Ernest de Weert
SIMS Recycling Solutions
Marketing and Communications Manager EMEA
With plastics hysteria growing, this conference will focus on practical, scalable and attainable solutions to the challenges surrounding plastics. Over the two days, we will equip business delegates with the guidance to develop and implement strategies for reducing plastic footprints, and making the right plastics sustainable.
We’ll bring together key actors from across the value chain, including retailers, brands, waste management companies, policy makers, suppliers and NGOs. The focus will remain on driving progress that works for consumers, the environment, utility and business reality.
The speakers
Joe Franses
Coca-Cola European Partners
Vice-President, Sustainability
Pins Brown
The Body Shop
Head of Ethical Trade & Sustainable Sourcing
Tony Kingsbury
The Dow Chemical Company
Director of Sustainability, EMEA
Kate Daly
Closed Loop Partners
Managing Director, Center for the Circular Economy
David Croft
Reckitt Benckiser
Global Director Sustainability, Environment & Human Rights
Florian Trohay
General Mills
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Manager
Anita McBain
M&G Investments
Head of Responsible Investing and ESG
Agenda highlights
- 2025 targets and commitments: What are the practicalities and realities of reaching targets around plastics use?
- Sustainable plastics and the next generation: What are consumer expectations for business?
- Circular economy: Fundamental steps we need to take to reach a closed loop system
- The role of government: How can government help and enable business in the fight against plastic pollution, and where does their responsibility end?
- Finance and funding: How do we create sustainable funding models for innovation?
- Consumer expectations vs consumer reactions: What we know so far about the response to sustainable plastic alternatives
- Investor criteria: What investors want to see from your plastics policies
- Product design and R&D: How to increase recycled content without compromising the integrity of your product
- Defining extended producer responsibility: How far will it go?
- Technology and partnerships: What are the disruptive innovations and technologies that could implement a sustainable plastics economy
- Engaging marketing: How to work with and engage marketing departments to influence consumer behaviour around plastics
Why attend?
Discover best practices from industry leaders and get in-depth guidance on how to effectively implement policies
Meet & network with an influential audience of key stakeholders, including NGOs, business, government and supply chain actors
Benchmark company performance amongst a room of your peers and discover where you should be focusing efforts
What’s different about this forum?
Innovation Forum is:
- Candid: Entirely off-the-record discussion that enables open and honest disclosure from speakers and genuine participation from the audience.
- Practical: A clear focus on the practical and actionable guidance that can drive change throughout industries and supply chains.
- Focused: We provide enough time, resources and expertise to the issues that really matter. We don’t skate the surface, but get to the crux of the issues to provide in-depth, constructive discussion.
Innovation Forum is NOT:
- A PR platform: Enthusiastic speakers are NOT given free rein to fill a session presenting their companies, allowing no time to actually get to the crux of the issues.
- A talking shop: This is NOT an opportunity for a group people in a room to simply agree with everything said, regardless of outcomes.
- All promise, no delivery: We will NOT promise what we can’t deliver. The issues covered are complex. They won’t be solved at a two-day conference. But we will help deliver progress through in-depth, constructive and practical advice around specific issues.
Who attends
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