The ABLC Next 2025 agenda will be announced July 15, 2025. Here for illustration purposes is the ABLC NEXT 2024 agenda:

Wednesday October 22nd

3:00pm NEXT Feedstocks Leadership Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Speakers TBA

4:00pm NEXT SAF Leadership Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Speakers TBA

5:00pm NEXT SAF Technology Summit
Moderator: Steve Weiss, principal, Grey Heron
Speakers TBA

6:00pm 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

8:00am The Sustainable Futures Forum
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Speakers TBA

9:20am Industry Horizons Forum
Moderator: Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
Speakers TBA

10:30am Coffee Break & Industry Networking

11:00am ABLC KEYNOTES
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Speakers TBA

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
Speakers TBA

1:00pm Lunch & Industry Networking

2:00pm TRACK A The Cascadia Sustainable Aviation Accelerator
Moderator: Tim Zenk, Managing Director, Earth Finance
Speakers TBA

2:00pm TRACK B The Global SAF Summit
Moderator: Henna Poikolainen, Senior Principal, Head of Biorefining, AFRY
Speakers TBA

2:00pm TRACK C The Hot Technologies Summit
Moderator: James Iademarco, President, Strategic Avalanche
Speakers TBA

3:00pm Coffee Break & Industry Networking

3:30pm TRACK A The Sustainable Marine Fuels Summit
Moderator & Presenter: Paul Bryan, Industry Consultant, Biocurious
Speakers TBA

3:30pm TRACK B The Ethanol Summit
Moderator: TBA
Speakers TBA

3:30pm TRACK C The Rural Revival Summit – Technologies, Programs and Finance for Rural Development
Moderator: Joel Stone, President, ConVergince (LEC)
Speakers TBA

4:30pm TRACK A Hot Technologies Summit
Speakers TBA

4:30pm TRACK B Hot Technologies Summit
Moderator: David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
Speakers TBA

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
Speakers TBA

5:30pm TRACK A The New Finance – new paths to scale
Moderator & Presenter: Steve Weiss, President, Grey Heron
Speakers TBA

5:30pm TRACK B The ElectroFuels and Hydrogen Summit
Moderator: Jim Kendrick, Producer, DigestTV
Speakers TBA

5:30pm TRACK C Sustainable Marine Fuels Summit
Moderator: Graham Noyes, Principal, Noyes Law Firm
Speakers TBA

6:30pm 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy Announce and The Hot Party

Friday October 24th

7:00am REGISTRATION OPEN

7:30-8:00am COFFEE & PASTRIES

8:00am Sustainable Futures Summit
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Speakers TBA

9:15am Global Horizons Summit
Moderator: Gerard Ostheimer, Chairman, Bold Goals Action Group; Manager, Clean Energy Ministerial BioFuture Campaign
Speakers TBA

10:30am Coffee Break & Industry Networking

11:00am ABLC Keynotes
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Speakers TBA

11:45am ABLC Next-Gen Companies & Technologies Showcase
Moderator: Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher, The Daily Digest
Speakers TBA

12:45pm Lunch & Industry Networking

1:45pm The Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials Summit
Moderator: David Dodds, President, Dodds & Associates
Speakers TBA

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