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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Date: Sunday, 15/June/2025

9:00am - 5:00pm

Pre-Conference Workshop 1: Infrastructure Misfits
Location: Graduate Hotel: Think Room 3

9:00am - 5:00pm

Pre-Conference Workshop 2: LCA of Emerging Technologies Working Group
Location: Graduate Hotel: Think Room 4

2:30pm - 5:30pm

Pre-Conference Workshop 3: Climate Fresk
Location: Graduate Hotel: Think Room 5

5:30pm - 7:00pm

Pre-Conference: Social Event 1
Location: Graduate Hotel: The Beacon Restaurant

Date: Monday, 16/June/2025

7:30am - 8:30am

PC1: BREAKFAST ON OWN

8:30am - 10:00am

Workshop 2: Science Communication Workshop
Location: Campus Club - Room AB
Session Chair: Amy Aines

8:30am - 10:00am

Workshop 1a: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Part 1]
Location: Campus Club - Room C

8:30am - 10:00am

Registration: Early Registration
Location: Campus Club - Lounge Corridor

10:00am - 10:20am

Transition 1-I

10:20am - 10:40am

Opening & Welcome
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

10:40am - 11:30am

Keynote I: Sustainability Hotdish: Welcome to Minnesota!
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

Hear from Dr. Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota about new research into food sustainability, covering on air quality, food waste, and other topics—presented with a focus on the North Star State.

11:30am - 12:30pm

Lunch
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

12:30pm - 12:40pm

Transition 1-II

12:40pm - 1:25pm

Lightning 1: AIB & HDS
Location: Campus Club - Room AB
Session Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell

12:40pm - 1:25pm

Lightning 3: ITM and CST
Location: Campus Club - Room C
Session Chair: Alysha Helmrich

12:40pm - 1:25pm

Lightning 2: SRE
Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building
Session Chair: Samuel Markolf

1:25pm - 1:45pm

Transition 1-III

1:45pm - 3:05pm

SRE1: Modeling Sustainable and Resilient Macro-scale Electricity Systems
Location: Campus Club - Room AB
Session Chair: Margaret Grace O'Connell
Session Chair: Chayse Monroe Lavallais

1:45pm - 3:05pm

HDS1: Considerations for Stakeholder Engagement
Location: Campus Club - Room C
Session Chair: Elizabeth Wachs

1:45pm - 3:05pm

Lightning 4: SRI
Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building
Session Chair: Obste Therasme

3:05pm - 3:25pm

Transition 1-IV

3:25pm - 4:45pm

Workshop 1b: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Part 2]
Location: Campus Club - Room AB
Session Chair: Shelie Miller

3:25pm - 4:45pm

Special Session 1: Restructuring EPA's WARM Model
Location: Campus Club - Room C

Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session

3:25pm - 4:45pm

Special Session 2: Advancing Harmonized Biogenic Carbon Accounting in LCA
Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building

4:45pm - 5:00pm

Transition 1-V

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster Session
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025

8:00am - 8:30am

Breakfast
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

8:30am - 9:20am

Plenary 1: Tools of the Trade - Overview of Technical Workshops for Sustainability, LCA, and Industrial Ecology Analysis
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

This plenary session will feature brief presentations from the organizers of the Technical Workshops occuring Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. Speakers include Lise Laurin of EarthShift Global, Catherine Birney of Easter Research Group, Ben Young of Eastern Research Group, and Brandon Kuczenski of University of California-Santa Barbara

This plenary session will feature brief presentations from the organizers the Technical Workshops occuring Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. The speakers for this session will introduce the primary topic/tool of their workshops, provide illustrative examples of how the tools can be used, and provide a general overview of the aims of their technical workshops.

Topics to be discussed include:

Sustainable Return on Investment (led by Lise Laurin)
U.S. EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling (led by Ben Young and Catherine Birney)
Antelope - an open source tool for LCA benchmarking and analysis (led by Brandon Kuczenski)

9:20am - 9:35am

Transition 2-I

9:35am - 10:55am

SRE2: Meeting Minerals and Materials Demands for Sustainable and Resilient Energy Systems
Location: Campus Club - Room AB
Session Chair: I. Daniel Posen

9:35am - 10:55am

AIB1: Towards Negative-Carbon Bioproducts
Location: Campus Club - Room C
Session Chair: Poulami Karan

9:35am - 10:55am

SRI1: General Infrastructures and Transportation Systems
Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building
Session Chair: Md. Uzzal Hossain

10:55am - 11:15am

Transition 2-II

11:15am - 12:35pm

CST1: Sustainable Innovation, Materials and Assessment
Location: Campus Club - Room AB
Session Chair: Experience Nduagu

11:15am - 12:35pm

ITM1: Tools and Methods for LCA
Location: Campus Club - Room C
Session Chair: Oksana Makarova

11:15am - 12:35pm

SRE3: Sustainable Uses of Fossil Fuels in the Energy Transition
Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building
Session Chair: Jenna Trost

12:35pm - 12:45pm

Transition 2-III

12:45pm - 1:30pm

Lunch II
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

1:30pm - 2:15pm

Plenary 2: Panel: Enhancing Assessment Quality in LCA for Emerging Technologies
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

2:15pm - 2:30pm

Transition 2-IV

2:30pm - 3:50pm

SRE4: Industrial Energy Use and Hydrogen for Sustainable and Resilient Energy
Location: Campus Club - Room AB
Session Chair: Renee Obringer

2:30pm - 3:50pm

HDS2: Equity and Intersectional Approaches
Location: Campus Club - Room C
Session Chair: Eleanor M. Hennessy

2:30pm - 3:50pm

Technical Workshop 1a: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling [Part 1]
Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building

Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session

3:50pm - 4:10pm

Transition 2-V

4:10pm - 5:30pm

SRI2: Circularity in Wastewater and Recycling Systems
Location: Campus Club - Room AB
Session Chair: Margaret Busse

4:10pm - 5:30pm

ITM2: Cross-sector Modeling Innovations for Life Cycle and Sustainability
Location: Campus Club - Room C
Session Chair: Qingshi Tu

4:10pm - 5:30pm

Technical Workshop 1b: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling [Part 1 Continued]
Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building

Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session

5:30pm - 6:00pm

Transition 2-VI

5:45pm - 9:00pm

Professional Development: Speed Networking and Social Gathering hosted by ISSST Student Leaders
Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building
Session Chair: Marie Buhl
Session Chair: Alana Teresa Smith

Session will begin in the Presidents Room, followed by dinner and networking at the Town Hall Brewery, located a short walk from the conference location.

Are you looking for opportunities, Co-PIs, advice or new colleagues? Then this session is for you. Get paired with young talent or professionals in academia/industry for a couple of minutes before rotating to another small group. Follow up on the missed connection board, and be sure to stick around to continue networking at the Town Hall Brewery social. Do not forget to bring your business cards!

6:00pm - 9:00pm

Social Event: Multiple locations in Minneapolis

Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025

7:00am - 8:00am

ISSST Planning Meeting I
Location: Campus Club - Room AB

8:00am - 8:30am

Breakfast II
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

8:30am - 9:20am

Keynote II: Creating a value chain for new industrial product: The Minnesota Sustainable Aviation Fuel Hub
Location: Campus Club - West Wing

9:20am - 9:35am

Transition 3-I

9:35am - 10:55am