Program

Day 0: Monday

Curtain raiser video and welcome by Emcee:

Welcome remarks:

Inaugural address:

Keynote address: Saudi Aramco’s Downstream Journey – The Road Ahead

Keynotes address: BASF’s transformation journey to a carbon neutral and circular future

Recognition ceremony of outgoing Chairman, GPCA:

Al Rowad – GPCA Legacy Award ceremony

Lunch and prayer break

Leadership dialogue 1: Clean energy transition – The GCC’s opportunity towards world leadership

• The green transition – a burden or a new engine for the regional industry’s sustainable growth?
• What would it take to decarbonise aggressively and achieve the 1.5°C climate-change goal?
• Clean hydrogen: is it the promising alternative to decarbonize the industry?
• Funding option and how the numbers stack up – What are the costs and the investments required for decarbonisation?
• An overview of the GCC H2 projects

Keynotes session: How the chemical sector can thrive in a new age of sustainability and decarbonisation?

Leadership dialogue 2: Turning the ESG theory into action

• Adopting an ESG-driven approach through the company’s entire value chain and ecosystem
• How the ESG could influence the chemical companies’ role in advancing the ESG innovation across the entire value chains?
• Building advantage through early compliance with more rigorous ESG standards
• Role of regional governments in providing strong policy and regulatory support to assist companies with ESG transformation
• Decarbonizing the chemical industry (scope 1,2,3): cost vs. opportunity
• Utilizing local content to drive ESG value creation

Lunch and prayers

Leadership dialogue 3: Rethinking the future chemical supply chain

• Boosting GCC chemical supply chain resiliency, sustainability and value creation at a time of disruption through Localization, diversification, operational excellence and digitalization
• Enabling the SC organization through collaboration with value chain partners, governments and competitors
• Building resilient and agile SC organization while ensuring safety and enhancing sustainability agenda

Inaugural session: The industry through uncertainty: a question of choice

The year 2022 has called for redefined global cooperation across the entire geopolitical and socioeconomic landscape where the industry operates. How will leaders translate this years’ lessons into 2023? In this dialogue, we’ll look at important trade-offs with a view at opportunities for transformational leadership in the food and agricultural sector.

Leadership dialogue 4: The agri-nutrient industry’s innovation drive to mitigate the unfolding food crisis

• The current food crisis – will it end in 2022 or continue to be a global threat?
• How will agri-nutrients trade be impacted from regionalization, protectionism, and higher self-sufficiency of key customer countries?
• Decarbonizing the agri–nutrients industry’s (scope 1, 2, 3): cost vs. opportunity
• The agri-nutrients industry’s journey towards sustainability and circular economy
• The prospect of blue ammonia: Energy vs. food security
• Biodiversity and the circular economy: reducing waste and decreasing emissions

Closing remarks

Networking lunch and prayers