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FROM TARGETS TO TRANSFORMATION: CAN EUROPE DELIVER ON ITS CIRCULARITY TARGETS?

Emmanuelle Maire

Head of Unit

European Commission

European Commission & National Regulators – PPWR implementation, mass balance, EPR expansion, and upcoming Green Claims Directive.

Lucas Barros

Manager

Argus Media Ltd

Mechanical & Advanced Recycling: Translating Policy to Price Projection

Justin Wood

Vice President, Growth & Engagement

Alliance To End Plastic Waste

Flexible plastic packaging – Obstacle or opportunity for Europe?

ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL RECYCLING: TRANSFORMING HARD-TO-RECYCLE PLASTICS THROUGH CHEMICAL INNOVATION

Gijs ten Berge

VP - Polymer Technology Management

Lummus Technology

Sustainable Polymers Technologies for Global Competitiveness

Joerg Krueger

CEO

Synova

De-risking the scale-up of chemical recycling technologies efficiently and effectively under cash constraints

Valentijn de Neve

CEO

BlueAlp

Advances in Chemical Recycling: Transforming Hard-to-Recycle Plastics through Chemical Innovation

Stephane Fedou

VP Plastic Circular Economy

Axens

Chemical Recycling: Leveraging Industrial Experience and Technology Improvement to Make the Difference

Alexander Hofmann

Head of the Department of Advanced Carbon Conversion Technologies

Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg

From Lab to Pilot: Scaling an Autocatalytic Recycling Process to Produce High-Purity Aromatics from Hard-to-Recycle Plastics

CIRCULAR ECONOMY AT VOLKSWAGEN: DRIVING IMPACT FROM CIRCULAR4DESIGN, IMPLEMENTING R-STRATEGIES AND DEVELOPING CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS”

Fabian Fischer

Head of Biomaterials and Polymers

Volkswagen Group

HIGHLIGHT PRESENTATION

FROM COLLECTION TO SORTING: THE MISSING LINK IN PLASTICS CIRCULARITY

Eric Westerhoff

Sales Director, Advanced Recycling

Pellenc ST

Circularity needs granularity: Advanced Secondary Sorting Solutions to unlock feedstock?

Sofie Schop

Executive Director

WRAP

FlexCollect Project: Designing Innovative Expanding Trial Models

Barbora Cernanska

Waste Processing Manager

Slovnaft

Waste Management Dynamics in the CEE region

DIGITAL & DATA-DRIVEN CIRCULARITY: FROM PACKAGING TO RECYCLING

Jon Goriup

CEO & Co-Founder

VCG.AI

Constance Hybsier

Associate Director of Sustainability

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Operationalising Circularity: Leadership, Decisions, and Deep Tech at Scale

Dr. Eduard Wagner

Senior Researcher & Project Manager, Task Lead - DPP environmental assessment

CIRPASS-2

Digital Product Passports – what brand owners need to make DPPs practical and scalable.

Tim Bulters

Business Developer

TNO

Quirine Cohen

Consultant Circular Plastics

TNO

Jumping the R-Ladder for plastic packaging

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THE RECYCLING CASCADE: DESIGNING A SYSTEMIC PATHWAY TO 70% PLASTICS CIRCULARITY

Jens Hamprecht

Vice President, Global Plastics Steering Committee Coordination

BASF

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Jean-Paul Lange

Prof. in Chemical Biorefining

the University of Twente

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

SCALING MECHANICAL RECYCLING

Jan-Pedro Vis

Director Materials Benelux

Renewi

From old fridges to high-quality and safe plastic for PLAYMOBIL toys

Andrea Cabanes

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Fych Technologies

Mechanical delamination of multilayer packaging for circular economy

Gian De Belder

Technical Director, R&D Packaging Sustainability

PROCTER & GAMBLE

Flexloop project. Bridging the Gap Between Mechanical and Chemical Recycling

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD

Esben Lanthen

Co‑Founder & Managing Partner

Nordic Sustainability

Akshay Gunteti

Co-Founder

Green Worms

Plastics Recycling in India: Market Dynamics, Challenges & the Next Wave of Innovation

Markus Horcher

Vice President Sustainability & Public Affairs

Borealis

Project STOP: Building Indonesia’s First Regency‑Wide Circular Waste System

Sabine Theobald

Expert Consultant

Global Zero Waste

Sandra Pinzón García

Founder & CEO

Global Zero Waste

Successful recycling experiences in Latin America and advances in standardised processes are scalable to a global level

CASE STUDIES: FROM PILOT TO MARKET - TRANSFORMATIVE RECYCLING PROJECTS DRIVING CIRCULARITY

Gert Coun

Marketing & Circular Innovation Manager

SABIC

SPEAR Project – Collaboration at commercial scale to turn mixed plastic waste into certified circular polymers.

Martin Pillich

Research Associate in Energy&Process System Engineering

ETH Zurich

Circular Foam Project: a systemic approach to circular value chains for End-of-Life PU Foams

Gabriela Fedor

Commercial Deployment of circular & renewable feedstocks for Petrochemical Industry

Neste

Industrial Integration of Chemical Recycling at Refinery Scale: The Neste Approach

Hannah Mangold

Team Lead Polymer Recycling

BASF

Matching recycling technologies to the task at hand

STREAM 1: SHOWCASE SESSION: FROM PILOT TO MARKET – BIO-BASED SUCCESS STORIES

Lorenza Romanese

Secretary General

European Bioplastics e.V.

Opening Overview

Hao Ding

Global Marketing Director

TotalEnergies Corbion

Go Circular with PLA: Enabling Lower Carbon Footprint Through Design, Data, and End-of-Life Solutions

Afsaneh Nabifar

Chair

Compostable by Design

Catalysing Change: The Compostable‑by‑Design Platform’s Path to Circularity

Nicko Reuter

Business Development BioPET Packaging

UPM Biochemicals

Beyond Recycling: How Biobased PET helps de-fossilise a Circular Plastics Economy

FINANCING CIRCULARITY – WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO UNLOCK INVESTMENT?

Ilaria Rubbini

Senior Investment Officer - Cleantech Equity and Growth Capital

European Investment Bank

EIB Financing of Innovative Recycling Technologies: Eligibility Criteria and Case Studies

Cornelia Frentz

Director Governance And Sustainable Investing

European Circular Bioeconomy Fund

Implications of increasing regulations in packaging and other sectors for venture capital investors

Daan van Kassel

Head of Circular Credit

Colesco Capital

Circular credit: how to finance and scale asset-heavy circular innovations

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