From Discovery Science to Industrial Application: Industry & Sustainability: What Next? And What's Next?

These events are run termly by the Maxwell Centre and Cambridge Network and are aimed at an industrial audience to highlight cutting edge research with industrial application in the not so distant future.

From Discovery Science to Industrial ApplicationIndustry & Sustainability: What Next? And What's Next?

Prof Steven Evans

Email: se321 at cam dot ac dot uk

This talk will draw from action research with many leading companies and asks what are the leading companies doing in their sustainability actions, how far can they go with their current strategies, and what might the radical future look like?

 

Professor Steve Evans MAE, FIET, FLSW, FIEMA, FRSA, CEng is Director of Research in Industrial Sustainability at the University of Cambridge. After 12 years in industry Steve moved to academia and pioneered many new topics in sustainable business models, eco-efficiency and other topics within industrial sustainability. His research asks ‘how to deliver a sustainable industrial system at the speed and scale that the planet needs?’ and is conducted with leading practitioners such as Toyota, Chanel, Airbus and 100’s of other companies. He started his first research on Circular Economy in 1995. Steve has founded various cleantech start-ups and served as Special Advisor to the UK House of Lords. Steve was recently elected to serve on the Board of Academia Europaea, the eminent European academy.

Agenda

17:15pm: Registration over coffee

5.30pm: Talk, followed by Q&A with Prof Steve Evans

6.30pm: Networking over a glass of wine / juice

7pm: Event closes

 

Registration: https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/events/discovery-science-industrial-application-industry-sustainability-what-next-and-whats-next

 

Venue: The Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE.



The University ‘U’ bus from the city centre / Madingley Road Park and Ride also serves the West Cambridge site and stops outside the centre - see here for details.



Cycle racks available next to /opposite the building.

 

A partnership: Maxwell Centre and Cambridge Network.