Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supply Chain Initiative

Watch our recordings of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supply Chain Initiative 2024. Bringing together over 500 global players from industry, academia, government, investors and NGOs from across the supply chain.

Event Details
When

09/05/2024

09.00 - 17.00

Where

London

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    • 28:25 Welcome – Michelle Carter, Head of Transport, Innovate UK Business Connect
    • 34:00 Welcome & UK SAF Policy Development – Anthony Browne, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport
    • 52:25 UK SAF Policy – Hazel Schofield, Deputy Head of Low Carbon Fuels, Department for Transport
    • 1:13:10 Global SAF Investment Analysis – Michelle Carter, Head of Transport & Harriet Hole, Head of Investment, Innovate UK Business Connect
    • 1:47:28 Industry Keynote: 100% SAF Transatlantic Flight – Luke Ervine, Head of Sustainability, Virgin Atlantic
    • 2:15:55 Jet Zero Council SAF Delivery Group – Leigh Hudson, Sustainable Fuels & Carbon Manager, IAG & Deputy JZC SAFDG Chair
    • 2:32:50 UK SAF Clearing House – Chris Lewis, Director, UK SAF Clearing House, The University of Sheffield
    • 4:17:55 Industry Keynote: Mark Bentall, Head of Research & Technology Airbus
    • 4:45:00 Session 2 – Carbon Removals to Negate Residual Emissions. Moderator: Leigh Hudson, Sustainable Fuels & Carbon Manager, International Airlines Group. Panellists: Gabrielle Walker, co-Founder, Cur8; Solange Baena, UK Lead & National Representative, Airbus; Sanna O’Connor-Morberg, Senior Science & Strategy Manager, Carbon Direct; Paul Davies, Director, Coalition for Negative Emissions
    • 6:08:06 Welcome – Steve Wilkinson, CEO, Avioxx
    • 6:09:35 Industry Keynote: Firefly: A new pathway from sewage to SAF – James Hygate, Chief Executive Officer, Firefly
    • 6:28:43 Scale and Potential of UK Feedstocks – Alastair Blanshard, Director Sustainable Aviation, ICF
    • 7:01:10 The future market for UK’s waste fats and oils – Adam Baisley, Chief Commercial Officer, Olleco
    • 7:20:55 Wrap-up and Day 1 Close – Michelle Carter, Head of Transport, Innovate UK Business Connect
    • 8:10 Session 1 – Investor Roundtable
    • 1:39:13 Session 2 – Insurance Roundtable
    • 2:52:15 Session 3 – Founder Perspectives on Raising Finance
    • 15:00 Welcome – Michelle Carter, Head of Transport, Innovate UK Business Connect
    • 16:20 Industry Keynote – Tom Byrne, Head of Net Zero, British Airways
    • 49:00 Session 1 – Department for Transport Funded Projects Showcase Moderator: Michelle Carter, Head of Transport, Innovate UK Business Connect
    • 49:39 Jet – AB2L : Biomass to SAF Demonstrator – Martin Atkins, CTO, Abundia Global Impact Group
    • 1:01:30 Advancing Sustainable Aviation via Power-to-Liquid Direct Air Capture – Alasdair Lumsden, Director & Co-founder, Carbon Neutral Fuels
    • 1:09:24 OXEFUEL Biogenic CO2 & H2 to SAF – Andrew Symes, CEO, OXCCU
    • 1:17:18 Lighthouse Green Fuels – Noaman Al Adhami, UK Country Head, Alfanar
    • Energy Session 2 – Department for Transport Funded Projects Showcase Moderator: Michelle Carter, Head of Transport, Innovate UK Business Connect (we apologise for the sound issues at the start of this session)
    • 2:06:10 Project NorthPoint – Fuelling Aviation from Waste – Thanos Sotiriadis, Project Manager, Fulcrum BioEnergy
    • 2:14:23 Altalto Immingham – Neville Hargreaves, VP Waste to Fuels, Velocys
    • 2:25:07 Project Speedbird – Patrick Smith, Strategic Development Director, Nova Pangaea Technologies
    • 2:31:00 Project Dragon:​ Ready for Take-off? – Greg Archer, European Policy Director, LanzaTech
    • 4:12:40 Industry Keynote: Brian Moran, Chief Sustainability Officer, Boeing
    • 4:54:13 Session 3 – Department for Transport Funded Projects Showcase. Moderator: Michelle Carter, Head of Transport, Innovate UK Business Connect. Project Naboo – Andy McNeill, Business Development Manager (UK), Arcadia E-Fuels
    • 4:59:00 CarbonShift Power-to-Liquid SAF – Austin Willis, CEO, Willis Lease Finance Corporation
    • 5:10:18 Zero’s Synthetic SAF Programme – Paddy Lowe, Founder & CEO, Zero
    • 5:43:18 Keynote Address: Shaun Harris CBE, Director Support and Chief Engineer, Royal Air Force
    • 6:16:43 Session 4 – Flightpath to 100% SAF. Moderator: Joanna Bauldreay, Bauldreay Jet Fuel Consulting Ltd. Setting the scene on 100% SAF – Joanna Bauldreay
    • 6:20:08 OEM perspective on 100% SAF – Alastair Hobday, Associate Fellow, Rolls-Royce, David Parmenter, Technical Lead – Fuels & Additives, Airbus, JP Belieres, Technical Fellow – Propulsion Systems Division: Engines & Fuels, Boeing
    • 6:43:51 Rationale for 100% SAF & progress at the ASTM Task Forces on 100% drop-in & 100% non-drop-in SAF – Panel Discussion
    • 7:00:57 Wrap-up – Michelle Carter, Head of Transport, Innovate UK Business Connect
    • 2:00 Session 1 – The Challenges of Integrating the SAF Supply Chain at Scale
    • 1:23:57 Session 2 – Scaling Power-to-Liquids (PtL) with Nuclear Energy
    • 2:34:51 Session 3 – Fuel Pathways & Modelling Fuel Properties

The playlist above contains recordings from all four sessions: click on each title in the list above to expand and see the individual session links. Full video list:

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Overview

Sustainable aviation fuel is part of the solution to deliver cleaner aviation and this conference aims to consolidate all the elements to drive production and commercialisation.

As UK’s only dedicated SAF conference to bring together the whole supply chain, we aim to drive collaboration and knowledge exchange on topics, including:

  • Government and Industry Initiatives
  • Fuel Approval
  • Carbon Removal
  • Policy Developments
  • Department for Transport Funded Projects Showcase
  • Jet Zero Council
  • Commercialisation and Investment
  • Feedstocks

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