The Chemical Show LIVE – Chemical Market Outlook

The Chemical Show LIVE: 2026 Chemical Market Outlook

Hosted by Victoria Meyer, founder and host of The Chemical Show and featuring S&P Global Commodity Insights Experts Pooja Jain, Market Insights Expert – Commodity Plastics and Olivier Maronneaud, Executive Director – Chemical Research.

We’ll be discussing insights and expectations for the chemical industry for 2026 and beyond. Kick off the year with fresh economic insights to help guide your business.

The format is 40 minutes podcast interview, followed by 20 minute audience Q&A.

Event Details:

Wednesday, January 21, 2025

9am CST, 10am EST, 4pm CET

Zoom (link will be emailed to registrants)

Event Format:

40-minute open Q&A

Interactive audience participation

Candid conversations about the chemical industry

Victoria Meyer

Victoria King Meyer is Founder of The Chemical Summit and host of the industry-leading The Chemical Show podcast. Victoria recognizes that connection, community and collaboration are the greatest sources of value for people and businesses. Since launching The Chemical Show podcast in 2021, she has harnessed the power of storytelling and connection to share interviews and insights from hundreds of chemical and materials industry executives, quickly becoming a go-to resource for the industry and achieving a Top 5% ranking of ALL podcasts globally.

Victoria is an industry veteran, with 25+ years experience at Fortune 50 and global companies including Shell, Clariant and LyondellBasell, where she developed new growth businesses, turned around businesses, and fostered customer-centricity across the organizations. Today, she is President of Progressio Global, a boutique consulting and strategic advisory firm that enables chemical and materials companies to realize value and growth through creating connection between customers, employees and strategy.

Pooja Jain
S&P Global Energy, Senior Principal Analyst

Pooja Jain is a Polymer Subject Matter Expert (SME) at S&P Global Energy division in Gurgaon, India. With a background in chemical engineering, she brings over 14 years of experience in the refinery and petrochemical sectors. Pooja began her career as a production engineer at Indian Oil Corporation, working at one of India”s largest petrochemical complexes. She then transitioned into project management, contributing to several large-scale grassroots and revamp petrochemical projects. After nearly six years in the field, Pooja moved into consulting, joining KPMG as a strategy consultant in the Energy, Natural Resources, and Chemicals (ENR) sector. Her diverse career has given her a well-rounded perspective on both the operational and strategic aspects of the energy industry.

Olivier Maronneaud
Director, Chemical Consulting, Olivier is a Director in the chemical consulting team in London, UK

Olivier has 10+ years of chemical industry background starting his career as product manager for General Purpose PVC at the French chemical producer Arkema. Olivier then joined the chemical research team at S&P Global Energy, where he was in charge of the medium and long term analysis for methanol and the acetyls value chain. Since 2017, Olivier is part of the chemical consulting team where he is currently a Director, managing single client projects across the wider chemical industry. His expertise spans from the vinyls and syngas value chains to wider issues affecting the chemical industry such as plastic recycling (chemical recycling) with a focus on the European and CIS regions.