Cementitious Materials International Technical & Trade Congress
Date: March 11–12, 2026
Venue: Hilton Anatole Dallas
Room: Verandah Parkview Meeting Room
Preliminary event program
Day 1 – March 11, 2026
08:00–09:00 | Delegate Registration
09:00–09:15 | Opening Remarks
Beatrice Ene, Managing Director & Head of Events, Industry Link
09:15–11:00 | SESSION 1
• Eco Material Becomes a CRH Company – Driving Cement to Cementitious
Grant Quasha, Chairman & CEO, Eco Material Technologies
• Beyond Fly Ash: Scaling Next-Generation SCMs and Blended Cements for Low-Carbon Concrete in North
America
David Perkins, SVP Sustainability & Public Affairs, Heidelberg Materials
• Presentation by Dynamis/ Loesche
• ‘CalPortland’s Cement Innovation: From Blended Cements to CO₂ Mineralization’
Dr. Luis Baquerizo Ibarra, Director, Central Research Laboratory, CalPortland
• Networking Session – speed dating
11:00–11:30 | Coffee Break
11:30–13:15 | SESSION 2
• A Practitioner’s Perspective: Challenges and Obstacles to Implementing Sustainable and Reduced
Carbon Concrete
Dr. Rich Szecsy, CEO, Big Town Concrete
• Opportunities and Perils in Setting Buy Clean GWP Limits for Cement and Concrete
Tien Peng, Co-founder, GreenPlum Street LLC
• From Material Selection to Performance: Texas Concrete Pavements
Dr. Nancy Beltran, Director of Concrete Pavements, Cement Council of Texas
• Presentation
Ryan Morrow, President, Firefly NA
13:15–14:30 | Lunch
14:30–16:30 | SESSION 3
• Reduced-Carbon Concrete: Incremental Progress Is Still Progress
Dean A. Frank, Principal/Consultant, Dean Frank Associates, LLC
• 2026 Concrete Sustainability Update
Tiffany Reed-Villarreal, Director, Sustainability Codes & Standards, NRMCA
• Presentation
Isabelle Rojas, Technology Advisor, Building and Infrastructure Materials, Contractor of the U.S.
Department of Energy
Panel Discussion: Cementitious Futures: New Chemistries, New Realities
• Moderator: TBC
• Panelists:
o Quentin Philippe, Alithic
o Loren Burnett, President & Chief Executive Officer, Prometheus Materials Inc.
o TBC
16:30 | Networking
Day 2 – March 12, 2026
09:00–11:00 | SESSION 4
• Reducing Clinker Content Using Blended Type IL Cements & Calcined Clays
Dr. Maria Juenger, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin & President, American Concrete Institute
• Innovative Performance-Based Approaches for Effective Utilization of Alternative SCMs in Durable
Structural Concrete
Dr. Anol Mukhopadhyay, Director, Concrete Innovation Lab, CIR Materials and Rigid Pavement, Texas
A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)
• Advances in Magnesium-Based Binders: Resources, Formulation, Performance, and Carbon Negativity
Hongyan Ma, Professor & Director, Laboratory of Future Cements and Carbon-Negative Initiatives
(FUCCI), Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Engineering Next-Generation SCMs for Carbon Sequestration, Faster Strength Gain, and Higher Cement
Efficiency
Jialai Wang, Professor, The University of Alabama
11:00–11:30 | Coffee Break
11:30–13:00 | SESSION 5
• CO₂-Neutral Fluidized Bed Drying for Cementitious Materials
Julian Ravenshorst & Daniel Verbaan, TEMA Process
• High-Reactivity Natural Pozzolans for Low-Carbon Cement and Concrete: Ultrafine Grinding,
Mechanochemical Activation, and Industrial Implementation
Juan Burga, CEO & Dr. Bruno Bertolotti, R&D Manager, Cemento Yura
• Ready-Mix Concrete Carbon Budgeting for Buildings and Infrastructure: A Framework for Actionable
Emission Reduction
Corey J. Zollinger, Director – Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions, CEMEX
• AggrePlex: Unlocking the Power of Activated Ground Glass Pozzolan PozzoDyne™ (AGGP)
Tim Kuebler, CEO, AggrePlex
13:00–14:00 | Lunch
14:00–15:00 | SESSION 6
• Slag Cement: Advancing Sustainability and Performance in the Modern Cement Industry
Darren Wilbanks, Technical Service Manager, Texas Lehigh Cement Company
• The State of Low-Carbon Concrete in the Built Environment – NEU’s Perspective
Kerry Sutton, Executive Director, NEU Concrete – ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete
• Presentation (Pending)
Bruno Martins, Managing Editor, Minerals and Fertilizers – Americas, S&P Global
Closing Remarks
Beatrice Ene, Managing Director & Head of Events, Industry Link
Conference End
