1. In my current role I am responsible for the implementation of our Henkel sustainability strategy in the Supply Chain (specifically the production sites as well as outbound logistics)of our Consumer Brands business unit.

A graduate of the Department of Economics (English) at Istanbul University, Ebru Şapoğlu completed ‘’Leading in a Global World’’ program organized by The University of Texas, and ‘’Executive Leadership’’ program organized by INSEAD throughout her professional career. After embarking on her career as a Product Responsible in Şişecam Flat Glass business unit in 1999, Şapoğlu took various managerial roles in the architectural glass, energy glass, and home appliance glass segments. She was appointed as Marketing and Sales Vice President in Flat Glass in 2016 and Senior Sales and Marketing Director in July 2021. As of January 1, 2022, Ebru Şapoğlu serves as Şişecam Chief Sales Officer.

Phillip Stephenson is Electrified Thermal Solution’s Vice President Business Development. He leads ETS's strategy development and implementation as well as sales, marketing and policy efforts. At ETS he's established partnerships with leading companies across industries including cement, chemicals and energy companies among others. Phillip has over 15 years of experience in the energy sector working across the supply chain in solar and energy storage. He's developed utility scale renewable projects, led the growth and expansion of one of the premier O&M providers in the renewables space and consulted for leading renewables and electric vehicle companies. Phillip received his MBA from MIT Sloan

Joachim von Schéele has a career spanning over more than three decades working with manufacturing industries, predominantly in steel, minerals, and metals production, but also in automotive, and chemical sectors, etc.

With a mix of metallurgical research and consultancy background, Joachim von Schéele joined the industrial gases industry in 1996. Since then, he has served in many different technical and commercial management roles at AGA, BOC, and Linde, and been actively doing business in more than 40 countries around the world. After a decade in Asia, first in India as VP for South Asia and then in China heading Application Development & Sales for Asia-Pacific, he is since 2020 based in Munich, Germany, pursuing his current role at Linde.

Focusing on decarbonisation including use of hydrogen, Joachim von Schéele is very much engaged in driving the sustainability agenda supporting steel, metals, mining, and other hard-to-abate industries to achieve measurable progress and success.

Joachim von Schéele is a well-known speaker and panelist, and has published more than 200 papers, mainly on energy and emission conservation, recycling, and production. He has served as a member of more than 30 boards of companies, associations, and research and education organizations. Joachim von Schéele is included in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Engineering, and Who’s Who in Asia, and he holds seven patents related to metallurgical production. He is the author of chapters in five books, most recently on China in ‘Touching Hydrogen Future – Tour Around the Globe’.

Joachim von Schéele received his MS and PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1987 and 1992, respectively, and a BA from Stockholm University in 1990.

Marcello is currently Supply chain leader at IBM Europe, having worked through the years on various positions on the area of Procure to Pay, Customer Experience (Marketing, Sales, Service, e-Commerce) or Supply Chain. Marcello brings with him an extensive experience of customer engagements from various industries and more recently on the role of AI demanded by the future of sustainable order fulfillment.

As a Managing Director at ENGIE Impact, Ben acts as a guide and architect for companies on the path to carbon neutrality. During his 19 years as a management consultant, he has helped executive teams in various sectors on strategy & business transformation.

Ben joined ENGIE Impact to embed sustainability in strategy definition and drive global sustainability transformation. He is an expert in all relevant dimensions, including business model change, asset transition, technology adoption, digitisation, organisational & process change, and engagement of internal & external stakeholders. Ben holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Jan Salzwedel is a dynamic speaker and accomplished researcher in green factory planning, having studied Industrial Engineering and Business Administration at RWTH Aachen University and Università degli Studi di Torino. With a focus on resource efficiency and sustainability, Jan develops innovative Key Performance Indicator (KPI) systems and life cycle models for factories, with a particular focus on the transformation of brownfield factories. He collaborates closely with industry partners, including the Ford Motor Company, on projects such as the "Positive Impact Factory," aiming to create sustainable, long-lasting factories with a positive ecological footprint. Jan's expertise also extends to strategic site selection, integrating green factory KPIs and global megatrends to assist organizations in making informed decisions aligned with sustainability objectives. Through his work at the intersection of academia and industry, Jan Salzwedel is dedicated to advancing sustainable manufacturing practices and inspiring a greener future in the field of industrial engineering.

Having worked in the Chemical Industry for the 12 years, prior to joining Glass Futures in December 2022, I was fortunate enough to work across several disciplines.

Starting life in manufacturing, before moving into R&D, where I worked on sustainable projects, such as plastic recycling, and the hydrogen economy, I moved into a marketing role in 2020. My last role, before joining Glass Futures was helping to join the dots between academia and my employer, when it came to R&D, and how to make those relationships as effective as possible.

Within Glass Futures, I sit across both the projects and the membership team, enabling key cross-member collaboration, to ensure that the research we are doing at Glass Futures can provide value for both our stakeholders and the wider industry.

Currently based in Teesside, in the UK, I spent the previous three years living and working in Maastricht, so I know the area very well!

As an experienced executive in the tech industry, Gesa Schneider is driven by entrepreneurship and has a determined mindset with a passion for 3D printing, the CircularEconomy, and sustainable manufacturing.

Since March 2023 she is responsible for the Central Europe Sales Team at Markforged, a producer of industrial composites and metal 3D printers, and is based in Berlin, Germany. Throughout her career, she has executed various ideas in both 3D printing startups and corporations, gaining hands-on experience in all levels of the entrepreneurship sphere.

As the founder and former CEO of Circuteria, a digital platform for sustainable materials solutions, she is a leading thinker on the transformative role of emerging technologies, circular practices, and innovative business models in combating climate change. She has broad international experience in the 3D printing industry and sustainable materials, and has won various competitions and hackathons in Berlin's startup scene.

In addition to speaking at conferences, she maintains a blog (circular3dprinting.com) about the ecological benefits of 3D printing, circularity, and innovative business models. Her vision is to unlock the full potential of the Circular Economy and to make product manufacturing more sustainable.

As Sweep’s VP Climate Action, Renaud brings to Sweep a decade of experience in the field of carbon offsetting and corporate climate strategy. Committed to helping businesses be a driving force to reach global net zero, he launched the Net Zero initiative reference framework for corporate carbon neutrality and carbon finance website Info Compensation Carbone.

Hilbrand Kuiken is the founder and CEO of Quantillion. He is an entrepreneur focusing on data intelligence that enables real time autonomous decision making in complex environments. Hilbrand loves working with passionate people in creating real value for the clients. He believes data is not about analytics but about doing!

Hilbrand has more than 10 years of experience in both primary aluminium smelting and Industry 4.0 digital product implementation.

He has a BSc. In Engineering from the University of Applied Science, Utrecht Netherlands and an MSc. In Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (KTH), Sweden.

Prior to founding Quantillion, he was the Director Asset Management & Digital Services – Industry at Royal HaskoningDHV Engineering

Mo Ahmed has over twenty years of experience in the steel industry. Before joining Schneider Electric, he worked for Primetals Technologies, Siemens, Ivaco Rolling Mills and GE. He filled roles starting from automation and drives engineering, maintenance management, pre-sales support and finally sales of multi-million-dollar steel plant projects. He has engaged in the industry on a global scale, travelling to over 50 countries to meet and understand the needs of his customers. He is also an author of multiple white papers that have been published and presented at numerous steel-industry conferences.

Christian Leroy joined European Aluminium in January 2014 as Consultant in charge of Innovation and Life Cycle Assessment. Previously, as full-time employee of European Aluminium since 1999, he was in charge of various functions covering education, technology and environmental fields. He holds a Ph.D. and Master degree in Process Engineering from “Université Catholique de Louvain” in Belgium.

Christian is currently Director Innovation, managing the Innovation Hub of European Aluminium. This collaborative industrial platform aims to trigger research projects that target prioritised technology and raw materials challenges for decarbonising and circularising the industry. The Innovation Hub aims to match more effectively the priorities of the European Aluminium Industry with the EU innovation agenda and funding programme, especially within “Horizon Europe” programme. For such purpose, the European aluminium industry is engaged in 3 key Public Private Partnerships (PPPs): Processes4 Planet (previously SPIRE), Made in Europe (previously “Factories of the Future”) and Built4People (previously “Energy-efficient Buildings”). Currently, the innovation Hub secretariat is composed of a team of 4 experts and is involved in 10 collaborative projects, 7 of them being Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe projects.

Mr. Sarim Sheikh is an experienced global business leader and an independent director with more than two decades of P&L and business leadership experience across energy, transportation, health care and retail sectors. He has held several global and regional leadership positions since joining Shell Group Plc in 1995, in Downstream, Midstream and Renewables and of living and working on 5 continents. In 2012 he joined as President & CEO of GE Industrial businesses in the Central Asia region for Aviation, Health Care, Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables. In 2019, he was appointed the Chief Operating Officer, GE Offshore a start-up within GE.

Mr. Sheikh was named one of the "Best Performing CEOs" by Karachi Stock Exchange and was also awarded the GE Chairman’s Leadership Award. Mr. Sheikh has served on several not for profit boards of charities, industry associations, public companies and government advisory boards. Mr. Sheikh is a global thought leader on energy transition and a passionate advocate its acceleration.

Mr. Sheikh has a B.Sc in Physics and an MBA from London Business School awarded with distinction. He and his wife live with their daughter and son in London.

Sabrina Santarossa is chemical engineer with international experience in sales and business development in energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Sabrina works in Turboden since 2008 and she is Sales Manager for Heat Recovery application and Gas Expander product.

She supports potential customers to find the optimized configuration for each project with a consistent attitude to deliver high value customized solutions supported by a solid academic background.

In her free time she likes reading, doing sport and travelling.

Davide Rizzi is Sales Engineer at Turboden, responsible for Large Heat Pump application in industrial processes.

He started his journey in Turboden as engineer in charge of energy efficiency project in the O&G industry, working in project in North America and Middle East.

Now, together with the Large Heat Pump team, he develops energy efficiency solutions based on Large Heat Pump implementation in industrial processes, helping industries to decarbonize their assets.

Davide Rizzi holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Università degli Studi di Brescia with major in industrial processes. During his studies, he joined the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan as research fellow working with Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Pascal van Putten, CEO and founder of VPInstruments studied Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology and performed his masters’ research project at North Carolina State University. Pascal founded VPInstruments in 1999. VPInstruments offers industrial clients Energy Management solutions for compressed air, technical gases as well as other utilities. VPInstruments produces flow meters for both supply side (wet air) and demand side (typically dry air) down to the point of use and pioneered 3-in-1 sensor technology: All flow meters measure also pressure and temperature. Connected to VPVision monitoring software, they can provide easy insight into the energy consumption and efficiency of a compressed air system. Pascal has almost 25 years of experience in flow measurement, compressed air monitoring and industrial energy management. Pascal lives in Delft together with his wife Marjolijn and three daughters Janneke (who is now studying at Limestone University in SC), Annemarie and Willemijn.

In his current position Karsten Büker is principal chemist and team leader of the Carbon2Chem^® project at the division of Technology, Innovation and Sustainabilty of thyssenkrupp Uhde, the chemical engineering unit of thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions. In addition he is leading R&D projects dealing with catalyst technology for the production and conversion of synthesis gas to hydrogen, ammonia and methanol. Karsten Büker has more than 20 years of experience in industrial catalysis among them 4 years in the refining industry. He holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the Free University of Berlin.

Program Manager Industrial Carbon Capture at TNO, the applied research organization of the Netherlands

Drive to make an impact on CO2 emissions to reduce the carbon footprint of Industry and have a positive impact on the climate. In my job I am responsible for the team that works on two main topics. 1) Improving state of the art Post Combustion Capture technologies and 2) Implementation of TNO’s Pre Combustion Capture technology SEWGS.

Chemical background and worked from the beginning in the field of the energy transition. From Researcher, to Project Leader and now Business Developer and Program Manager.

Sarah is an Innovation Lead at Innovate UK, supporting the Foundation Industries to be sustainable and internationally competitive through collaborative R&D competitions and tailored sector support. This includes social science aspects, addressing the future skills gaps, ensuring the sector is inclusive and captures diverse innovation and workforce, tracking societal behaviours and breaking down systemic innovation barriers.

Sarah is a Materials Engineer by background and has been working in the Materials Processing Industry for the past decade, initially conducting research at both the University of Oxford and Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, before joining Innovate UK in 2020.

Sameen Khan is Senior Manager, Steel at Climate Group leading the global programmatic work of the SteelZero initiative. This involves engaging with leading steel buying businesses from across all countries and sectors to join SteelZero and commit to procuring net zero steel, engaging with global network of NGOs, thinktanks, governments and other organisations with a goal to decarbonise the steel sector and involvement with the development of tools and standards to support the steel industry on its path to net zero.

Chris is a leading member of the projects team and has worked in glass R&D since 2005. Prior to that, he developed products for the food industry. Chris co-ordinates a team of eight researchers at Glass Technology services and participates in a wide variety of projects ranging from desk-based research through to practical laboratory, pilot scale development, site trials and testing. He also regularly undertakes non-standard testing and consultancy work.

His background is in marine biology and environmental science but has wide-ranging interests from recycling and environmental improvement to novel uses of glass in biomedical applications, energy generation and photonics. Recent initiatives have included waste and energy minimisation projects for European Glass Manufacturers, the Horizon 2020 FISSAC Construction industry Industrial symbiosis project, and developing a manufacturing facility for novel biomedical and photonic glasses.

Chris’ background in environmental science has led to a focus on projects that reduce the environmental impact of the glass supply chain either through efficiency improvements in the glass manufacturing process, increased use of recycled materials, and the development of products with lower environmental impacts. Chris has worked as technical lead on container recycling projects in the UK and Russian Federation, and circular economy projects in the construction and architectural glass supply chain across Europe. He has also carried out studies into the technological and economic potential for low grade post consumer glass. He has delivered training courses on glass recycling and environmental improvement in the UK and internationally.

Ira Brueckner is Senior Manager Sustainability Strategy at Heidelberg Materials, based in Heidelberg, Germany. At Heidelberg Materials, she assists and reports to the CSO regarding sustainability strategy and leads the global circularity strategy implementation. In her professional career to date, Ira has gained experience in waste and wastewater treatment as well as change and strategy management. She is a Waste (B. Sc.) and Environmental (M. Sc.) Engineer and holds a PhD from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.