Material Challenges in Developing a Sustainable Metal Processing Infrastructure

Invited Speakers:

• Mike Molnar – Director of the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, “Sustainability and Recycling in Advanced Manufacturing Strategy”
• Diane Bauer, Ph.D. – Deputy Director, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), “DOE’s 2023 Critical Materials Assessment”
• Brian Bliss – General Manager, Association of Iron and Steel Technologies (AIST), “AIST Roadmap for Iron and Steel Manufacturing: Revolutionizing U.S. Global Leadership for a Sustainable Industrial Supply Chain - Overview and Status Update”
• Guillaume Lambotte, Ph.D. – Chief Scientist, Boston Metal, “Molten Oxide Electrolysis - How to Decarbonize Steelmaking and Transform How Metals Are Made”
• Marshall Jinlong Wang – Manager of Sustainability Programs, The Aluminum Association, “Pathway to Net Zero: A Decarbonization Roadmap for the North American Aluminum Industry”
• David L. Wagger, Ph.D. – Chief Scientist / Director of Environmental Management, Recycled Materials Association, “Recycling Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals: Challenges, Opportunities, and Potential Research Directions”
• Professor Danielle Cote, Ph.D. – Co-director, MatR: Materials Reimagined, Sustainability of Metal AM Processes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, “Approaches towards Sustainable Large Scale Metal Additive Manufacturing”
• Professor Brajendra Mishra, Ph.D. – Director, Metal Processing Institute and NSF CR3 Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, “Sustainability of Aluminum Production: Environmental Management of Bauxite Residue”
• Elisa Alonso, Ph.D. – U.S. Geological Survey, “Challenges in Processing Infrastructure for Mineral Commodities and how it impacts Criticality”
• Elise Goldfine, Ph.D. – ARPA-e Fellow, U.S. Department of Energy, “The ARPA-E ROSIE Program: Innovative Methods for Decarbonizing Iron and Steel Production”
• George Luckey, Ph.D.  – Manager, Advanced Metal Technology Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford, “Perspectives on Decarbonizing Automotive Grade Structural Metals”
• Paul Mason – President, Thermo-Calc Software Inc., “The Role of CALPHAD-Based Tools in Developing a Sustainable Metal Processing Infrastructure”
• Alex Plotkowski, Ph.D. – Senior R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Lab, “Sustainable Alloy Design for Aluminum High Pressure Die Casting”
• Corby Anderson, Ph.D. – Director, Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy, Colorado School of Mines, “The Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy - 50 Years of Success”
• Alan Luo, Ph.D. – The Donald D. Glower Chair in Engineering, Ohio State University, “Development of recycled aluminum alloys and sustainable manufacturing processes: The role of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) tools”
• Robert Sanders, Ph.D., Senior Technical Advisor, Novelis Global Research and Technology, “Barriers to Raising Recycled Content in Wrought Aluminum Alloys”
• Carelyn Campbell, Ph.D., Group Leader, Thermodynamics and Kinetics, NIST, “Data to Support Sustainable Manufacturing”
• Zi-Kui Liu, Ph.D., Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, “Data to Support Sustainable Manufacturing”
• David Leigh, General Manager, Steel Decarbonization, Rio Tinto, “BioIron™ – The Development of a Low CO₂ Emissions Ironmaking Process Utilizing Raw Biomass as a Reductant and Microwaves as an Energy Source”
• Kip Findley, Ph.D., Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, “The Role of Steel Research and Development on Sustainable Manufacturing”
• Cody McIntyre, Engineering Manager – Salvage Development Remanufacturing Division, Caterpillar Inc.

Lodging:

Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg

Address: 620 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, MD 20877