Loading Events
Jump to Registration

12 June 2025 | 10:00 am – 16:30 pm | Wilton Centre, Teesside

Join Pioneer Group and Innovate UK Business Connect, for this exciting event focused on defossilising the UK chemicals industry, which will see the launch of the new Innovate UK Business Connect ‘Sustainable Chemicals Innovation Network’.

Registration is free, spaces are limited – secure your place today!

Why attend?

Bringing together leaders from industry, government, academia and the investment community to explore how we can accelerate the transition toward a more sustainable, circular and globally competitive chemicals sector.

Through keynote presentations, expert panels, and interactive workshops, you will:

  • Gain insights into the UK’s pathway to a sustainable chemicals future
  • Discover new opportunities for collaboration
  • Connect with innovators, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers
  • Explore technologies and strategies that enable the shift from fossil to sustainable carbon sources

 

Why This Matters

The UK chemicals industry stakeholder ambition for 2050 is to double economic output and source 80% of its carbon requirements from non-virgin fossil, sustainable carbon sources. This urgent once-in-a-generation opportunity will create hundreds of thousands of highly skilled, well-paid and productive jobs in regions of the UK most targeted for growth.

Whether you’re a researcher, policymaker, business leader, or investor, this event offers a unique platform to shape the future of one of the UK’s most vital industrial sectors.

 

Agenda

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Welcome Refreshments & Networking

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Dr Peter Clark, Innovate UK Business Connect
Introduction to the Innovate UK Business Connect ‘Sustainable Chemicals Innovation Network’.

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Keynote: ‘Teesside 2035: Reimagining Carbon and Defossilising the UK Chemicals Industry’, Kris Wadrop, CPI

What could Teesside look like in 2035, by building chemical supply chains using biomass, recycled carbon, and CO2.

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Sustainable Chemicals in Demand

Quick presentations from a range of speakers on the demand and opportunity for Sustainable Chemicals.

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM | Panel Discussion: Creating UK Supply Chains to Reinvigorate a UK Sustainable Chemicals Industry, Chaired by Jen Vanderhoven

Panel members include Graeme Cruickshank, CPI, and others

Panel discussion on how the UK can rebuild sustainable supply chain solutions, and what the innovation challenges are for today, tomorrow and the future.

12:15 PM – 12:30 PM | Opportunities for Collaboration, Michael Burnett, Innovate UK Business Connect

12:30 PM – 13:30 PM | Lunch & Networking

13:30 – 15:30 | Workshop Sessions: Building Sustainable UK Chemical Supply Chains, Peter Clark & Michael Burnett, Innovate UK Business Connect

The workshop sessions will focus on developing and building consortia for sustainable UK chemical supply chain funding proposals, exploring opportunities, partnerships and strategies, and skills, for building a regional hub of excellence for the sustainable chemicals industry.

15:30 PM – 15:45 PM | Workshop Summaries & Next Steps

15:45 – 16:30 PM | Refreshments, Networking & Tour of Wilton Centre (Optional)

Get Tickets

15 Going
Get Tickets