Burçin Temel McKenna is the Global Head of Carbon Capture Competency Center at Ramboll. She has extensive industrial experience with her past R&D leadership roles in sectors such as chemicals, mining and cement from Topsoe and FLSmidth where these sectors are characterized as hard-to-abate and in need of carbon capture. Before joining Ramboll, Burcin was heading the Green Cement Solutions R&D at FLSmidth, where her teams scaled up and commercialized flagship sustainability technologies. Prior to her cement role, she was heading the Research and Partnerships function at FLSmidth Mining, forming strategic alliances and creating partnerships for new technology development and sales. Burçin has extensive chemicals technology experience from Topsoe, where she worked 9 years after her Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara and postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley. She also serves as a board member at EIT Raw Materials.
Attending
Hydrogen Summit
Realizing a carbon capture project successfully
Thursday, Jan 15, 2026
4:10 AM - 4:30 AM | America/Los_Angeles
H2 Hub Stage
Hydrogen Summit
Investing in carbon capture & utilization: Turning CO₂ into a valuable asset
This session will explore how CO₂ emissions can shift from being a regulatory burden to a source of value through advanced technologies and innovative business models. The panel will examine the latest carbon capture and utilization (CCU) solutions, evolving regulatory frameworks that influence investment decisions, and project accelerators that enable rapid scale-up. The discussion will also highlight the role of CO₂ producers such as energy, industrial, and manufacturing sectors in creating partnerships that transform emissions into feedstock for synthetic fuels, chemicals, and materials. Attendees will gain insights into how strategic investments in CCU can deliver compliance, profitability, and competitive advantage in a low-carbon hydrogen economy.
