REACT Conference
2nd International Conference on
Responsible Electronics
and Circular Technologies "REACT"
Dates: Tuesday, 17 November - Wednesday, 18 November 2026
Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC)
99 George Street, G1 1RD Glasgow
Exhibition
Opportunities for showcasing your
technology and research in the breaks and poster sessions are available.
Email react@gla.ac.uk
Open Access
Proceedings:
Join academic and industry experts as they showcase the state-of-the-art in sustainable ICT, from materials to systems, spanning from fundamental technologies to high-TRL solutions.
You can expect invited keynotes, industry collaboration pitches, panel discussions, and an exhibition from leading research groups.
Call for Papers: present your work to an interdisciplinary audience and through open-access proceedings. We welcome oral and poster papers in all areas of sustainable and green electronics, including:
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Electronics Design for Circularity
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Sustainable electronics from PCBs, packages, to semiconductors. Across applications from power, RF, to computing and communication
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New Materials in Electronics
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Additive manufacturing, recyclable bio-derived materials, biodegradable electronics, and material characterisation and reliability for sustainability.
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Critical Raw Materials (CRM) and Urban Mining
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recovery of rare and strategic elements, materials traceability, resource security, scalable recycling technologies
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Sustainable Electronics Manufacturing & Industry Initiatives
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Decarbonising semiconductor manufacturing, Water and energy management, Scope 1–3 emissions reduction, ESG reporting and metrics
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Enabling Green Data Centres
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Low-power architectures, cooling innovations, circular hardware design for hyperscale infrastructure
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Electronics Towards Digital Product Passports
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Tracking electronics across the lifecycle, electronics for tracking sustainability metrics, LCA, integration with EU and global policy developments
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Business and Policy
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Regulatory frameworks shaping sustainable electronics, Investment, risk, and green innovation funding, international trade and supply chain resilience
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Value Retention for Electronics
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Repair, refurbishing, remanufacturing
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Indexed Proceedings papers (3-4 pages) are due after acceptance, and will be published in Engineering Proceedings. Extended work can be submitted to a Focus Issue, in IOP Sustainability Science and Technology.
Call for Papers Key Dates
Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: 21 June 2026 (23:00 BST)
Full Proceedings paper due: October 2025
Key Note & Invited Speakers
We are delighted to welcome our keynote and invited speakers, a distinguished group of industry leaders and researchers who will share inspiring insights, fresh perspectives, and valuable expertise throughout the conference.
Plenary Talk
TBD
Professor Mike Berners-Lee
Founder & Director, Small World Consulting
Professor, Lancaster University
Mike Berners-Lee is a researcher and writer on carbon footprinting. He is a professor in Practice at Lancaster University and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting, based in the Lancaster Environment Centre at the university. He is considered an expert on carbon footprints. Professor Berners-Lee is the founder of Small World Consulting, an associate company of Lancaster University, which is a world leader in the field of supply chain carbon metrics and management. Small World works with organisations of all sizes and sectors, from the world’s largest tech giants to SMEs. He is a Professor in Practice at Lancaster University’s Environment Centre, where his research includes sustainable food systems and carbon metrics.
Plenary Talk
TBD
Doctor Nils F. Nissen
Head of the Environmental & Reliability Engineering department, Fraunhofer IZM
Dr. Nils F. Nissen is the Head of the Environmental & Reliability Engineering department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) in Berlin.
Invited Speaker
TBD
Dr. Margreet de Kok
Senior Researcher & Project Manager, TNO Eindhoven - Holst Centre
Mrs. Dr. Margreet de Kok (female) received her PhD in polymer chemistry in 1999 at the Limburg University Centre of Diepenbeek (B) on the synthesis and evaluation of electroluminescent polymers for OLEDs. She joined Philips Research in 1999 as senior researcher and was responsible for the material development and new applications of OLEDs comprising biomedical applications. In 2008 she joined TNO / Holst Centre to work on integration of (organic) electronics in stretchable and wearable systems including textile integration. Free form factors is the main benefit for printed electronics she is currently exploring for automotive applications like smart surfaces. She is the project leader of the team developing In Mold Electronics and Thermoforming of printed electronics.
Invited Speaker
TBD
Professor Frances Wall
President, Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
Professor of Applied Mineralogy, University of Exeter
Frances Wall is a geochemist who is a professor of applied mineralogy at the Camborne School of Mines at the University of Exeter. She is a president of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Wall is an expert in geology and process mineralogy of rare-earth elements.
Professor Wall was named one of the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining 2016 and awarded the William Smith medal of the Geological Society of London for applied and economic aspects of geology in 2019.
