Deliberations of Industrial Green Chemistry Workshop
The term Green Chemistry had always had its place in the laboratories but to bring it to the doorsteps of leading manufacturing and chemical industries has been a tough task. Consequently, realizing that green chemistry has the potential to enhance the economical and environmental competitiveness of the chemical industry, Industrial Green Chemistry Workshop (IGCW- 2009) was initiated. IGCW is the world’s largest and unparalleled workshop aimed towards bringing sustainable future for all.
IGCW-2009 is primarily designed on the basis of a 9-Eye (I) Approach; each ‘eye’ expanding the vision of participants for engaging them into emerging views of Industrial Green Chemistry (IGC) paradigms. The 9-EYE of the workshop is Ignition, Inspiration, Initiation, Identification, Invention, Innovation, Industrialization, Implementation, and Impact. The target audience of the three day workshop is green chemist professors, scientists, academicians, researchers, media personnel, CEOs, directors, entrepreneurs, etc.
All the three days will focus on their respective themes. For instance, the first day, i.e., 4th December, 2009, will target over 300 senior management members, directors, CEOs, consultants, entrepreneurs, strategic advisors, etc. to help them recognize and explore the ecological and economical footprint of IGC through Ignition, Inspiration, and Initiation. In order to ignite awareness about IGC among more than 1, 00,000 people connected to chemical industry as stake holder, stalwarts like Prof. Paul Anasthas and Dr. John Warner will share their knowledge and expertise on IGC. Prof. Paul Anasthas will give a lecture on Sustainable Innovations through Green Chemistry and Dr. John Warner would share the 12 most important principles of Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. Once the audience are enlightened about the topic, Dr. Murli Sastry, Chief Scientist with Tata Chemicals Innovation Centre, will further inspire the audience by narrating the 100 years journey of sustainability at TATA Group. Consequently, to initiate the high-end corporate executives to explore the economic potential of IGC, Dr. Apurva Bhattacharya, Senior Manager- R&D, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., will present the successful case study on commercializing green chemistry and positively impacting economics and environment.
The second day of the workshop, i.e. 5th December, 2009, aims at technical directors, R&D managers, chief scientists, CTOs, CXOs, etc, to identify the key industrial challenges, and view various paradigms emerging in the domain of IGC, further providing significant input for inventing and innovating its application through Identification, Invention, and Innovation. To begin with, Dr. John Warner will present the key note on Entropy, Weak Molecular Forces: Green Chemistry and Manufacturing. Further, Dr. Kenneth Geiser, Co-Director, University of Massachusetts, Dr. Pete Myers, CEO of Environmental Health Sciences, USA, and Dr. Surendra Kulkarni, Technical Director — G.E India Technology Centre will help identify the key scale-up and commercialization challenges in implementing IGC. Prof. G D Yadav, Director-ICT, Mumbai, India; Dr. Anil Kumar, Scientist-Physical chemistry Division, NCL, Pune, India; and Dr. Rajendra Varma, Senior Scientist —Environmental Protection Agency, USA will talk about ways to invent core strategies to stay ahead of emerging global regulations on environment issues. Prof. Yadav will deliver a lecture on Innovations in catalysis as a tool for greener chemical products, Dr. Anil Kumar will talk on Water as a Powerful solvent for accelerating reactions, and Dr. Varma will provide a lecture on Organics and Nanomaterials and their Greener Applications of Nano- Catalyst. Lastly, Dr. Mark Dorfman, Green Chemistry Neutralist-Biomimicry Guild , USA; Dr. K V Raghavan, Director – Central Leather Research Institute, India; Dr. Pierre Woehl, Research Associate, Reactor Technologies – Corning Incorporated, USA will talk about the ways to innovate business growth model by including IGC as key strategy for sustainable future.
The final day, i.e., 6th December, 2009, will encompass specific requirements of industries for implementing IGC and thus elucidate ecological and economical impact concerning the process, production, project, operation managers, vice-presidents, etc. The theme for the last day would be Implementation, Industrialisation, and Impact. After the keynote address by Dr. Dr. Amy Cannon on Green Chemistry: From classroom to manufacturing, Dr. Joe Armstrong, Dr. Shailendra Singh, and Dr. Gottumukkala V Subbaraju will elaborate on ways to implement IGC to achieve triple bottom line of Planet, People, and Profit. Further, Dr. R.K. Sharma, Dr. Alok Adhelya, Mr. Nitesh Mehta, Dr. Kira Matus will guide on how industrialisation of green chemistry and engineering for corporate innovation can provide transition from 20th century grey industrial age to 21st century green industrial age. Consequently, Dr. Rajagopal, Dr. S.G.Choudhari, Prof. Anand Patwardhan will speak about the impact of IGC as timely requirement to sustain our chemical industry’s credibility.
The three day workshop is really well chained with each theme linked to the previous, providing the addressees with an exhaustive understanding about various aspects of IGC, that too right from the horses’ mouth! So are you all set to be a part of it?
