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Future of BioPlastics

September 10 and 11, 2025

Future of BioPlastics: Sustainable. Innovative. Economical.

Our online conference Future of BioPlastics (FoB:Plast) on September 10–11, 2025, provided an international forum focused on bioplastics. Participants followed live presentations, keynotes, and panel discussions, actively using the platform for exchange, networking, and collaboration.

The event highlighted economic perspectives, innovative developments, and practical insights. International speakers shared inspiring ideas and engaged in interactive panels with entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, and other industry experts—creating a lively dialogue and valuable networking opportunities within the sector. The conference offered numerous starting points for future collaborations, knowledge transfer, and direct discussions on current challenges and opportunities in the bioplastics industry.

We sincerely thank all speakers and participants for their contributions, the engaging discussions, and the many insights that made the event a successful industry gathering.

Biobased
Economy
Innovation
Practical
Applications

Record on Framework
Conditions

Record on Bio-based Materials and Production

Record on Application and Products

Record on Circular Economy

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This page is regularly updated with current information about the planning and organization of the event.

Here, you will find out:

  • Which keynote speakers will be featured
  • Which program highlights are planned

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Register now to take part in the Future of BioPlastics event

You can now register for the Future of BioPlastics online event on September 10 and 11, 2025. Participation is free of charge!

To take part in the event, please click on the Register now button. You will be forwarded directly to the event platform. There you can simply log in and create your personal profile. You can only take part in the networking offer with a registered profile.

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Why You Should Participate

Biobased plastics are among the most promising solutions in the transition to a sustainable economy. As part of the bio-economy, they combine innovative materials, climate-friendly manufacturing processes, and a wide range of applications – from packaging and consumer goods to industrial applications.

The Future of BioPlastics online event, which will be held in English, is dedicated to precisely these topics: innovation, practical applications, and the role of bioplastics in a sustainable economy.

Several hundred participants are expected to come together to develop perspectives for a sustainable, future-oriented economy.

Take the opportunity to network with experts from various fields, discuss new developments, and get practical impulses for your projects and activities – free of charge and online.

Future of BioPlastics 2025 delivers strategic perspectives, economic value, and innovation impulses for your company.

These benefits await you:

  1. Targeted networking with business potential
    Connect with customers, partners, and suppliers – for strategic collaborations and new business ideas.
  2. Strategic impulses from industry leaders
    Leverage the expertise of leading minds from business and science for your strategic development.
  3. Global insights, locally applicable
    Gain access to international best practices – and apply relevant approaches directly to your markets.
  4. Visibility in a growth industry
    Position your company as a pioneer in the future market of bioplastics – whether as a participant, speaker, or sponsor.
  5. Exchange at decision-maker level
    Discuss current challenges with industry peers – and gain concrete solutions for your business.
  6. Online: flexible & efficient
    Participate from anywhere – without travel, with full content relevance and international access.
  7. Free of charge & individually tailored
    Benefit from high-quality content and contacts – completely free of charge and with the freedom to choose the agenda items most relevant to you.

Components of the Event

Keynotes

Be inspired by leading voices from business, innovation, and practical application areas – with impulses on trends, markets, and future-oriented solutions for bio-based plastics.

Panels

Experience exciting discussions with experts from various fields – and contribute your own questions and perspectives to the dialog.

Networking

Meet experts, customers, suppliers, and business partners who are actively shaping the transition toward sustainable plastics – with several hundred participants expected!

Who Should Take Part?

This event is aimed at anyone who wants to play an active role in shaping the future of bio-based plastics – internationally, interdisciplinarily, and practically. It is aimed at founders, innovation and sustainability managers, business developers, investors, and decision-makers from the economy, academia, and politics.

Whether from start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, large companies, research or political institutions – this event brings together key players from the bioplastics sector and promotes the exchange of ideas on innovative materials, markets, and sustainable solutions.

Start-ups

Would you like to take your business idea further and find the right partners? As a young, innovative company, you will meet investors who are specifically looking for future-oriented solutions in an inspiring environment. You will also meet established companies that share their experience and provide valuable market insights. Exchange ideas, make lasting contacts, and become part of a fast-growing innovation network.

SMEs

Gain valuable insights into current biobased plastics market developments and get actively involved in the industry. The event offers SMEs the opportunity to network in a targeted manner, establish new business contacts, and gather ideas for future projects.

Large Companies

Would you like to identify innovations at an early stage and better assess market movements? Meet future-oriented start-ups and experts from the industry who offer new approaches for your innovation strategy. Take advantage of this environment to gain early access to innovative solutions and develop new growth opportunities for your company.

Investors

Discover new investment opportunities in a dynamic and future-oriented market environment. Here, you will meet start-ups with a clear vision, innovative solutions, and the will to actively shape the future of bio-based plastics. At the same time, you will gain in-depth insights into current market trends, new technologies, and relevant developments in the field of bioplastics.

Researchers

Experience as a scientist how innovative approaches regarding biobased plastics are put into practice. The event offers insights into market movements and material development. It opens up new perspectives on the future of sustainable plastics – and creates space for exchange with stakeholders from different areas.

Politicians

As a decision-maker, gain insights into current developments and market dynamics in the field of bioplastics and network with players who are driving the transition to a sustainable plastics industry. Join the discussion and provide impetus for a sustainable plastics policy.

Agenda

Wednesday, 10.09

09:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

  • Keynotes: Framework Conditions
  • Oliver Kutsch (Ceresana)
    Bioplastics Market Dynamics
  • Marco Pellegrini (Cefic)
    Biomass-derived plastics and the future of the chemical industry
  • Giovanni Gadaleta (AIMPLAS)
    Advancing the evaluation of compostable plastics: fast-track methodologies for biodegradation and disintegration under industrial composting conditions
  • Enora Oger (Futerro)
    Regulatory Momentum for Bio-Based Plastics: Navigating the EU Policy Landscape

10:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

  • Panel
  • 30 min

10:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

  • Networking Opportunity
  • 30 min

30 min

BREAK

11:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

  • Keynotes: Bio-based Materials and Production
  • Nicko Reuter (UPM Biochemicals)
    Revolutionizing Packaging with UPM BioPET
  • Judith Wingerath (arweco)
    Biopolymers filled with oat hulls
  • Derek Atkinson (TotalEnergies Corbion)
    Carbon Neutrality with Luminy® PLA
  • John Williames (Aquapak Polymers Ltd)
    Why are innovative polymers required?

12:30 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

  • Panel
  • 30 min

1:00 p.m.

1:30 p.m.

  • Networking Opportunity
  • 30 min

Thursday, 11.09

1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

  • Keynotes: Application and Products
  • Prof.Dr. Andreas Kuenkel (BASF)
    Certified biodegradable polymers – from basic understanding to sustainable products
  • Viktoriia Zakharcheva (Plastrans)
    The Bigger Picture of Biopolymers. The Path forward
  • Konrad Rosén (Gaia BioMaterials)
    Functional Mineral Fillers and the Future of Biodegradable Plastics
  • Mona Duhme (Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT)
    Bioplastics in the context of the bioeconomy: A starting point in a complex system – opportunities and challenges

2:00 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

  • Panel
  • 30 min

2:30 p.m.

3:00 p.m.

  • Networking Opportunity
  • 30 min

30 min

BREAK

3:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

  • Keynote: Circular Economy
  • Pauliina Sariomaa (NG Nordic)
    INGA- plastics born from CO2
  • Antonia Ivanda (SKZ)
    Naturally sustainable! A journey through the life cycle analysis of bio-based plastics
  • Herman Wories (Biobased Circular growth fund program)
    Stimulating biobased chemistry and materials through the Dutch National Growth fund initiative.
  • Sil Nevejans (Normec OWS)
    Beyond Compliance: Embedding High-Throughput Biodegradability into Bioplastics Innovation

4:30 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

  • Panel
  • 30 min

5:00 p.m.

5:30 p.m.

  • Networking Opportunity
  • 30 min

The FoB:Plast Speakers

Marko Pellegrini (Cefic)

Bioeconomy Manager

Giovanni Gadaleta (AIMPLAS)

Researcher in the biodegradation and compostability laboratory

Enora Oger (Futerro)

Public Affairs & Corporate Communication Assistant

Nicko Reuter (UPM)

Business Development Packaging

Judith Wingerath (arweco)

Research & Development

Derek Atkinson (TotalEnergies Corbion)

VP Sales and Business Development, EMEA and Americas

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kuenkel (BASF)

Certified biodegradable polymers - from basic understanding to sustainable products

Viktoriia Zakharycheva (Plastrans)

Senior Marketing and Communications Manager

Position your brand as an event sponsor

As a sponsor, you send a clear signal for responsibility, innovative strength, and cooperation. Present your company in an international environment – where new ideas meet entrepreneurial practice.

Take the opportunity to draw attention to yourself, enter into dialog with relevant players from business and practice and become part of a growing global network!

Our network strength

We send 1-2 targeted email campaigns to our contacts and 30 LinkedIn posts

over 25,000 LinkedIn contacts

over 60,000 corporate contacts

Over 30,000 website visits per month

Over 190 registered participants at the last event

Become a partner of Future of BioPlastics

Do you represent an association, a network, a research institution, or a non-profit organization related to biopackaging?

As a partner, you increase the visibility of your organization in an international, interdisciplinary environment. Meet an expert audience from science, business, politics, civil society and associations – and position yourself where the exchange on innovations, solutions and perspectives of the bio-economy takes place.

Together we create visibility for bioplastics and connect relevant players.

Become a media partner of Future of BioPlastics

Do you run a specialist medium, a platform or an editorial format with a focus on bioplastics?

As a media partner, you benefit from visibility in the environment of leading specialist players from science, business and associations – and gain access to a targeted, topic-specific community.

Interested in a media partnership with targeted specialist reach?

Our partners