Gavin Opens and Chairs First Session of West Midlands Battery Ecosystem Conference

Gavin was invited by Dr Michelle Lynch FRSC to open and chair the first session of the 1st West Midlands Battery Ecosystem conference (WMBE2024), hosted at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). Presentations came from Stephen Weir of Coventry City Council, Dr Lynch of EnabledFuture and Thomas Bartlett of the Faraday Battery Challenge, followed by a panel on the West Midlands Battery Ecosystem supply chain with Jake Powell.

Discussion centred on skills, scale-up and science, and on the role of policy makers in building circular critical materials supply chains, set against the new national Industrial Strategy and the new Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority, Richard Parker. Gavin was also due to present work from the Faraday Institution ReLiB Project, Met4Tech and TreFCo at the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials, and to join a panel on the circular economy of battery materials.