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.

Energy Materials 2026: 4th World Conference on Energy Materials – Anaheim, California, USA (6–10 July 2026)

Energy Materials 2026 sits directly at the intersection of materials research, energy generation, storage, and sustainability. Jointly organised by the Chinese Society for Metals and The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, it brings together researchers, engineers, and industry professionals working on the materials that will underpin future energy systems. For readers interested in the real substrate of the energy transition, from storage to conversion and durability, this is a serious technical conference rather than a broad clean-tech showcase.

The Advanced Materials Show 2026 – Birmingham, UK (8–9 July 2026)

The Advanced Materials Show is a useful UK anchor for readers who want to see where materials innovation is moving into engineering, manufacturing, and commercial application. The event covers nanomaterials, composites, polymers, ceramics, adhesives, sealants, coatings, metals, and textiles, with conference content around R&D advances and market developments. It is broader and more exhibition-led than some of the research conferences on this list, but the co-location with ceramics, battery systems, and vehicle electrification makes it a strong practical event for materials-led innovation.

The Advanced Ceramics Show 2026 – Birmingham, UK (8–9 July 2026)

Ceramics are increasingly important to energy, electronics, aerospace, defence, medical devices, high-temperature environments and industrial decarbonisation. Co-located with The Advanced Materials Show, Battery Cells & Systems Expo, and Vehicle Electrification Expo, this brings technical ceramics into a wider manufacturing and materials innovation context. For readers interested in performance under stress, thermal management, durability, and next-generation industrial components, this is more relevant than its modest name might suggest.

Battery Cells & Systems Expo 2026 – Birmingham, UK (8–9 July 2026)

Battery Cells & Systems Expo focuses on battery innovation across cells, systems, manufacturing, supply chains, and end-use applications. It brings together buyers, engineers, and integrators from automotive, energy storage, defence, electronics, and related sectors, making it useful for readers tracking the materials and system-level challenges behind electrification. The strongest fit here is not EV hype, but the deeper question of how batteries become safer, cheaper, higher-performing, and more scalable.

Faraday Conference 2026: Next Frontiers in Energy Storage – University of Nottingham, UK (8–10 September 2026)

Convened by The Faraday Institution, the Faraday Conference 2026 focuses on the next frontiers in energy storage and showcases battery science from the UK and internationally. For readers interested in the research base behind batteries, materials innovation, storage performance, and the translation of science into industrial capability. It is technical, timely, and directly connected to one of the central bottlenecks in the net zero transition.

E-MRS 2026 Fall Meeting & Exhibit – Warsaw, Poland (14–17 September 2026)

The European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting is a major European forum for advanced materials research. The 2026 edition in Warsaw will bring together parallel symposia, invited speakers, oral and poster presentations, and a plenary session across materials science and engineering. This is a strong research-led European event, particularly for readers who want to understand the science pipeline feeding future technologies in energy, electronics, manufacturing, sustainability, and advanced devices.

Renewable Materials Conference 2026 – Siegburg, Germany and online (22–24 September 2026)

The Renewable Materials Conference focuses on replacing fossil carbon with biomass, CO₂ utilisation, and recycling, covering the full value chain from feedstocks and the chemical industry through to materials, product manufacturers, investors, and policymakers. Its relevance lies in the move from “sustainable materials” as a brand claim to renewable carbon as an industrial and materials systems question. For readers watching circular chemistry, fossil-free plastics, CO₂-based materials, and policy frameworks for material transition, this is a sharper event than many general sustainability conferences.

Green Steel World Conference 2026 – Düsseldorf, Germany (23–24 September 2026)

Green Steel World Conference focuses on one of the hardest and most important industrial decarbonisation challenges: how to make steel production compatible with net zero. The event brings together professionals, researchers, and innovators working on sustainable steel production, including technology pathways, industrial deployment, and sector transformation. It is particularly relevant for readers interested in hydrogen, electrification, low-carbon process heat, industrial materials, and the future of heavy manufacturing.

AMI Compounding & Recycling Expo Europe 2026 – Frankfurt, Germany (23–24 September 2026)

AMI’s Compounding & Recycling Expo Europe brings together the compounding and recycling sectors, with technical content across material processing, testing, extrusion, recycling, feedstock quality, regulatory pressures, and sustainable plastics. For readers interested in how circularity becomes technically viable in real supply chains, this is a practical, materials-focused event.

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.