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Agenda >> Forestry Biofuels

Forestry Biofuels

17th March 2010
8.00 Registration Opens

This stream will examine the potential for forestry biomass to provide a sustainable feedstock for liquid biofuels and includes perspectives from leading industry experts from across the value chain.

9.00 - 10.45

Forest Fuels: A New Market?

  • How are key players viewing this nascent market?
  • Visions for forestry and wood derived biofuels

10.45     Networking Break & Exhibition Visit

11.30 - 13.00

Sustainable Forestry Policies

  • What can governments do to help develop this resource?
  • What sustainable best practices should be implemented?

13.00     Lunch & Exhibition Visit

14.30 - 16.15

Forestry Biofuels Research & Innovation Pathways

  • How can the sector develop further?
  • What innovations and developments are required?

16.15      Networking Break & Exhibition Visit

16.45 – 17.30

ELOBIO Project Panel - Competition for Biofuels Feedstocks in the Lignocellulosic Market

  • What are the demands from other sectors to ligno biofuel feedstocks?
  • What are the synergies between biofuel production and sectors demanding similar feedstock?

17.30      Close of Congress

Speakers Include: 
George Weyerhaeuser Jr., Partner, Houghton Cascade, former Senior Fellow, World Business Council for Sustainable Development & former Chief Executive Officer, Weyerhaeuser Canada
Ellen Catherine Rasmussen, Chief Executive Officer, Xynergo
Hans Sohlstrom, Executive Vice President, UPM-Kymmene Corporation
John Bingham, Director of Research, Hawkins Wright
Ilpo Mattila, Head of Section (Energy), MTK
Rick LeBlanc, Chief Executive Officer, Chemrec
Luc Pelkmans, Project Manger Bioenergy, VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Franziska Mueller-Langer, Head of the Biofuels Department, German Biomass Research Centre
Satu Helynen, Vice President, R&D, Energy and Pulp & Paper, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Stefan Bringezu, Director Material Flows and Resource Management, Wuppertal Institute
Dr Julie Tolmie, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

Agenda >> Forestry Biofuels