Discover effective strategies to optimize savings in response to increasing energy costs at your facilities.
Develop a framework for cross-industry partnerships that promote knowledge sharing to drive operational change and influence behaviors.
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Speaker: Raj Bazaj, Vice President of Sustainability Solutions, Constellation Energy
• Secure guidance on scaling successful autonomous technology pilots across multiple operations and regions to achieve widespread productivity improvements in advanced automation.
• Gain insights on deploying autonomous technology for repetitive or hard-to-fill roles to address recruitment challenges and ensure operational consistency.
• Takeaway strategies for implementing autonomous systems for specific, high-volume tasks such as material transport within controlled sites to significantly boost site efficiency and resource utilization.
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Speakers:
David Perkins, SVP – Sustainability, Heidelberg Materials
Michael Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer, Elysian Carbon Management
Onur Goker, Managing Director, Ara Partners
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Moderator: Richard Hart, Industry Program Director, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
• Develop compelling business cases for large capital investments required for decarbonization projects to secure necessary funding and ensure financial viability.
• Navigate the complexities of balancing day-to-day operational uncertainties with long-term strategic planning around evolving carbon markets, energy prices, and potential facility impacts to build adaptable and resilient decarbonization strategies.
• Assess the costs associated with transitional technologies to identify the most economically viable decarbonization pathways for specific industrial applications.
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Speaker: Bretton DeNomme, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Ecosave
• Discover how to mitigate the significant operational risks posed by end-of-life assets during their final operational phase to prevent unexpected failures and ensure production continuity until new assets are fully online.
• Explore ways to weigh the immediate business case of incremental gains against the long-term risks, such as production disruption that could run for months, of adopting tech to maximize short and long-term profitability.
• Address the slow pace of evaluating new processes – often taking months – to dramatically speed up R&D cycles and evaluation, making go/no-go decisions in shorter timeframes to unlock new efficiencies in operations.
Speakers:
Don Ryan, Vice President Enterprise Sales, AssetWatch
Kim Wooten, Senior Energy and Sustainability Engineer, Facility Strategies Group, LLC
 Jaydip Chakrabarti, Global Head, Digital Transformation and Automation Solutions, Tata Steel Consulting
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Moderator: Richard Hart, Industry Program Director, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
Scaling Natural Resources at Speed: The Role of Innovation and Heavy Industry: Fireside Chat with HalliburtonÂ
Scaling natural resources at speed is about enabling heavy industries to meet rising demand for energy, infrastructure, and critical materials while balancing cost, efficiency, and sustainability. The discussion will examine why scaling has become such an urgent priority, the breakthrough technologies that are driving faster and cleaner industrial growth, and the role of digitalization in improving performance and reliability across complex systems. It will also address barriers such as capital intensity, commercialization gaps, and the difficulty of changing entrenched processes, while highlighting how partnerships between operators, innovators, and investors are critical to accelerate progress.
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Speaker: Zainub Noor, Director of Low Carbon Solutions, Halliburton
Moderator: Michael Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer, Elysian Carbon Management
Invite Only - Workshop with Halliburton: Turning Carbon into Currency: The Future of CCUS Monetization -Â 12.45-13.45
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• Monetize carbon through tax credits and markets: understand how 45Q tax credits are shaping the U.S. low-carbon economy and how to strategically leverage environmental carbon markets to drive financial success.
• Overcome cross-sector monetization challenges: examine the unique barriers to CCUS monetization across industries and explore how to navigate regulatory uncertainty, infrastructure gaps, and verification hurdles.
• Roadmap solutions for scalable investment: discover frameworks and tools to de-risk CCUS investments, ensure transparency, and build secure, profitable business models through technology integration, policy alignment, and trusted partnerships.
Speakers:
Glenn Wilson, MMV Manager, phd, Halliburton
Zainub Noor, Director of Low Carbon Solutions, Halliburton
Make Your Business Case: Overcoming the Risk of Adopting New Technology at Scale to Maximize Productivity
• Find learnings for overcoming the cycle of novel technologies showing promise at the pilot stage but faltering when faced with the massive scale of modern industrial operations to select the appropriate technology for an acceptable level of capital investment.
• Discover how to squeeze maximum recovery and productivity from existing, proven assets and technologies to widen profit margins across product lines.
• Formulate blueprints to facilitate knowledge-sharing across different heavy industries to drive down the learning and cost curve.
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Speakers:
Annie Dong, Managing Director, CRH Ventures
Wesley Hamilton, Chief Technical Officer, Albemarle
Silke Hoppe, VP – Research & Development, Sasol
Eddie Ganzinotti, VP Data Centers and New Energy Americas, SLB
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Moderator: Michael Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer, Elysian Carbon Management
Roundtable: Electrification Readiness
Can current electric solutions truly meet the rigorous power demands of heavy industrial sites day-to-day? Hear about which electric solutions work best to select the most effective solution for demanding operational environments.
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Roundtable: New Technology Adoption
How do you weigh the potential rewards of new tech against the very real risks of operational disruption?
Moderated by Paul Holdredge, Director, Energy, Extractives, Industrials, and Transport, BSR
• Learn how Carnegie Mellon's comprehensive research approach combines machine learning, materials science, and policy analysis to accelerate industrial decarbonization across multiple sectors and stakeholder communities.
• Discover practical open-source tools like decarbSTEEL that enable steel industry decision-makers to evaluate cost-effectiveness and emissions impacts of different decarbonization pathways under varying market conditions and policy scenarios.
• Understand how machine learning models can predict production costs and optimal transition strategies for existing steel plants, helping companies position themselves competitively for the next wave of decarbonization investments despite current market uncertainties.
Speaker: Valerie Karplus, Associate Director, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Understand the changing landscape of the costs and availability of low carbon energy sources across industrial sectors
Evaluate by opportunities for your company and industry to lower cost and improve sustainability and low carbon performance
Where trade-off’s arise, discuss external market and policy enablers and payoff trajectories
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Speaker: Valerie Karplus, Associate Director, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
• See the Strategic Landscape Clearly: Gain insight into the escalating industrial cyber threat environment and its implications for global operations and competitiveness.
• Enable Secure Transformation: Explore how integrating cybersecurity into your innovation roadmap protects critical assets without slowing business momentum.
• Drive Resilient Growth: Learn how cross-functional alignment on industrial cybersecurity strengthens operational resilience, safeguards reputation, and supports long-term value creation.
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Speaker: Dawn Cappelli, Director of Operational Technology –Cyber Emergency Readiness Team, Dragos
• Streamline operations through targeted divestitures or carve-out IPOs, segmenting assets by business line or geography, to create distinct equity stories that appeal to specific investor mandates (e.g., ESG focus) and clearly demonstrate the results of targeted investments like decarbonization.
• Demonstrate underlying economic returns and cost savings in prior and future green investments in operations to maintain investor confidence and validate the long-term business case for sustainability initiatives.
• Secure investor funding support instead of relying on volatile government grants to ensure the financial viability and completion of essential pilot projects.
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Moderator: Charlie Schliebs, Managing Director, Stone Pier Capital
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Speakers:
Ajay Kukreja, Vice President, Torex Gold Resources
Vamsi Alla, Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase
Douglas Bickmore, SVP Direct Equipment Finance, DLL Group
• Mitigate the increasing costs of new plant construction in North America driven by rising material prices to make essential domestic capacity expansion financially feasible.
• Discover how to facilitate the building of new domestic plants to meet growing demand and curb increasing reliance on imports.
• Implement strategic global sourcing for capital project components, such as onshoring skid fabrication to reduce high construction expenses and leverage specialized expertise.
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Alexander Vasilyev, VP, Finance, North Star BlueScope
• Plan the time-consuming and capital-intensive process of increasing domestic production capacity to meet potential demand increases driven by import tariffs.
• Build supply chain resilience to navigate future trade disputes and shifting supply/demand dynamics to make informed strategic decisions about investment and operations.
• Ensure Technical Readiness and leverage external expertise as needed to meet the specific engineered product demands of manufacturing customers, recognizing steel as more than just a commodity.
• How much of this domestic capacity is aligned with furthering decarbonization goals? And how does this increase the competitiveness of heavy materials?
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Moderator:Â Shiva Kumar, Development and Innovation Director, Responsible Steel
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Speakers:
David Perkins, SVP – Sustainability, Heidelberg Materials
Anna Siefken, North America Policy & Markets Lead, Long Duration Energy Storage Council
José Fonrouge, Global Sustainability Senior Director, Ternium
Scott Kelly, Vice President of Technical Services, Ozinga
• Engage the full value chain, from raw material suppliers to end-customers, in transparent dialogue to collaboratively address and equitably share the substantial investment costs required for deep decarbonization.
• Resolve the critical shortage of scaled supply and collection infrastructure for alternative feedstocks (recycled content, bio-based materials) to make widespread adoption of lower-carbon materials technically and economically feasible for manufacturers.
• Address the challenge of limited downstream customer willingness to pay a premium for sustainability attributes, particularly in non-consumer-facing markets, to build stronger business cases and potentially identify necessary market mechanisms or incentives that spur investment.
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Speaker: Kirstie Dabbs, Senior Vice President of Sustainability Consulting, Governance & Accountability Institute
• Hear about strategies to maximize revenue through Demand Response (DR) while powering your facilities during a period of increasing energy prices.
• Find the blueprint to partnerships which will help ease implementation of curtailment strategies for DR events
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Speaker: Aaron Pohly, Director of Sales, Enersponse
Whether the disruptions are volatile, uncertain, and complex issues like Energy Transition, AI, fluid geopolitics, and more, identify the robust actions that make strategic sense to serve markets while cutting both costs and carbon emissions across your supply chains.
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Speaker: Chris Gassman, Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Business, University of Pittsburgh
Invite Only – Private Workshop: Turning Carbon into Currency: The Future of CCUS Monetization with Halliburton
• Monetize carbon through tax credits and markets: understand how 45Q tax credits are shaping the U.S. low-carbon economy and how to strategically leverage environmental carbon markets to drive financial success.
• Overcome cross-sector monetization challenges: examine the unique barriers to CCUS monetization across industries and explore how to navigate regulatory uncertainty, infrastructure gaps, and verification hurdles.
• Roadmap solutions for scalable investment: discover frameworks and tools to de-risk CCUS investments, ensure transparency, and build secure, profitable business models through technology integration, policy alignment, and trusted partnerships.
Speakers:
Glenn Wilson, Advisor, Coastal Bend LNG
Zainub Noor, Director of Low Carbon Solutions, Halliburton
• Source economically viable and scalable supplies of cleaner fuels, such as sustainable biodiesels or emerging e-fuels, in order to displace fossil diesel usage in heavy mobile equipment and reduce Scope 1 emissions.
• Navigate the current limitations in alternative fuel availability and infrastructure, particularly in developing markets like the US, to create practical pathways for fleet transition without compromising operations.
Speaker: Valerie Karplus, Associate Director, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
