings technology solutions to the challenges facing our resource-constrained world in the 21st century. By providing much needed equity capital and value-creation to young businesses, Sustainability Investors will help disseminate real environmental solutions, protecting our planet while promoting prosperity.
Clément Affholder
Clément Affholder is an innovation manager at VAUDE Sport, where he works on materials and plastic engineering. After a master in materials science from the University of Lille, where he gathered a background in polymer science and composites, he joined VAUDE to help develop innovative and environmentally friendly materials. Outside the office, Clément likes to go and test VAUDE gear in the nearby Alps.
Jim Totty
Jim has been an investor in sustainability focussed companies and infrastructure for 20 years, after a prior career in advisory and academia. He has worked in sectors such as FMCG, Agriculture, Pollution Remediation and Logistics. Jim was previously at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citigroup and Earth Capital. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Key Takeaways
- Benefit from advanced know-how with eight practical case study presentations from the automotive, sportswear, FMCG, beauty, home appliances, power tools and children’s toys sectors
- Future proof your global sustainability approach with insight into the European Commission’s future policy direction and overall investment market trends
- Network with our truly international community of sustainability professionals and technical engineers, meet and establish business critical relationships through one-to-one video networking meetings, and quiz thought leaders directly by participating in our round-table discussions sessions and audience Q&A
- Harness novel material developments into your products and packaging by learning about the latest technical innovations
- Protect your brand from reputational damage with an expert panel discussion providing valuable tips on how to trace your sources accurately and avoid greenwashing
- Benchmark your sustainability strategy against other brand owners with insight into different auditing and life-cycle analysis methods from KPMG and Metsims Sustainability Consulting
Innovation Showcase
Apply to showcase your renewable plastics innovation to our audience of sustainability professionals and technical engineers and you’ll get to speak alongside leading companies like PepsiCo! Your application will be reviewed by our judging panel of brands and investors and the best entry will receive a free virtual booth; priority access to one-to-one meetings and the ability to share resources at the event*.
*Your organization must be a start-up in order for your application to be considered.
Click here to apply. Applications close 30th April 2021.
Industry leading Speakers
Silvia Forni
Sridevi Narayan-Sarathy
Sri Narayan-Sarathy is Senior Principal Scientist with PepsiCo and member of the elite PepsiCo R&D Fellows program. Sri received her M.Sc. in Chemistry and M.Tech. in Polymer Science & Technology from Indian Institutes of Chennai and Delhi respectively. She got her Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Prior to joining PepsiCo in 2010, Sri was Technology Manager/Principal Scientist at Ashland Performance Materials. Sri’s research interests are in the areas of Materials Science and Chemistry. At PepsiCo, she is leveraging her extensive experience with different polymer chemistries to identify and develop bio-based materials for sustainable flexible packaging with good end of life. She has several patents and publications to her credit. Sri also has an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Grain Sciences at Kansas State University.
Daniel Fitzgerald
Dan Fitzgerald is Stanley Black & Decker’s Product Sustainability Lead and is responsible for identifying, defining, and facilitating all strategies and action plans associated with improving the sustainable performance of products across the corporation. He leads the “Innovate with Purpose” pillar of the Corporate Social Responsibility strategy which includes goals to develop products that address unmet societal needs and to improve the impacts of products across their lifecycle. He joined Stanley Black & Decker in 2006 and spent his first ten years at the company in a product stewardship role providing safety and environmental compliance support for the Power Tools Business. Dan holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland – College Park.
Özak Durmuş
Özak Durmuş, completed B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering at Hacettepe University and has been working in Ford Otosan since 2013. He has 6.5 years experience as Senior Engine Mount Design Engineer and 0.5 years as Sustainability Senior Engineer. He is also the co-founder and lead of company internal initiative ReCube(Recycle,Reuse,Reduce) project. He has experience in anti-vibration systems, engine mounts and brackets, sustainable material development & applications, circular economy and life cycle assessment.
Clément Affholder
Clément Affholder is an innovation manager at VAUDE Sport, where he works on materials and plastic engineering. After a master in materials science from the University of Lille, where he gathered a background in polymer science and composites, he joined VAUDE to help develop innovative and environmentally friendly materials. Outside the office, Clément likes to go and test VAUDE gear in the nearby Alps.
Arlette van der Veer
In my current role I am part of the Radical Innovation Team in the Transformation Office at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Our purpose is to orchestrate the innovation ecosystem of KLM. This ecosystem shows us which innovation is done where, by whom, on which topic. Our team is one of 12 innovation hubs throughout the company forming our innovation ecosystem.
Our team establishes new cooperation opportunities with commonly-like creators in enterprises from the private sector, governments, universities, start-ups and individual entrepreneurs and connect them to our own innovation pioneers.
Additionally I am part of the Mainport Innovation Fund as Limited Partner. Together with the MIF (mainportinnovationfund.nl) we review national and international start-ups.
We are always looking for startups with a working MVP (Minimum viable product) and paying customers in the fields of sustainability, clean technology, reducing waste, VR & AR travel, robotics, AI for network planning, mobility on demand, blockchain, internet of things, new manufacturing & repairs, travel healthcare, cyber security, data & analytics and API's.
As Aeronautical Engineer my focus lies in seeking, experimenting and implementing technological opportunities cross-divisional through KLM. Reach out to me for cooperation possibilities when you are a knowledge institute, university or a startup.
Thor Tummers
Orkun Kaymakçı
Orkun Kaymakçı is the Team Leader of the Polymers & Chemistry Technology Group at Arçelik R&D. He received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Koç University and his M.Sc. degree from Macromolecular Science & Engineering from Virginia Tech. He completed his Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Technology from Istanbul Technical University.
Before joining to Arçelik, he worked at Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School as a Biomedical Engineer on development of polymer based implants. He has been working for Arcelik Global for seven years. He has a distinctive research and development experience in diverse fields of polymer science and technology. His current primary research interest includes advanced recycling technologies and renewable polymers for home appliance applications. He has 14 patent applications and numerous papers and presentations in the field of polymers.
Allard Max
Allard became intrigued by aquatic pollution whilst working on the Delfino (the Italian word for dolphin) car project and wanting to off-set the car's footprint not by planting trees but by doing something valuable in the ocean.
Seemingly there was no existing method to attribute damage costs to water pollutants and so the marine pollution acquatrail was born with the help of marine scientist Prof. Roberto Danovaro and sustainability specialist Susannah Stewart.
Danovaro and Corinaldesi had just published the damage done to coral by sunscreens and Allard decided to establish Aethic and develop Sôvée with world’s only scientifically proven and patented eco-compatible sunscreen formula - 100% proven reef safe.
Aethic’s various products have been and/or are retailed on board Air Canada, Alitalia and KLM as well Whole Foods, Planet Organic and online with Victoriahealth.com, net-a-porter.com and krisshop.com
Marck Højbjerg Matthiasen
Marck Hojberg Mathiasen is CEO and Owner of Dantoy A/S which is now one of the largest plastic toy manufacturers in Europe, having produced toys for more than five decades. With his strong track record in entrepreneurship, prior to leading Dantoy Marck was Co-Founder and Co-Owner of JuicOrganic for over five years. JuicOrganic is a Danish juice, smoothie and nectar manufacturer for food service and retailers under the brands ‘JuicOrganic’ and ‘House of Juice’. The company has the widest organic product range in the Danish foodservice sector. Marck shares in the business were sold to the existing owners in 2016. The first business that he co-founded and co-owned was Direct Promotion ApS – a Danish call centre providing business to business and business to customer outbound telemarketing, market research, appointment setting, lead generation and sales. Direct Promotion was successfully acquired by its competitor Partner Dialog A/S in February 2012. Marck holds an MSc in Business Administration, Auditing and Economics and was educated at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
Clemens Feigl
Clemens Feigl is one of the founders of everwave and CMO. The organisation everwave is a social enterprise that is dedicated to protect the ocean from plastic waste. By creating a brand in the market of sustainability, Clemens and his team were able to establish partnerschips with international corporates.
Clemens studied at the university of Munich and worked for several years as a host for tv- and radio-stations and brands such as The Northface, Allianz, Media Markt and many more.
Dr. Suneel Kunamaneni
Suneel Kunamaneni stands at the forefront of sustainability and inclusivity trend: packaging, agri-food and social care. He has spent the past ten years supporting social and eco innovation and entrepreneurship through his various teaching, mentoring, research and consultancy activities.
Suneel drives innovation ecosystems for developing and diffusing ideas and solutions to address pressing socio-environmental problems. A calculated risk taker with deep technical knowledge of materials, Suneel has championed commercialisation of eco materials and technologies with Universities, MNC labs, Startups and private technology licensors, and has built a reputation for developing new business strategies and incubating new business models that minimise the impact on the environment.
In his current role as an academic at Leeds Business School (UK), Suneel has also fed his insatiable interest in sustainable innovation in emerging countries and inclusive growth. His interest in emerging countries is rooted in his concerns that current growth-based business models cannot solve issues surrounding the environment, and affordable access to food and well-being. Suneel believes that entrepreneurship and mission-driven start-ups are key to challenging the status quo.
Suneel also advises social enterprises in the UK working on refugee entrepreneurship and mental health for the BAME community, thus facilitating the inclusion of marginalised communities. With his experience in both corporate technology innovation and social enterprise, Suneel offers new business models and strategies for a more sustainable and equitable world.
Suneel holds a bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University, a masters in Chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Science, a PhD in Polymer physics from University of Leeds, and an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School.
Rudy Koopmans
Prof. Dr. Rudy Koopmans is Director of the Plastics Innovation Competence Center, Director of the Institute of Applied Plastics research, and Professor at the University of Applied Sciences (HEIA-FR) at Fribourg (CH). He holds a visiting professorship at ETH Zürich (CH) where he also received the Staudinger-Dürer Medal for excellence in Materials Science.
With 40 years of research experience in the chemical and plastics industry he brings practical understanding to find solutions for the challenges associated with sustainability and circular economy models. He is also expert for the EU commission and member of the Horizon Europe Mission on Clean Oceans assembly.
As owner of Koopmans Consulting GmbH, located in Zürich, Switzerland, he provides consultancy support for setting-up networks of experts, and supporting start-up companies in their endeavour towards a sustainable future.
He has published more than 70 papers in international journals, contributed several book chapters, wrote three books, presented multiple keynotes at international conferences, and is holder of 23 patents.
Willemijn Peeters
Willemijn is the CEO of Searious Business, a social enterprise committed to prevent plastics from ending up in our environment. She has over 16 years of experience in changing companies to a more sustainable business model. Her experience includes game changing, innovating, program management, business developing and finance.
With a background in business management, broad experience in joint initiatives between businesses and the non-profit sector, she is used to bringing about change in the strategy and way of working of organizations. She is specialized in moving teams of people forward in an enthusiastic way – by creating a spark, an initiative that people and organizations want to be a part of.
She has been awarded with several titles:
- Green Solutions partner of the European Commission
- Finalist of edie Sustainability Leaders Awards 2020
- Winner of Dutch Design Awards 2019
- Winner Plastic Recyclers Europe Award 2018
- Winner National Energy Globe Award 2018
- Leader in Sustainable Top 100 in the Netherlands
- Ocean Ambassador of the Netherlands
Rania Elkalla
Rania Elkalla is an integrated designer with product & graphic design educational background with an experience in material science and production techniques.
She is skilled in visual communication, spatial imagination, branding, designing 2D & 3D products, illustrations, patterns, experimenting with materials, and integrating between different design groups.
Her designs are mostly eclectic, derived from different cultures and styles. She likes to merge between different disciplines.
The main aim is to keep on improving, present the best of herself and most authentic version of who she is.
Designers should always remember the word “FUN” that exists in Function. She tends to design things with humor and interaction with users
Beth Zonis
As Director of Cleantech Open Northeast, Beth is passionate about combating climate change, improving environmental equity, and growing the cleantech economy through innovation and entrepreneurship. The Northeast is the most active region of Cleantech Open, the world’s oldest and largest nonprofit accelerator and business plan competition. Beth has experience developing innovation hubs in the Northeast with Cleantech Open, as well as in India and Russia. She has worked at MIT and IBM, run her own marketing and sustainability consulting business, and led business development for a startup that grew from 10 to 1000 employees. Beth holds two prominent volunteer leadership positions: Board Member of ACTION Innovation Network, and Vice President of her graduating class at Wellesley College. She is a frequent speaker on cleantech innovation, as well as a judge and mentor. She’s been invited to speak at MIT, Wharton, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, and Boston University. An MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS) trained mentor, she has mentored and judged startups in various programs including Cleantech Open, MassChallenge, SBIR, Techstars, MIT $100k, and MIT Media Lab. She holds a BA, cum laude, from Wellesley College, an MBA from Boston University, a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from Science Po in Paris, and a Certificate in Sustainable Business from the University of Southern Maine. She speaks French and Spanish. She plays squash, swims, kayaks and hikes, and enjoys spending time with her family.
James O'Brien
Alexis Figeac
Alexis has been a pioneer throughout his career. Looking into Artificial Intelligence and human-computer interaction in the 80’s, he seized the opportunity of German reunification to be at the forefront of economic transformation in East Germany at the Treuhandanstalt. He was involved with privatisation further afield in Eastern Europe before leading teams in the area of business restructuring at PriceWaterhouse.
Wanting to back good advice with money he joined Deutsche Telekom’s corporate venture capital entity, T-Venture, investing in and serving on the boards of numerous young ICT businesses.
Recognising the opportunity and necessity of a greener economy (he had invested in wind farms since 1995), he sought to establish one of the 1st cleantech Venture Capital funds in Germany in 2003. Alexis has been an early-stage investor and board member in a host of innovative green technology companies, also during his time as Partner at the Entrepreneurs Fund in London.
Through his 5-year tenure as Head of Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship at the UNEP Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Wuppertal, Alexis took his thinking on sustainability to a new level and implemented its practice at DAX-30 clients as well as advising developing countries. Moreover, he has been instrumental in furthering knowledge on the business models of Circular Economy, as the instigator and coordinator of the R²π consortium: highlighting successful cases, accompanying businesses on a Circular Economy ‘innovation journey’ and drafting policy recommendations for the EU, from which it received € 3 Mio. in funding. Alexis is recognised as an expert on CE and has published articles on the topic. As Head of Circular Economy at KPMG Germany, he advised a major Tier-1 automotive supplier on transforming its lead product according to Circular Economy principles.
His Venture Capital experience and sustainability expertise have led him presently to establishing Sustainability Investors’ 1st fund: it brings technology solutions to the challenges facing our resource-constrained world in the 21st century. By providing much needed equity capital and value-creation to young businesses, Sustainability Investors will help disseminate real environmental solutions, protecting our planet while promoting prosperity.
Simon Hann
Simon is involved in a wide range of policy and research based projects and with a background in design, he is interested in how the products we use everyday can be improved to better the environment.
Simon joined Eunomia in 2013 as the in-house Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) specialist after seven years working for an internationally recognised UK manufacturer, Kohler Mira Ltd. Whilst working as an engineer he developed an extensive knowledge base of materials and processes whilst studying for an MSc in Sustainable Product Design. His thesis, which looked at how LCA can be integrated into the design process, was awarded a distinction and the tools and models developed as an output continue to be used by Kohler.
Nina Birger
Nina Birger is Vice President of Partnerships at Greentown Labs, North America's largest climatetech incubator with locations in Somerville, MA and Houston, TX. Greentown Labs advances a mission of providing climatetech entrepreneurs with the resources, space. community, and connections that support them in scaling and succeeding. Nina studied English Literature at Tufts University and Oxford and received an MBA from MIT Sloan. In Fall 2020, she guest lectured at Sloan in Managerial Communications.
Ravish Majithia
Ravish Majithia leads Magnomer as founder & CEO. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Texas A&M University. Ravish is also a Babson Fellow and MBA from Babson College. Ravish was named one of the top 100 MBA’s in 2018 by Poets and Quants and was awarded the prestigious Sorenson Merit Award by Babson College for his work on Magnomer. Magnomer is a winner of Materials Research Society’s Innovation Award & MassChallenge Gold.
Dr. Anders B. Laursen
Dr. Anders B. Laursen has a BS in chemistry and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark with nine years of cumulative experience in electrochemistry and renewable energy storage. His experience includes electrochemical and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production (water splitting), materials synthesis, spectroscopic characterizations, and catalytic processes. He has authored 27 scientific papers and 4 patent applications. Dr. Laursen joined Prof. Dismukes’ group at Rutgers in 2013 and now works as a Research Associate. He also serves as the chief executive officer of RenewCO2, LLC a start-up formed with Prof. Dismukes and graduate student Ms. Calvinho. Anders has extensive experience with catalyst design, synthesis, characterization and activity evaluation, electrolyzer development, and fabrication of electrochemical cells.
Dr. Hüdai Kara
Dr Hüdai Kara is also founder of Metsims Sustainability Consulting. He has over 20 years of combined experience in low carbon sustainable technologies, critical metals research in energy generation supply chain, carbon footprint, life cycle assessment (LCA) and management, materials security, energy efficiency and renewable energy, waste management, and research and development covering industries from metallurgy to materials, chemical, energy and buildings.
Before establishing the consultancy business, Dr Kara worked as Research Fellow on smart materials at Bath University, as Senior Scientist at Johnson Matthey Technology Centre on materials and process development and as Technical Consultant at Oakdene Hollings advising UK DEFRA, DfT, WRAP and many private clients on sustainability, materials security, critical materials, resource efficiency, carbon and waste management.
Dr Kara is a global expert on Life Cycle Assessment and is currently leading the development of Turkish Life Cycle Inventory Database for sustainability performance assessment of the economic activity in Turkey.
He is on the Technical Advisory Board for European Commission on PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) development and an expert Evaluator for EU Horizon 2020 and other research and development funding streams. He sits on the technical committee of the International EPD System.
Dr Kara is the author of over dozens of scientific papers in refereed journals and presented in many international conferences. He regularly writes on sustainability and sustainable development issues in an industrial journal. He has a Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science from the University of Oxford.
Richard Betts
Richard is director of Sustainability Services at KPMG and a recognized international expert in sustainability. Richard has led a wide range of sustainability engagements in Turkey and over 20 countries across Europe and Asia. He is also a Certified Public Accountant with ACA accreditation and a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW)
Richard has over 15 years of experience with Big 4 consultancies in Turkey and the UK. Over this time, he has led wide range of advisory and assurance engagements relating to sustainability & financial audit. Areas of expertise within sustainability include the following: Climate Change, Low Carbon Transformation, TCFD, Sustainability Strategy & implementation, Sustainability Performance Improvement, Integrated Reporting Advisory, Sustainability Reporting & Assurance, Total Valuation, SROI, Circular economy, Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Bonds, Environmental Due Diligence
Before moving to Istanbul, Richard lived in the UK, Italy and Mexico. He has dual UK-Turkish nationality and speaks 8 languages.
He has extensive experience in sustainability across many sectors including Finance (Banking & Insurance), Food & Beverage Sector, Cement, Glass Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Energy (O&G and Utilities), Holdings, Retail
Jim Totty
Jim has been an investor in sustainability focussed companies and infrastructure for 20 years, after a prior career in advisory and academia. He has worked in sectors such as FMCG, Agriculture, Pollution Remediation and Logistics. Jim was previously at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citigroup and Earth Capital. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Kristin Taylor
Kristin Taylor has a Masters Degree in Plastics Engineering and over 25 years’ experience in the plastics industry. She has served in technical, business development and management roles in several multinational organizations including ExxonMobil Chemical, Metabolix, Sabic and Huntsman Corporation. She has extensive experience in market development for biobased / biodegradable plastics and has worked with major brand owners such as P&G, Colgate Palmolive, Unilever, Kimberly Clark and Nike to bring award-winning products to market. In her spare time, Ms. Taylor enjoys long distance running and has completed 18 marathons including the six World Marathon Majors. Ms. Taylor was recently name to the Forbes Next 1000 List of start-up entrepreneurs redefining the American Dream.
Alejandra Norén
Alejandra Noren is the Head of Production Partners Management at Neste, leading the development of global partners for production of polymers and chemicals from Renewable and Chemical Recycling origin.
Alejandra joined Neste in 2010 to lead the Global Sales of Base Oils . She also held the role of Director for conventional solvents and renewable technical fluids Alejandra started her career in Argentina in the chemical and petrochemical business followed by an International career at Rohm at Haas, living in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain and now living in Switzerland with her family.
Alejandra Noren is a Chemical Engineer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Alejandra also holds a Master in International Business from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France. While in Switzerland, she pursued further training in Organizational Leadership at IMD, Lausanne
Bineke Posthumus
Bineke Posthumus works as a Director Business Development at the Renewable Polymers department of Avantium. She obtained her Master of Science degree in Strategic Management from the London School of Economics in 2007. Before Avantium she worked at TNO, one of Europe’s largest research institutes, for approximately 10 years. There, she worked at the Strategic Analysis & Policy department, where she had a specific focus on bringing new technology to market in the areas of the circular economy and the energy transition.
Christian Lenges
Libby Peake
Libby Peake is head of resource policy at Green Alliance, an independent charity and think tank focused on achieving ambitious leadership for the environment. She works closely with other NGOs, academics and businesses to promote better use of resources throughout the economy. This includes managing the Circular Economy Task Force, a forum for business thinking on resource efficient policies. Much of her current research is focused on driving the right innovations, infrastructure and systemic changes to ensure improvements in resource use. Her recent reports include Building a circular economy: how a new approach to infrastructure can put an end to waste, Plastic promises: what the grocery sector is really doing about packaging and Fixing the system: why a circular economy for all materials is the only way to solve the plastic problem. She is an expert and trusted commentator on topics including: ecodesign; chemicals regulation; resource efficiency; plastic; and recycling.
Oliver Peoples
Oliver P. Peoples, Ph.D. is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Yield10 Bioscience. Previously, Dr. Peoples was a co-founder of Metabolix and served as its Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of Research and Development from January 2000 until October 2016, and also served as director of the Company since June 1992.
Prior to founding Metabolix, Dr. Peoples was a research scientist with the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he emerged as a pioneer of the new field of metabolic pathway engineering and its applications in industrial biotechnology. The research carried out by Dr. Peoples at MIT established the fundamental tools and methods for engineering bacteria and plants to produce Mirel biopolymers. Dr. Peoples has published numerous peer reviewed academic papers and is an inventor of over 90 patents and patent applications worldwide. Dr. Peoples received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Christophe Carrié
Christophe Carrié started working for Plansee in Austria in 2007 in sales of molybdenum and tungsten-based materials. From 2010 he spent 5 years as Key Account Manager Europe for Plansee in the Power Transmission and Distribution business unit before being appointed Product Development Manager Europe in 2015. In 2017 he became Head of Business Development. In 2021 he joined Matmatch as CEO, based in Munich, Germany
Rafael Seixas
Rafael is Membership Manager at Bonsucro, the global sugarcane platform, where he has been working since 2012. He is responsible for ensuring value to members, developing the membership engagement strategy and demonstrating impacts to stakeholders, driving uptake and commitment.
Before joining Bonsucro he was a Chevening scholar at University College London and worked for 4 years as International Relations Advisor to the City Hall of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a master’s degree in International Public Policy
PARTNERS
Event Partner
Media Partners
Clean Tech Open
Website: cleantechopen.org
Cleantech Open is the world’s oldest and largest cleantech startup accelerator and business competition. We are doing our part to adapt to these changing times -- this year organizing a VIRTUAL Accelerator Program that includes five months of cleantech-specific mentoring, training, resources, visibility and access to capital to boost your startup to the next level, culminating at the CTO Global Forum event in October 2021.
Green Alley Award
Website: https://green-alley-award.com/
The Green Alley Award is Europe’s first startup prize for the circular economy. It was created in 2014 by Landbell Group, the leading supplier of global environmental services, along with Germany’s crowdfunding pioneer Seedmatch.
Landbell Group’s declared goal is a climate-neutral circular economy. For a fundamental change, policies like the ban on single-use plastics in the EU are not enough. This is why we see our future in startups: Together with our partners, we nurture and promote promising business ideas that use new services, products and technologies to make the most efficient use of resources and reduce waste drastically.
In it’s seventh year now, more than 1,200 startups from more than 50 European countries have applied for the Green Alley Award since it’s start. Altogether we have supported 36 successful finalists with an investment of more than one million Euros.
Pharma Journalist
Website: www.pharmajournalist.com
Pharma Journalist is a leading international B2B magazine providing the global information and the recent updates in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Our editorial staff works dedicatedly to provide latest information of Pharmaceutical Industry in the form of articles, news, trends, analysis, market report, press releases, whitepapers, case studies, etc. which helps Industry professionals and decision makers to stay on the top of this fast-paced industry.
Various Online marketing services and promotional activities through Pharma Journalist helps companies and organizations to reach their target audience and create brand awareness.
Plastech
Website: https://www.plastech.biz/en
Plastech is one of Europe's leading industry vortals for plastics and packaging companies.
Daily industry information, reports from trade fairs and events, company directory, current price trends on the plastics market are an invaluable source of information.
The central place of the service is the B2B offer exchange, where several dozen new offers of raw materials, packaging, machinery and recycling appear every day.
Over 4 milion pageviews and half a million users of the service per year makes it an extremely effective marketing tool, enabling market participants to establish new business contacts.
Today, the Plastech vortal is translated into four languages: Polish, English, German and Russian, thus enabling contacts between companies from all over the world.
Green Chemicals Blog
Website: https://greenchemicalsblog.com/
The Green Chemicals Blog is known worldwide as the authoritative source of news and analysis in the business of green chemistry and chemical sustainability. Since its formation in 2007, the Green Chemicals Blog has an average 10,000-15,000 page views per month and more than 9,000 dedicated social media followers. The Green Chemicals Blog is currently working in partnership with leading market information providers, Tecnon OrbiChem, Forest2market and Fisher International. For further information, contact Doris de Guzman, author of Green Chemicals Blog at [email protected].
Renewables Now
Website: https://renewablesnow.com/?utm_source=rpc2021&utm_medium=logo-link&utm_campaign=media-partnership
Renewables Now is a real-time newswire covering all major news developments in the global renewable energy industry.
Our team of journalists has 10+ years of experience in tracking renewable energy news around the globe - from the established markets in Europe and North America to the emerging and frontier markets in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. All renewable energy technologies are covered.
With more than 600 news stories per month, there is no other single source that can fetch the renewable energy news volume and content we provide.
For more information visit renewablesnow.com
Packaging Scotland
Website: https://packagingscotland.com/
Packaging Scotland has been uniquely placed to reflect industry thinking north of the border for over 30 years. The quarterly title features a wide variety of news, features, events and commentary articles – covering both the local market and beyond. The ABC audited publication targets key decision makers across the whole of Scotland and is a trusted and well-read title among industry figures.
Euromonitor International
Website: www.euromonitor.com
Euromonitor International is a global market research company providing strategic market intelligence on industries, companies, economies and consumers around the world. Comprehensive international coverage and insights across consumer goods, business-to-business and service industries make our research an essential resource for businesses of all sizes
Kök Projekt
Website: https://kokprojekt.com/
Kök Projekt is a startup accelerator and a corporate innovation partner for the agri-food sector. Kök Projekt works together with companies, governmental organizations, investment funds, NGOs, and academia to develop entrepreneurship programs for food, agriculture, and water startups, across the Emerging Markets.
PARTNER WITH US
Are you looking to demonstrate your renewable solutions and expertise in front of our global audience? We are actively speaking with biopolymer producers and packaging companies to address the challenges that leading brands are facing when it comes to achieving their sustainability mandates to increase the renewable materials content in their products. Our extensive research calls show that the primary market of brands and converters are still looking for partners who provide biodegradable and recyclable solutions they can bring into their products to achieve their sustainability targets.
If you would like to get involved with our events and marketing services to reach our high quality, global network of major brands, polymer producers, additive suppliers, recyclers, green start-ups and more, get in contact with our sponsorship team. We can create a bespoke package based on your business objectives to help you increase your presence and influence in the renewable space.
For further details or to create a tailored solution, please contact:
Anastasija Dzardanova, Commercial Partnerships Manager, [email protected], +44 203 696 9470
Who Should Attend
Renewable Plastics Connect is ideal to attend as a team, within areas of:
- Sustainability
- R&D / Innovation
- Business Development / Marketing / PR
- Technical / Materials/ Packaging
- Global CSR
- Supply Chain
- CEO / Founder
- Investor / Investment Director / Investment Partner
Your sustainability, product and marketing directors will benefit from strategic and commercial sessions, where our expert facilitators will tackle critical challenges such as how to avoid greenwashing and protect your reputation.
Meantime, your technical and R&D directors will benefit from the technical workstream where they’ll get a first look at the latest scientific material innovations, focusing more closely on the available properties of novel bio-based polymers.
Conference Packages
Sending Your Team? Group Discounts Available!
Applicable for Primary Market, Service Provider and Industry Rates Only. Not available for Academic or ‘Start-Up’ rates
Book a Team of 3+ - Save an Additional 10% Off
Book a Team of 5+ - Save an Additional 15% Off
If you would like to register a team of 3 or more, please email [email protected] for your discount coupon code before registering. PLEASE NOTE: Discounts cannot be combined with Early Bird Pricing or any other discount or offer. If you have any questions about your registration, please call us on +44 (0)20 3696 2920
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PARTNER WITH US
Based on your objectives, we can create bespoke packages designed specifically for you. Opportunities predominantly lie in 3 main categories: Thought Leadership, Branding, and Networking.
Interested in a media partnership?
We'd love to hear from you and how we can support one another to connect with the industry. Contact [email protected]
The Virtual Experience
Top 10 benefits
- Tailor Your Agenda
- More Audience Participation
- Improved Audience Visibility
- On-Demand Content
- High Quality Speakers
- More Networking Opportunities
- Save Time & Money
- Increased Content
- More insights
- Business Development Opportunities - Talk to our team to find out out more [email protected].
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About Kisaco Research
Kisaco Research produces, designs and hosts B2B industry conferences, exhibitions and communities – focused on a specialized selection of topic areas.
Meet industry peers that will help build a career-changing network for life.
Learn from the mistakes of your peers as much as their successes—ambitious industry stalwarts who are happy to share not just what has made them successful so far but also their plans for future proofing their companies.
Note down the inspired insight that will form the foundation for future strategies and roadmaps, both at our events and through our online communities.
Invest both in your company growth and your own personal development by signing up to one of our events and get started.