Charlie Clark
Project Management at 3D Ceram Sinto
Enya Collier
Defence & Nuclear Product Marketing Manager at Lucideon
Dr. Jafar Daji
Technical Manager at Parkinson-Spencer Refractories
Dr. Ben Haigh
Senior Research Engineer at GKN Aerospace
Arya Hakimian
Subject Matter Expert at C-Therm Technologies
Gerardo Igler
Business Developer at Lithoz GmbH
Tony Kinsella
Chief Executive Officer at Lucideon
Prof. David Knowles
CEO at Henry Royce Institute
Lucy Smith
Head of Commercial and Co-Director at FISC, Glass Futures
Thomas Strohmer
QATM: Sales & Product Management Hardness Testing at Verder Scientific
Dr. Fran Synnott
Technologist - Structures, Manufacturing and Materials at Aerospace Technology Institute
Dr. Mandar Thakare
Associate Director at bp
Viktor Zólyomi
Computational Scientist at STFC Hartree Centre
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10:00 – 10:25: Opening Keynote from Sponsor
The Advanced Materials Landscape: Current State and Direction
10:30 – 11:20: Panel: From Lab to Business: Navigating the Journey from Materials Breakthroughs to Real-World Impact
11:25 – 11:50: Keynote: Ceramics Industry 4.0 Showcase: New Products & Services from the Midlands
11:55 – 12:45: Panel: Extending Asset Life: What’s Possible Today
Defence and Aerospace
13:30 – 14:20: Fireside Chat: Advanced Ceramics Solutions in an Ever-Harsher World
14:25 – 14:50: Keynote: Deploying High-Productivity L-PBF of Ti-6Al-4V for Aerospace Components
14:55 – 15:20: Keynote: Advanced Materials: A Defence Perspective
15:20 – 15:45: Keynote: Advanced Materials for Challenging High-Performance Engineering Applications
15:50 – 16:30: Panel: Advanced Materials for Aerospace: Closing the Gap
10:00 – 10:50: Opening Panel from Sponsor: An industrialisation exemplar – The AMRICC Centre: Showcasing How To Do Public – Private Partnerships Right
The Ceramic Additive Opportunity
10:55 – 11:45: Panel: Investing in Ceramic AM: Path, Risk and Reward
11:50 – 12:15: Keynote: Ceramic Additive Manufacturing
12:20 – 13:10: Panel: Ceramic Additive Manufacturing Innovations
Materials Energy and Batteries
13:55 – 14:20: Keynote: Material Challenges for Commercial Fusion
14:25 – 15:15: Panel: Advanced Materials for Battery Pack Design
15:20 – 15:45: Keynote: Stereolithography of Zirconia 8Y: An Innovative Solution to Increase Clean Hydrogen Productivity
15:50 – 16:30: Panel: Advanced Materials for Energy Storage: Enabling the Next Generation
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10:00 – 10:30: Opening: The Advanced Carbons Industry in 2026 – Markets, Materials and Momentum
10:30 – 11:00: TUBALL Graphene Nanotubes: Performance and Efficiency for Next-Generation Materials
11:15 – 11:45: Catalytic Effects on CNT Production and Quality
11:45 – 12:15: Introducing Graphene Paste: A New Format for Industrial Adoption
13:15 – 13:45: Carbon Nanotubes in Energy Storage: From Conductive Additives to Structural Composites
13:45 – 14:15: Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG): Bringing Products to Market
14:30 – 15:00: Methane-Derived Graphene in Coatings: Performance, Cost, and Scale
15:00 – 15:30: The Regulatory Landscape: REACH, TSCA and Global Compliance for Nanomaterials
15:45 – 16:15: From Pilot to Production: Scaling Advanced Carbon Manufacturing
16:15 – 16:45: Closing Panel: The Next 12 Months in Advanced Carbons
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Opening Sessions
10:00 – 10:25: Keynote: The National Materials Innovation Programme
10:30 – 11:10: Goodfellow Podcast
Materials Testing and Characterisation
11:15 – 12:05: Panel: Advanced Characterisation for Materials Performance
12:05 – 12:30: Keynote: Advanced characterisation – Experiments and Insight for Industry
12:30 – 12:55: Evidence-Driven Material Development by Multiscale In-Situ Imaging, 3D Characterisation and Modelling
13:30 – 14:20: Panel: Advanced Materials Testing: New Methods, Better Outcomes
Industrial and Construction Applications
More sessions to be announced
AI and Machine Learning for Materials
10:00 – 10:25: Keynote: Improved Material Performance Using Rotating, Continuous Furnaces in Pilot and Production Scale
10:30 – 11:15: Panel: IMPACTTM Beyond The Hype – Tangible Real-World Benefits From The Application of Data Science & Computational Techniques
11:20 – 11:45: Keynote: AI-Driven Automated Experimental Platform for Accelerated Energy Materials Discovery
11:50 – 12:40: Panel: AI and Advanced Materials: Accelerating Discovery, Development and Production
Disrupt. Discover. Deploy. – The UK’s New Materials Frontier
More sessions to be announced
10:00 – 10:15: Partner Presentation: From Innovation to Impact: Supporting Battery Scale-Up in the UK
10:20 – 10:35: Innovator Pitch: Advancing Battery Technology for Wearable and Implantable Devices, the Current Challenges and Future Directions
11:00 – 11:15: Partner Presentation: Hiring for Scale: How Start-ups Build Winning Teams
11:20 – 11:35: Innovator Pitch: Advancements in Acoustic Materials
12:20 – 12:35: Innovator Pitch: Soluboard®: A Sustainable Alternative for Next-Generation PCB Manufacturing
12:40 – 12:55: Partner Presentation: Venture Capital in Practice: Lessons from Building Start-ups
13:00 – 13:15: Innovator Pitch: Hybrid Composites and Multi-Material Integration with IMCs
14:00 – 14:15: Partner Presentation: Scaling Up Battery Manufacturing: Enabling Battery Technologies and Developing Skills
14:40 – 14:55: Partner Presentation: Bank Perspectives on Scaling Up Innovation
For more details on each session, view the full agenda
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