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8:00 - 9:00
Welcome coffee

The Gallery and Ladies Smoking Room (First Floor)

9:10 - 10:25
Keynote session – What is aluminium doing to demonstrate its advantage over competing materials?

A small panel of aluminium industry leaders to discuss what has been done – and what more needs to be done – to demonstrate aluminium’s advantages over other materials (e.g., steel, plastics), particularly from a sustainability perspective

Miles Prosser, Secretary General, International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
Ramon Arratia, Chief Sustainability Officer, Ball Corporation
Alok Ranjan, Chief Marketing Officer, Aluminium Business, Vedanta
Renato Bacchi, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Alcoa
John Thuestad, Executive Vice President, Hydro Bauxite & Alumina
Thomas Kampen, Director for Sustainability & Strategy, Novelis Europe
Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, CEO, Emirates Global Aluminium - EGA

10:25 - 11:05
Networking break

The Gallery and Ladies Smoking Room (First Floor)

11:05 - 12:05
Keynote session - Industry sustainability challenges - multi-issue, multi-stakeholder and whole value chain

  • Climate change, circularity, nature and human rights:  these sustainability priorities are critical and inter-related right through the aluminium value chain
  • Challenging 1.5C-aligned decarbonisation pathways to 2050 are mapped out - what breakthroughs are needed?
  • Transitioning to circular economies - what are the financial and structural challenges and opportunities?
  • Science shows that we are living outside planetary boundaries yet half the world's GDP depends on nature - how should the aluminium industry respond?
  • All decision-making affects people - how to integrate a human rights lens in these urgent transformations?

Dr Fiona Solomon, Chief Executive Officer, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
Jelena Aleksić, Lead, Industry Decarbonization, Aluminium and Non-Ferrous Metals, First Movers Coalition, World Economic Forum
Pippa Howard, Chief Nature Strategist, NatureMetrics
Julia Batho, Deputy-CEO, Institute for Human Rights and Business

12:05 - 13:05
Panel discussion – Trade and competitiveness

Matt Aboud, Senior VP Corporate Strategy, Century Aluminum
Alan Price, Partner, International Trade Co-Chair, Wiley Rein LLP
Ken Ash, Director, Ash Global Insights
Dr. Selahattin Armağan Vurdu, General Secretary, Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporters’ Association

14:30 - 15:30
GHG emissions – methods, guidance, tools, and future alignment

At the current rate the aluminium sector will have used up its net zero carbon budget in 10-15 years.

This expert panel will explore ways in which companies all along the value chain (aluminium producers AND consumers) can drive the change required to meet a 1.5 degree future, as well as enablers of and barriers to that change, including:

  • Global decarbonisation and low carbon standards
  • Emerging and evolving regulation, including CBAM
  • Harmonised accounting and reporting methods, as well as diverging approaches
  • Available tools for companies and auditors
  • Emissions data (including scope 3) availability and verification
  • The tension between product level carbon footprinting and corporate accounting
  • Allocation approaches for recycled content, scope 2 grid-related emissions and product portfolios

Chris Bayliss, Climate Change and Decarbonisation Director, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)
Wenjuan Liu, Manager, RMI
Pernelle Nunez, Deputy Secretary General / Director – Sustainability, International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
Sandro Starita, Director Sustainability, European Aluminium

15:30 - 16:00
Networking break

The Gallery and Ladies Smoking Room (First Floor)

16:00 - 17:00
The nexus of legislation, corporate sustainability and supply chain due diligence

 
Laura Dombi, Principal Consultant , DNV
Marieke van der Mijn, Director of Partnerships, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

17:00 - 18:30
Networking Reception

The Gallery and Ladies Smoking Room (First Floor)

8:00 - 9:00
Welcome coffee

The Gallery and Ladies Smoking Room (First Floor)

8:00 - 9:00
Aluminium market outlook

  • CRU’s global aluminium market overview Aluminium
  • Casthouse shapes and value-added products market overview
  • Aluminium semi-finished products market overview.

Paul Williams, Head of Aluminium, CRU
Zaid Aljanabi, Principal Analyst, Aluminium, CRU
Kelly Driscoll, Managing Consultant, Aluminium, CRU
Ross Strachan, Lead Analyst, Aluminium, Primary & Recycled Metal, CRU

9:00 - 9:20
Topic to be announced

Amy Abraham, Vice President Sales Aluminium, Rio Tinto

9:20 - 9:40
Circularity & Decarbonization

Emilio Braghi, Executive Vice President Novelis & President Novelis Europe, Novelis AG

9:40 - 10:00
Case study: A green transition in China’s aluminum industry: China Hongqiao work-in-progress

  • Moving from heavy-carbon, accounting for over 8% of total aluminum sector GHG emissions (in 2020), requires a multi-pronged attack driven by committed management;
  • Energy transition is a key element in early carbon emissions reduction and carbon intensity improvements;
  • Energy and operational efficiency, using best available technology, must be applied to complement the energy transition;
  • Increasing investment in renewable energy and advanced technological solutions;
  • Research and development and innovation are critical factors for continuing progress to the net zero carbon target;
  • Building downstream activities based on lightweighting and the circular economy;
  • Maintaining the core advantages of cluster developments and close commercial relationships with suppliers and customers.

Ron Knapp, Advisor- Office of the Chairman, China Hongqiao Group Limited (HK)

10:00 - 10:20
Aluminium as a ‘Critical Metal’

  • Recent inclusion in the EU Critical Metals Act.
  • Aluminium as a metal that is broadly agreed to be ‘critical’ for the electrification transition, as well as reducing packaging waste and the lightweighting of automotive but lags behind others in ‘critical’ classification.
  • Circularity in Europe (& other markets) is the answer but what are:
  • The implications for global markets (regional supply and demand balance, inclusive of scrap flows)
  • the asks of stakeholders – producers, processors, end-users and Governments; and
  • the next steps for the industry

Jay Hambro, Chief Executive Officer, Verdigris Strategic Ltd

10:35 - 11:05
Networking break

The Gallery and Ladies Smoking Room (First Floor)

11:05 - 12:05
Detailing trends in extrusions, rolled and foil market

  • What is the outlook rolling costs, supply and demand?
  • North American view on Foil - Investments, cathode foil penetration and trade legislation

Rob van Gils, CEO & Managing Partner, Hammerer Aluminium Industries
Paul Warton, Executive Vice President, Hydro Extrusions
Marcus Becker, Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer, Constellium Switzerland AG

12:05 - 13:05
Panel discussion - Outlook, prices & premiums

  • Reviewing production levels globally
  • Assessing the impact of demand developments in cars, cans and construction
  • Predicting future growth in renewable applications and other demand bright spots
  • Forecasting LME and SHFE prices – will Chinese arbitrage continue to drive growth?

Paul Williams, Head of Aluminium, CRU
Shelley Ranii, Director of Global Marketing, Alcoa
Jerome Lucaes, CEO, Fast Forward Zero

13:05 - 14:05
Lunch

The Gallery and Ladies Smoking Room (First Floor) 

Shelley Ranii, Director of Global Marketing, Alcoa

14:05 - 15:05
Panel discussion: Circularity

Improving sorting and alloying segregation to support demand for aluminium scrap in the medium to long-term

Marlen Bertram, Director – Scenarios & Forecasts, International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
Rachel Wiffen, Senior Process Engineer, Innoval Technology
Claudia Trampitsch, CFO, AMAG Austria Metall AG
Rolf Lindbäck, CFO , Speira
Gabriel Carmona Aparicio, Circularity Research Manager, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)
Michael Boyle, President , Owl’s Head Alloys

15:05 - 16:05
Panel discussion: Bauxite and alumina

  • Focus on approvals in Western Australia
  • Falling Bauxite supply in China
  • Refinery margins and alumina price outlook
  • Focus on mergers and acquisitions

16:05 - 18:00
Drinks Reception

The Gallery and Ladies Smoking Room (First Floor)

8:30 - 9:30
Welcome coffee

Hansom Hall (Ground Floor)

9:00 - 9:30
The outlook for industry and the world economy in 2024 and beyond

  • 2024 should see a re-acceleration of the global industrial sector helped by a strong US economy, falling inflation, less volatile energy costs, and investment in key sectors such as green tech and chips.
  • However, in the long term both Europe and China face serious structural challenges.
  • The green transition will become increasingly important for both supply and demand for more and more industrial sectors
Alex Tuckett, Head of Economics, CRU

9:30 - 11:15
Enabling a 1.5 degree aligned aluminium sector - pathways, tools and guidance

In this interactive session, attendees from across the value chain will have the opportunity to explore recently developed and published tools and guidance for a 1.5 degree aligned (net zero) aluminium sector, including:

  • Aluminium Sector GHG Pathways to 2050 (IAI)
  • Aluminium Carbon Footprint Methodology & Specifiers Guide (IAI)
  • Guidelines on Aluminium Scrap Transparency (IAI)
  • Scope 3 Calculation Tool & Guidance (IAI)
  • Entity-Level GHG Pathways Method and Calculation Tool (ASI)
  • Learning Modules on GHG Emissions & Reduction Pathways Method (ASI)
  • Aluminum GHG Emissions Reporting Guidance & Pilot Testing (RMI)
  • Industry training and capacity-building (RMI)
  • Development of a Buyers Scope 3 Handbook (RMI)  

Experts from IAI, ASI and RMI will be on hand to give insights and answer your questions on a variety of issues including GHG accounting methodologies, enablers and barriers to 1.5-degree alignment and the interplay of existing initiatives, standards and approaches.

Chris Bayliss, Climate Change and Decarbonisation Director, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)
Pernelle Nunez, Deputy Secretary General / Director – Sustainability, International Aluminium Institute (IAI)
Wenjuan Liu, Manager, RMI
Hylla Barbosa, Associate - Climate Intelligence Program, RMI

11:15 - 15:00
Networking break

Hansom Hall (Ground Floor)