Tuesday October 22rd
By Invitation only
1:30pm The RADICLE CORN VALUE CHAIN CHALLENGE Grand Finals
1:30 pm Finalists briefing
2:00 pm Registration begins / Judges briefing
2:30 pm Opening remarks and welcome
3:00 pm Finalist #1 PITCH / Q&A
3:30 pm Finalist #2 PITCH / Q&A
4:00 pm Networking Break
4:30 pm Finalist #3 PITCH / Q&A
5:00 pm Finalist #4 PITCH / Q&A
5:30 pm Cocktail Hour begins: Judges Deliberation
6:00 pm Award Ceremony / Closing Remarks Cocktail Hour continues
6:45 pm Cocktail Hour ends
7:00pm VIP Dinner
Wednesday October 23rd
12:00-5:00pm REGISTRATION OPEN
3:00pm NEXT Feedstocks Leadership Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Dick Carmical, CEO, Price Companies
Wendy Mosher, CEO, New West Genetics
David Griffin, President, Net Zero Industries
Kirk Haney, Managing Partner, Radicle Growth
John Reich, Scientific Program Director, Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
John Benemann, CEO, MicroBio Engineering
4:30pm NEXT SAF Leadership Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Mike McCurdy, Managing Director, Energy Advisory Services, ICF
Aaron Robinson, Vice President of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, International Airlines Group
Jim Andersen, GM and Head of Business Development, LanzaJet
Daniel Kim, Head of SAF Procurement, Americas, Cathay Pacific
5:30pm NEXT SAF Technology Summit
Moderator: Steve Weiss, principal, Grey Heron
Marc Delcourt, CEO, Global Bioenergies
John Hannon, COO, Vertimass
David Austgen, CEO, BioVeritas
6:15pm STATE OF THE INDUSTRY presentation
Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
And Networking: Self-introductions by all attendees
Thursday October 24th
7:00am REGISTRATION OPEN
7:30-8:00am COFFEE & PASTRIES
8:00am The Sustainable Futures Forum
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Jayant Khambekar, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, Jenike & Johanson
Milica Folic, Product Line Director, Clean Fuels & Chemicals, Topsoe
Jordan Solomon, CEO, Ecostrat
Michele Demers, CEO, Boundless Impact Research & Analytics
9:00am Rural Development Address
Betsy Dirksen-Londrigan, Administrator, Rural Business Cooperative Services, USDA
9:20am Industry Horizons Forum
Moderator: Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
Cliff Keeler, VP Business Developmment, Sungas Renewables
Erwan Chauvel, Chief Commercial Officer, SHV ENERGY
Lotte Rosenberg, CEO, Carbon Recycling International
Adrian Beale, Managing Director, Market Insights & Data Analytics, GREEN STAR BCS
Matt Elhardt, Chief Revenue Officer, ResourceWise
10:30am Coffee Break & Industry Networking
11:00am ABLC KEYNOTES
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Pat Gruber, CEO, Gevo
Chad Michael Black, Director, BD, Comstock Fuels
Jennifer Holmgren. CEO, LanzaTech
11:55am The Finance & Investment Summit
Moderators: John Kirkwood, partner, Faegre Drinker and Mark Riedy, partner, Kilpatrick Townsend
George Schultz, Managing Director, Product Development, New Energy Risk
Joseph Abramson, Executive Director, Public Finance Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
Mark Glotfelty, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets
Ken Hill, Senior Consultant – Contractor, DOE Loan Programs Office
Mela Buzzetta, Senior Sustainable Fuel Consultant, Southwest Airlines
1:00pm Lunch & Industry Networking
2:00pm TRACK A The Gas & Gas Technologies Summit
Moderator: Steve Slome, Director, Nexant ECA
Tim Cesarek, CEO, Synata Bio
Mark Niederschulte, CEO, Jupeng Bio
Robert Dent, Senior Research Engineer, Energy, Linde
Nathalie Ionesco, COO, Haffner Energy
2:00pm TRACK B The Global SAF Summit
Moderator: Henna Poikolainen, Senior Principal, Head of Biorefining, AFRY
Perry E. Toms, Head of Canada, Carbon Recycling International
Jake Gentry, Director, Earth Finance
Alexei Beltyukov, President, Universal Fuel Technologies
Emily Carlton, SAF Policy Specialist, LanzaJet
2:00pm TRACK C The Hot Technologies Summit
Moderator: James Iademarco, President, Strategic Avalanche
Peter Paul Langerak, EVP, Commercial, Gidara Energy
Marilyn Bruno, CEO, Aequor
Jesse Colangelo, Business Development lead, DOE Agile BioFoundry
Markus Weissenberger, CTO, SixRing Technologies
3:00pm Coffee Break & Industry Networking
3:30pm TRACK A The Sustainable Marine Fuels Summit
Moderator & Presenter: Paul Bryan, Industry Consultant, Biocurious
Danielle Martin, Business Development Manager, Gevo
Steve Slome, Principal, NexantECA
3:30pm TRACK B The Corn-to-Chemicals Summit
Moderator: Sarah McKay, Director of Market Development, National Corn Growers Association
Neal Gutterson, Chief Technology Officer, Radicle Growth
Nathan Danielson, Principal, BioCognito
3:30pm TRACK C The Rural Revival Summit – Technologies, Programs and Finance for Rural Development
Moderator: Joel Stone, President, ConVergince (LEC)
John Hebert, Special Policy Advisor, USDA
Michael Long, Principal, Long Thermochemical
James Campbell, Energy Programs Specialist, USDA
4:30pm TRACK A Earth Finance Special Session
Moderator: Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
Nick Andrews, CEO, USA BioEnergy
Jake Gentry, Director, Earth Finance
Joshua Marcy, Airport Director, Snohomish County
4:30pm TRACK B Hot Technologies Summit
Moderator: David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
Marissa Davey, Sales Manager, Automation Systems, Valmet
Danielle Julie Nouwe Edou, Chemical Engineer, Futuria Fuels
Erik Bek-Pedersen, Sr. Business Development Manager, Topsoe
Joel Thornton, Director, Corporate Development, Aries Clean Technology
4:30pm TRACK C Bold Goals, Setting the global agenda on Bold Actions to Accelerate the economy
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Gerard Ostheimer, Chairman, Bold Goals Action Group; Manager, Clean Energy Ministerial BioFuture Campaign
Cameron Begley,. Director, Spiegare Consulting
Amanda Parsons DeRosier, VP, Investor, Community and Public Relations, Global Clean Energy Holdings
Nick Macilveen, Managing Director, Embarcatec
Jeff Passmore, CEO, The Passmore Group
5:30pm TRACK A The New Finance – new paths to scale
Moderator & Presenter: Steve Weiss, President, Grey Heron
Dave Rubenstein CEO, California Ethanol + Power
Cynthia Thyfault, CEO, QuantaVision
Steve Weiss, President, Grey Heron
Tad Dritz, Bioconversion & Hydrogen Lead, Ariel Green
5:30pm TRACK B The ElectroFuels and Hydrogen Summit
Moderator: Jim Kendrick, Producer, DigestTV
Cathryn Estes, VP Commercial, Arcadia Fuels
Ira Dassa, Regulatory Counsel, Twelve
Matt Murdock, CEO, Raven SR
Lingjuan Shen, Senior Consultant, NexantECA
5:30pm TRACK C Sustainable Marine Fuels Policy Summit
Moderator: Graham Noyes, Principal, Noyes Law Firm
David Wooley, Director, Environmental Center at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Robin Vercruse, Executive Director, Low Carbon Fuels Coalition
Gerard Ostheimer, Chairman, Bold Goals Action Group; Manager, Clean Energy Ministerial BioFuture Campaign
6:30pm 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy Announce and The Hot Party
Friday October 25th
7:00am REGISTRATION OPEN
7:30-8:00am COFFEE & PASTRIES
8:00am Sustainable Futures Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Eric McAfee, CEO, Aemetis
David Sudolsky, CEO, Anellotech
John Bissell, Co-CEO, Origin Materials
Naveen Sikka, CEO, TerViva
9:15am Global Horizons Summit
Moderator: Gerard Ostheimer, Chairman, Bold Goals Action Group; Manager, Clean Energy Ministerial BioFuture Campaign
Rebecca Boudreaux, President & CEO, Oberon Fuels
Sean Newsum, Managing Director, Environmental Affairs, Airlines for America
Paul Schubert, CEO, Strategic Fuels
Cem Ozsuer, CEO, SynPet Technologies
10:30am Coffee Break & Industry Networking
11:00am ABLC Keynotes
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Brian Foody, CEO, Iogen
Robert Graham, CEO, Ensyn
11:45am ABLC Next-Gen Companies & Technologies Showcase
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Todd Pray, Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Hitesh Manglani, Co-founder, Supercarb
Nikita Khlystov, Co-founder, Huminly.
Advait Holkar, Founder, Praio
John Slack, Founder, Rhoic
Kelly Redmond, Founder, Oleo Sustainable Palm Oil Solutions
12:45pm Lunch & Industry Networking
1:45pm The Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials Summit
Moderator: David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
Eric Steen, CEO, Lygos
Bart van Limpt, VP, Business development, Avantium
Jack Higgins, Lead Bioprocess Engineer, Merrick and Company
Alec Brewer, CEO, Ourobio
Luis Sujo, Senior Business Development Rep., Virent
3:00pm Coffee Break & Industry Networking
3:30pm The Due Diligence Wolfpack
The Wolfpack:
David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
Henna Poikolainen, Senior Principal, Head of Biorefining, AFRY
Paul Bryan, industry consultant
James Iademarco, President, Strategic Avalanche
Steve Slome, Director, Nexant ECA
Steve Weiss, Co-founder and CEO, Grey Heron
Joel Stone, President, ConVergince (LEC)
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
5:00pm ABLC Closing Remarks