**In-person places are now fully booked. Virtual tickets are still available, but please see the note below that the conference will not be fully hybrid**

This two-day conference, hosted by C-DICE, CO2RE, CREDS, ERA, EnergyREV, IDRIC, TFI Network+, UKCCSRC and UKERC, will bring together early career researchers (ECRs) from across the net zero community. It will include a mix of keynote speakers, parallel sessions (skills based and topic based) and a networking dinner.

The conference aims to provide an opportunity for key research organisations and ECRs to meet and network with peers from different research communities within the wider net zero research community, and build a collaborative community.

Taking place at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, there is also an option to attend virtually. The event will not be fully hybrid, however, and only sessions taking place in the main room will be streamed.

Registration details will be shared with the host organisations for the purpose of organising this conference. Details will be deleted within six months of the event.

Please ensure you only select the in person ticket if you are attending in person so that we can ensure accurate catering provision is provided and limit the potential food waste (please do not select both in person and virtual tickets).

Catering will be 50/50 vegetarian/vegan.

ECR Definition:

PhD students studying a net zero related topic
PDRA who has not been a PI on a grant >£100k (including researchers on precarious (fixed term or project funded) contracts)
Please contact the organising team (info@ukccsrc.ac.uk) if you consider yourself an ECR but do not fit into the criteria outlined above

Agenda:

Wednesday 30th November

11:30-12:30 - Registration and lunch

12:30-13:00 - Welcome and keynote - Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IDRIC

13:00-13:30 - Icebreaker activity

13:30-14:00 - Break

14:00-15:00 - Plenary session: COP27 - Reflections and actions

15:00-15:30 - Break

15:30-17:00 - Skills-based workshops (parallel sessions): Net Zero Policy workshop; Effective Industry Engagement; and Net Zero Career Pathways - Knowledge Exchange

17:00-18:30 - Networking reception

19:00-22:00 - Conference dinner

Thursday 1st December

8:30-9:00 - Arrivals and coffee

9:00-10:30 - Net zero topical discussions (parallel sessions): COP27 World Cafe; Social and Environmental Challenges of Net Zero; and Industrial Decarbonisation - People & Place

10:30-11:00 - Break

11:00-12:00 - Plenary session: What are the main challenges in delivering Net Zero - bottlenecks and barriers

12:00-12:30 - Keynote - Matthew Winning, UCL - and closing remarks

12:30-14:00 - Networking lunch and departures

ECR Net Zero Conference