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

Monday, 9 June 2025

Focusing on one or two key challenge areas in the energy transition, this session brings together a cross-section of the materials ecosystem—including funding bodies, national institutes, academia, supply chain manufacturers, and end users. Together, they’ll explore how to better coordinate efforts across the sector to ensure the right research is funded and translated into scalable, usable technologies that energy companies can deploy at speed and scale. 

Set against the backdrop of the National Materials Innovation Strategy launched by Royce in 2025, this discussion aims to generate practical outcomes that could accelerate progress in materials innovation for the energy transition. 

 

Discussion Questions: 

• How can we shorten the timescales from concept to prototype to commercial scale-up? 

• What role can AI and machine learning play in accelerating development and deployment? 

• How do we create more effective end-to-end coordination across the supply chain, rather than siloed efforts? 

• What role should funding agencies and national labs play in connecting the system and guiding innovation? 

• What are the key barriers to deployment—such as levelized cost of energy—and how can we address them collectively? 

• How can we overcome IP and ownership challenges that arise from joint development across the ecosystem?