Panel: Materials – The Link…to Make The Transition Happen

Thursday, 24 April 2025

Focussing on one – two challenge areas in energy transition, we bring together a cross-section of the materials ecosystem, from funding bodies, national institutes, academia, supply chain manufacturers and end users to discuss the need for coordinated efforts across the space to ensure right research is funded and is translated into scalable and usable technology solutions that end users such as energy companies could deploy to the market.  

With the backdrop of the national materials innovation strategy launched by Royce in 2025, this would be an interesting discussion and could lead to some actionable outcomes that push the technology forward quickly.  

 

Discussion points: 

• Timescales from concept to prototype and scale-up 

• Role of AI/ML in going from concept to scale 

• End-to-end supply chain coordination (vs. everyone is doing their own bit) 

• Role of funding agencies and government labs – is there a role for them to play in linking the system together. 

• Barriers to deployment – levelized cost of energy, and how can the system coordinate, IP ownership challenges due to joint development