Rethinking Materials Summit 2027
6 April 2027 – 7 April 2027
Hilton London Bankside, London, United Kingdom
Rethinking Materials is a two-day international summit in London bringing together leaders, investors and innovators in sustainable materials. The programme covers packaging, textiles, ingredients and consumer products, with main-stage plenaries, case studies, workshops, roundtables, scale-up and start-up pitch showcases, an exhibition and networking.
28 sessions · 20 speakers
Media Partner (1)
Sponsors (4)
Minderoo · Alchemy Cloud · Intellegens · PA Consulting
Exhibitors (2)
Startups (2)
Speakers (20)
- Caroline Till CEO & Founder, Tilt Futures
- Andrew Morlet Senior Advisor, Standard Chartered
- Efrat Friedland Co-founder, Positive Plastics; Founder, Materialscout
- Eric Klingenberg Materials Science Lead, Mars
- Felix Philipp Head of Research for Circular Economy and Materials, Group Lombard Odier
- François Farion Design Director, Innovation, Sustainability, CMF Process, Renault Group
- Frank Lehmann Vice President Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation, Amcor
- Georgia Parker Innovation Director, Fashion For Good
- Haley Lowry Global Director Sustainability, Dow
- James Bull Head of Packaging, Tesco
- James Harmer Planning and Innovation Strategy Leader, Cambridge Design Partnership
- Janina Zippel Senior Scientist, Beiersdorf Ventures
- John Mortell Senior Policy Manager, Plastics Europe
- Lisa Dufresne Investment Manager, GC Ventures
- Lisa Morales-Hellebo Founder & Managing General Partner, Refashiond Ventures
- Lucy Mortimer Co-Founder, Archipelago Ventures
- Manuel Brunner Sustainable Materials Innovation & Investments Lead, Minderoo Foundation
- Neil Cameron Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures
- Severine Mongauze Senior Sustainability Manager, Plastics, Unilever
- Sian Sutherland Co-Founder, A Plastic Planet
Agenda
- Growth within limits? The materials economy is already overdrawn 15 March 2027
- Designed for tomorrow, regulated for yesterday? 15 March 2027
- One year on: what survived the pitch? 15 March 2027
- Pilots are easy. Prove it at scale: five scale-ups, one prize, no hiding place 15 March 2027
- Great trial. No order. Buyers tell you why. 15 March 2027
- WORKSHOP B: Breaking the barrier - safer, more sustainable flexible packaging 15 March 2027
- WORKSHOP A: Drowning in new rules? Bring your questions 15 March 2027
- Who pays for the first plant? Bridging the gap from pilot to scale 15 March 2027
- What we got wrong: a scale-up post-mortem 15 March 2027
- Exporting our scrap, importing our risk: the critical materials paradox 15 March 2027
- Ten tables, no slides, no spectators 15 March 2027
- Where does fibre win, and who will finance it? 15 March 2027
- From trial to first order: how the deal was won 15 March 2027
- Why is single use still winning? A retailer comes clean 15 March 2027
- The verdict: who survived the jury? 15 March 2027
- Thinner, lighter, quieter: can engineered materials leave the lab? 16 March 2027
- AI-designed materials: breakthrough or black box? 16 March 2027
- Pivot or perish? The decisions that shaped a materials business 16 March 2027
- Lab coats off: seven start-ups in market test 16 March 2027
- The great chemical switch-up: are we just swapping one problem for another? 16 March 2027
- Plastic that breaks down in the ocean: are enzymes proving a gamechanger? 16 March 2027
- WORKSHOP A: Micro hackathon: one real problem, 30 minutes, 60 seconds to sell it 16 March 2027
- WORKSHOP B: Bring your material - can AI crack it? 16 March 2027
- Textile-to-textile recycling: what is holding the industry back? 16 March 2027
- Design decides: circularity is won or lost on the drawing board 16 March 2027
- Lower impact, higher performance: the end of the green compromise? 16 March 2027
- Repair is becoming a right. Will customers choose it? 16 March 2027
- Greetings from 2050: what did we get right? 16 March 2027