1pm – 5pm 30 October 2025 at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BA
A date for your diary - join the Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC, and the Bio-Based and Biodegradable Industries Association, BBIA, for an insightful afternoon considering our chemical future and the role of pioneering sustainable chemical production.
Notable academic and industry leading speakers will consider the practices, policy landscape, feedstocks and opportunities for moving to a biobased chemical future. There will be Q&A session and some interactive mini-workshop sessions to allow you to discuss with the speakers, network with other attendees and shape your own views as to the future for biobased chemicals.
This is a meeting jointly organised by the Marketing Group of the RSC and the BBIA. The cost is £10 for RSC members and £25 for non-RSC members. Tea and coffee on arrival, the meeting starts at 1.30pm.
Current agenda and speakers:
1.30 Opening remarks and welcome
1.40 Waste to Wealth - Professor Stephen Wallace, University of Edinburgh
2.00 Life Cycle Analysis - Professor Marcelle McManus, University of Bath
2.20 Scaling the bioeconomy and the role of standards - Jeffery Anthony, NPL
2.40 Q&A panel
3.00 Challenges and Opportunities for the Bio-based Chemicals - Jen Vanderhoven
3.20 Workshop - SWOT and GAP assessment of UK Bio-based chemicals landscape
4.20 Report back
4.50 Wrap up and close
A date for your diary - join the Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC, and the Bio-Based and Biodegradable Industries Association, BBIA, for an insightful afternoon considering our chemical future and the role of pioneering sustainable chemical production.
Notable academic and industry leading speakers will consider the practices, policy landscape, feedstocks and opportunities for moving to a biobased chemical future. There will be Q&A session and some interactive mini-workshop sessions to allow you to discuss with the speakers, network with other attendees and shape your own views as to the future for biobased chemicals.
This is a meeting jointly organised by the Marketing Group of the RSC and the BBIA. The cost is £10 for RSC members and £25 for non-RSC members. Tea and coffee on arrival, the meeting starts at 1.30pm.
Current agenda and speakers:
1.30 Opening remarks and welcome
1.40 Waste to Wealth - Professor Stephen Wallace, University of Edinburgh
2.00 Life Cycle Analysis - Professor Marcelle McManus, University of Bath
2.20 Scaling the bioeconomy and the role of standards - Jeffery Anthony, NPL
2.40 Q&A panel
3.00 Challenges and Opportunities for the Bio-based Chemicals - Jen Vanderhoven
3.20 Workshop - SWOT and GAP assessment of UK Bio-based chemicals landscape
4.20 Report back
4.50 Wrap up and close
