Registration will start at 12:00pm on the 3rd Floor at the Nikko Hotel San Francisco
Wednesday October 22nd
2:30pm AI and the Bioeconomy Special Session
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Tim Daniel, CEO, Rimba
3:00pm NEXT Feedstocks Leadership Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Wendy Owens, CEO, Hexas Biomass
Bill Orts, Research Leader, USDA ARS
David Lanning, Vice President, Forest Concepts
Yidong Xia, Principal Scientist & Group Lead Physical Process Science & Realization, Idaho National Laboratory
4:00pm NEXT SAF Leadership Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Siegfried Knecht, CEO, aireg
John Hannon, CEO, Vertimass
John Plaza, CEO, SkyNRG Americas
5:00pm Wolfpack Technology Summit
David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
Henna Poikolainen, Director of Renewable Fuels & Chemicals, AFRY
Paul Bryan, Industry Consultant, Biocurious
James Iademarco, President, Strategic Avalanche
Steve Slome, Director, Nexant ECA
Steve Weiss, Co-Founder and CEO, Grey Heron
Joel Stone, President, ConVergince (LEC)
Sam Nejame, President, Promotum
Dave Collings, Group Manager, Worley Consulting
Michele Rubino, principal, 3Peaks Consulting
6:00pm SUNRISE CLUB OPENING SESSION and STATE OF THE INDUSTRY presentation
Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
And Networking: Self-introductions by all attendees
Thursday October 23rd
7:00am REGISTRATION OPEN
7:30-8:00am COFFEE & PASTRIES
8:15am The Bioeconomy Policy & Programs Forum
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Lindsay Fitzgerald, Chief Advocacy and Communications Officer, Gevo
William Hohenstein, Director, USDA Office of Energy and Environmental Policy
Gerard Ostheimer, CEO, Molecule Group
Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
9:00am Industry Horizons Forum
Moderator: Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
Cliff Keeler, Vice President of Business Development, SunGas Renewables
Henrik Rasmussen, Managing Director, Topsoe
Chris Efird, Chairperson & CEO, NEXTclean Fuels
John Bissell, CEO, Origin Materials
Cem Özsüer, CEO, SynPet Technologies
David Sudolsky, CEO, Anellotech
10:30am Coffee Break & Industry Networking
11:00am ABLC KEYNOTES
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Tad Dritz, CEO, Ariel Green
Pat Gruber, CEO, Gevo
Chad Michael Black, President, Bioleum
11:45am The Finance & Investment Summit
Moderators: John Kirkwood, partner, Faegre Drinker and Mark Riedy, partner, Kilpatrick Townsend
George Schulz, CEO, New Energy Risk
Allison Larr, Director, Public Finance Department, Barclays Capital
Ken Hill, Managing Director, BioCarbon Strategies
Mark Glotfelty, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets
Jim Alderson-Smith, Managing Director, Crux Climate
Joseph Abramson, Executive Director, Public Finance Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
12:45pm Lunch & Industry Networking
2:00pm The Global Leadership Summit
Moderator: Henna Poikolainen, Director of Renewable Fuels & Chemicals, AFRY
Christophe Schilling, Founder, Geno, Chairman, Future Origins
John Shaw, CEO, Itaconix
Mike McCurdy, Managing Director, ICF
Lauren Magnusson, Project Manager, Merrick & Co.
Molly Morse, CEO, Mango Materials
3:00pm Coffee Break & Industry Networking
3:30pm TRACK A The Hot Technologies Summit
Moderator: Paul Bryan, Industry Consultant, Biocurious
Kristin Brief, CEO, Terragia
Asif Ansari, President & CTO, Hyera
Jim Koontz, EVP, Rock Energy Storage
Charlie Silver, CEO, Ruby Bio
3:30pm TRACK B The Cascadia Sustainable Aviation Accelerator Summit
Moderator: Jake Gentry, Director of Renewable Fuels/Fuels Transition, Earth Finance
Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
Marko Liias, Washington State Senator, Washington State
Jonathan Male, Assist. Vice Chancellor/ Research & Dir. of National Laboratory Partnership, Washington State University
Corey Lavinsky, VP of Renewables Policy, Montana Renewables
Christopher Efird, CEO, NXT Clean Fuels
4:30pm TRACK A Circular Solutions Summit
Moderator & presenter: Steve Weiss, Co-Founder & CEO, Grey Heron
Perry Toms, Sr VP. Commercial & Business Development, Americas & Europe, Licella
Michael Long, CEO, Long Thermochemical
Guy Penard, VP, Yilkins
4:30pm TRACK B Innovations Now Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Tim Stemwedel, CEO, Cal Organic Ammonia
Alex Hutagalung, CEO, Pyrone
Khorcheska Batyrova, CEO, Ozone Bio
Ke (Kevin) Xu, Co-Founder & CEO, Fermeate
Saurabh Malani, CSO, Fermeate
5:15pm TRACK A Circular Solutions
Moderator: Jim Kendrick, Producer, Digest TV
Vitaliy Skotsyk, President, Institute of Geopolitics and Strategic Management, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kim Nelson, EVP, GranBio
Henry Markarian, Founder, Integrated Dynamics
5:15pm TRACK B Innovations Now Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Boyan Xu, CEO, Gilly Bio
Joe Luttwak, CEO, Lingrove
Micah Nelp, CEO, Soliome
Dacia Leon, CEO Supercool Clouds
6:30pm Bioeconomy 500 Honoree Party
Friday October 24th
7:00am REGISTRATION OPEN
7:30-8:00am COFFEE & PASTRIES
8:10am Sustainable Futures Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Roman Grosman, National Business Development Director, Linde
Eric McAfee, CEO, Aemetis
Rebecca Boudreaux, CEO, Oberon Fuels
9:10am Global Horizons Summit
Moderator: Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
Ajikumar Parayil, CEO, Manus
Brian Foody, CEO, Iogen
Peter Rocha, Project Director, LEC Partners
Arturo Elizondo, CEO, The Every Company
10:30am Coffee Break & Industry Networking
11:00am ABLC Next-Gen Strategies Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Alan Del Paggio, CCO, Bioveritas
James Iademarco, President, Strategic Avalanche
Noah Helman, CEO, Industrial Microbes
Britt Boughey, Founder, OMC Thermochemistry
12:00pm Lunch & Industry Networking
1:00pm Future Technologies Summit
Moderator: Todd Pray, Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Luis Valencia, CEO, Alkali Labs
Yasmeen Alfaraj, CEO, NextSet Materials
Tim Fairley-Wax, CEO, Aquora Biosystems
Advait Holkar, Founder & CEO, Praio
2:00pm The Economic & Commercial Transformation Summit
Moderator: David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
Prabhu Soundarrajan, Operating Partner, Kingston Capital
Poornima Sharma, President, GreenBridge LLC
Megan Hellendall, Sr. Consultant, Energy, NexantECA
3:00pm Coffee Break & Industry Networking
3:30pm The Due Diligence Wolfpack
The Wolfpack:
David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
Henna Poikolainen, Director of Renewable Fuels & Chemicals, AFRY
Paul Bryan, Industry Consultant, Biocurious
James Iademarco, President, Strategic Avalanche
Steve Slome, Director, Nexant ECA
Steve Weiss, Co-Founder and CEO, Grey Heron
Joel Stone, President, ConVergince (LEC)
Sam Nejame, President, Promotum
Dave Collings, Group Manager, Worley Consulting
Michele Rubino, Principal, 3Peaks Consulting
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
5:00pm ABLC Closing Remarks