Agenda Overview

Mike Adelstein

President at Potomac Photonics

Dr. Juergen Adolphs

Teamleader - Product Management at Microtrac Particle Characterization

Ivan Buckley

Director, Business Development for Graphene@Manchester at University of Manchester

Dr. Christian Burton

Product Marketing Manger at CSA Catapult

Agnieszka Corley-Wiciak

Business Developer at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Dr. Sumitesh Das

Director, Research and Development at Tata Steel UK Limited

Dr. Conor O’Brien

Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx

Richard Duffy

Senior Policy Advisor - Semiconductors at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)

Prof. Bala Vaidhyanathan, FIMMM, FHEA

Professor of Advanced Materials & Processing at Loughborough University

Ean Faragher

Marketing and Operations Manager at Axia Solutuions

Dr. Gilda Gasparini

Director of Programmes at Lucideon

Benjamin Gibbons

CEO at Circular 11

Annalisa Gigante

Non-Executive Director and Interim Chair at Henry Royce Institute

Alex Goodhand

Space Manufacturing Lead at Satellite Applications Catapult

Mike Harrison

Chief Executive Officer at Concretene

Dr. Cathryn Hickey

CEO at AMRICC

Brenna Howley

Associate Patent Attorney, Chemistry and Life Sciences at Gill Jennings & Every LLP

Jon Hughes

Senior Scientist at NPL

Danny Kamenecka

Senior Business Development Manager at Blueshift Materials

Dr. Timothy Kamps

Senior Scientist at NPL

Dr. David King

Lead - CMCs at NCC UK

Prof. David Knowles

CEO at Henry Royce Institute

Seb Leaper

CEO at Watercycle Technologies

Dr. Matt Lunt

Chief Scientist – Materials | Associate Director Defence Materials Centre of Excellence at DSTL

Dr. Tom McDonald

Reader in Sustainable Materials at Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub (University of Manchester

Dr. Subhasish Mukerjee

Chief Scientific Officer at Ceres Power Limited

Ash Owen

Head of Future Technology at Rolls-Royce

Daniel Palme

CEO at HalioGen

Nick Parry

Group Manager – Industrial Digitalisation at MPI

Dr. Andrius Patapas

CEO at 2d Nano Ltd

Dr. Yiwen Pei

Senior Scientist at NPL

Jonathan Phillips

Structural Ceramics Centre of Excellence Leader at Morgan Advanced Materials

James Rolph

Senior Technologist at Aerospace Technology Institute

Dr. Ehsan Sabet

Managing Director at AM Centre of Excellence

Dr. Kalyan Sarma

Vice President, Commercialisation – Climate, Environment & Sustainability at Ploughshare

Olivier Savard

Thermal Analysis Sales Manager at Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Ltd

Prof. Alexander M. Seifalian

Director/Professor of Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine at Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine Commercialisation Centre

Simon Smith

Business Development Director at Brookhouse Aerospace

Dr. Mandar Thakare

ICAM Associate Director at BP ICAM

Rachel Timmins

Policy Manager at Ceramics UK

Dr Aphrodite Tomou

Head of Technical at Goodfellow

Dr. Tom Whitehead

Head of Machine Learning at Intellegens

Sebastian Wood

Principal Scientist, Semiconductor Materials and Devices at NPL

Dr. Zeshan Yousaf

Applications Specialist at Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre

Dr. Yu Yu

Lead Researcher at Almath Crucibles Ltd.

Thursday 1st January, 1970

Thursday 10th July, 2025

Advanced Ceramics Test


11.30am -
12.20pm

Panel: Graphene in Construction: Disrupting Materials, Defying Sceptics