Advanced materials and hydrogen events

These events offer great opportunities for networking, learning, and exploring the latest breakthroughs and trends in the field. Whether you’re interested in sustainable materials, advanced engineering, or the hydrogen economy, these conferences will provide you with valuable insights into the industry’s future.

We will continue to add events to this list as they are confirmed. If you have an event or conference that you think we should feature, please get in touch with the team.

Net-Zero Future 2026 Conference – Darmstadt, Germany (30 September–2 October 2026)

The Net-Zero Future 2026 Conference is focused on research, innovation, and best practice for a sustainable, net-zero carbon built environment. It is not purely a materials conference, but it earns a place because the built environment is one of the places where materials, design, energy performance, and carbon reduction converge. For readers interested in low-carbon construction, material choices, building systems, and the infrastructure of decarbonisation, this adds a useful built-environment dimension.

CO₂ Storage Conference 2026 – Aberdeen, UK (6–7 October 2026)

The CO₂ Storage Conference is a focused UK event on carbon storage, a critical piece of the industrial decarbonisation puzzle. Its value is the specificity: storage, subsurface capability, infrastructure, and the practical delivery of carbon management rather than broad net zero language. For readers tracking CCUS, industrial clusters, North Sea infrastructure, and hard-to-abate sectors, this is a useful event to watch.

Hydrogen Technology World Expo 2026 – Hamburg, Germany (20–22 October 2026)

Hydrogen Technology World Expo is one of the major global gatherings for hydrogen technologies, materials, components, and engineering solutions. Taking place in Hamburg and co-located with Carbon Capture Technology World Expo, it covers low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and applications across stationary and mobile use cases.

Carbon Capture Technology World Expo 2026 – Hamburg, Germany (20–22 October 2026)

Carbon Capture Technology World Expo focuses on the technologies needed to capture, store, transport, and use carbon emissions at scale. Its co-location with Hydrogen Technology World Expo makes it especially relevant because hydrogen, CCUS, and industrial decarbonisation increasingly sit inside the same infrastructure and investment conversations. For readers tracking hard-to-abate industries, carbon utilisation, engineering systems, and the circular carbon economy, this is a useful applied counterpoint to the more research-led materials events.

The Future of Green Steel 2026 – London, UK (28–29 October 2026)

The Future of Green Steel is a UK-based event focused on the decarbonisation of steel production. Steel sits at the centre of industrial materials, construction, infrastructure, and manufacturing, and the transition to lower-carbon production will depend on credible progress across hydrogen, electrification, process innovation, policy, procurement, and capital investment. This is a useful event for readers interested in how hard-to-abate materials sectors are being reshaped.

Advanced Engineering 2026 – Birmingham, UK (4–5 November 2026)

Advanced Engineering is a broader manufacturing and engineering event, but it earns a place here because of its focus on high-value manufacturing, composites, advanced materials and industrial supply chains. The 2026 edition includes the Composites Engineering Show and an Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Materials Forum, making it useful for readers interested in how materials innovation enters real production environments. It is less research-led than E-MRS or MRS, but more connected to the industrial adoption layer.

MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit 2026 – Boston, Massachusetts, USA (29 November–4 December 2026)

The MRS Fall Meeting is one of the world’s major gatherings for materials research. The 2026 edition in Boston brings together the global materials research community across more than 50 symposia, spanning fundamental and applied work. For readers tracking the deep science behind future technologies, from energy materials and quantum materials to soft materials, electronics, biomaterials, and sustainability, MRS is close to essential. It is academic in structure, but deeply relevant to the innovation pipeline.

Industrial Net Zero and Decarbonisation Europe 2026 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (2–3 December 2026)

Industrial Net Zero and Decarbonisation Europe brings together technology leaders and industrial stakeholders focused on cutting emissions across hard-to-abate sectors. It is more strategic and deployment-led than materials-science-led, but advanced materials, hydrogen, CCUS, electrification, and process innovation all sit inside the industrial transition challenge. For readers interested in how net zero moves through factories, assets, infrastructure, and capital planning, this is a useful end-of-year event.

JEC World 2027 – Paris, France (2–4 March 2027)

JEC World is the leading international event for composites and advanced materials. The 2027 edition in Paris brings together the full composites value chain, from materials and processes to applications, live demonstrations, innovation awards, and start-up activity. It is especially relevant for those interested in lightweighting, aerospace, automotive, construction, infrastructure, defence, and the role of advanced composites in performance, efficiency, and decarbonisation.

Materials Week Europe 2027 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (9–10 March 2027)

Materials Week Europe 2027 is a forward-looking addition for the next calendar cycle. Taking place at RAI Amsterdam, it aims to bring together developments in materials science, engineering, and technology across multiple co-located industry events. For readers interested in Europe’s materials innovation ecosystem, this is worth tracking as a broad but relevant gathering point for advanced materials, industry collaboration, and commercial opportunities.

TMS 2027 Annual Meeting & Exhibition – Orlando, Florida, USA (14–18 March 2027)

TMS 2027 is a major international gathering for the minerals, metals, and materials community, bringing together engineers, scientists, business leaders, and other professionals across the materials field. It is a good forward-looking anchor for readers interested in metals, processing, manufacturing, critical minerals, high-performance alloys, and materials systems. The value is in seeing how materials science connects to resilience, supply chains, energy transition, and industrial competitiveness.

European Coatings Show 2027 – Nuremberg, Germany (27–29 April 2027)

Coatings, adhesives, sealants, and construction chemicals are central to performance, durability, energy efficiency, and sustainability across multiple industries. The European Coatings Show brings together the coatings and paint industry, including raw materials, intermediates, laboratory and production equipment, testing, application, and environmental protection. For readers thinking about advanced materials at industrial scale, coatings are one of the quietly important layers where innovation often becomes usable.