Opening Speech

🎤 Jean-Pierre Dal Pont, Président

Session 1: Managing Risks

🔍 Eco-chemistry / circular economy context / toxicology issues, European regulations
How to deal with evolving regulations and uncertain market trends to define your sustainability policy? Start by your materiality analysis to define a Safe and Sustainable by Design approach for your products and services. Considering toxicology issues is a no brainer.
Chair: Patrick Cléret, France Chimie

Guest Speaker:

• Alain Lombard
• Nathalie Quisel, Véolia
  • « Chemical Transition Pathway using Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach »

Session 2: Reducing Impacts

📊 Tools & Methodologies for Sustainability Assessment
Monitoring sustainability is key to innovation. Beyond complex LCAs, what simplified tools can guide early-stage decisions? This session explores practical methodologies that align with LCA principles while ensuring efficiency.
Chair: Guy-Noël Sauvion

Guest Speaker:

• Christophe Calais, Arkema
• Olivier Talon, Material Nova
  • « Eco-design of innovation – How to use Life Cycle Assessment tools along the TRL scale? »

Session 3: Creating Opportunities

🚀 AI | Bio-inspiration | New Catalysis for Sustainable Innovation

New approaches to build innovative proposals on your sustainability ambition, the role of AI. Moving from sustainable innovation to eco-innovation requires to integrate a lot of data from different sources and of different nature in order to define the best compromise for sustainability. Recent improvements in catalysis and biomimicry.

Chair: Valérie Lucas, Climalife

Guest speakers:

• Adrian Saint-Sardos, Ceebios
• Philippe Marion, Syensqo

Featured speaker:

• Willi Meier
  • « Application of Generative AI and AI Agents inthe Process and Product Development »

Keynote Address

🎤 Patrick Maestro, Euro-CASE

« Promoting sustainability among policy makers »

Session 4: Demonstration of success stories or usage cases

🏆 Demonstration of success stories or usage cases

Demonstrative examples of sustainable and profitable innovations. Solutions already exist that could be implemented to reduce all kinds of impacts and can be used as an invaluable source of inspiration.

Chair: TBA
Guest Speakers: 

• Vincent Gourlaouen, Air Liquide
  • « Carbon dioxide based wastewater treatment: a sustainable alternative to mineral acids »

Session 5: Round table on sustainability culture dissemination

🌍 Engaging Teams in the Net-Zero Transition

How to get people involved in the commitments to reach the net zero carbon and beyond that, to move forward to eco-innovation? A review of the best practices to change the mindset of teams often confused by contradictory injunctions.
• Chair: TBA
• Guest Speakers: TBA

Closing Remarks & Takeaways

Before the gala dinner, we’ll reflect on key insights from Day 1 and set the stage for Day 2.
• Speakers: Jean-Pierre Dal Pont, Valérie Lucas / Philippe Marion / Guy-Noël Sauvion, Flavien Suzanne