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A growing number of bio-based chemicals are already in commercial production with several additional products expected to reach commercialisation in the next few years. With advances in conversion methodologies and developments in achieving economies of scale, new building blocks and platform chemicals of bio-based origin are being developed and starting to compete effectively with their petrochemical equivalents.

As a new value chain for bio-based products begins to strengthen and develop, the Bio-based Chemicals Summit will bring together the full spectrum of stakeholders.

Key focus at Bio-Based Chemicals 2012 will be on:

• Bringing chemistry majors and bio-chemical companies together to move towards an integrated chemicals supply chain
• The end user perspective on future market trends - what will be driving the market in years to come?
• Achieving technology scale up - what paths are being taken, where is investment available?
• Exploring future-proof feed stocks - breaking the link with volatile oil prices

Early confirmed speakers include:

Peter Nieuwenhuizen, Director, Future Proof Supply Chains, AkzoNobel
Anna Holmberg, Sustainability Policy Director, Europe, Arizona Chemical
Eric Althoff, Chief Technology Officer, Chemistry, Arzeda Corp
Dr. Michael-Jean Nettersheim, Investment Manager, BASF Venture Capital
William Lese, Managing Director, Braemar Energy Ventures
Warwick Raverty, Chief Scientist, Circa Group
Dr. Achim Marx, Consultant Bio-Economy, CLIB 2021
Mike Knauf, Senior Vice President, Bioindustrials, Codexis
Iain Gilmore, Vice President, New Products Business, Davy Process Technology
Hasso von Pogrell, Managing Director, European Bioplastics
David Berry, General Partner, Flagship Ventures
Glenn Johnson, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Gevo
Dr. Frank Roland Schroeder, Director, Sustainability & Product Safety, Henkel
Yvon Durrant, Principal, Itaconix
Dr. Sarah Hickingbottom, Head of Bio- based Chemicals, LMC International
Samhitha Udupa, Research Analyst, Lux Research
Dr. John Williams, Head of Materials for Energy and Industry, NNFCC
Peter Shepard, Business Development, Novomer
Michael Rosenberg, Vice- President, Business Development, OPX Biotechnologies
Bogdan Comanita, Director Marketing & Sales Europe, PennAkem
Josko Bobanovic, Partner, Green Chemistry and Bioenergy, Sofinnova partners
Ulrich Kettling, Head of Molecular Biotechnology, Sud Chemie
Dr. Murray McLaughlin, President & Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Chemistry Alliance
Robert Walsh, Chief Commercial Officer, ZeaChem

Agenda at a glance - topics to be addressed include:

• Working towards an Integrated Chemicals Markets
• Making the Leap from Pilot to Commercial Product
• What are Chemical Companies and End Users Looking for from Bio-Chemical Partners?
• What Bio-Chemical Products are Currently in the Pipeline?
• Where is the Bio-Chemicals Market Heading? The End User Perspective
• Future Proof Feed Stocks

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Presented by the Bioindustrial Innovation Centre, this International Conference will provide a unique and outstanding opportunity to learn about and discuss the risks to commercialization of bio-chemicals and bio-products. Share your experience and ideas with industry, government and institutional experts.

Canada is one of the few countries in the world that can support a large-scale bio-economy due to its abundant and sustainable biomass resources. Existing and emerging companies are aggressively developing early stage technologies that have the potential to successfully move forward to the commercialization stage.

BIC International Conference attendees will also have the opportunity to visit the Bioindustrial Innovation Centre, a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research with funding from the Government of Canada.

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Russian Biofuels Association is pleased to invite you to attend the International Congress “BIOMASS: fuel & power” and will be honored if you consider joining us in Moscow. The event
will be held on April 17-18, 2012 at the Iris Congress Hotel Moscow. The previous Congress (held in April 2011) gathered more than 200 senior executives from over 15 countries to discuss a variety of topics from feedstock to marketing of liquid and solid biofuels.

We have invited leading biofuels experts from Europe, USA and Russia to speak at the Congress.
Some topics for discussion:

• The state of the industry: Russia, Ukraine & Kazakhstan
• Second-generation biofuels: progress in technology and development in Russia
• Global trend: biotechnology in grain processing and production of "green" chemistry as value added fermentation products
• Potable alcohol plants: production process & conversion to biofuels
• Wet-milling and production of gluten, starches and bioethanol & biobutanol
• Pyrolysis & gasication: bio-oil, biochar and syngas. Heating bio-oil market.
• Biodiesel & biojet fuel. EU charges for airlines’ carbon emissions.
• Algae: option for Russia?
• Oil Industry position on biofuels and the oil industry expectations
• Fuel ethanol plant’s economics: Dry-Mill vs. Wet-Mill, Energy Integration
• Regulatory and legal frameworks for biofuels industry in Russia
• Generating Revenues From Co-Products (Distillers Grain and Carbon Dioxide)
• The Ukrainian and Kazakhstan Biofuels Market - Ready for Take-o?
• Solid biofuels: production and use in Russia. Biomass stoves, boilers & burners.
• Pellets & briquettes: export & domestic utility market. Co-production at biorenery.
• Panel discussion: Development of biofuels market in Russia and neighboring countries

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On behalf of the ERA-IB consortium BioProChemBB, CLIB2021, Dechema and GFT. We would like to invite you to attend the “Symposium on Bio-based Production of Organic Acids (bbpoa2012)”, which will be held in the DECHEMA-House in Frankfurt, Germany, on 10th and 11th May 2012.

The shortage of resources and steadily rising in oil prices result in the necessity to develop safe and efficient bioprocesses for the production of chemicals from renewable biomass. Fermentation processes have been traditionally used to produce a number of organic acids such as citric acid, lactic acid and gluconic acid. Current developments towards a bio-based economy trigger the fermentative production of acids such as succinic acid, itaconic acid, malic acid, pyruvic acid, acetic acid, fumaric acid, butyric acid, and 3-hydroxypropionic acid.

This symposium provides the opportunity for discussion on the most recent developments in the field of bio-based organic acid production (science & technology). The symposium covers the topics: i) Metabolic Engineering, ii) Physiology and Acid Stress and iii) Downstream processing. It is opened to worldwide scientists, whether from academia or industry, and it will give younger researchers the opportunity to benefit from interactions with leaders in their field. Presentations on all aspects of Bio-Based Production of Organic Acids in poster format from academic institutions and industries are kindly requested.

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