Stefan Minner is a Full Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the School of Management, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a core-member of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI). Currently, he is Vice Dean of Research and Innovation at TUM School of Management. His research interests using methods of operations research, artificial intelligence and machine learning are in global supply chain design, transportation optimization and inventory management. His work was published in many peer reviewed journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, Transportation Research Parts B, C and E, European Journal of Operational Research, and the International Journal of Production Research. For his research output, he is currently listed among the top 1% business professors in German speaking countries by Wirtschaftswoche and among the top 2% researchers worldwide in a citation-based ranking by Stanford University. He serves on several editorial boards of logistics and operations research journals. Currently, Stefan Minner is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Economics. Stefan Minner is a fellow of the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) and the International Foundation of Production Research (IFPR). He received the PhD supervisory award at TUM School of Management in 2024 and the Science Award for his lifetime achievements by the German Operations Research Society in 2025.
Keynote Speech: Circular Intelligence – Business models, data-driven optimization, and coordination
Since 2022, Timothée has served as ExxonMobil’s Senior Advisor in Sustainability for plastics, supporting the newly created recycling business and various plastic businesses. In this capacity, he has coordinated work in Life Cycle Analysis and Material Flow Analysis, including co-authoring Avery et al 2025 and Tacker et al 2025. Timothée also contributed as a reviewer for the Consensus Study Report “Municipal Solid Waste Recycling in the United States” by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, requested by the U.S. Congress. Timothée is a vice-chair of the OECD-BIAC committee for Energy and Environment. He is currently based in Houston. From 2019 to 2021, Timothée was based in Shanghai, where he held global marketing roles in Butyl and Elastomer businesses, and was a Senior Strategy Advisor for the Chemical company. From 1998 to 2019, he worked in the United States, Belgium and France in various roles in ExxonMobil’s Polymer and Lubricant businesses, as well as a 2007-2010 role in Public and Government Affairs working on several key regulations (Reach, EU Emission Trading Scheme). Timothée studied in France, the UK, and Germany, graduating from two of France’s leading scientific and engineering schools: École Polytechnique (1996) and École des Mines de Paris (1998).
Sangwon Suh is Xinghua Chair Professor at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His research examines interactions between the technosphere and the environment, with particular attention to how flows of materials and energy shape sustainability outcomes. His work has contributed to life cycle assessment (LCA) and industrial ecology, advancing both methodological foundations and large-scale empirical applications. His recent research integrates artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and computational modeling to support scalable sustainability assessment and decision support. The methods and datasets he and his collaborators have developed are used globally in software tools, international standards, policy analyses, and corporate disclosures. Dr. Suh has served as a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Resource Panel (IRP), as a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and as a member of working groups contributing to international standardization efforts, including the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). His work has been recognized with the Lifetime LCA Leadership Award from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA), the Leontief Memorial Prize from the International Input–Output Association (IIOA), the Laudise Medal from the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE), the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship from the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.
Raymond R. Tan is a Distinguished Full Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, a University Fellow, and the Vice-President for Research and Innovation of De La Salle University. He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences and an Academician of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology. Prof. Tan works in the areas of process systems engineering and process integration, and is best known as the co-developer of the carbon emissions pinch analysis technique. He has over 600 Scopus-indexed publications with an h-index of 66. He is a founding editor-in-chief of Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, an associate editor of Sustainable Production and Consumption, and an editorial board member of other scientific journals. He is also a multi-awarded academic who has been listed in the Scopus database of the top 2% of the world’s scientists since 2019 and in the Reuters “Hot List” of the 1,000 most globally influential climate researchers.
Keynote Speech: Resource constraints and enablers of deep decarbonization
Fengqi You is the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Cornell University. He serves as Co-Director of the Cornell University AI for Science Institute (CUAISci) and the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA), and as Director of the Cornell AI for Sustainability Initiative (CAISI). His research advances systems engineering theory and computational methods, with applications in materials informatics, energy systems, digital agriculture, and sustainability. He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications in journals including Nature, Science, and PNAS. His research work has been featured on numerous journal covers and widely covered by major international media outlets. He has received over 30 national and international honors and serves in editorial roles for several academic journals.
