About This Webinar
Industry stands at the threshold of a clean revolution. Breakthrough approaches to producing steel, cement, fuels, chemicals, and other resource-intensive products are moving beyond pilot projects into full-scale operations. These innovations are transforming supply chains, strengthening economies, boosting security and unlocking trillions of dollars in global investment opportunities.
Join Engineering for Change, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Mission Possible Partnership for the first in the CATALYZE Series of discussions on the energy transition and the future of industry. We’ll explore why decarbonization is critical to ensuring sustainable operations and profits, and why the transition to clean industry is inevitable.
What we’ll cover
- The Momentum Behind Clean Industry: Over 80 clean industrial plants are already operating worldwide, with 900+ projects in development across 70 countries. The technologies work, the projects exist, and scaling up is the next critical step.
- The Third Pillar of the Energy Transition: Discover how clean industry complements efficiency and renewable power to complete the global energy transformation.
- The Role of Engineers in Driving Change: Understand the engineering and economic forces shaping this shift—and why engineers are central to building an unstoppable industrial transformation.
Looking Ahead: ASME CATALYZE
Grounded in this discussion, the webinar will introduce ASME CATALYZE, a two-day summit on June 17–18, 2026, at Newlab in Detroit, Michigan. CATALYZE will convene engineers, investors, and industry leaders to explore how to build, fund, and scale sustainable industrial systems. Register now and join us in June!
Presenters
Iana Aranda is the President of Engineering for Change and Managing Director of Sustainability in the Engineering for Sustainable Development division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In these roles, Ms. Aranda leads cross-functional efforts to develop sustainability business strategy focusing on advancing engineering knowledge, enhancing technical workforce readiness, facilitating the energy transition, and accelerating innovation to improve the quality of life for people and the planet. She also oversees ASME’s emerging climate technology and sustainability stakeholder engagement groups.
Alain Lefevre is Co-Chair of ASME CATALYZE and Sustainability Strategy Director for Schneider Electric’s Industrial Automation Global Strategy Team, focusing on integrating sustainability into go-to-market strategies and operations. He is a part-time fellow with the World Economic Forum on the Industry Net Zero Accelerator and a Member-at-Large on the ASME Committee on Sustainability.
Mission Possible Partnership will share their expertise on clean industry from the Build Clean Now campaign. MPP propels a committed community of CEOs from carbon-intensive industries, together with their financiers, customers and suppliers, to agree and act on decarbonizing industry and transport in this decade. Supported by an expanding network of nearly 300 partners across corporate, finance, and policy, MPP is empowering high-ambition sector initiatives in seven target sectors, which mobilize the full value chain to decarbonize these carbon-intensive industries.
