Program
Monday, September 18
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Monday, September 18
| 7:00 AM | 5:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 9:15 AM | Welcoming Remarks |
| 9:15 AM | 10:00 AM | Keynote Speaker 1 +Q&A: “The Value Proposition: The Advanced Bioeconomy’s Role in the Economy’s Future.” Jim Lane, Biofuels Digest |
| 10:00 AM | 10:45 AM | Keynote Speaker 2 + Q&A: "The Vision of Dry-Grind Corn Biorefining and the Desired Impact on the Future of the Biorefining Industry" Jeremy Javers, ICM |
| 10:45 AM | 11:15 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 AM | 3:00 PM | Session 1: From production to bio-production: Successes and challenges in remaking chemical manufacturing |
| Session Chairs: Doug Cameron, First Green Partners | ||
| 11:15 AM | 11:45 AM | "Engineering Challenges in Commercializing Genomatica’s 1,4-Butanediol Bioprocess – Attention to Detail Matters" Joe Kuterbach, Genomatica |
| 11:45 AM | 12:15 PM | "Renewable polymers as a carbon capture tool" Mateus Schreiner G Lopes, Braskem |
| 12:15 PM | 12:45 PM | “Production of Bio-Based Long Chain Diacids” Jose Laplaza, Verdezyne |
| 12:45 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | "Industrial Biotechnology in the Flavor and Fragrance Industry" Andreas Taglieber , Firmench |
| 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | “Ginkgo Bioworks: Building a new scale of biology for diverse partners and markets that rely on microbe engineering.” Kevin Madden, Ginkgo Bioworks |
| 3.00PM | 3:30PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 PM | 5:30 PM | Session 2: The next wave: New Technologies in bioprocess, modeling, analytics, and strain engineering |
| Session Chairs: Joel Cherry, Amyris | ||
| 3:30 PM | 3:50 PM | "Mining uncultured genetic diversity for high value enzymes and natural products." Jeff Kim, Radiant |
| 3:50 PM | 4:20 PM | "Protein and Metabolic Pathway Design for Industrial Biotechnology" Alexandre Zanghellini, Arzeda |
| 4:20 PM | 4:40 PM |
"Harnessing the power of nature to address global challenges" Rob Brown, Synthetic Genomics Inc |
| 4:40 PM | 5:00 PM | "A Swan in the Making" Tim Gardner, Riffyn |
| 5:00 PM | 5:20 PM | “Integrative Bioengineering: From Discovery to Commercialization” Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 5.45 PM | 7:00 PM | Poster Session and Reception |
Tuesday, September 19
| 7:00 AM | 3:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 9:45 AM | Keynote Speaker 3 +Q&A: “ Navigating Due Diligence for Investments, M&As, Strategic Partnering, or Project Finance” - Ron Cascone, Nexant |
| 9:45 AM | 10:30 AM | Keynote Speaker 4 +Q&A: “De-commoditization: why winning hearts and minds of customers is the key to success in chemicals” Brook Porter, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers |
| 10:30 AM | 10:45 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 AM | 1:00 PM | Session 3: ‘Sugar is King’: Panel Q&A Talk with 1G and 2G sugar production for bioproducts |
| Session Chairs: Vineet Rajgarhia, Total | ||
| 10:45 AM | 11:15 AM | "Title Pending"Jill Zullo,Cargill |
| 11:15 AM | 11:45 AM | "Customized enzyme technologies for commercial biorefineries- Novoyzmes’ solutions for biomass sugars" - James Broering, Novozymes |
| 11:45 AM | 12:15 PM | "Clean Sugar Technology™ Pathway, a Proven Low Cost Raw Material for the Biochemical Industry” - Neal Jakel, Fluid Quip Process Technologies |
| 12:15 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Session 4: Bioprocess optimizers - Latent opportunity for the industry by using new tools |
| Session Chairs: Todd Pray, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | ||
| 1:30 PM | 2:00 PM | “Commercialization of TransFerm Yield+, an engineered yeast for fuel ethanol production” Kevin Wenger, Lallemand |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | "Systematic genome engineering and high throughput fermentation as key drivers towards improved microbial and process performance" - Bart Haverkorn, Zymergen |
| 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | "Maximizing Carbon Conversion for Acetone and Isopropanol with Mixoferm" - Bryan Tracy, White Dog Labs |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | "Next-generation platforms for strain optimization: Reducing the cost and time for commercializing novel molecules" Sunil Chandran, Amyris |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 PM | 5:20 PM | Session 5: New Molecules that could be game-changers as future biobased products |
| Session Chairs: Kevin Madden, Ginkgo Bioworks | ||
| 4:00 PM | 4:20 PM | "Lygos' Bio-Malonic Acid(TM) Products and Technology Platform" - Eric Steen, Lygos |
| 4:20 PM | 4:40 PM | "Sophisticated plastics from simple sugars" - Kechun Zhang, Valerian Materials |
| 4:40 PM | 5:00 PM | “The Case Against Product Performance” - Kyle Huston, Genomatica |
| 5:00 PM | 5:20 PM | "Green algae as a unique platform for producing colostrum proteins" - Xun Wang, Triton Algae Innovations |
| 5:20 PM | 5:30 PM | Final Remarks |
