Rice University Hosts Annual Sustainability Carbon HUB Conference

Rice University will host its 2024 Carbon Hub Annual Meeting May 6-7. The two-day event set to take place on campus promises a dynamic lineup of panel discussions, technical sessions, networking opportunities and roundtable meetings with experts from industry, academia and foundations.

Among the notable speakers scheduled to participate include Scott Wright, president of advanced materials division at the Huntsman Corp.; Ed Ganja, vice president of catalyst and analytical technology at Shell; Dhaval Shah, general manager for corporate technology and innovation at SABIC; and Jim Sledzik, director of strategic ventures at Saudi Aramco.

Day 1 kicks off at the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies with panel discussions on the key role of private-public partnerships to advance the carbon transition, the big science questions and progress toward commercialization of carbon materials. Following this, attendees can expect technical updates from Rice Carbon Hub research collaborators with sessions continuing into the next morning. Day 1 concludes with a networking dinner at the Rice Faculty Club .

Day 2 at the Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science will see further technical overviews in the morning, followed by an afternoon roundtable discussion on sustainability challenges for materials led by collaborators from the Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy .

The full agenda and list of speakers can be found here . Registration is open via this link, with tickets priced at $150 per person for the two-day event including the networking dinner or $100 per person for May 6 only.

In addition to the annual meeting, the Carbon Hub is co-sponsoring a free follow-up event on campus — the 2024 Japan-U.S. Junctions Workshop May 8 at the O’Connor Building. The workshop will feature technical presentations from faculty members studying nanotube materials.