Industry/Corporation

From agriculture to pharmaceuticals to consumer electronics, chemistry makes modern life possible. However, resources are finite, and climate change is exacerbating environmental issues. Join the “CAS Insights Webinar: Key Trends in Green Chemistry” on November 20th at 10 a.m. EST for insights from a panel of experts, including Beyond Benign Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Amy Cannon. Amy will join Dan Bailey of Takeda and Leighton Jones of CAS to discuss some of the most important trends that are helping support our economies with innovative chemistry that’s also greener.

Join us as we once again bring members of the pollution prevention community together. This year you will be able to connect with peers, gain practical insights, and celebrate the progress of pollution prevention as NPPR's annual meeting returns. The conference will be held in four half-day sessions on December 10-11 & 17-18, 2025 starting at 9 AM (PT) / noon (ET) / 5 PM (UTC) highlighting success stories, innovative tools, community-based solutions, and emerging chemicals of concern. 

Conference rates

NPPR members: Free

Non-member (4 days, includes one year of NPPR membership): $145

Non-member (1 day rate): $50

Retiree (4 days, includes one year of NPPR membership): $95

Student (4 days, includes one year of NPPR membership -- register with your .edu address): $45

Conference agenda

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 40 Years of Pollution Prevention Success Stories

•  Pollution Prevention Over the Years
• Keynote Speaker
• Interns to Impact: 20 Years of Pollution Prevention Wins for People, Profit, & Planet
• Sustainable Internship Program (OASIS) in Oregon Helps Businesses Reduce Their Pollution Impact
• Advancing Pollution Prevention Through Toxics Reduction

Thursday, December 11, 2025 P2 Innovation and Tools

•  Tracking Remote Work: Colorado's New Resource Calculator Tool
• TRI-based Pollution Prevention Plans
• Exploring AI in Support of Pollution Prevention
• Building a Cross-Sector EPD Database: Advancing Transparency in Product Impact
• Compliance Dashboard
• Private Sector P2 Professionals Workgroup

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 P2 and Compliance in Communities

•  Washington State Pollution Prevention Assistance for Small Businesses
• Building Bridges: How Municipal Partnerships Amplify Technical Assistance Programs
• Small Businesses, Big Pollution Prevention Impacts: Oregon's EcoBiz Program
• Safer Choices Community of Practice: Making Informed Decisions
• P2 and Lithium-Ion Batteries: Preventing Battery Fire Disasters and Associated Pollution
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Processing Workgroup

Thursday, December 18, 2025 Chemicals of Concern

•  Highlights of the PFAS Source Identification Journey
• Collaborations Drive Alternatives to PFAS
• Western States PFAS Strategic Plan
• Developing, Marketing, and Promoting a New, Safer Industrial Cleaner
• Addressing 6PPD in Tires: Pathways to Protect Salmon from 6PPD-quinone

This congress will take place from October 22 to 25, 2025, jointly hosted by Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), with support from institutions such as ACS Guatemala Chapter, and the Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.

The event features:
- Free participation in conferences and workshops
- Topics including green chemistry, supramolecular materials, quantum dots, and photochemical degradation
- Speakers from Mexico, Guatemala, and Latin America
- A bilingual audience and regional outreach to Central America and southern Mexico

Registration via this link:  
👉 https://forms.office.com/r/4ijTjTif4i?origin=QRCode&qrcodeorigin=presentation 

Your Event For Greener Labs

Explore how you can make your assays, instruments, and experiments more sustainable - without much time, risk, or effort—based on real case studies. Discover where we are at and what you can do to save plastics, energy and reagents - without affecting your workflows.

This event is free to register.

Materials science is accelerating the transition to a sustainable future characterized by clean energy and a circular economy. As research rises to meet these global challenges, it becomes increasingly important to assess the potential impacts – economic, environmental, and social – of new innovations. This symposium will explore the integration of sustainability and societal considerations across material readiness levels: from research to development and ultimately deployment. Interdisciplinary talks will be solicited on key themes such as incorporating sustainability, economic, and social metrics into early-stage materials research; strategies for enabling circular material flows and minimizing waste; understanding the supply chain and social dimensions of materials; and case studies of the successful application of analysis to guide competitive clean and circular material development. Upon completion of this symposium, materials scientists and engineers will be equipped with a toolkit of resources and case studies to guide the evaluation and amplification of the broader impacts of their research.

Passive house’s reliable and superior energy performance with its myriad of co-benefits, is the cornerstone of the architectural solutions we require to be able to thrive. It is a firm foundation upon which we can build a regenerative society that repairs ecosystems damage, reverses it, and begins to increase all life.  There is a rising consciousness emerging revealing how comprehensive the field of sustainability is truly required to be if we are to meaningfully move towards regeneration. Only by broadening the lenses of our understanding can we take advantage of synergies of our actions across systems, and exponentially increase positive impacts.

For this year’s symposium, we invited you to submit proposals showcasing how passive house design relates to any aspects of regenerative design that are dear to your interests or practice.  We had an enthusiastic response from diverse locations and perspectives, all with inspiring examples of reaching for Regeneration and how Passive House was, or in some cases was not, a cornerstone of the strategy.

In the spirit of this symposium’s continual drive to integrate various disciplines through architecture, we also invited a scientist focused on Green Chemistry to close out the day and inspire us with efforts in that movement to address issues upstream.

Please join our tireless community for what we believe will be an inspiring, challenging, yet hopeful day!

The 13th ISMC will be a conference for school teachers of chemistry, school science technicians, academics, and educational professionals from the UK and overseas with the aim of promoting Microscale and Small-Scale Techniques (MaSSTs) in chemistry education.

About AOAC SEA

The aim of AOAC SEA is to bring together government, industry, and academia to establish standard methods of analysis. This ensures the safety and integrity of foods and other products that impact public health around the world. The vision is to be a contributor in developing confidence through consensus-based analytical solutions for food safety, food integrity, and public health across Southeast Asia countries.

Past and Upcoming Conferences

Previous annual conferences were held in Singapore (2022), Vietnam (2023), and the Philippines (2024), each enabling over 200 delegates to attend in person. The 4th Annual AOAC SEA Conference, with the theme "Advancing Food Safety and Quality: Innovation, Standards, and Collaboration," will be held at the Berkeley Hotel Pratunam in Bangkok, Thailand, on 28–29 October 2025.

"A meeting point to promote sustainable, environmentally respectful approaches in science and technology."

The event aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among academia, industry, and the public sector, with a focus on Education, Innovation, and Biomimicry as key drivers for sustainable transformation.

Thematic Pillars:

Green Education- Training sustainability-minded scientists with novel teaching methods and tools.

Sustainable Innovation- Green chemistry real-world applications in industry and product development.

Biomimicry & Nature-Based Businesses- Efficient, safe, and beautiful solutions inspired by nature positively impacting business.

Fluctuations in political, economic, and R&D cycles may introduce uncertainty and necessitate the reallocation of resources, which can affect the adoption of sustainable chemistry and greener processes. Such disruptions have the potential to compromise long-term business resilience, elevate risk levels, and adversely impact both human health and the environment. Continuing to advance sustainable chemistry in a changing environment requires continued policy, investment, and market commitments.

To ensure sustainable chemistry remains a priority, demonstrating and communicating its positive impact on all business functions and through the value chain is critical. During this webinar series, subject matter experts will share tools and insights to assist champions with effectively "making the case". Structured as a series of discussions, attendees will have the unique opportunity to pre-competitively engage with the speakers and other companies facing similar challenges.

During the first 3 webinars, experts shared the benefits of sustainable chemistry for investors, on domestic manufacturing, and business health. This webinar builds on these conversations by highlighting the need for education - both in academia and for workforce development - in order to build a workforce with sustainable chemistry knowledge and skill sets. Juan Colberg from Pfizer will discuss the business benefits of a sustainability minded workforce and needs to attract this talent. Amy Cannon from Beyond Benign will share how our community can support students and educators in training the next generation for success.

*This webinar is available to Change Chemistry members only.