Key Dates
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 June 2026
Extended Abstract Acceptance Notification: 31 July 2026
Presenter Registration Deadline (Oral & Poster): September 2026
Early Bird Registration Deadline: 14 August 2026
Full Paper Submission Deadline: To be announced
Posters and Oral Presentations
Researchers are invited to submit an extended abstract for review for either oral presentation or posters, with prizes awarded at the conference for best contributions in both categories. All contributors will also be invited to submit full papers for review soon after the conference within a Special Issue.
*Special Issue details will be published soon.
Abstracts for presentation are invited under the following themes:
Policy, Finance and System Drivers
Global and national drivers for industrial decarbonisation
Finance, policy and regulation for iron and steel – synthesis of emerging directions
Energy infrastructure: overcoming deployment barriers
Industrial hubs and their role in lowering transition costs
Technology and Process Innovation
Electrification of hitemp processes (calcination, reduction, reheating
and related operations)
Beneficiation and recovery: upgrading, co-products and circularity
Exemplars in high-temperature industrial decarbonisation
Sector Pathways
Iron and steel: prospective transition pathways
Alumina and critical minerals: prospective transition pathways
Cement and lime: prospective transition pathways
HILT CRC ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR MEMBERS
THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER TO FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2026