8:00 am
11:00 am
1:00 pm
3:00 pm
5:00 pm
7:00 pm
No Conference Content
There is no conference content on Monday 2 June
Partner Associations Meeting
GCCA Board Meeting
GCCA Board only
Private Dinners: 1. Member Company CEOs 2. Association Partners
(Two separate events)
7:45 am
8:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:45 pm
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
6:45 pm
7:30 pm
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
Gathering Opening and Leaders Discussion
Industry Strategic discussion, GCCA Progress and next steps
GCCA Members Only
Coffee Break & Exhibition
Conference Launch: Delivering for Society – Technology and Progress
Cement and concrete are the world’s essential building materials, fundamental to our modern world and for building the sustainable and resilient communities our planet needs. Halfway through the ‘decade to deliver’ on decarbonisation, how are we progressing, and what are the key levers to ensure we can deliver for our businesses and for the world.
Lunch, Networking & Exhibition
Global Collaboration to Achieve Enabling Policies
Industrial transformation requires collaborative action to deliver the necessary enabling policies. How can this be achieved? How can multi-government collaborative action facilitate better policies sooner? What progress is being made with respect to policies that impact across borders? What is the role of industrial advocacy to engage and encourage policymakers?
Coffee Break & Exhibition
The Evolving Business Case: Financing the Transition
The net zero transition cannot happen without the required financing in place. What are the challenges and opportunities in financing each of the steps from research to full scale implementation? What is working and who is helping heavy industry accelerate the transition? What can be learnt from other industries and other regions to support companies deliver decarbonisation results.
Briefing on GCCA Working Group Program By Co-Chairs
WKG Group Co-Chairs in Board Room
Drinks Reception
Gala Dinner
8:00 am
8:15 am
9:00 am
11:00 am
11:30 am
1:00 pm
2:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
Registration, Networking & Exhibition
Networking
Circularity and the Built Environment
The construction and operation of buildings and infrastructure are responsible for forty percent of the world’s carbon emissions, and urbanisation means an increasing majority of this is in cities. Circularity underpins much of the decarbonisation potential and brings with it many other benefits. What policies, initiatives and tools can help deliver these benefits to the billions of city dwellers across the world?
Coffee Break & Exhibition
Circularity: Energy and Materials
A circularity approach to the whole life of built assets is opening up many new material resource loops that are being increasingly utilised, bringing to life a new dimension to the traditional focus on waste. What has enabled this new approach to be applied on real projects and how can we replicate this all over the world with many different challenges? How can best practices for waste streams become the new normal?
Lunch & Exhibition
Policy and Futures Perspectives
Keynote speakers will bring to life a picture of the optimal cities of the future and the accompanying policymaking and policies that can deliver a brighter future. How will challenges be overcome to deliver this vision? How can the non-negotiables of safe, healthy, resilient and sustainable communities be delivered, whilst balancing ongoing aspirations of wealth and health for all parts of the world?
Coffee Break & Exhibition
Resilience: Climate Adaptation
2024 broke temperature records, exacerbating wildfires, droughts, flooding and severity of storms. The result is increased recognition of the value of resilience in our communities and built environment. For climate adaptation to catch-up to mitigation, what is needed from policy makers, material producers and all city stakeholders? Is our resilience deficit too local and too inconsistent to get the policy attention that climate mitigation has achieved? Is the financial risk from lack of resilience going to unlock a fundamental shift in action? A fundamental driver to the Circularity paradigm is reducing resource use – improved resilience delivers this reduction. How can this be increasingly recognised, leveraged and delivered?
8:30 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
12:30 pm
1:30 pm
3:30 pm
Field Visit – Torre Reforma
The first of our two outstanding field trips, which will take us (just 20 mins away from our hotel) to the Torre Reforma district to look closer at sustainability and resilience in action, including a tour of the iconic Torre Reforma earthquake resilient skyscraper, and briefing from its award-winning architect.
Coffees & Networking
Nature Based Solutions (NBS)
Incorporating NBS in cities can mitigate flash fooding, urban heat island effect and air quality dangers. In densely populated and busy cities, fully “green” solutions are not possible and so blending grey and green infrastructure is the key. Where can best practices at scale be found and what are the underlying enabling conditions. How can the most used material in the world, concrete – be best deployed in these NBS? And what best practice NBS are being applied to the sourcing of concretes constituents: cement and aggregates.
Lunch
GCCA Innovation Focus
- Innovandi Start-up Showcase
- Innovandi Research Network
Summit Close
Official close of the Circular Cities Summit
7:00 am
Tepeaca Cement Plant – Site Visit
Join us for an exclusive visit to one of Cemex’s largest cement plants across their global operations in Tepeaca, Mexico, with a production capacity of 4.7 million tons per year. Discover how it operates below Cemex’s 2030 Scope 1 carbon objectives and explore its sustainable initiatives in decarbonisation, alternative fuels, water conservation, and biodiversity, all supported by local communities.
This field trip will involve an overnight stay (Thurs, 5th June) to ensure delegates have the opportunity to enjoy a detailed visit to this state-of-the-art plant on Friday, 6th June.
Delegates wishing to attend will depart the conference hotel – Intercontinental Presidente in Mexico City late afternoon, Thursday, 5th June, and will travel by coach (approx. 3 hours) to the city of Puebla. GCCA is providing the transport and overnight accommodation, including breakfast, at the hotel in the historical city of Puebla.
Amir Ehsaei
Senior Sustainability Engineering, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Andrei Marcu
Executive Director, European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST)
Enrique Norten
Principal and Founder, TEN Arquitectos
Fernando A. González
Former Chief Executive Officer, Cemex and GCCA President
Joe Brancato, FAIA
Managing Principal, Gensler
Juan Caballero
CEO, Build Change
Maria José García
Executive Director, FICEM (Federacion Interamericana del Cemento)
Peter Templeton
President and CEO, U.S. Green Building Council
Rana Ghoneim
Chief of the Division of Energy and Climate Action, UNIDO
Scott Dunn
Chief Strategy Officer, Asia AECOM and Executive Committee Chair, Urban Land Institute
Selwin Hart
Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary General for Climate Change, United Nations
Thomas Guillot
CEO, GCCA
Thomas joined the GCCA from Holcim, bringing 20 years of sustainability experience with a key focus on circularity and industrial ecology in both operational and functional roles. Most recently he led the development of Holcim’s decarbonisation programme and its circular business (Geocycle) across the EMEA region, and played leading roles in the development of various strategic initiatives, business development activities, organisational redesign and industrial rationalisation programmes.
Thomas leads GCCA’s global net zero implementation programme as well as global initiatives on innovation and international engagement. He is the interface with cement industry leaders, as the GCCA is a CEO led initiative.