WPC - World Petrochemical Conference 2023 | S&P Global Commodity Insights | 20 March 2023 | Hilton Americas Houston, 1600 Lamar St, Houston, TX 77010, USA

This conference unparalleled lineup of leading industry executives featuring major chemical companies and leading organizations discussing the critical issues that impact the chemical market. Our experts will provide insight and data analysis for today and tomorrow - preparing you for market changes over the decades ahead.

We have unrivaled global energy, feedstocks, chemical, Agri - and other commodity data, along with specialty chemicals value chain analytics and technology insights with today’s market dynamics, and a range of spot and contract prices from the S&P Global Commodity Insights expert team.

As the pace of change accelerates across the world driven by volatile energy markets, the Ukraine war, and signs of escalating inflation, the global chemical industry is urgently managing reducing its carbon footprint, developing innovative products for society, and achieving business success.

2023 Speakers

Daniel Yergin
Vice Chairman, S&P Global

Saugata Saha
President, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Lyn Tattum
Vice President, Head of Events, Training and Media, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Jim Fitterling
Chairman and CEO, Dow

Paul Gruenwald
Global Chief Economist, S&P Global Ratings

Martin Brudermüller
Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE

H.E. Chief Timipre Marlin Sylva
Minister of State for Petroleum, Nigeria

Jennifer Chan
Vice President, Ventures, ExxonMobil Product Solutions

Mark Eramo
Senior Vice President, Fuels, Chemicals & Resource Solutions, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Naser Aldousari
President and CEO, EQUATE Petrochemical Company

Adriano Alfani
CEO, Versalis

Nadia Bader Al-Hajji
CEO, Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC)

Mercedes Alonso
Executive Vice President, Renewable Polymers and Chemicals, Neste

Dave Andrew
Vice President, New Market Development, ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company

Atul Arya
Senior Vice President and Chief Energy Strategist, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Martina Azcurra
Head of Petchems, YPF

Tim Cesarek
Chief Commercial Officer, Gevo, Inc.

Diane Chamberlain
President, Baystar

Lin Chen
Vice President, China and Ventures, Chemicals and Products, Shell plc

Bruce Chinn
President & CEO, Chevron Phillips Chemical

Brandy Christian
President and CEO, Port New Orleans

Leon de Bruyn
President & Chief Executive Officer, Lummus Technology

Martijn Dekker
CEO, ZeroSix

Bill Dobie
Founder and CEO, SEDNA

Greg Dolan
CEO, Methanol Institute

Jacob Duer
President and CEO, Alliance to End Plastic Waste

Ahmed El-Hoshy
CEO, OCI & Fertiglobe

Jean-Marc Gilson
President and CEO, Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation

Peter Huntsman
Chairman, President and CEO, Huntsman Corporation

Chris Jahn
President and CEO, American Chemistry Council (ACC)

Guangwu Kou
President, Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd.

Ken Lane
Executive Vice President, Olefins and Polyolefins (O&P), LyondellBasell

Stefan Lepecki
CEO, Braskem Idesa

Mingfeng Li
President, Sinopec Research Institute of Petroleum Processing Co., Ltd (RIPP)

Yubo Li
CEO, Jiahua Chemicals Inc.

Jason Libersky
Chief Product Officer, Verity, Gevo

Phil McDivitt
President and CEO,Ascend Performance Materials

Trent Mell
CEO, Electra Battery Materials Corporation

Marco Mensink
Director General, Cefic – European Chemical Industry Council

Nikhil Meswani
Executive Director, Member of the Board, Reliance Industries Limited

Guanglian Pang
Executive Board Member, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF)

Carlos Pascual
Sr. Vice President Geopolitics and International Affairs, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Rina Quijada
Vice President Industry Executive Advisory Latin America, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Dick Richelle
Chairman Executive Board and CEO, Royal Vopak

Tommy Ricketts
CEO and Co-Founder, BeZero Carbon

Paul Sakrzewski
CEO, Copperleaf

Fabio Santucci
President and CEO, MSC USA

Robert Sappio
CEO, SeaCube Container Leasing Limited

Harald Schwager
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Evonik

Andréa Soares
Senior Vice President Business, Marketing & Innovation, Indorama Ventures (Integrated Oxide Derivatives Division)

Nelson Stratta
Co-Founder, Inflection Finance

Donald Thomson
Founder and CEO, CRDC Global

Rocky Vermani
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Innovation, NOVA Chemicals

Helen Aigbe Brume
Director, Project And Asset Based Finance, African Export-Import Bank

Abdulrahman Alfawazan
Chief Advisor for Chemicals, NIDC, Saudi Arabia

Luc Arnouts
Vice President, Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Mark Astley
Editor, Ammonia, Fertecon, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Krispen Atkinson
Associate Director, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Kitiya Atthayuwat
Consulting Principal, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Sam Aworinde
Associate Director, Chemical Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Joshua Baca
Vice President, Plastics Division, American Chemistry Council (ACC)

Marco Baldini
Baker Hughes

Kate Ballengee
Counsel and Director, Business Development, Metro Group Maritime

Sandeep Bangaru
Vice President, Circular Economy Platforms, Eastman Chemical Company

Don Bari
Vice President, Industry Processes and Cost Analytics (IPCA), S&P Global Commodity Insights

Kurt Barrow
Head of Oil Markets, Midstream & Downstream Research, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Brent Bell
Vice President, Recycling, WM

Trevor Best
CEO, Syzygy Plasmonics Inc

Adam Bland
Executive Director, Specialty Chemicals, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Karine Boccara
Executive Director, Chemical Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Andrew Bower
Director, Sales, OEC Group’s Liquid Logistics Solutions

Aaron Brady
Vice President, Crude Oil Market Services, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Robert Broekhuis
Chief Scientist, SABIC

Benjamin Brooks
Associate Editorial Director, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Jim Burkhard
Vice President & Head of Research for Oil Markets, Energy and Mobility, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Adrian Calcaneo
Executive Director and Latin America & the Caribbean lead, Midstream Oil & NGL, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Jaime Casasus-Bribian
Head of PtX Projects, Americas, European Energy

Ricardo Castillo
Director, Research Projects – Fuels, Chemicals & Resource Solutions, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Richard Charlesworth
Executive Director, Industry Processes and Cost Analytics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Stuti Chawla
Managing Editor Petrochemicals and Container Shipping, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Puay Koon Chia
President, Dow Asia Pacific

Debnil Chowdhury
Head of Americas Fuels and Refining, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Keith Couch
Senior Director, Business Development, Honeywell UOP

Jack Dever
Chief Technology Officer, AVN

Giuseppe Digiamma
Asst. Vice President, Global Accounts, MSC USA

Lara Dong
Senior Director, China Power and Renewables, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Tyler Durham
Chief Development Officer, Navigator CO2

Tejuana L. Edmond
Vice President, Plastic Additives Americas, Performance Chemicals, BASF

Joe Elias
Director, Methanol & Derivatives APAC, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Katie Elliot
Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Daniel Evans
Vice President, Head of Refining and Marketing, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Adegbite Falade
CEO, Niger Delta Exploration & Production

Cody Falcon
Global Digital Portfolio & Strategy Leader, Process Automation / Energy Industries, ABB

Shaohua Feng
Director of Polymers, Asia Pacific, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Michael Ferguson
Senior Director, Americas Analytical Manager, Sustainable Finance, S&P Global Ratings

Mark Fontecchio
Transportation Research Analyst, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Kirsti Gjertsen
Key Account Manager Shippers and Forwarders, Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Greg Gmoser
Director, Global Refining and Marketing, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Jeff Gold
Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Nexus Circular

Elvira Greiner
Research and Analysis Associate Director, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Kevin Gross
Vice President, Petrochemicals & Refining - Process Automation Energy Industries, ABB

Maoshi Guan
Executive Director, Specialty Chemicals, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Roger Guenther
Executive Director, Port Houston

Shiva Gupta
Director of Oil Markets, Downstream and Chemicals, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Marifaith Hackett
Executive Director, Renewables & Nutrition, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Walt Hart
Olefins Americas Lead, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Kristen Hays
Global Market Lead, Polymers, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Torben Höfel
Product Manager Sustainable Olefin Technologies, Linde Engineering

Yi-Jeng Huang
Americas Lead, Methanol & Derivatives, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Max Ismagilov
Senior Research Analyst, Urea, Fertecon, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Pooja Jain
Principal Research Analyst, Polymer, Asia, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Stephen Jew
Executive Director, Global Refining and Marketing Research, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Eric Johnson
Senior Editor, Logistics Technology- Journal of Commerce, S&P Global

Rahul Kapoor
Vice President, Head of Shipping Analytics & Research, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Shah Karim
CEO, SafeRock

Jude Kearney
Managing Partner, ASAFO & CO. (U.S.) LLP

Mike Kelly
Director, Strategic Analytics and Process Technology, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Sana Khan
Agribusiness Consultant, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Yazmine Khan
Associate Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Roman Kramarchuk
Head of Future Energy Analytics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Kate Lee
Associate Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Garrie Li
Vice President, Industry Executive Advisory Asia, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Kevin Lindemer
Executive Director, Downstream Americas Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Haley Lowry
Global Sustainability Director, Dow

Mike Malveda
Executive Director, Specialty Chemicals, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Olivier Maronneaud
Global Analytics Lead, Methanol & Plastic Circularity, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Andrea Masi
Head of Product Leadership, Baker Hughes

Bob Maughon
Executive Vice President, CTO and CSO, Sabic

Yasmine McColl
Global Business Development Leader, Chemicals, Schneider Electric

Ryan Monis
Director, Chemical Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Mark Morgan
Vice President, Specialty Chemicals and Renewables Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Giancarlo Morgera
Executive Vice President, Export Liner Services, MSC USA

Dayne Morkel
Partner, Carbon-Neutral Consulting

John A. Moseley
Chief Commercial Officer, Port Houston

Ujjal Mukherjee
Chief Technology Officer, Lummus Technology

John Mulholland
Vice President, Chemicals, Strategy and Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Andres Munoz
Head of Technology Deployment, Neste

Brian Murphy
Senior Analyst, Hydrogen and Low Carbon Fuels, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Rajiv Narang
Executive Director, Process Economic Program, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Ravi Narayanaswamy
Vice President, Fuels, Chemicals and Resource Solutions (FCRS), S&P Global Commodity Insights

Fary Ndao
Project Manager Petrochemicals, PETROSEN Trading & Services

Andrew Neale
Executive Director, Aromatics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Ha Nguyen
Executive Director, Global Crude Oil Markets, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Samar Niazi
Global Lead, Aromatics Pricing, S&P Global Commodity Insights

John Nielsen-Gammon
Texas State Climatologist and Director, Southern Regional Climate Center, Texas A&M University

Eberechukwu Oji
CEO, ND Western Limited

Emanuel Ormonde
Director, Specialty Chemicals, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Matthew Palmer
Executive Director, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Suresh Pandita
Regional Head Sales and BD, Green Hydrogen, thyssenkrupp Uhde

Matteo Pasquali
Director, Carbon Hub, Rice University

Felipe Perez
Latin America Downstream Strategist, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Eli Philipp
Director Business Development & Sales, thyssenkrupp Uhde USA

Mark Plamondon
Executive Director, Alberta's Industrial Heartland Association

Jeffrey S. Plotkin
Vice President, Chemical and Energy Training, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Henry Potter
Senior Solution Consultant, Petroleum Supply Chain, Aspen Technology

Tony Potter
Vice President, Chemicals, Derivatives, Plastics & Materials, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Harendra K Rajora
Vice President, Marketing, HMEL

Laura Robb
Associate Editor, Americas Shipping Markets, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Timothy Roberts
Executive Vice President of Midstream and Chemical, Phillips 66

Darryl Rogers
Vice President, Fuels, Chemicals & Resource Solutions, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Patricia Rossman
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, BASF

Deb Ryan
Head of Strategic Commodities, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Andrew Ryba
Associate Partner, McKinsey

Juan Sacoto
Senior Vice President and Head of Agribusiness Consulting, North America, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Giovanni Sale
Corporate Business Strategy Senior Vice President, Maire Tecnimont

Mareme Soda Samb
Downstream Engineer, GES-PETROGAZ, Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Senegal

Omar Samji
Partner and Head of Energy Innovation, Shearman & Sterling LLP

Marcy Sanderson
Vice President, Industrial Applications, X-energy

Scott Saunders
General Manager, KW Plastics, Recycling Division

Sandeep Sayal
Vice President Oil Markets and Refining Research and Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Mark Schweitzer
Vice President, Global Economic Research, Archer Daniels Midland Company

Mukta Sharma
Executive Director, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Sanjay Sharma
Vice President, Chemical & Agribusiness Consulting, Middle East and Indian Sub-continent, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Devin Shaw
Commercial Director, CO2 Capture & CCS, Shell Catalysts & Technologies

Fenglei Shi
Director, Greater China Oil Market Midstream and Downstream, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Theo Jan Simons
Partner, McKinsey

Amendi Stephens
Industrial Business Development, Alabama Power Company

Frans Stokman
Executive Director, Petrochemicals Europe

Todd Sundsted
Chief Technology Officer, Nautilus Labs

Bala Suresh
Executive Director, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Richard Swann
Global Director, Clean Refined Products Pricing, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Larry Tan
Chemicals Insight, APAC Lead, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Harry Thomas
Director, Inorganics Americas, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Mark Thomas
Markets Editor, Chemical Week, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Jesse Tijerina
Chemicals Insight, Americas Polyolefins Lead, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Jihad Traya
Business Development & Feedstock Strategist, Alberta’s Industrial Heartland

Olivier Treuer
Managing Director, Commodities, Morgan Stanley

Boudewijn van Lent
Global Chemistry Industry Director, dss+

Paula VanLaningham
Global Head of Carbon, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Simbi Wabote
Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board

Barnaby Wallace
Global Commercial Lead, Packaging, Mars Global Petcare

Jeremy Wallach
Partner, McKinsey

Zhuwei Wang
Manager, Asia Analytics, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Austin Wentworth
Head of North America, Climate Solutions, STX Group

Samantha Wietlisbach
Director, Inorganics and Minerals Research and Analysis, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Mark Wilfalk
Director, Solid Waste Management, City of Houston

Lisa Wood
Executive Director, Specialty Chemical Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Yating Xu
Senior Economist, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Vivien Yang
Executive Director, Specialties, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Eshwar Yennigalla
Senior Analyst, Petrochemicals, S&P Global Commodity Insights

Feifeng You
Vice President, Huafon

Xiaodong Zhang
Director, Aromatics APAC, S&P Global Commodity Insights

2023 Partners

FOUNDATIONAL PARTNERS:
• Alberta's Industrial Heartland
• Chemical Week
• Invest Saudi
• Tricon
• Vision and Focus

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• American Chemistry Council
• KMPG
• McKinsey & Company

INDUSTRY PARTNERS:
• ABB
• ExxonMobil
• Lummus Technology

CONFERENCE PARTNERS:
• BASF
• Burns McDonnell
• DSS
• Gemini
• Gevo
• Heartland
• Indorama
• Mast
• MSC
• NextChem
• OEC Group
• PAZ
• Port Houston
• Port of Antwerp Bruges
• Port Nola
• Reliance
• Schneider Electric
• Stavian
• Worley

GENIUS EXCHANGE PARTNERS:
• AVN
• Baker Hughes
• CRDC Global

ASSOCIATION PARTNERS:
• Acoplasticos
• Aniq
• APLA
• Camara de la Industria
• CME
• IPA