Conference programme

Day One: Tuesday 20 September

10:00 - 10:05hrs Welcome to the Sustainable Steel Strategies Summit 2022 by Matthew Moggridge, editor of Steel Times International and programme director of the conference.

10:10 - 1031hrs Opening Keynote: Low Carbon Steel Production in the USA - Proven Technology and Proven Results by Philip Bell, president of the Steel Manufacturers Association.

10:31-1052hrs Options to increase the sustainability of EAF steelmaking by Dr.-Ing Thomas Echterhof, director at the Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

10:52 -11:11hrs Clean Steel Partnership - the accelerator towards Sustainable Steel Production in Europe by Klaus Peters, secretarygeneral, ESTEP; Enrico Malfa, research and development director, Tenova; and Johannes Rieger, area manager (raw materials and metallurgical processes) at K1-Met.

11:35 - 11:58hrs Steel and iron ore’s decarbonization roadmap in a 2050 net-zero scenario by Isha Chaudhary, principal analyst, steel and raw material markets, and Mihir Vora, principal analyst, steel and raw material markets, Wood Mackenzie.

12:00 - 12:20hrs Defossilization – Through the Looking Glass by Dr Sara Hornby, founder and president, Global Strategic Solutions.

12:20 - 12:38hrs| Fundamental Research for Decarbonizing the Steel Industry by professor Zushu Li, Advanced Steel Research Centre, WMG, University of Warwick, UK.

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12:40 - 12:51hrs Iron and Steelmaking – Transformation for Sustainability by Dr. Rizwan Janjua, head of technology, World Steel Association.

LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK

14:15 - 14:37hrs Unlocking green steel – how the UK can reinvigorate, decarbonize and futureproof the steel industry by Marian d’Auria, global head of risk and sustainability, GFG Alliance.

14:40 -14:57hrs Responsible Steel – building a more sustainable steel industry by Annie Heaton, CEO, Responsible Steel.

15:00 - 15:11hrs How Iron Ore Companies Plan to Decarbonize their Mining Trucks Fleet by Stanislav Zinchenko, chief executive officer, GMK Center, Ukraine-based industrial think tank.

15:15 - 15:25hrs The importance of trust for the adoption of machine learning in steel, by Berk Birand, founder and CEO, FeroLabs. [This is a change from the originally advertised presentation].

15:25 -15:45hrs Decarbonize steel and Ferroalloys while producing sustainable aviation fuels and chemicals by Sanjeev Manocha, business development director , Lanzatech.

15:45 - 16:04hrs AI-drive temperature control at Marienhütte Graz: Energy savings and improved process control by Dr. Thomas Griessacher and Dr. Jan Daldrop, Smart Steel Technologies.

16:05HRS| CONFERENCE CLOSES

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Day Two: Wednesday 21 September

10:00 - 10:20hrs Digitally supported technologies to support sustainable steel production by Dr. Mojca Loncnar, sustainable development project co-ordinator, SIJ Acroni, SIJ Group.

10:20 - 10:39hrs Artificial intelligent operators as an instrument to decrease fuel and electricity consumption, by Boris Voskresenskii, founder of Arcadia Steel.

10:40 - 11:03hrs 21st Century Steel for Packaging by Alexis Van Maercke, secretary-general of the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL).

11:05 - 11:25hrs Crafted Scrap – advanced technology for high quality green steel production by Heiner Guschall, founder and CEO of SICON Germany; Cristiano Tercelli, head of technology and Innovation, Primetals Technologies; and Andreas Melcher, product lifecycle manager, scrap yard automation, electrics and automation, Primetals Technologies.

11:40 - 11:53hrs Hydrogen-ready Energiron : the way to zero GHG emissions by Hertrich Ashton, sales engineer, Danieli Centro Metallics.

12:20 - 12:32hrs Expanded recycled refractory production to reduce the steel industry’s carbon footprint, by Martin Pischler, senior vice president, head of environment/energy at RHI Magnesita.

12:35 -12:51hrs Sustainable steelmaking for the production processes of today and tomorrow by Mukesh Jain, global product manager, Metals Systems Solutions, ABB.

LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK

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14:30 - 14:52hrs Decarbonizing the hot rolling process by Alessandro Della Rocca, business development manager (hydrogen) at Tenova SpA.

15:00 - 15:22hrs 360-degree approach to empower steel production by Dipl-Ing. Gunther Schober, business development at PSI Metals.

16:00 - 1620hrs Hy Stor Energy’s Mississippi Clean Hydrogen Hub – green hydrogen production and storage at scale making green steel a reality today, by Claire Behar, chief commercial officer, Hy Stor Energy.

16:30 - 16:42hrs Carmeuse, the right partner of steelmakers for green and sustainable steel by François Ponchon, European director of innovation and technology, Carmeuse Group.

16:45 - 17:06hrs What needs to happen now to decarbonize steel by Wayne Bridger, UK sales manager for decarbonization and hydrogen applications, BOC.

17:10hrs| CONFERENCE CLOSES