European Biofuels Expo and Conference 2008

Conference Sessions

The largest biofuels Event & Conference in Europe in 2007!

Below is a list of the speakers and subjects at the 2007 Conference.

Conference Sessions: Wednesday 17th October
Time	Speaker	Company	Title of Session

09.00	Oliver Mace	BP Fuels	Keynote Address:BP and Biofuels 30 min presentation and 10min Q&A
09.45	Moderator: Will Thurmond		Beyond 1st Generation Biofuels:
	Speaker 1: Alan Lovell	CEO Infinis Infinis is a market leader in alternative energy development and generation	Landfill gas and biomass
10.05	Speaker 2 : Graham Prince	Director D1 Oils D1 oils has major investments in Jatropha and a joint venture with BP Biofuels	The potential of 2nd generation feedstocks such as Jatropha
10.25	Speaker 3 : TBA	Bioking Bioking will be exhibiting their new photobioreactors at the show and will discuss the future potential of Algae	The potential of 2nd generation feedstocks such as Algae
10.45	Panel Q&A
11.15	Coffee and Exhibition stands
11.45	Moderator: Will Thurmond Will Thurmond is the author of a comprehensive economic study into biodiesel to the year 2020 with predictions and forecasts		Biodiesel 2020 Comprehensive market study
	Speaker 1: Will Thurmond		Emerging Markets:Biodiesel 2020
12.05	Speaker 2: Andrew Barnard	Grainfarmers plc	The current and future UK & European production predictions for feedstocks
12.25	Speaker 3: TBC by Will Thurmond		World energy alternatives
12.40	Panel Q&A
13.00	Lunch and Exhibition stands
14.00	Moderator: Richard Olver	Creating a profitable Biofuels business:
	Speaker 1: Simon Jackson	HM Treasury	Taking advantage of tax duties / incentive opportunities
	Speaker 2: Richard Olver		Financing growth: Coping with fluctuating crude oil prices
	Speaker 3: Colin Hygate	Greenfuels	The benefits of scale
15.00	Panel Q&A
15.15	Tea and Exhibition stands
15.45	Moderator: Peter Clery		The challenges of making quality Biodiesel
	Speaker 1: Garrin Web Garrin is a biodiesel producer who has moved into large scale production, converting Macdonalds UK waste vegetable oil into biodiesel for their fleet of delivery vehicles	MK Biodiesel	The challenges of moving to larger scale production, quality and by-products
	Speaker 2: Brian Cooke	Dallas Corp	Achieving EN standards in Biodiesel production
	Speaker 3: Dr Donna & Rohm & Haas	Rohm & Haas	Achieving EN standards in Biodiesel production
	Speaker 4:Jagdish Chandan	Shree Padma	Dealing with Glycerol By-products effectively
16.45	Panel Q&A
17.00	End
17.30	Networking Drinks reception	Kindly sponsored by Intertek
Conference Sessions: Thursday 18th October
Time	Speaker	Company	Title of Session

09.00	Peter Ainsworth	MP Shadow Environment Minister	Keynote Address:
09.30	Introduction: Lord Selbourne		Transport Fuels and RTFO
	Speaker 1: Rupert Furness Rupert Furness is with the department of transport and will explain the RTFO and how it will impact the UK's biofuel markets	Head RTFO HMRC	RTFO and the Government's Biofuel objectives
10.30	Coffe and Exhibition Stands
10.45	Moderator: Lord Selbourne		Food vs Fuel :
	Speaker 1 : Ian Munnery	United Oilseeds	Growing crops for fuel, the UK and European challenge
11.15	Speaker 2 : Graham Prince	Director D1 Oils	The potential yeilds of 2nd generation Jatropha
11.40	Speaker 3 : David Croxton, Bical		The potential for large scale Miscanthus production
12.05	Speaker 4 : Prof Roland Clift	University of Surrey	Sustainability issues, and 'are we solving the wrong problem'
13.00	Lunch and Exhibition stands
14.00	Introduction: Lord Selbourne		The consumer and demand creation
	Speaker 1: Tony Lovell	Virgin Trains	Virgin Trains vision for biofuels
14.20	Speaker 2 : TBA	New Holland	New Hollands vision for biofuels
14.40	Speaker 3 : Simon Jackson	HM Treasury	Taking advantage of Home Brew Tax Free legislation
15.15	Tea and Exhibition stands
15.45	Moderator: Peter Clery		The challenges of meeting quality standards
	Speaker 1: Amanda Barrett	Environment Agency	PPC Licensing
16.15	Speaker 2: Andy Woodward	Stanhope Seta	Quality Testing
16.30	Speaker 3: Christopher Spencer	Filtertechnik	BQ9000 end to end quality
16.45	Panel Q&A

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