The Future of Bio-Based Chemicals - Inception to Marketplace

Day 1 - Monday, September 13, 2010

7:00

Registration & Continental Breakfast

7:55

Chairman's Opening Remarks

8:00

Biobased Chemicals and Fuels from Renewable Feedstocks

8:30

Rapid Deployment of Segetis Technology – From Concept to Commercial

9:00

Low Cost Lactic Acid for Poly Lactic Acid (PLA), a Biobased Alternative to Petroleum Derived Plastics

9:30

Development and Commercialization of Bio-Based Intermediates

10:00

Networking and Refreshment Break

10:30
From Bio-Refinery to Marketplace – Commercializing Biobased Products at World Scale

11:00 

The Legal Perspective - Establishing and Securing a Bio-Based Chemical Endeavor

11:30
The Legal Perspective - Tales from the Trenches: Lessons Learned in How to Structure Deals for Success

12:00

Lunch

1:30

Opportunities for Production of Biobased Chemicals in the Pulp Industry

2:00

Microalgal Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals: Science, Technology & Challenges to Commercial Application

2:30

Microalgae- Future Biochemical Feedstock?

3:00

Biobased Isobutanol as a New Feedstock for Existing Chemicals and Polymers

3:30

Networking and Refreshment Break

4:00

Green Chemistry Initiative

5:00

Networking Reception

Day 2 - Tuesday, September 14, 2010

7:30

Continental Breakfast

8:00

Succinic Acid: Commercialization of a Renewable C4 Platform Chemical

8:30

Renewable Chemical Platforms and Biobased Materials

9:00

Bio-Based Ingeo™ Lactides and Polymers

9:30

Bio-acrylic - More Economical and Sustainable than Petroleum-Based Alternatives

10:00

Networking and Refreshment Break 

10:30

Enzymes, Pathways and the Future

11:00

Noubar Afeyan, CEO & Managing Partner, Flagship Ventures

11:30 

Lawrence Kass, Partner, Intellectual Property Practice Group, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

12:00

The Council for Sustainable Biomass Production

12:30

Luncheon and Networking

1:30 

Leveraging Refinery Assets and Infrastructure with Advanced Biofuel Technologies

2:00 

Towards a Refinery Model in Advanced Biofuels: Technical, Regulatory and Financial Challenges

2:30

Biorefinery Strategies to go Beyond Corn-based Ethanol

3:00

Stefan Unnasch, President, Life Cycle Associates; The Role of Biochemicals in the Future of Cellulosic Ethanol Economics; Ross MacLachlan, President & CEO, Lignol Energy Corporation

4:00

Conference Concludes

Maziar Movassaghi - Featured Speaker
Acting Director
State of California - Department of Toxic Substances Control

Noubar Afeyan
CEO & Managing Partner
Flagship Ventures

Todd E. Alexander
Partner
Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Peter Axegard
Director Biorefining
Innventia AB

William Baum
Executive Vice President, Business Development
Verenium

Rafael E. Camargo, Ph.D.
Director, Core Science
Huntsman

Snehal Desai, M.B.A.
Business Vice President
Segetis

Maureen F. Gorsen, Esq.
Partner
Alston & Bird, LLP

John Heissenbuttel
President
Phoenix Strategic Solutions
Co-Director
Council on Sustainable Biomass Production

Ronald Henson
Sales & Supply Chain Management
Phyco BioSciences

Jean-Francois Huc
CEO
DNP Green Technology

Lawrence Kass
Partner, Intellectual Property Practice Group
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

Gregory R. Keenan, M.S.E.
Vice President, Business Development and Engineering
Virent Energy Systems

Ross MacLachlan
President & CEO
Lignol Energy Corporation

Samuel McConnell, M.B.A.
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
Myriant Technologies

F. Blaine Metting, Ph.D.
Manager, Biological & Environmental Sciences Product Line
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US Department of Energy

Manuel Natal, Ph.D.
Global Segment Leader – Lactide Derivatives
NatureWorks, LLC

William J. Orts, Ph.D.
Research Leader, Bioproduct Chemistry & Engineering Research
Agriculture Research Service
United States Department of Agriculture

Mike Rosenberg, B.S., M.B.A.
Vice President, Business Development
OPXBIO

Glenn Johnston
VP Regulatory Affairs
Gevo

Karl Sanford, Ph.D.
Vice President, Technology Development
Genencor a Danisco Division

Andy Shafer, M.B.A.
Executive Vice President, Sales and Market Development
Elevance Renewable Science

Pirkko Suominen, Ph.D.
Director
Cargill, BioTDC Bioindustrials

Todd Taylor
Lead Biofuels Attorney
Fredrikson & Byron

Stefan Unnasch
President
Life Cycle Associates