10:30 - 11:00

Welcome and outlook: Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
Keynote by Christiane Rohleder, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), Germany
Introduction: Ingemar Bühler, Managing Director Plastics Europe Deutschland and Representative of the exhibitors’ advisory board
Official opening by the K-Fair organisers, statements by

• Ulrich Reifenhäuser, Chairman, K Fair Exhibitors Committee, CEO Reifenhäuser Group
• Erhard Wienkamp, Managing Director Operative Trade Fair Business, Messe Düsseldorf
• Ralf Düssel, Chair Plastics Europe Deutschland and Senior Vice President / General Manager High Performance Polymers, EVONIK

11:00 - 12:00

Keynote speech “State of the World” by Ilham Kadri, CEO, Solvay
Moderated fire-side chat: The great transition: An industry becoming climate neutral

• Martin Stuchtey, Founder and Managing Partner, SYSTEMIQ Ltd.
• Lucrèce Foufopoulos-De Ridder, Vice President, Plastics Europe and Executive Vice President Polyolefins, Circular Economy and Innovation & Technology, Borealis AG

 Introduction, moderation and wrap-up: Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe

13:30 - 14:00

Plastics experiments show

Wolfram N. Diener

14:00 - 15:00

Panel session: Implementing the change - challenges and opportunities faced by the plastics industry

With members of Reshaping Plastics Report Steering Committee or Expert Panel:

• Martin Jung, Member of the Steering Board, Plastics Europe and President Performance Materials, BASF
• Kim Ragaert, Professor - Chair of Circular Plastics, University of Maastricht
• Joan Marc Simon, Executive Director, Zero Waste Europe
• Werner Bosmans, Policy Officer, DG ENVI, European Commission

Dr. Wilma Dewald

16:00 - 16:30

Plastics experiments show

Ulrich Schuster

10:30 - 12:00

Fireside chat (10:30-11:00): “What’s next on the industry’s circularity paths”

• André Bardow, Professor for Energy and Process Systems Engineering, ETH Zürich
• Katharina Schlegel, Director Strategic Council, End-of-Life and Circularity, Plastics Europe

Panel discussion: “How politics support the industry on its journey to become circular”

• William Neale, Adviser for Circular Economy, DG ENVI, European Commission 
• Henning Wilts, Director Circular Economy, Wuppertal Institute
• Benoît Hennaut, President EuPC, Chairman and Managing Director Herige Group
• Ton Emans, President Plastics Recyclers Europe, Director Group Recycling
• Sebastien Bariller, Vice President Polymers / “Low Carbon Solutions”, TotalEnergies

Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck

13:00-14:00

Plastics experiments show

14:00-15:00

Panel discussion “Let’s go circular - strategic approaches to transforming the industry”

• Mark Williams, Member of the Plastics Europe Steering Board and Vice President Europe, SABIC
• Lars Boerger, Vice President Renewable Polymers & Chemicals, Neste
• Manfred Hackl, CEO, EREMA
• Franco Meropiali, Member of the Plastics Europe Steering Board and Head of Polyethylene and Intermediates Business, Versalis
• Toshio Shiwaku, President & CEO, Polyplastics Co., Ltd.

Introduction and closing: Katharina Schlegel, Director Strategic Council, End-of-Life and Circularity, Plastics Europe
Moderation by Carina Bastuck

16:00 - 16:30

Plastics experiments show

Dr. Wilma Dewald

10:30 - 12:30

Two-part panel discussion

Part 1: Circularity - opportunity or threat? (45 min)

Video address by Kerstin Jorna, Director General, DG GROW, European Commission

• Emma Silver, Global Public Affairs Director, Minderoo Foundation's No Plastic Waste Initiative
• Willemijn Peeters, Founding Director, Searious Business
• Benny Mermans, Vice President Plastics Europe and Vice President Sustainability, Chevron Phillips Chemicals 
• Nicholas Kolesch, Vice President, Projects, Alliance To End Plastic Waste

 10 min break

 Part 2: Does the plastics industry have a future in Europe? (45 min)

• Sabine Pahl, Prof of Urban and Environmental Psychology, Vienna
• Lynette Chung, Chief Sustainability Officer, Covestro
• Ralf Düssel, Chair Plastics Europe Deutschland and Senior Vice President / General Manager High Performance Polymers, EVONIK
• NN, Deloitte

Introduction and closing: Sylvie Aitken, Director Communications, Plastics Europe
Moderation by Carina Bastuck

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

16:30-17:00

Plastics experiments show

10:30-11:30

Digitalisation - a game changer for a circular plastics industry?

Introductory remarks by:

• Christian Hopmann, Professor - Head of the institute at IKV Institute for Plastics Processing, RWTH Aachen University of Technology

Best practices from industry:

• Digital highway towards the circular economy, Christian Schiller, Co-Founder & CEO cirplus
• HolyGrail - digital markers for better sorting recycling, Gian de Belder, principal scientist and packaging technologist, Procter & Gamble
• OPC UA, Michael Wittmann, Managing Director, Wittmann Group

 Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

16:00-16:30

Plastics experiments show

10:30 - 11:30

Plastics for a sustainable world - how the material helps other sectors to become climate neutral

Best practices from industry:

• Driver for the energy transition: Markus Mingenbach, Global Vice President, PU Specialties, Covestro
• Sustainable building and construction: Andreas Hartleif, CEO, VEKA AG
• Clean mobility: Lukas Schröer, Senior Sustainability Manager, LANXESS Performance Materials
• Biobased raw material - Hemp: Martin Wittau, Managing Director, Linnaeus Kompetenzzentrum Hanf GmbH

 Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

16:00-16:30

Plastics experiments show

Wolfram N. Diener

10:30 - 12:00

Fossil based feedstock – no, thanks?

Best practices from industry

• The role of biobased plastics in reaching a carbon neutral circular economy, Walmir Soller, CEO, Braskem
• Closing the recycling gap – how key technologies like chemical and mechanical recycling need to work together, Bernhard von Vacano, Head of ChemCycling, BASF
• Carbon2Chem – CO2 emissions for plastics intermediates, Stefanie Eiden, Covestro
• Holistic approaches for a circular plastics economy, Patrick Glöckner, Head of Global Circular Plastics Program, EVONIK
• R-cycle - European digital product pass, Benedikt Brenken, Director, R-Cycle Initiative, Reifenhäuser Group

 Introduction and moderation by Carina Bastuck

13:00-14:00

WAK Award Ceremony (DE)

Ceremony of the prizes awarded by the “Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis Kunststofftechnik” / Scientific Alliance of Plastics Technology (WAK)

15:00-16:00

EU value chain platforms - enablers for circular progress

Introductory remarks by:

• Marco ten Bruggencate, President Plastics Europe and Commercial VP EMEA, DOW

 Best practices:

• Thomas Hülsmann, Managing Director, VinylPlus Deutschland
• Christian Crépet, Executive Director, Petcore Europe
• Jens Kathmann, Secretary General, Styrenics Circular Solutions
• Paolo Bochicchio, Secretary General, PCEP

 Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck

16:30-17:00

Plastics experiments show

Wolfram N. Diener

10:30 - 12:30

Keynote on crises & opportunities

• Marco ten Bruggencate, President Plastics Europe and Commercial VP EMEA, DOW

• Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
• David Katz, Founder and CEO, The Plastic Bank
• Marco ten Bruggencate, President Plastics Europe and Commercial VP EMEA, DOW

• Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
• Ingemar Bühler, Managing Director, Plastics Europe Deutschland

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

16:30-17:00

Plastics experiments show

Wolfram N. Diener