A sneak peak for Energy from Waste 2026, with lots more in the pipeline….
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Leaders’ Panel

Circular economy – policies, opportunities, and the role of waste to energy Defra, UK

ETS policy developments and implementation, cost push-through, links to pEPR and the implications for feedstock –

- Stuart Hayward-Higham, Chief Technical Development & Innovation officer, Suez recycling & recovery UK
- Dr Adam Read, Chief External Affairs and Sustainability Officer, Suez recycling & recovery UK
- Steve Palfrey, Chair of ADEPT Waste Group, ADEPT, Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport

ETS – Monitoring, verification and reporting: where has the UK got to so far, and how does that align with the EU ETS?
- Charlotte Rule, Head of Climate and Energy Policy, ESA, Environmental Services Association

Pathways to decarbonisation: CCS development, CDRs and the CCS business model -
- Mike Maudsley, CEO, enfinium
- Olivia Powis, CEO, CCSA
- Jacob Simonsen, Managing Director, Amager Bakke
- Ronald de Vries, Project Manager, Twence
- Daniel Hulbert, Head of CCUS, Low Carbon Contracts Company

CCS – transport and shipping : with most plants not near pipelines, this will become ever more important
- Christine Watts, Business Development Manager, CCS, Associated British Ports, ABP

Growth markets - where waste to energy is being actively considered / developed, or where markets are coming into a more public / private investment model

Poland
- Jakub Bator, Poland
- Paweł Augustyn, Government of Poland
- Szymon Cegielski, Project Director, WtE, PreZero Poland

Canada
- Ashley de Souza, CEO, W2RO, Waste 2 Resource Ontario
- Joe Lyng, General Manager, Emerald EFW, Canada

Portugal
- Diana Tomazio, Innovation & Development, Valorsul

Australia
- Edward Nicholas, CEO Development, Tribe Infrastructure Group

Heat network delivery – decarbonisation of heating with waste to energy and the intersection with ETS

- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, UK Government
- David Carter MD, Heat, Cory Group

Pathways to decarbonisation: plastics recycling – the challenges of developing a robust and durable plastics recycling market; the synergies with ETS, waste to energy and waste to high value outputs
- James McLeary, MD, Biffa Polymers
- Helen Jordan, Sustainability Manager, British Plastics Federation

Technical developments in waste to energy – how to generate improved value at all points in the process
- Simone Malvezzi, Head of Waste to Energy Plants, A2A

Feedstock, capacity, and RDF markets – how does policy ambition feed into capacity and flow reality?
- Robin Baird, CEO, Cireco Scotland
- Andy Jones, Managing Director, Totus Environmental

Plus, essential sessions considering the management of ageing assets, the development of advanced outputs, the role of waste to energy in the management of PFAS, the emerging synergies with data centres, and speakers from our world class sponsors - SLB Capturi, Wasteer, Shoal, Geminor, Kanadevia Inova and many more…