Delivering industrial decarbonisation for growth and resilience
Annual Conference 2026
Session summaries
Opening Session
IDRIC Overview
Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IDRIC/CDT Director
Keynote address
Delivering industrial decarbonisation for growth and resilience – insights from the Northwest
Ruth Herbert, Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives and Business Development, EET
Panel
Driving regional growth through green industrialisation: place-based strategies in practice
Chris Williams, Chair
Jonathan Oxley, Senior Manager, CBI
John Egan, Project Director, Progressive Energy
Philip Nicholson, Senior Researcher, Association for Decentralised Energy
Bart Ashton, Partnership Manager for Zero Carbon Oxfordshire Partnership, Oxford City Council
Mapping research and innovation priorities: investment and growth towards net zero industries
A collaborative session to shape a roadmap for directing investment across advanced manufacturing from now to 2050
Katie Hart, Senior Program Manager, EPSRC
Panel
Beyond competition: Enabling technology choice through CCUS, electrification and hydrogen in UK industry
Mercedes Maroto-Valer, Chair
Clare Jackson, CEO, Hydrogen UK
Olivia Powis, CEO, Carbon Capture and Storage Association
Daniel Paterson, Director of Policy and Government Affairs for Electrify Industry, Make UK
Panel
Decarbonisation without deindustrialisation: carbon leakage and UK industrial competitiveness
Marcelle McManus, Chair
Arjan Geveke, Director, Energy Intensive Users Group
Russ Hall, Lead for Reduction of Industrial Emissions and Circular Economy, High Value Manufacturing Catapult
Rob Ireson, Head of Innovation, Glass Futures
Pete Hodgson, Tata Steel