Royal Society of Chemistry seminars announced

The full programme of seminars hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry at Lab Innovations this November has been announced.

The programme includes high profile keynote speakers Robin Ince (stand-up comedian, writer and presenter of the Infinite Monkey Cage) and Quentin Cooper (writer and presenter of Radio 4's Material World), and the welcome return of Professor Andrea Sella.

Royal Society of Chemistry Theatre

Day 1 — Wednesday 5 November

10:30 Making sustainability happen (Gareth Kane, Terra Infirma)

11:00 Reducing the environmental impact of your lab (professor Andrea Sella, professor of inorganic chemistry)

11:30 Case study: The Carbon Neutral Laboratory (professor Peter Licence, director of the Carbon-Neutral Laboratory)

13:00 Keynote speaker: Robin Ince

14:00 Chemistry World roundtable discussion: challenges with sustainability

Day 2 - Thursday 6 November

10:30 Deadline June 2015 for new classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation — what you need to do now (Richard White, regulatory specialist, Intertek)

11:00 Fire safety in laboratoriesI (Ian Wrightson, Environment, Health and Safety Committee)

11:30 Horizon 2020 — New European funding for sustainability (Rodney Townsend, European Technology for Sustainable Chemistry)

13:00 Keynote speaker: Quentin Cooper.