Geoff Hollington

Geoff Hollington is a product design, technology and innovation consultant, specialising in advanced manufacturing and design technologies. He is a consultant to MADE ‹ Materials and Design Exchange, a node of the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network, funded by UK Government.

Professor Lord Shusantha Kumar Bhattacharyya

For more than 20 years, Professor Kumar Bhattacharyya has been one of the most influential manufacturing industry expert in Britain. He has advised two Prime Ministers - Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair - and a succession of senior government officials on matters ranging from the privatisation of British Steel to the future of the car industry. Bhattacharyya is also a unique academic entrepreneur: today, Warwick Manufacturing Group, the unit inside Warwick University that he founded in 1979, is Britain's answer to MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

WMG has annual revenues of £80m, educates more than 5,000 post-graduates and managers a year through its worldwide network of operations, and has won international renown with its philosophy of breaking down the barriers between academia and industry

Ray Hammond

Ray Hammond is Europe's most experienced and most widely published futurologist.

The World-renowned Futurologist will present highlights from his report, The World in 2030, commissioned by PlasticsEurope. All delegates will receive a complimentary copy of the book.

Before that he was the Chief Executive of Incpen (The Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment) from October 1993 - September 1997.

He has previously held the following positions: Director of Marketing; Membership and International Affairs at the Royal Institute of British Architects; Head of Home Affairs in the Conservative Research Department; Special Adviser to Environment Secretary Kenneth Baker MP.

Peter is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Horners, the plastics industry’s Livery company in London. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and became a Vice President of the European Union of Plastics Converters.

David Williams - Chairman, Day Two

David Williams began his career as an Apprentice Plastics Engineer and has spent over 40 years in the plastics industry. David was the Managing Director of the LINPAC Group, which had an annual turnover of £1.2 billion and approximately 11,000 employees worldwide.

He is a Past President of the BPF (1988) and was Chairman of the Polymer National Training
Organisation for 12 years. He is also a member of the City Livery Company associated with the Plastics Industry, the Worshipful Company of Horners. 

Furthermore, David is currently the President of EuPC (European Plastic Converters) which represents over 37,000 companies with over 1.5 million employees throughout Europe.