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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
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Connecting the sectors: Mapping the synergies between hard-to-abate emitters (steel, cement, WtE, chemicals) to maximize capture readiness and shared decarbonization pathways
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The business of synergies: How cross-industry integration improves overall project economics — shared utilities, heat integration, COâ‚‚ purity alignment, and co-location benefits
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​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
Aris Tsikouras
Director of Decarbonization Strategy
TITAN Group
Stefan Erdmann
Chief Technology Officer
Outokumpu
Michael Lundgaard Thomsen
Executive Director
Aalborg Portland A/S
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
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The Race for Affordability: Evaluating competing next-generation capture technologies on their pathway to achieve step-change reductions in cost and energy penalty
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The AI Co-Pilot: How is artificial intelligence optimising real-time plant performance and enabling predictive maintenance to maximise uptime and efficiency
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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)
[Keynote] Reserved for Vallourec
12:10 - 12:40 (30 mins)
[Fireside Discussion] Captured Carbon Demand: Hydrogen, Ammonia & CCU as Offtake Channels
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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
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Analyzing the project and infrastructure requirements to establish reliable global supply chains for blue hydrogen and ammonia as internationally traded commodities
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​Highlighting cutting-edge technologies and business models that are turning captured CO₂ 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
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From Grants to Gearing: Blended Finance as the New Normal
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Bankability 101: What Makes a CCUS Project Financeable Today
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Pricing Carbon: Revenue Certainty, Offtake & Market Signals
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​Who Holds the Tail Risk? Liability, Guarantees & Capital Protection
Chloe Evans
Director Investments and Advisory
National Wealth Fund
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?
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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?
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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?
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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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