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LUX FORUM TOKYO
Defossilizing Industry: Technology Trends in Decarbonizing Raw Materials and Operations

Location: The Tokyo Station Hotel, 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, 100-0005, Tokyo, Japan

Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2024

Time: 8:30 – 14:00 JST

 

Lunch will be provided.

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Defossilizing Industry: Technology Trends in Decarbonizing Raw Materials and Operations

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About the Event

Industry faces increasing pressure to reduce its carbon footprint, but the journey toward defossilization — eliminating dependence on fossil fuel feedstocks— is just as critical. The shift toward electrification and sustainable alternatives is transforming value chains, driving the search for innovative feedstocks for fuels, chemicals, and materials. 

Join us at the Lux Forum Tokyo to explore the cutting-edge technologies and key drivers for the transition away from fossil-based inputs. This event will equip industry leaders with essential frameworks to make strategic decisions today, ensuring agility and resilience in meeting the growing demand for sustainable products while defossilizing their value chains. 

Leveraging Lux Research’s Decarbonization Radar, this forum will serve as a comprehensive guide for roadmapping and decision-making around technologies aimed at decarbonizing and defossilizing industries. 

Attendees will gain: 

  • Insightful Analysis: A deep dive into the opportunities and risks of moving away from fossil-based inputs, with a focus on the dynamic Asia-Pacific region. 
  • Actionable Case Studies: Learn from real-world examples of successful and unsuccessful strategies in defossilizing raw materials and operations. 
  • Practical Tools: Hands-on guidance on using the Decarbonization Radar to develop robust technology roadmaps for a sustainable future 

Event Details

  • Location: The Tokyo Station Hotel, 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, 100-0005, Tokyo, Japan
  • Date: Tuesday, 12 November 2024
  • Time: 8:30 – 14:00 JST
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Lunch will be provided.

Days until the Lux Forum Tokyo!
Time (JST) Description Presenter(s)
8:30 – 9:00
Welcome & Coffee Networking
9:00 – 9:50

The Future of Carbon — and What Innovation Leaders Should Do About It

As the energy transition unfolds, the supply of fossil-based raw material inputs will dwindle — but the world will still need carbon to make chemicals, plastics, and other physical goods. Where will it all come from? Defossilization is driving strategies in renewable raw material inputs like biomass, captured CO2, and recycled plastics to transform industry inputs.

Companies fear that if they scale renewable routes too early, they will be at a disadvantage. However, acting too late could leave them behind peers who develop supply chains better fit to the future landscape.

How should companies make their bets on the future of chemicals production? If the raw material inputs change, will the product outputs change as well? And when should companies engage with emerging solutions? This presentation will address these questions and provide guidepost for making decisions about a defossilized future.

Kristin Marshall
Associate Research Director at Lux Research

Mukunda Kaushik
Senior Analyst at Lux Research

9:50 – 10:30

Picking the Right Path to Decarbonize: The Lux Decarbonization Radar

To meet upcoming decarbonization targets, companies must identify technologies that can help them decarbonize in the near term while continuing to invest in options that have longer-term potential. Leaders need to evaluate not only emissions reduction potential but assess the challenges of deploying and integrating new technologies into existing large-scale industrial facilities.

This session presents the Lux Decarbonization Radar — a framework that categorizes decarbonization technologies based on their adaptability to existing industrial processes. It then applies the framework to decarbonization strategies for chemicals production and highlights implications for defossilization.

Tiffany Hua
Analyst at Lux Research

Marcian Lee
Analyst at Lux Research

10:30 – 11:00
Networking Break
11:00 – 11:30

Accelerating Human-Centric Innovation in Defossilization with Lux Research

Making use of Lux Research Virtual Research Assistant and Lux Lists to Enable Innovation Teams

To meet the challenges of defossilization, innovation leaders in manufacturing must move quickly and be on the cutting edge. Lux has created the Virtual Research Assistant Luxer and Lux Lists of top innovators, built on research methodologies refined over the last 20 years, which are designed to provide real-time insight and speed progress throughout the entire innovation process. This session highlights the impact of these capabilities and shows how leading organizations are incorporating them into their workflows to save precious time and rapidly separate signals from the noise. Attendees will leave with a strong understanding of how to use the Virtual Research Assistant to accelerate their innovation journey.

Yuki Takashima
Senior Client Experience Manager at Lux Research

Shingo Nishioka
Business Development Manager at Lux Research

11:30 – 12:00

Fireside Chat: Defossilizing Industry — Insights from Industry Leaders

Evolving an innovation team to find opportunities for defossilization requires not just learning new technologies but also new skills, frameworks, and methodologies to deliver both incremental advances and transformational new opportunities. An innovation executive at a company in Lux’s network will sit down with Lux to discuss how they are transforming their team and their innovation frameworks, and how they are making use of Lux to do so.

Moderator:

Yuan-Sheng Yu
Managing Director, Research at Lux Research

Guest Speaker:

Masashi Oki
President at Sojitz Institute of Innovative Technologies

12:00 – 12:15

Wrap-Up and Next Steps

Kristin Marshall
Associate Research Director at Lux Research

Yuan-Sheng Yu
Managing Director, Research at Lux Research

12:15 – 14:00
Networking Lunch

Expert Speakers

More speakers to be announced.

President at Sojitz Institute of Innovative Technologies

Business Development Representative

Senior Customer Success Manager

Associate Research Director

Senior Director

Senior Analyst

Research Analyst

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