Mohammad Azizur Rahman

Ranabir Pal

Anders Gulliksson

Anders Gulliksson works as R & D Manager at Dafo Vehicle Fire Protection. Anders has over 20 years of experience with fire suppression systems and detection covering large gas extinguishing systems through various specialized local protection applications for industrial and automotive applications. He has been a frequent speaker on various conferences and events and has also been participating in international standardization work within the CEN.

Sandra McClelland,

Sandra McClelland is a Key Account Manager specializing in high performance materials for Solvay Specialty Polymers. With over 25 years of plastics industry experience, Sandra works with major automotive OEMs and global Tier One companies on new applications for automotive specializing in light weighting. She has 6 patents and numerous publications

Sandra is the Chair Emeritus of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) Plastics Division Auto Team.  She is a Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Honored Service Member, is on the SPE Detroit Section Board of Directors managing the education program and currently serves as co-chair of the SPE Auto EPCON engineering plastics conference.  Sandra is located in the Detroit Michigan area.

Karan Bhalla

Karan has been in the plastics industry for more than 15 years and leading the market development activities for Washington Penn Plastics for 6 years in Europe. He is an automotive enthusiast who is always excited to bring newer ideas to market to make better products.

He holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from Purdue University and studied Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Anthony Schiavo

Anthony Schiavo is a Research Director at Lux, and leads the Accelerating Materials Innovation program. Under his leadership, the Accelerating Materials Innovation program covers innovation and technology development that intersect with the future of the chemicals and materials industry, sustainability, digital transformation, and consumer transformation.  His expertise includes future materials like graphene, digital technologies like materials informatics, and challenges like the future of plastic waste. Anthony often is called upon to provide strategic advice and guidance for executives in the automotive, chemicals, and consumer goods industries.

Anthony received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Anthony focused his research activities on biomaterial composites and nanoparticle technology, and ethics.

Amanda Zani

Amanda is a professional with 13 years of experience in the Plastic and Petrochemical Industry, most of them focused on Strategy, Business Intelligence and I&T. Amanda is graduated Mechanical Engineering at USP with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Fundação Getulio Vargas and Executive Education at Columbia Business School. At Braskem since 2008, a Brazilian company, the largest producer of thermoplastics resins in the Americas and the eighth-largest in the world, she have worked in different areas. The most recent responsibility was at Mobility Squad, and now is leading the Lightweight Platform, focusing in the automotive industry.

Jeremy Parkes

Jeremy Parkes is the Global Business Lead in DNV for Electric Vehicles. He is responsible for defining and developing DNV’s services in the EV sector to cement the company’s role as a leader in this fast-developing market. He is also lead author for DNV’s Power Supply and Use companion report to the Energy Transition Outlook https://eto.dnvgl.com. Jeremy has over 20 years’ experience in the transport and renewables industries, beginning his career at Rolls Royce before moving into renewables as head of forecasting and later asset management at DNV and Belltown Power.

Matthew Lumsden

Paul Gallen

Paul has over 25 years experience of leading composites developments in automotive and other sectors. He has contributed to industry roadmaps and programmes for automotive and composite industries over the last 8 years, and played an instrumental role in setting up the Automotive Composite Group within the UK’s Composite Leadership Forum.

Paul strongly believes that composites, used in the right place, can make better products, where multi-functionality, safety or lighter weight provide benefits. Lightweighting alone does not provide a large enough benefit case as we move towards zero-carbon vehicles, and the emphasis has changed towards enabling BEVs and FCEVs.

Paul is Sales Director, Automotive Composites, for Hankuk Composite UK Ltd, who produce a wide range of composite materials optimised for zero-carbon mobility.