Decarb Connect North America gathers 300+ leaders from the most energy intensive industries to address urgent challenges in industrial decarbonization
In an era defined by energy volatility, policy shifts, and supply chain uncertainty, Decarb Connect North America brings together the companies leading the charge in building resilient, cost-competitive, and future-ready industrial operations.
This is where energy-intensive industries – including cement, steel, refining, chemicals, and more, come to align on practical strategies that protect margins, secure energy access, and create market advantage through advanced manufacturing infrastructure.
What’s Driving the 2026 Agenda?
The focus is clear: link emissions reduction with commercial value. Our sessions explore how industrial leaders are using new financing structures, operational innovation and client engagement strategies to deliver results that matter – on the bottom line and across the value chain.
Featured topics include:
- Value Chain Activation: How are successful industrials and end-customers creating profitable markets for low-carbon products?
- Creating a Compelling Business Case: Identifying Operational Gaps for Optimization and Economic Wins
- Making Carbon Capture Economics Work: A Tax Equity Perspective on Project Selection and Structuring
- Financing Success: How to Accelerate Advanced Manufacturing Infrastructure Projects
Who Attends?
This event is built for senior executives across operations, strategy, finance, technology and innovation – those tasked with delivering low-carbon progress and protecting profitability.
In 2025, over 30% of our audience came from hard-to-abate sectors, with leadership from companies like Celanese, ArcelorMittal, U.S. Steel, BASF, Dow, Cabot Corporation, and Evonik. Expect the same calibre in 2026 – plus greater focus on project execution, industrial partnerships, actionable investment strategies and representation of buyers of low-carbon materials.
What Makes This Event Different?
Reducing emissions has to make business sense.
It’s about how you operationalize carbon management to drive business growth, meet stakeholder expectations, and strengthen your market position.
Whether you’re scaling CCUS, electrifying assets, building new infrastructure, or optimizing supply chain emissions – Decarb Connect North America is where projects are progressed, partnerships are built, and industrial strategies are redefined.
“Decarb Connect is THE conference that brings diverse stakeholders in the decarbonization space together to collaborate, brainstorm and share ideas about how to meaningfully move the needle.”- David Perkins, SVP Sustainability and Public Affairs, Heidelberg Materials
Companies which have attended last year
Download the 2025 Post-Show Report below
What Attendees Say...
“A very well organized event, with attention to all details that make the difference. Excellent level of speakers both in terms of seniority and expertise from a broad range of industries, NGOs, funds and policymakers…well designed networking connections provided by the organizer”
Faidon Prokopios, Manufacturing Decarbonization Director, Titan Cement
“The event was excellent! The policy discussion and end-user perspectives were especially timely. It‚ was great to see that, regardless of the circumstances, sustainability continues to be driven by customers.”
Huiyi Jackson, Senior Director, Clean Energy Technologies and Policy, Edison Electric Institute
“This is a great event for learning about what hard to abate industries are doing to decarbonize and meet people offering solutions.”
Fiona Woody, Director of ESG, MLC
“This is an excellent forum of industrial representatives to discuss all aspects of sustainability topics. A good mix of individual presentations as well as panel discussions. Also a great networking opportunity. Has room to add more informational booths as well as a poster set up of the technical info that could not be presented due to time constraints.”
Syed Suhail Akhtar, Head of Process Decarbonization, NA, Holcim
“This was one of the best-organized conferences I have been to in years. I was highly impressed with the quality of speakers and attendees and made some valuable contacts.”
May Akrawi, CEO, Undesert
Featured Speakers from 2025
Fiona Woody
Director of Sustainability & ESG MLC
Dennis Wilson
Vice President, ESG Managing Director Saint-Gobain North America
Guillaume Lambotte
Chief Scientist Boston Metal
Paul Gauche
Deputy Director of the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office US Department of Energy (DOE)
Brenda Petrilena
Senior Director Global Decarbonization & Project Management U.S. Steel
Casey Nault
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Chief ESG Officer Coeur Mining
Jaimee Farrin
Global Sustainability Director Cabot Corporation
Kevin Norfleet
Global Sustainability Director Celanese
Vikas Bhararthwaaj
Managing Director Morgan Stanley
Partnership Opportunities
At Decarb Connect, we offer a plethora of opportunities across our global platform to meet your objectives, whether you want to find new leads, evaluate new partnership opportunities, amplify your leadership position or enhance your brand positioning, our packages are completely bespoke to meet your objectives. We combine our events, reports, webinars, podcast and leadership network opportunities to create a package that compliments your wider marketing strategy and surpasses your expectations.
About the Organiser
Decarb Connect is a resource hub and network of senior leaders tasked with tackling decarbonization strategies within energy intensive industries.
We are unique as we focus on all of the foundation industries and create products that support them in overcoming the multifaceted challenge of decarbonizing whilst working to unlock new opportunities with key stakeholders from technology, financing and investment, policy, consulting and much more.
Our mission is simple. Accelerate decarbonization and reduce emissions globally. We all play different roles in this journey and we believe ours is to work with decarbonization leaders on bringing them together to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and importantly forge partnerships that tackle the biggest issues.
We focus on those with complex challenges to solve. Our global platform combines a unique membership network of decarbonization leaders, industry renowned conferences, webinars, industry reports, podcasts and more.
If you are a stakeholder within industrial decarbonization and the green revolution, we will have something that supports your journey.
