Event
16 Apr 2024 - 17 Apr 2024

Go Circular conference 2024

About the conference

Go Circular is a business-focused conference where participants have discussions around the main plastics circularity challenges and is the perfect place to start building plastic circularity collaborations. It covers the entire plastics circular economy value chain starting from petrochemicals companies to brand owners. This year's edition will take place on 16-17 April in Cologne, Germany.

Site visit

In addition to the conference, on the 18th of April participants can join an exciting, guided tour to the Brightlands Chemelot Campus and Chemelot Industrial Park, an innovation hotspot in the heart of the largest chemical industry cluster in Europe, where attendees can see the processes of sorting, waste management, and chemical recycling.

The speaker lineup this year includes:

  • THOMAS PHILIPON, CEO TOTALENERGIES CORBION
  • CARLOS MONREAL, President & CEO PLASTIC ENERGY
  • BAHAR KOYUNCU, Senior Policy Officer, ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
  • VIBEKE KROHN, SVP, Head of TOMRA Textiles, TOMRA
  • LEON DE BRUYN, President & CEO, LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY
  • MANFRED RENNER, Head of Institute, FRAUNHOFER UMSICHT
  • PRANAV GOENKA, Senior Advisor & Co-Chair, Recycling Solutions, ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE
  • FRANS STOKMAN, Executive Director, CEFIC
  • FERNANDO RODRÍGUEZ-MATA, Director General, NEW EUROPEAN REUSE ASSOCIATION
  • AXEL DARUT, Public Affairs Associate, MINDEROO FOUNDATION
  • ROMANE COLLEU, European Affair Advisor, CITEO
  • PAULA SANABRIA LUQUE, Senior Director, EMEAI Marketing & Commercial Development, LYONDELLBASELL
  • GOETZ ERHARDT, Senior Managing Director, ACCENTURE
  • ALBA SANTMARTI, R&D Manager, Packaging Sustainability, HENKEL

The event is supported by Lummus Technology, TOMRA, Circularise, Interzero Plastics Recycling, Cargill, Gneuss Kunststofftechnik, Port of Rotterdam, Brightlands, ExxonMobil, ILF Consulting Engineers, Europen, Impact Hub Berlin, Lux Research, Frost and Sullivan, Expra, Circle Economy, Cefic and many others.

Event website and registration: https://globuc.com/go-circular/

Go Circular Business Summit is organised by Globuc, an international event management company based in London. Globuc runs business events focusing on energy transition, digitalisation, circular economy, petrochemicals and refining.