Networking

Why your next partner is in the room

Future Materials Congress brings together 900+ senior leaders from 52 countries across advanced materials research, manufacturing, and supply chains.

Connecting academia, industry, and scale-up for the next generation of functional materials.

Join cross-disciplinary leaders advancing materials that power electronics, energy, health, and sustainable industry. The programme emphasizes characterization, modeling, process scale-up, supply chains, and adoption pathways.

Future Materials Congress — panel discussion
Future Materials Congress — event experience

Across the event, forums spotlight lightweighting, coatings, ceramics & glass, polymers & elastomers, battery materials, semiconductor substrates, QC metrology, and factory digitalisation.

From synchrotron beamlines to inline sensors and computational alloy design — sessions emphasise transferable methods, interoperability, supplier qualification, and responsible sourcing.

Expect technical exhibit tours, demo cells, supplier briefings, standards panels, procurement roundtables, and a start-up area where ventures meet OEM scouts.

Partnership Opportunities

From universities and national labs to materials producers, converters, tooling vendors, QA houses, distributors, and brand owners — use the map below to see who attends across the ecosystem.

Who will you meet?

Raw materials & feedstock
MaterTech LabSapienza University of Rome
Investment & grants
EuroCeram ConsortiumMIT
Characterisation & modelling
Semicon ItaliaIMEC
OEMs & brands
GreenMat AllianceBASF
Processing & equipment
IIT Bombay
Trade & supply chain
KTH Royal Institute

Delegate mix

Typical audience composition — who joins us on site.

35%

R&D & academia

Faculty, postdocs, and lab leads publishing and translating discoveries.

30%

Industry & OEMs

Technology scouting, procurement, and materials qualification.

20%

Suppliers & scale-up

Process equipment, materials vendors, characterization services.

15%

Investors & policy

Deep-tech finance and frameworks for sustainable adoption.

Key Themes

Tracks reflect what adopters need next — performance, qualification, lifecycle impact, recyclability, cost, standards, and safe scale-up across the supply chain.

Advisory Board

Our scientific committee — peer review, abstract selection and programme curation for Future Materials Congress.