8.00 Conference and exhibition registration

9.00 Moderator's opening remarks: Sustainable Energy Europe
Masha Tarle, Sustainable Energy Europe, (Campaign of the European Commission)

9.15 Keynote address: Market overview and growth trends in Europe
Vladimír Vlk, Energy advisor to Rut Bízková (Environment Minister)

9.45 Biofuels across CEE: integration into refineries

• Biofuels production within Central and Eastern Europe
• Technical issues surrounding the logistics, receipt, storage and blending of biofuels
• Government mandates
• Measuring emission reductions
• Moving towards advanced biofuels

Ivan Soucek, CEO, Ceska Rafinerska

10.15 Tea/Coffee break in Exhibition Hall

10.45 Biofuels challenges for the Aviation Industry

• criteria, technical chellenges and solutions

Xavier Montagne, Deputy scientific director, French Institute of Petroleum (IFP)

11.10 Harmonisation of EU-27 biofuel greenhouse gas performance calculations

• Complying with the Renewable Energy directive and the Fuel quality directive
• Creating complete transparency in GHG calculations for each biofuel production pathway
• Helping producers calculate actual GHG values

John Neeft, Coordinator biofuels programme, NL Agency (Government programme)

11.35 Development of measurements and standards for biofuels

• Existing (certified) reference materials and calibration materials for the analysis of bioethanol and FAME
• Use of reference materials to improve the quality of fuels and comparability of fuel properties worldwide
• Characterising biodiesel and ethanol fuel properties
• The need for validation of standards and measurement methods for biofuel and fossil fuel blends and new generation biofuels

Annarita Baldan, VSL, chair of EU project BIOREMA (REference MAterials for BIOfuel specifications)

12.00 Risk management: understanding swaps to manage price and counterparty risk

• The relationship between physical and financial biodiesel and ethanol markets
• Ethanol & biodiesel fundamentals, risk management and hedging instruments
• Benefits of central clearing and how to apply to OTC market

Lisa Kallal, Manager, Commodities & Alternative Investments EMEA, CME Group

12.25 Case study: Biodiesel production in the Czech Republic

• Product capacities and future demand
• Developing the B30 and B100 market
• Overview of local legislation and a look to the future

Miroslav Bažata, Head of biofuel sales, Agropodnik

12.50 Latest updates on European ethanol policy

• Fuel Quality directive
• Meeting the Renewable Energy Directive
• A closer look at last year's production levels
• Feedstock choices across Europe

Rob Vierhout, Secretary General, European Ethanol Fuel Association (eBIO)

1.15 Networking lunch in exhibition hall

Bioenergy stream

9.45 Moderator's opening remarks
Ruzena Svedelius, BTF-Biological TransFormation of Renewable Organic Material, Sweden

10.00 Biogas in the EU - Current situation and future outlook

• Review of biogas in the EU
• Market trends and future outlook
• EU policy and regulation

Jan Stambasky, Executive board member, European Biogas Association

10.30 Characterisation of bio oil produced from wet organic waste

• Production of bio oil from wet organic waste by catalytic conversion
• Use of biooil as a substitute for fossil fuels in oil burners (demonstration)

Sune D. Nygaard, Danish Technological Institute

11.00 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall

11.30 Biological desulphurisation of biogas

• Reusing waste water
• The need for reducing the H₂S content in biogas
• Biological scrubbing process

Cristian Toscano, Sales engineer, Biogasclean

12.00 Upgrading biogas for transportation
Tomas Vorisek, SEVEn Energy

12.30 Developments in the bio-ether market

• Trends in production
• Imports, exports and latest research results
• Producing bio-ethers from wheat, sugarbeet and cellulosic biomass
• Largescale biogas production

Walter Mirabella, Managing Director Lyondell Italia

1.00 Networking lunch in exhibition hall

Advanced biodiesel stream

2.15 Moderator's opening remarks
William Thurmond, Emerging Markets Online

2.30 Working with used cooking oil

• Challenges of working in Bosnia
• Potential opportunities in eastern Europe
• Biodiesel:feedstocks (including jatropha) production and distribution

Boro Vukadinovic, Founder, System Ecologica

3.00 Second generation biodiesel refineries in action today

• Second generation continuous flow technology
• Meeting international standards using a robust adaptive production and purification process
• Sourcing sustainable feedstock
• Challenges of working in Turkey

David Zeidman, VP of business development, Biofuel Turnkey Plants

3.30 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall

4.00 Hydrogen-treated biodiesel: a better alternative?

• Properties and performance
• Comparison with biodiesel and diesel

Duckhan Kim, Principal researcher, SK Energy

4.30 New biofuel production pathways

• Direct liquefaction
• Gasification-FT synthesis
• Synergies between biofuels and petroleum refining

Michel Bloch, Senior business development manager, Axens

Advanced bioethanol stream

2.15 Moderator's opening remarks
Sean Sutcliffe, CEO, Green Biologics

2.30 Ethanol production from waste materials - a commercial example today

• Technical issues relating to profitability
• Emission savings
• How to achieve quick production start-up

Antti Pasanen, Managing Director, St1 Biofuels

3.00 Bioethanol from spent liquors of pulp production
Fritz Struber, Head of technology, M-real Hallein AG

3.30 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall

4.00 Maximising the economic viability of biobutanol

• Reducing the cost of production
• Examining the use of thermophilic bacteria
• Retrofitting technology into ethanol facilities and creating biorefineries
• Processing waste and by-products

Sean Sutcliffe, CEO, Green Biologics

4.30 Producing ethanol and biobutanol from lignocellulosic biomass

• New biobutanol/ethanol fermentation process
• Advantages of yeast over other technology
• Biobutanol as an advanced biofuel
• Importance of C5 technology
• Outlook for second generation ethanol/biobutanol in Europe

Gunter Festel, CEO, Butalco

9.00 Moderator's opening remarks: Kingsman
Claudiu Covrig, Biofuels research analyst, Kingsman

9.15 Latest regulations and innovations needed to reach 2020 biofuel targets
Marc Gillmann, Bioenergy director, Total

9.45 Execution of targets for Biofuels versus quality of fuel
Robert Gmyrek, Director, Biofuels Department, PKN Orlen

10.15 Supply and demand balances by country

• Analysis for biodiesel and bioethanol
• 2010 production and demand estimates
• Role of the legal framework and impacts on biofuels consumption
• Longterm outlook to 2020

Christophe Cogny, Tallage

10.45 Tea/Coffee break in Exhibition Hall

11.10 Latest biofuels developments in Spain

• Developments in policy and their impact on the market
• Updates on Spanish biofuels industry
• Round up of biofuel projects across Spain
• Promoting second generation fuels

Carlos Alberto Fernández López, Head of biofuels department, IDAE (Ministry of Industry, tourism and trade, Spain)

11.45 The struggle for biofuels in Norway

• Overcoming the obstacles of introducing ethanol and biodiesel blends
• Local regulations and government targets: the need for long term incentives and rewards
• Statoil's biofuel experiences in Scandinavia, the Baltics, Russia and Poland
• Long term market outlook

Dag Roger Rinde, Managing director, Statoil Energy & Retail Norway

12.15 Sustainability case study

• Results from supply chain audit for major biodiesel producer
• Measuring GHG savings

Adrian Mason, business development manager, Inspectorate

12.45 Networking lunch in exhibition hall

Bioenergy stream

9.45 Moderator's opening remarks
Gerhard Muggen, General manager BTG Bioliquids BV

10.00 Case study: largest pyrolysis-oil producing plant in Europe

• Why treat biomass?
• Upgrading pyrolysis oil to transportation fuel
• Pyrolysis as a starting point for biorefineries
• Fundamentals of pyrolysis technology

Gerhard Muggen, General manager BTG Bioliquids BV

10.30 Development of the UK's largest dedicated biomass power plant

• Route map to successful project completion
• Unexpected issues during construction
• Overcoming planning challenges

John Cherrie, Business development director MottMacdonald

11.00 Tea/Coffee break in Exhibition Hall

11.45 Producing bioenergy from biomass

• Advantages of genetically improved biomass crops
• Producing both bioethanol and biodiesel
• Working with feedstocks from jatropha to cellulosic plants

Ashok Hansraj, Global Green

12.15 Biomass sourcing and logistics: From theory to practice

• Insight into biomass handling
• Efficient paper mills
• Integrated biorefineries and power plants

Hubert Röder, Poyry

12.45 Networking lunch in exhibition hall

Storage and handling

1.50 Moderator's opening remarks
Ruzena Svedelius, BTF-Biological TransFormation of Renewable Organic Material, Sweden

2.00 Biofuels storage & blending challenges

• Mixing fossil fuels with biocomponents Pilot projects - pipeline transportation
• Legislation framework in the Czech Republic
• Biofuels impact on the international oil sector

Jaroslav Pešek, Head of quality and strategic reserves department, Čepro

2.30 Corrosion protection

• Protection against contamination
• Moisture removal
• Suitable coatings and linings

Elisabetta Sartirana, Solvay Solexis

3.00 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall

3.30 Measuring contamination in liquid fuels

• Microbial contamination and its impact
• Current microbial test methods
• A new approach to analysing contamination

Gerrit Kadijk, Biofuels and sustainable transport consultant, TNO Science and Industry

4.00 Accurate biofuel blending

• Challenges of storing biodiesel onsite

Phil Armstrong, Additives and blending specialist, Honeywell Enraf

Project and risk management

1.50 Moderator's opening remarks
Will Thurmond, Emerging markets online

2.00 Plant planning, design and construction challenges

• Round up of major biodiesel and ethanol plants in construction
• A look at the technology chosen and why
• Overcoming design and construction obstacles
• Case study: An in-depth look at biodiesel plants being constructed in Slovakia

Tomas Cvengros, Chemoprojekt

2.25 Getting bioenergy projects to financial close - the lender’s engineer perspective

• Risk mitigation challenges for project developers
• Key factors for a bankable bioenergy project
• Strategies to maximise the chances of getting projects to financial close
• Project agreements, technology choice contracting strategies, location and logistics

Duncan Barker, Senior principal engineer, Renewable Generation - Bioenergy and Low Carbon Processes, Mott McDonald

2.50 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall

3.20 Hedging in the biofuels market

• Hedging vehicles in the European market
• Planning and modelling of hedging strategies
• Measuring of hedging effectiveness
• Interconnectedness of the biofuels and the commodities markets

Martin Ziegelbäck, Hedging.eu

3.45 Commodity trading and risk management

• Import/export levels across Europe
• Trade outlook for 2010
• Industry trends

Václav Wagner, CEO, Amasis Investments

4.10 Critical Success factors for a Bioethanol Plant
Sunil Rohom, Business development manager, Praj