(ABLC 2026 speakers will be posted on January 4, 2026. Here for illustration purposes are the ABLC 2025 speakers.)
Abdel Agadazi, Director for Strategy & Finance KOKO Networks
Alex Clayton, Chief Business Development Officer, Gevo
Alexander Koukoulas, Principal Consultant, AFRY
Alicia Koch, Director of Global Ethanol Export Development, U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council
Andreas Kohl, Headof Specialty Chemicals and Catalysts, Verbio SE
Andy Billig, Senior Advisor, SkyNRG Americas
Andy Logan, Chief Manufacturing Officer, Superbrewed Food
Anthony Cicamore, Manager, Business Development, KBR
Anthony Sorbera, Technical Project Monitor/Engineer, Bioenergy Technologies Officer, US Department of Energy
Antonio Villaluenga, VP US Project Development, CRI
Arthur Pastore, Process Engineer, Linde
Artur Yabe Milanez, BNDES
Ben Hubbard, CEO, Nexus Holdings
Brandon Banks, Director of Advisory Services, NexusPMG
Brentan Alexander, CIO, Synonym
Brian Foody, CEO, Iogen
Bruno Basso, University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
Bryan Tracy, CEO, Superbrewed Food
Cameron Hibbert, Director of Licensing North America, Johnson Matthey
Cem Özsüer, CEO, SynPet Technologies
Chad Michael Black, Director of Business Development, Comstock Fuels
Chad Pastor, Sr. Manufacturing Development Lead, BioMADE
Chibamba Kinyama, H.E.Ambassador to the USA, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Republic of Zambia
Chris Cassidy, National Business Renewable Energy Advisor, USDA (invited)
Chris Tindal, Queensland Biofutures, Strategic Advisor
Chris Cooper, CEO & Executive Director, XCF Global
Christopher Efird, CEO, NXT Clean Fuels
Christopher Berendt, Partner, Faegre Drinker
Cliff Keeler, Vice President of Business Development, SunGas Renewables
Conor Madigan, CEO, Aether Fuels
Dave Collings, Group Manager, Worley Consulting
David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
David Livingstone, Managing Director, Public Finance Department, Barclays Capital
David Rubenstein, CEO, California Ethanol + Power
David Sudolsky, CEO, Anellotech
Doug Rivers, Project Director, LEC Partners
Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition
Doug Friedman, CEO, BioMADE
Dymphna Van Der Lans, CEO, Clean Cooking Alliance
Elsie S. Kanza, Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania to the USA (invited)
Eliot Sorella, Executive Chairman, Ecolomondo Corporation
Eric McAfee, CEO, Aemetis
Erik Van der Meer, CEO, DAB Bio (invited)
Gerhard Muggen, Managing Director, BTG Bioliquids
Gerhard Muggen, CEO, BTG
Gerard Ostheimer, CEO, Molecule Group
Geoff Cooper, CEO, Renewable Fuels Association (invited)
Geoffrey Dietz, Senior Director, Federal Government Affairs, RNG Coalition
Gillian Harrison, CEO, Whitefox Technology
Graham Noyes, Managing Attorney, Noyes Law Corporation
Greg Murray, CEO, KOKO Networks, & Co-Founder (invited)
Gregory Jaffe, Former USDA Senior Advisor, Jaffe Policy Consulting
Hamed Heidari, Founder, CEO, C+UP
Hardik Shah, Licensing Manager, Topsoe
Heather Wood, VP Sustainability, CMA-CGM
Hendrik Waegeman, Head of Business Operations, Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
Henna Poikolainen, Director, Head of Renewable Fuels & Chemicals, AFRY
Ian Barnett, CFO, Ensyn
Isabel Puig, Corporate Strategist & Compliances & Marketing Expert, Ecolomondo Corporation
James Reid, Vice President, Morgan Stanley
James Dickerson, Director, ASCET (ASTM)
Jason White, CEO, LEC Partners
Jayant Khambekar, Senior Consultant, Jenike & Johanson
Jeff Wasil, Director of Environment, Health and Safety Compliance, NMMA
Jeffrey A. Lacey, Senior Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory
Jeffrey O’Hara, Deputy Director, Office of Energy Policy & Environmental Policy, USDA
Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim, VP R&D, Marquis Fuels
Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, LanzaTech
Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Jim Spaeth, Managing Director, Aerovovida Bio
Jimmy Samartzis, CEO, LanzaJet
J.R Claeys, Administrator, Rural Business Cooperative Service, USDA
Joe Shaw, Senior VP of R&D, Manus
Joel Stone, President, ConVergInce Advisers
John F Oyen, Manager-Business Development, Energy Industries, ABB
John Hannon, CTO, Vertimass
John Kirkwood, Partner, Faegre Drinker
John Murphy, CEO, Castlerock Biofuels
Jordan Solomon, CEO, Ecostrat
Joshua Wilson, Senior Regulatory Counsel, POET
Kathy Fortmann, CEO, Amyris
Kapil Shyam Lokare, Managing Director, Terra Mater BV
Kaytlin Bemis, Manager of Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs, NCGA
Kenneth Hill, Managing Director, BioCarbon Strategies
Krista Sutton, Principal Process Engineer, New Energy Risk
Kimball Chen, Chairman, BioLPG LLC
Lauren Junker, Innovation Scout and Partnership Manager, BASF
Linda Schmid, Manager Ethanol Policy, U.S. Grains Council
Lonnie Rosenwald, Partner, Zuber Lawler LLP
Lynn Wendt, Director, Biomass Feedstock National User Facility, Idaho National Laboratory
Megersa Abera Abate, Senior Transport Economist, The World Bank
Marc Delcourt, CEO, Global Bioenergies
Margaret Doyle, Director, TSEA GREEN – Transparensea Fuels
Mark Danks, Business Development & Partnerships Director, Johnson Matthey
Mark Glotfelty, Managing Director, RBC Markets LLC
Mark Niederschulte, CEO, Jupeng Bio
Mark Riedy, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend
Mark Warner, CEO, Liberation Labs
Matthew Clingerman, Global Head of Licensing Technology Development, Sulzer Chemical
Meaghan Seagrave, Executive Director, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada
Melik Demirel, Co-Founder, Tandem Repeat
Michelle Ruiz, CEO, Hyfé
Milica Folic, Product Line Director, Topsoe
Mike Kass, Researcher, Fuel Science and Engine Technologies Research Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mike McAdams, President, Advanced Biofuels Association
Mike McCurdy, VP, Energy Advisory Services, ICF
Mohammed Ali Eslami, Chief Scientist, Netrias
Mukund Yallambaise, Business Development Director. Axens North America
Nathan Danielson, Principal, BioCognito
Nathalie Ionesco, COO, Haffner Energy
Pareen V. Shah, Chief Marketing Officer, Bioveritas
Patrick Gruber, CEO, Gevo
Paul Peterson, Senior Vice-President, Visolis
Pavel Molchanov, SVP, Raymond James
Perry Toms, Sr. Consultant, Business Development, CRI
Poornima Sharma, President, GreenBridge LLC
Rachel Burton, Senior Consultant, ProcessWerx
Rebecca Boudreaux, CEO, Oberon Fuels
Rick Gilmore, President & CEO, GIC Group/ CPC Inset
Rina Singh, Executive VP, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition
Robert Graham, CEO, Ensyn
Robert Natelson, Technology Manager, Systems Development and Integration Subprogram, Bioenergy Technologies Office
Robert M. Baldwin, Principal Scientist, National Laboratory of the Rockies
Robin Vercruse, Executive Director, Low Carbon Fuels Coalition
Ryan LaGrande, CEO, U.S. Grains Council (invited)
Sai Satish Guda, Manager, Research and Development, Propane Education & Research Council
Sam Lehr, EVP Policy, Molecule Group
Sam Nejame, Principal, Promotum
Sarah McKay, Director of Market Development, NCGA
Steve Csonka, Executive Director, CAAFI
Steve Slome, Director, Nexant ECA
Steve Weiss, President, Grey Heron Consulting
Steve Evans, Senior Technical Fellow, BioMADE
Siegfried Knecht, Chairman, aireg
Stuart Weidie, President & CEO, Blossman Gas
Tad Dritz, Bioconversion and Hydrogen Lead, Ariel Green
Tammy Klein, Principal, Transport Energy Strategies
Tim Cesarek, CEO, Synata Bio
Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
Timothy J. Urban, Senior Principal, Bracewell LLP
Trevor Best, Co-Founder & CEO, Syzygy Plasmonics
Tom Treynor, CEO, R2DIO
Todd Brix, CEO, OCOChem
Tucker Perkins, President and CEO, Propane Education & Research Council
Valerie Sarisky-Reed, Director, US DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office
William Kusch, Director + Product and Process Development, TerViva
Zia Abdullah, Biomass Laboratory Program Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory