Silvia Boschetto

Julian Haspel

Mohammad Azizur Rahman

Ranabir Pal

Anders Gulliksson

Anders Gulliksson works as R & D Manager at Dafo Vehicle Fire Protection. Anders has over 20 years of experience with fire suppression systems and detection covering large gas extinguishing systems through various specialized local protection applications for industrial and automotive applications. He has been a frequent speaker on various conferences and events and has also been participating in international standardization work within the CEN.

Sandra McClelland,

Sandra McClelland is a Key Account Manager specializing in high performance materials for Solvay Specialty Polymers. With over 25 years of plastics industry experience, Sandra works with major automotive OEMs and global Tier One companies on new applications for automotive specializing in light weighting. She has 6 patents and numerous publications

Sandra is the Chair Emeritus of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) Plastics Division Auto Team.  She is a Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Honored Service Member, is on the SPE Detroit Section Board of Directors managing the education program and currently serves as co-chair of the SPE Auto EPCON engineering plastics conference.  Sandra is located in the Detroit Michigan area.

Karan Bhalla

Karan has been in the plastics industry for more than 15 years and leading the market development activities for Washington Penn Plastics for 6 years in Europe. He is an automotive enthusiast who is always excited to bring newer ideas to market to make better products.

He holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from Purdue University and studied Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Anthony Schiavo

Anthony Schiavo is a Research Director at Lux, and leads the Accelerating Materials Innovation program. Under his leadership, the Accelerating Materials Innovation program covers innovation and technology development that intersect with the future of the chemicals and materials industry, sustainability, digital transformation, and consumer transformation.  His expertise includes future materials like graphene, digital technologies like materials informatics, and challenges like the future of plastic waste. Anthony often is called upon to provide strategic advice and guidance for executives in the automotive, chemicals, and consumer goods industries.

Anthony received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Anthony focused his research activities on biomaterial composites and nanoparticle technology, and ethics.