Advanced Materials Show announces 2026 agenda

The Advanced Materials Show, scheduled to take place July 8-9, 2026, at the NEC in Birmingham, England, UK, has announced the full conference agenda. The event will follow six tracks: AI and Machine Learning for Materials; Defence and Aerospace; Materials Energy and Batteries; Materials Testing and Characterisation; The Advanced Materials Landscape: Current State and Direction; and The Ceramic Additive Opportunity.

The Advanced Materials Show is a free-to-attend exhibition and conference for cutting-edge materials innovation. The event intends to bring together the full materials ecosystem, from research and product development through to manufacturing and commercial application. It looks to showcase the latest materials technologies, including nanomaterials, composites, polymers, ceramics, coatings and more.

The conference agenda is as follows:

Day One

• Keynote: Closing the Gap Between Discovery and Production: The Scaling Challenge in Advanced Materials – Simon Kenney, CEO, Goodfellow
• The Advanced Carbons Industry in 2026 — Markets, Materials and Momentum – Terrance Barkan CAE, Executive Director, Advanced Carbons Council
• Opening Panel: An Industrialisation Exemplar – The AMRICC Centre: Showcasing How To Do Public – Private Partnerships Right – Dr Cathryn Hickey, CEO, AMRICC; Jason Farrell, Associate Director, Eden Nuclear & Environment Ltd; Dr Mikael Khan, Managing Director, Wolfmet (M&I Materials); Lynne Porter, Programme Director, SIPF UKRI – Research England; Dr Jafar Daji, Technical Manager, Parkinson-Spencer Refractories
• Panel: From Lab to Business: Navigating the Journey from Materials Breakthroughs to Real-World Impact – Prof David Knowles, CEO, Henry Royce Institute; Viju Vasishta, Sustainable Materials Lead, PA Consulting; Brenna Howley, Associate, Gill Jennings & Every LLP; Dr Kalyan Sarma, Vice President, Commercialisation – Climate, Environment & Sustainability, Ploughshare
• Panel: Investing in Ceramic AM: Path, Risk and Reward – Gerardo Igler, Business Developer, Lithoz GmbH; Dr Ehsan Sabet, Founder & CEO, Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence
• Catalytic Effects on CNT Production and Quality – Emma Shore-Williams, Disruptive Technology Manager, INNOSPEC
• Keynote: Ceramics Industry 4.0 Showcase: New Products & Services from the Midlands – Dr Gilda Gasparini, Director of Programmes, Lucideon; Jonathan Phillips, Leader – Global Materials Centre of Excellence, Morgan Advanced Materials
• Introducing Graphene Paste: A New Format for Industrial Adoption – Tom Eldridge, Director of Business Development, Hydrograph
• Panel: Extending Asset Life: What’s Possible Today – Dr Mandar Thakare, Associate Director, bp; Prof Enrique Galindo-Nava, Associate Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, UCL; Prof Robert Wood, Professor of Surface Engand Tribology, University of Southampton
• Panel: Ceramic Additive Manufacturing Innovations – Dr Louis Masters, CEO, Hydra Manufacturing; Charlie Clark, Project Management, 3D Ceram Sinto
• Fireside Chat: Advanced Ceramics Solutions in an Ever-Harsher World – Tony Kinsella, Chief Executive Officer, Lucideon; Prof David Knowles, CEO, Henry Royce Institute
• Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG): Bringing Products to Market – Craig Nicol, Founder & CEO, GMG
• Keynote: Deploying High-Productivity L-PBF of Ti-6Al-4V for Aerospace Components – Dr Ben Haigh, Senior Research Engineer, GKN Aerospace
• Panel: Advanced Materials for Battery Pack Design – Patrick Frey, Segment Manager Transportation, Performance Materials Europe, BASF
• Methane-Derived Graphene in Coatings: Performance, Cost, and Scale – Ellie Galanis, Commercial Director, Levidian
• Keynote: Advanced Materials: A Defence Perspective – Dan Anders-Brown, Head of Growth: Future Technology and Advanced Materials, QinetiQ
• Advanced Materials for Challenging High-Performance Engineering Applications – Dr Andreas Frehn, Director of Technology & Innovation and Technical Marketing EMEA, Materion Brush GmbH
• Stereolithography of Zirconia 8Y: an Innovative Solution to Increase Clean Hydrogen Productivity – Charlie Clark, Project Management, 3D Ceram Sinto
• Panel: Advanced Materials for Aerospace: Closing the Gap – Dr Fran Synnott, Technologist – Structures, Manufacturing and Materials, Aerospace Technology Institute

Day Two

• Keynote: The National Materials Innovation Programme – Caroline France, Head of Advanced Materials & Robotics Policy, DSIT; David Elson, Head of Materials and Manufacturing, Innovate UK
• Keynote: Improved Material Performance Using Rotating, Continuous Furnaces in Pilot and Production Scale – Tom Gould, Managing Director, Verder Scientific
• Panel: IMPACT Beyond the Hype – Tangible Real-World Benefits from the Application of Data Science & Computational Techniques Enya Collier, Defence & Nuclear Product Marketing Manager, Lucideon; Richard Stone, Head of Digital, Capula; Viktor Zólyomi, Computational Scientist, STFC Hartree Centre; Dr Dominic Wadkin-Snaith, Data Science – Business Development Manager, AMRICC; Lucy Smith, Head of Commercial and Co-Director, FISC, Glass Futures
• Panel: Advanced Characterisation for Materials Performance – Dr Jennifer Ferguson, Applications Manager, Renishaw; Arya Hakimian, Application Scientist, C-Therm Technologies
• Panel: AI and Advanced Materials: Accelerating Discovery, Development and Production – Prof Javaid Butt, Professor of Manufacturing and Product Design, Birmingham City University; Dr Baber Saleem, Research Associate & SIPF Project Manager, University of Leicester
• Keynote: Advanced Characterisation – Experiments and Insight for Industry – Dr Simon Jacques, Managing Director, Finden
• Evidence-Driven Material Development by Multiscale In-Situ Imaging, 3D Characterisation and Modelling – Dr Xuekun Lu, Senior Lecturer in Green Energy, Queen Mary University of London
• Panel: Advanced Materials Testing: New Methods, Better Outcomes – Thomas Strohmer, QATM: Sales & Product Management Hardness Testing, Verder Scientific

Those interested in attending can register here.

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