Session 1: Opening session

• Speech [18 KB] by Mr. Kyriakos Maniatis [33 KB] , DG ENER, European Commission
• Speech [15 KB] by Mr. Cristof Schoser [27 KB] , Deputy Head of Unit C2, EC, DG ENER
• Speech by Minister André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Director of Energy of the Ministry of External Relations, Brazil
• Speech [394 KB] by Mr. Zia Haq [23 KB] , Senior Analyst, US Department of Energy
• Speech [324 KB] by Mr. Anders Eldrup [22 KB] , CEO, DONG Energy
• Speech [528 KB] by Mr. Steen Riisgaard [31 KB] , CEO, Novozymes

Session 2: Ethanol from lignocellulosics – Where are we?

Chair: Mr. Kyriakos Maniatis, DG ENER 

• Overview: Ethanol from Lignocellulosics: from science to technology? [672 KB]

Ms. Liisa Viikari [22 KB] , Professor on Biorefineries, University of Helsinki

• Global perspectives and roadmap for lignocellulosic ethanol [371 KB]

Mr. Adam Brown [25 KB] , Senior Analyst, International Energy Agency

• Overview of the Global Potential of 2G Ethanol [970 KB]

Ms. Maelle Soares Pinto [32 KB] , Director, Biofuels - Europe, Hart Energy

Session 3: Progress on Pretreatment

Chair: Mr. David Chiaramonti [20 KB] , University Florence 

• Pretreatment of biomass for ethanol production [2 MB]

Mr. Guido Zacchi [40 KB] , Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund University

• Wood Pretreatment - a remaining challenge in lignocellulosic ethanol production [2 MB]

Ms. Karin Øyaas [28 KB] , Research manager, Paper and Fibre Research Institute Norway  

• High Throughput Pretreatment and Enzyme Hydrolysis of Biomass: Screening Recalcitrance in Large Sample Populations [3 MB]

Mr. Stephen R. Decker [23 KB] , Senior Scientist II, NREL 

• The BALI pretreatment process enabling complete conversion of biomass to ethanol and other marketable products and reducing enzyme [3 MB] consumption

Mr. Gudbrand Rødsrud [24 KB] , Technology Director Business Development,Borregaard Industries 

Session 4: ILUC & Sustainability Criteria: Can we reach a global approach?

Moderator: Rob Vierhout [57 KB] , eBIO

• Speech [24 KB] by Ms. Martina Otto [25 KB] , UNEP

• Speech [378 KB] by Minister André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Brazil

• Speech [364 KB] by Mr. Zia Haq [12 KB] , US DOE
• Speech [492 KB] by Mr. Paul Hodson [20 KB] , EC DG ENER

 Session 5: Enzymes and yeasts: Can they deliver?

  Chair:Liisa Viikari [22 KB] ,University of Helsinki 

• DECREASE (Development of a Commercially-Ready Enzyme Application System for Ethanol) [3 MB]

Mr. Per Falholt [39 KB] , Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Novozymes 

• Update on the development of enzymes for the biomass to ethanol industry [2 MB]

Mr. Bjarne Adamsen [24 KB] , Vice President, Business Development, Genencor/Danisco 

• Enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation of lignocellulosic materials [828 KB]

Ms. Merja Penttilä [18 KB] , Research Professor,VTT 

• Development of industrial yeast strains performing efficient xylose fermentation [728 KB]

Ms.Eva Albers [24 KB] , Chalmers University of Technology &Researcher Taurus Energy 

• How enzymes and yeast can make the difference for the biobased economy [576 KB]

Mr. Volkert Claassen [19 KB] . Vice President DSM White Biotechnology  

Session 6: Demonstration scale projects/plants: How far are we from commercialisation?

Chair: Rob Vierhout [57 KB] , eBIO 

• The Inbicon Plant [453 KB]

Mr. Niels Henriksen [21 KB] , CEO, Inbicon 

• Group Chemtex project, where we are [3 MB]

Mr. Dario Giordano [22 KB] , Global R&D Director, Mossi & Ghisolfi 

• FibreEtOH - lignocellulosic waste fibres to ethanol [419 KB]

Ms. Liisa Ranta [36 KB] , Biofuels Specialist, UPM 

• Reports on demonstration scale projects/plants [2 MB]

Mr. Ricardo Arjona [21 KB] , General Director, Abengoa Bioenergía Nuevas Tecnologías 

• Cellulosic Ethanol Commercializations - What's Taking so Long? [2 MB]

Mr. Jef Passmore [25 KB] , Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Iogen Corporation 

• The development of enabling technologies for cellulosic ethanol [5 MB]

Mr. Rune Skovgaard-Petersen [33 KB] , Engineering Manager,BIOGASOL 

• State of the art, in the Ethanol Demoplant and barriers for commercialisation of Technology [2 MB]

Mr. Jan Lindstedt [26 KB] , Senior Project Manager, SEKAB      

Session 7: Markets, Economics and the Environment: Can we harmonise them?

Chair: Mr. Kyriakos Maniatis, DG ENER  

• Global biomass resources - Challenges and opportunities of integrating biofuel technologies with the agricultural system [2 MB] , 

Mr. Claus Felby [30 KB] , Professor, Biomass and Bioenergy, Forest & Landscape, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen 

• Lignocellulosic ethanol: sustainability issues [454 KB]

Ms. Nancy Liliana Gamba Cabezas [23 KB] , Consultant, Ecofys 

• International cooperation on the potential and the sustainable development of second generation biofuels in Latin America, Asia and Africa [674 KB]

Mr.Rainer Janssen [26 KB] , Head of Biomass Unit, WIP Renewable Energies   

• Born to inspire: Russian initiative or How can we blow up lignocellulosic ethanol market? [2 MB]

Anton Potapov [24 KB] , Spurt JSC                    

• The economics of the Urban CHPF concept [502 KB]

Mr. Esa Sipila [24 KB] , Consultant, Pöyry Management Consulting 

• Commercializing C5 fermentation [521 KB] ,

Mr. Christian Koolloos [67 KB] , Operational Manager C5 Technologies, Royal Nedalco

Session 8: From ethanol to biorefineries: Is the road still long?

Chair: Jeppe Bjerg, Dong Energy 

• The Emergence and Use of Genome-Scale Models in Industrial Biotechnology [2 MB]

Mr. Bernhard Palsson [25 KB] , Professor, University of California, San Diego 

• From ethanol to biorefineries [874 KB]

Ms. Reyes Capote [28 KB] , R&D Project Manager, Abengoa Bioenergía Nuevas Tecnologías 

• Corn Stover handling, fragmentation and upgrading [2 MB]

Mr. Jan H. van Ee [23 KB] , Technical Director ADM Europe R&D, Archer Daniels Midland 

• Sugarcane as a Carbon Source: the Brazilian Case [2 MB] ,

Mr. Marco Aurelio Lima [20 KB] , Director, Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol 

• Biofuels, green chemicals and energy - the Processum biorefinery cluster approach [4 MB]

Mr. Sune Wännström [34 KB] , Director of Research, SEKAB 

• Development of ethanol based lignocellulose biorefinery technology: Overview and results of the EU FP6 Integrated Project BIOSYNERGY [3 MB]

Mr. Robert Bakker [41 KB] , Senior Research Scientist, WUR-FBR