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SUMMIT AGENDA 2026

Day 2 Morning - Deployment & Innovation: Scaling the Core CCUS Value Chain

08:00 - 09:00

(60 mins)

Registration & Morning Coffee

09:00 - 09:10

(10 mins)

Opening Welcome by Conference Chair

09:10 - 09:20 (10 mins)

[Keynote] Industrial Symbiosis in Practice: How Steel Can Catalyze Cross-Industry CCUS

Stefan Erdmann
Chief Technology Officer
Outokumpu

09:20 - 10:10 (50 mins)

[Panel] Industrial Symbiosis in Hard-to-Abate Sectors: The Next Wave of CCUS Deployment
  • Connecting the sectors: Mapping the synergies between hard-to-abate emitters (steel, cement, WtE, chemicals) to maximize capture readiness and shared decarbonization pathways
  • The business of synergies: How cross-industry integration improves overall project economics — shared utilities, heat integration, COâ‚‚ purity alignment, and co-location benefits
  • ​Policy for scaling industrial decarbonization ecosystems: Standards, permitting, and coordinated planning that enable heavy industry to deploy CCUS at pace and scale

Dr. Chris Manson-Whitton
Chief Executive Officer
Progressive Energy Ltd

Stefan Erdmann
Chief Technology Officer
Outokumpu

Aris Tsikouras
Director of Decarbonization Strategy
TITAN Group

10:10 - 10:30 (20 mins)

[Keynote] Reserved for Sponsor

10:30 - 11:20

(50 mins)

[Panel] Next-Gen Capture: Breakthroughs in AI, Modular Design, and Process Innovation
  • The Race for Affordability: Evaluating competing next-generation capture technologies on their pathway to achieve step-change reductions in cost and energy penalty
  • The AI Co-Pilot: How is artificial intelligence optimising real-time plant performance and enabling predictive maintenance to maximise uptime and efficiency
  • Modular Scale-Up: How standardised, factory-built solutions are enabling rapid, replicable deployment and derisking the path to gigaton scale

Coffee Break (30 mins)

11:50 - 12:10

(20 mins)

[Case Workshop – World's Best Practices]

12:10 - 12:40 (30 mins)

[Fireside Discussion] Captured Carbon Demand: Hydrogen, Ammonia & CCU as Offtake Channels
  • Defining the financial structures, risk-sharing mechanisms, and offtake models that can move blue hydrogen and CCU projects from pilots to financed, at-scale commercial ventures
  • Analyzing the project and infrastructure requirements to establish reliable global supply chains for blue hydrogen and ammonia as internationally traded commodities
  • ​Highlighting cutting-edge technologies and business models that are turning captured COâ‚‚ into profitable products, enhancing the overall economics of carbon management

Luncheon & Networking

Day 2 Afternoon - Architecting the Future: Capital, Governance & Global Systems

14:00 - 14:50 (50 mins)

​[Panel] Capital at Scale: How CCUS Is Actually Being Financed
  • From Grants to Gearing: Blended Finance as the New Normal
  • Bankability 101: What Makes a CCUS Project Financeable Today
  • Pricing Carbon: Revenue Certainty, Offtake & Market Signals
  • ​Who Holds the Tail Risk? Liability, Guarantees & Capital Protection

14:50 - 15:10 (20 mins)

​[Keynote] Reserved for Sponsor

15:10 - 15:30 (20 mins)

[Case Workshop – World's Best Practices]

15:30 - 16:20 (50 mins)

[Panel] The Strategic Crossroads for Emerging Markets: Replication, Acceleration, or Innovation?
  • Can emerging markets bypass Europe’s "trial-and-error" phase and move directly toward more efficient technologies, integrated project designs, and commercially viable business models?
  • How are resource-rich economies defining the role of CCUS—primarily as a tool for domestic industrial decarbonization, or as a foundation for export-oriented value chains such as blue hydrogen and low-carbon fuels?
  • What policy frameworks, financing structures, and regional collaborations are required for emerging markets to not just replicate existing models, but accelerate deployment and drive innovation?

16:20 - 17:00 (40 mins)

Closing and Networking
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