Charlie Clark
Project Management at 3D Ceram Sinto
Enya Collier
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: Optimising Physical and Metallurgical Properties Across Diverse Materials Using Novel Laser Powder Bed Fusion Melting Techniques
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 – 16:15: Keynote: The Hidden Role of Precious Metal Materials in Modern Industry
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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
11:00 – 11:15: Networking Break
11:15 – 11:45: Catalytic Effects on CNT Production and Quality
11:45 – 12:15: Introducing Graphene Paste: A New Format for Industrial Adoption
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break: Meet ACC Experts on our Stand 236
13:15 – 13:45: From Graphene Innovation to Industrial Scale Electronics
13:45 – 14:15: Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG): Bringing Products to Market
14:15 – 14:30: Afternoon Networking Break
14:30 – 15:00: Methane-Derived Graphene in Coatings: Performance, Cost, and Scale
15:00 – 15:30: Quality control system for advanced materials producers and users
14:15 – 14:30: Afternoon Networking Break
15:45 – 16:15: Turquoise Group: An Industry-First Path to Commercialisation
16:15 – 16:30: 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: Podcast Session: Behind the Scenes: Closing the Gap Between Discovery and Production
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
14:45 – 15:20: Keynote: The UK’s Materials Verification Programme (MVP)
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-Driven Automated Experimental Platform for Accelerated Advanced Materials Discovery
Disrupt. Discover. Deploy. – The UK’s new materials frontier
13:25 – 13:55: Keynote: The UK Metamaterials Landscape: Realising Materials Without Compromise
14:00 – 14:25: Keynote: From Turbine Blades to Hydrogen: How do Advanced Coatings Extend Component Life Under Extreme Environments?
14:30 – 15:20: Panel: Making Graphene Work: Science, Scale, and What Comes Next
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
10:40 – 10:55: Partner Presentation: Battery Pack Scale-Up: From Prototype to Series Production
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
11:40 – 11:55: Innovator Pitch: Surface Functionalisation of Thermoplastic Composite Powders with Nano-Fillers
12:00 – 12:15: Partner Presentation – Scaling Up Battery Manufacturing: Enabling Battery Technologies and Developing Skills
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
13:40 – 13:55: Innovator Pitch: Hybrid Composites and Multi-Material Integration with IMCs
14:00 – 14:15: Partner Presentation: Bank Perspectives on Scaling Up Innovation
14:20 – 14:35: Innovator Pitch: Amplisi Porous Silicon Anodes: Enabling Higher-Energy, Lower-Cost Lithium-Ion Batteries at Scale
14:40 – 14:55: Innovator Pitch: Unlocking Circular Value in EV Batteries Through Robotic Disassembly
15:00 – 15:15: Innovator Pitch: From Echoes to Insight: Ultrasound for Battery Quality and Industrial Intelligence
For more details on each session, view the full agenda
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