Agenda

2025 Agenda

Conference Opens

5:00 PM

Registration Opens

Session 1

8:00 a.m.

Circularity Gap Report, TBD

8:45 a.m.

Keynote Address 2

9:30 a.m.

Keynote Q&A

10:00 a.m.

BREAK

Engineering Sources of Sustainable Carbon

Design of Circular Product Systems

10:30 a.m.

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

10:50 a.m.

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

10:30 a.m.

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

11:10 a.m.

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

11:50 a.m.

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

12:00 p.m.

Networking Lunch

Session 2

1:30 p.m.

Industry Panel (Moderated by Eric Dobson; Coca-Cola, Genera, UL, others?)

2:00 p.m.

TBD

3:00 p.m.

BREAK

3:30 p.m.

Working Group 1: Survey of Current Gaps

Working Group 2: Survey of Current Gaps

5:00 p.m.

Reconvene and Report Out

5:30 p.m.

Close of Day 1

Evening Session

6:00 p.m.

Reception and Poster Session

6:30 p.m.

Dinner and Keynote 3

8:00 p.m.

Poster Session, Cont’d

Session 3

Building the Future: Education & Workforce Development

Sustainable Manufacturing: Industry Challenges and Collaborative Solutions

8:20 a.m.

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

8:40 a.m.

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

9:00 a.m.

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

9:20 a.m.

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

9:40 a.m.

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

10:00 a.m.

BREAK

Networking for Innovation: Collaboration Opportunities in CBS

Computational Applications in CBS

10:30 a.m.

Speaker 1

Joe Sagues, Road2Removal

10:50 a.m,.

Speaker 2

TBD, The Potential for AI/ML to Contribute Solutions

11:10 a.m,.

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

11:30 a.m,.

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

11:50 a.m.

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

Lunch

12:00 p.m.

Keynote Address 4

Session 4

1:30 p.m.

Working Group: Topic 3 TBD

Working Group: Topic 4 TBD

2:00 p.m.

The Money Panel

3:30 p.m.

BREAK

4:00 p.m.

Reconvene and Report Out

3:30 p.m.

Close of CBS in the South: The Blueprint for Progress

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