Track 1: Production & Operations
Deploying Fermentation Optimization Techniques and Measuring their Overall Impact
A plant’s profit potential is either realized or lost in fermentation. Each batch presents producers with an opportunity to tweak and adjust their nitrogen dosing regimen and other variables to maximize starch conversion. But to what end and how can producers measure the results of the decisions they make, in real time? With this question in mind this panel features plant analysis for various fermentation approaches as well as the review of a new technology that allows producers to monitor fermentation as it happens.

• Moderator: John Caupert, Director, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
• Kevin Kauers, Senior Research Scientist, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Nitrogen Needs for Optimal Fermentation
• Nicholas Giffen, Scientist - Data Analysis, Novozymes North America NA
  From Cook to Fermentation: How Nitrogen Utilization Impacts the Ethanol Production Process
• Dennis Bayrock, Global Director Fermentation Research , PhibroChem Ethanol Performance Group
  Ethanol Yield Benchmarking at Fuel Ethanol Plants: Past, Current, and Advanced Microbiological Analysis of Data for Maximal Understanding of Fermentations
• Kulinda Davis, Director, Business Strategy & Marketing, Grain Processing Enzymes, Verenium Corporation
  Combining a Low pH Liquefaction Process with a Protease for Enhanced Operations

Track 1: Production & Operations
Managing Bacterial Contamination Today: Cutting Edge Approaches to Confront an Ongoing Operational Challenge
Bacterial outbreaks cost producers time and money. While antibiotics are available and still in use, they can present downstream concerns for their operation’s coproduct marketers as customers are increasingly sensitive to the possibility of residual antibiotics. More and more, producers are deploying bacterial control measures free of antibiotics and the remedies available to them continue to evolve and gain traction in the marketplace. This panel sets the table with a presentation on using advanced microscopy to pinpoint problem areas and continues with presentations investigating both microbiocides and Stablized Chlorine Dioxide approaches to eliminate bacterial encroachment.

• Moderator: James Lancaster, Chief Executive Officer, Ecolyse Inc.
• Jadyr Oliveira, Managing Director, Prozyn Biosolutions
  A New Biological Biocide to Reduce the Contamination in Ethanol Plants
• Christopher Baron, Project Manager, Ashland Water Technologies
  Novel Microbiocide Maximizes Cooling Water System Performance in Fuel Ethanol Plants
• Eric Sumner, Global Market Segment Leader, DuPont FermaSure
  Breakthrough Oxidative Technology in Bacteria Control
• Joseph Kalkwarf, North American Distilled Spirits Sales Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Advanced Microscopy for Contamination Control

Track 1: Production & Operations
Examining the Relationship between Effective Water Use and Re-use Strategies and their Impact on Plant Yield
As the medium for the critical biological processes that comprise modern ethanol production, a plant’s water treatment program must be well considered and continually optimized. If a plant’s process water is out of balance from a mineral or pH perspective, enzyme and yeast populations will begin to perform at suboptimal rates. Recognizing the critical importance of keeping a plant’s water supply within a relatively tight compositional profile, this panel features technologies and processes to continually monitor process water properties and make adjustments as necessary.

• Moderator: David O’Brien, Licensing Technology Manager, Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC 
• Robert Yule, Biorefining Applications Team Manager, Ashland Water Technologies
  New Innovations in Chemical Performance Monitoring and Process Control provide Improved Efficiencies for Fuel Ethanol Plants
• Todd Emslander, Director of Sales, US Water Services - Ethanol Process Technologies
  Evaporator Optimization
• Mike Smith, Senior Research Associate, Novozymes NA
  The Effects of Mg2+ and Ca2+ on Liquefaction Performance and Ethanol Yield
• Stephan Blum, Chief Technology Officer, Whitefox Technologies
  Water Efficient Ethanol Production through Integrated Membrane Solutions

Track 1: Production & Operations
Technological Innovations for Capturing and Utilizing Crucial Real Time Production Data & Metrics
Plant personnel scattered all across a production facility gather, analyze and use data to make decisions as a regular part of each working day. However, sharing this information broadly and allowing it to drive production decisions remains a day-to-day discipline producers continue to look to improve. Sensor and control vendors have responded and continue to introduce powerful tools to the producer marketplace. This panel will feature presentations about both sensing and control options for specific plant operations as well as exciting platforms that provide a more holistic, real-time view of a plant’s operational vitals.

• Moderator: Tara Vigil, Vice President Business Development, KATZEN International Inc.
• Paul Shepperd, Scientist, Ashland Water Technologies
  Continuous-feed Chemistry and Novel Fouling Analyzer provide Effective Evaporator Scale Control
• Robert Wilson, Product Manager, ICM Inc.
  Performance Visualization Software Improves Operational Performance
• Michael Tay, Ethanol Technical Consultant - Pavilion, Rockwell Automation
  MPC Benefits across a Variety of Ethanol Plant Designs
• Dale Willard, President & Founder, Carbo Analytics LLC
  Near Real-Time Monitoring of Carbohydrates during Biorefinery Production by a Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis Technology
• Collette Blake, Applications Specialist, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
  A Method to Study the Dry Grind Liquefaction Process Quality

Track 1: Production & Operations
Unique Approaches for Maximizing the Effectiveness of Facility Yeast Populations
Yeast populations are the workhorses responsible for the production of ethanol and their health is tightly correlated to ultimate ethanol yield. Understanding the factors that negatively affect overall yeast health and the leading strategies to mitigate those factors is critical for maximizing the work done in plant fermentation vessels. Panelists will offer a close look at the complexities of yeast cell membranes, the interplay of glucose and yeast, as well as new yeast strains engineered to help reduce operational enzyme expenses.

• Moderator: Jim Hettenhaus, President & CEO, Chief Executive Assistance Inc.
• Nick LeFebvre, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Controlling Glucose Levels in Fermentation for Optimal Yeast Performance
• Frank Agbogbo, Application Technology Manager, Mascoma Corp.
  New Yeast Technology Enabling Cost-Savings and Yield Boost to Ethanol Producers
• Jenny Forbes, Manager, New Product Development, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Yeast Health: Cell Membrane Functionality
• Speaker TBA

Track 1: Production & Operations
Exploring Available Strategies for Achieving Environmental and Regulatory Compliance
The burden of regulatory compliance for producers with regard to their stack emissions, water discharges and feed coproducts is very real and if improperly managed, potentially expensive. With presentations examining best practices around each of these, this panel provides compliance personnel with an opportunity to sense check their program and identify potential problem areas and the leading strategies available to streamline the compliance protocols required of producing facilities

• Moderator: Andrea Foglesong, Managing Director, Environmental Affairs, ERI Solutions Inc.
• Jessica Karras-Bailey, Principal, RTP Environmental Associate, Inc.
  Do I Still Need My Water Permit?!?
• Mary Ann Mullin, Partner, SchiffHardin LLP
  USEPA Enforcement Initiative against Ethanol Manufacturers: Protecting your Company and Yourself
• Bob Mullowney, President, Monitortech Corporation
  Outsourcing Air Emissions Requirements
• Rex Roehl, Senior Director, Business Development, RC Fuels Inc.
  Regulatory Clearance and GRAS Certification for New Fermentation Technology

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
Margin Math: Finding and Protecting Plant Profitability in Today's Commodity Marketplace
Profitability at ethanol plants is the result of competently managing the interplay of a small handful of commodity inputs and products. Yet, while interrelated in some ways, the critical commodities in an ethanol plant can and do move independently of one another creating challenges for plant financial teams. This panel will closely examine these relationships, their impact on a plant’s bottom line and the market outlook for each of them in turn.

• Moderator: Kristy Moore, Vice President, Technical Services, Renewable Fuels Association
• Will Babler, Principal, Atten Babler Risk Management LLC
  Always Darkest before Dawn – Positive Prospects for Long-Term Corn Ethanol Profitability
• Dustin Petersen, Partner, McGladrey LLC
  What is the Lost Opportunity Cost of Over Production?
• James Schmidt, CPA & Partner, Eide Bailly LLP
  Margin Management: Reading between the Lines
• Connie Chappell, Business Consultant, Christianson & Associates PLLP
  Factors Affecting Grind Margins and Plant Profitability

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
An Ounce of Prevention: Taking Active Steps to Reduce Risk and Increase Safety
The production of ethanol and its later distribution from an operating facility brings with it a certain degree of risk. This risk can be mitigated and significantly reduced with a well-conceived and aggressively implemented safety and training program. This panel will closely examine the characteristics of such a program, while defining a plant wide, holistic approach to the safe operation of an ethanol plant. An emphasis will be placed on rail safety as two presenters will examine strategies for safely navigating this continual problem area.

• Moderator: Steve Schleicher, Vice President, Industrial Services, Pinnacle Engineering Inc.
• Joe Loer, Senior Consultant, Pinnacle Engineering Inc.
  Guidelines for Fuel Ethanol Release Prevention & Impact Mitigation
• Jay Beckel, Vice President, Safety & Health, ERI Solutions Inc.
  Behavioral Based Safety - What BBS Really Means!
• Wes Hazlett, Rail Safety Consultant, Rail Safe Training Incorporated
  UNCOVERED: FELA and the Risk of Catastrophic Liability Associated with your Rail Operations
• Erica Montefusco, Director, Environmental, Health, Safety & Security, Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc.
  Process Safety Management: A Modern Approach

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
Plant Valuation in an Era of Tight Margins and Industry Consolidation
All business ventures, ethanol plants included, are developed with an eventual exit strategy in mind. Exit events, both planned and unplanned, require plant owners and plant leadership to understand the real time market value of their facility, the landscape of potential buyers and the fiduciary and regulatory responsibilities they have through any ownership transfer event. Featuring panelists well versed in current facility valuation and the current market landscape this panel will offer management teams a great opportunity to consider their plant in the context of overall value regardless of the timeline of any planned exit strategies.

• Moderator: Dean Edstrom, Attorney at Law, Minneapolis
• Mark Warren, Partner, Ascendant Partners Inc.
  Positioning to Maximize your Plant's Value during a Challenging Market Environment
• Jessica Karras-Bailey, Principal, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  So You're Buying an Ethanol Plant
• Justin Mentele, Senior Associate, Manufacturing & Biofuels Group, Kennedy and Coe LLC
  How to Create and Maintain Shareholder Value
• Mark Fisler, Partner & Managing Director, Ocean Park Advisors LLC
  Business, Financial and Legal Implications of Industry Consolidation

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
Strategies to Better Understand the Quantity and Quality of Available Corn Inventories and How they both Affect Financial Performance
The drought of 2012 is still being felt by ethanol producers and its effects are still showing up on producer balance sheets and bottom lines. As the planting season for the 2013 corn crop approaches producers look forward to corn planting and pricing outlooks as they work to bring their profit margins back to healthier levels. This panel includes presentations rich in commodity outlooks, technological innovations for assessing local corn supply and the interplay between corn quantity and quality.

• Moderator: Holly Jessen, Managing Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine
• Steffen Mueller, Principal Research Economist, University of Illinois
  New Satellite Tool Tailored to Grain Elevator Operators Assesses Corn Supply and Supply Risk at Local Levels
• Matt Beeson, President, Beeson & Associates Inc.
  Fundamental Price Outlook for the Corn and Energy Markets
• Jonathan Olmscheid, Supervisor, Assurance & Advisory Services, Christianson & Associates PLLP
  The Importance of Quality Feedstock and Its Impact on Plant Revenue
• Speaker TBA

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
Approaches for Assessing Plant Performance in a Broader Industry Context and the Value of Doing So
More and more ethanol leadership teams are turning to using benchmarking as a regular means of understanding and defining their facility’s production and financial performance. Recognizing that plant data without context is limited in its utility, benchmarking helps plant leaders identify the aspects of their operation where they lead, or conversely, lag. With a close look at how to not only measure plant performance, but also what to measure and how to interpret the gathered information, this panel will interest both facilities that have been actively engaged in benchmarking for years, or are completely retooling their performance measurement program.

• Moderator: Todd Taylor, Co-Chair, Clean Technology Group, Fredrikson & Byron P.A.
• Matt Crane, Partner, Boulay, Heutmaker, Zibell & Co. LLP
  Continuous Improvement in Financial Management
• Scott McDermott, Partner, Ascendant Partners Inc.
  Improving Company Performance through Benchmarking and Collaboration
• Donna Funk, Member, Biofuels Group, Kennedy and Coe LLC
  Evaluating Total Plant Performance
• Jeff Kistner, Financial Business Consultant, Christianson & Associates PLLP
  Current Status of the Ethanol Industry: A Financial Perspective

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
How Investing in Your Plant's Human Assets can Yield Workforce Stability and Financial Dividends
Emerging technologies, process tweaks, and new markets are often credited with the increases in efficiency, reduced operational costs and growing revenues plants continually seek. Still, without a well-trained and highly motivated workforce, new technologies and process tweaks cannot be realized nor implemented and new market opportunities cannot be seized. This panel will make plain the financial impact employees have on a plant’s bottom line while also investigating strategies for creating an atmosphere that demands and rewards high performance.

• Moderator: Tom Bryan, President, BBI International
• Betsey Upchurch, Chief Executive Officer, P4 Consulting
  Fire Up the Front Line
• Sherry Jean Larson, Assurance & Advisory Services Manager, Christianson & Associates PLLP
  The Impact Employees have on your Plant's Success
• Renee Loesche, IGEN Biofuels Coordinator/Instructor, Southeastern Illinois College -BioFuels Technology
  National Initiative for Standardized Biofuels Training

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Revenue Remix: Driving your Plant to Its Greatest Coproduct Profit Potential
Distiller’s grains revenues are ubiquitous across installed ethanol production facilities and corn oil revenues are becoming so as well. Questions arising from this production dynamic include questions about the impact that these efforts have on overall ethanol production as well as the long term ramifications a short term, largely volatile market have on the trajectory of the progress towards a more robust and stable coproduct marketplace. This panel will examine marketplace trends and industry benchmarking to answer these questions and help producers take a longer view of their facility’s ultimate coproduct strategy.

• Moderator: Tom Harvey, Vice President, Marketing, Blume Distillation
• Rachel Overheul, Engineering Manager, WB Services LLC
  The Value Chain: Keep it Home; Options for Corn Oil
• Joseph Riley, General Manager, FEC Solutions
  Improving the Value of Coproducts
• William Covey, Chief Executive Officer, Noble Mansfield Commodity Services
  Successful Marketing of Fractionated Products
• Paula Emberland, Benchmarking Business Analyst, Christianson & Associates PLLP
  Coproduct Trends and their Impact on Profitability

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Examining Commercially Available Mechanical and Biological Pathways to Increased Corn Oil Yields
As a growing contributor of plant revenues, corn oil is attracting the attention of not only producers, but also the technology and process providers that are eager to establish their own market position as the industry rapidly adopts extraction steps into its production environment. Additionally, as more plants engage in oil recovery, more is learned about this coproduct’s potential. Looking at both mechanical and biological pathways this panel will not only describe different approaches for capturing corn oil, but also examine the evolving notion of prudent rates of extraction.

• Moderator: Gary DeLong, Vice President, Degart Global
• Michael Franko, Technical Projects Manager, Fluid Quip Process Technologies LLC
  Front-End Oil Recovery to Increase Total Oil Yield
• James Bleyer, Senior Chemical Engineer, Valicor Separation Technologies
  Valicor Stillage Fractionation Technology
• Amanda Moser, Associate Scientist, Novozymes North America Inc.
  A New Enzymatic Solution to Increase Corn Oil Recovery in Dry Grind Ethanol Plants
• David Winsness, Chief Technology Officer, GreenShift Corporation
  Corn Oil Extraction: The Growing Appetite for Higher Yields

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
The Transformative Effect of Greater Product Diversity on a Plant's Long Term Financial Viability
More and more industry veterans are adamant that the pathway towards more stable profits and the long term health of the ethanol industry hinges upon the industry’s ability to continue to increase the product mix they are capable of generating at their facility. In this panel, fractionation and the diversification of the corn components a facility is able to produce and market are investigated for their potential to improve overall facility profit margins. Additionally, the production of biobutanol will be discussed as a diversification option for the starch fraction of a plant’s inbound corn stream.

• Moderator: Bob Randle, Vice President, Business Development, Genera Energy
• Scott Kohl, Technical Director, ICM Inc.
  The Reality of Grain Fractionation Economics and Technology Pathways
• Brenda Head, Vice President, Commercialization, Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC
  Product Diversification with Biobutanol
• Michael Regier, Technical Director, Cereal Process Technologies
  Adapting your Ethanol Plant to a Corn Processing Plant
• Brett Lund, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Gevo
  Retrofitting Ethanol Plants for Isobutanol

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Uncommon Convergence: How Reducing your Plant's Carbon Score could Increase Market Access and Revenue Potential
The United States lags many other countries in deploying policies that begin the process of driving out carbon dioxide emissions from the economy. Additionally, the jury is still out with regard to the question of whether increased carbon legislation will unilaterally help or hurt ethanol producers. Ethanol producers have watched this debate unfold for years and know firsthand that the particular method of carbon accounting employed is often the deciding factor. With an update on the evolving carbon landscape this panel also highlights the technologies available to producers looking to take action now as well as an update on the incredible work being done by an industry giant to capture and sequester carbon underground.

• Moderator: Kelly Davis, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Renewable Fuels Association
• Sai Gollakota, Project Manager, Department of Energy
  Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization, and Storage: An Emerging Economic Opportunity for Fuel Ethanol Plants in the U.S.
• Paul Kamp, Chief Development Officer, Leifmark
  Low-Carbon Solutions for High-Carbon Businesses: Co-Location of Cellulosic and Corn Ethanol to Achieve RFS2 Goals for Industry Growth and GHG Reduction
• Douglas Tiffany, Assistant Extension Professor, University of Minnesota
  Carbon Taxes: An Incentive System to Make Dry-Grind Ethanol Greener and More Profitable
• Ivy Huang, Head, Liquid Separation Group, Membrane Technology and Research
  Low-Energy, Low-Cost Membrane Bioethanol Dehydration Technology

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Tweaking Production Processes to Enhance the Nutritional Profile and Digestibility of Distillers Grains
Distiller grains and fuel ethanol are two vastly different products, with vastly different downstream uses that share a common production process. As a result, changes made to this one shared production process for the improvement of one product stream will inherently change the composition of the other, desired or not. This panel examines this relationship and reports on the progress to better understand and define the nutritional impact that ethanol process changes bring to the distillers grains coproduct and how this can be balanced to deliver financial benefits to the operation.

• Moderator: Philip Madson, President, KATZEN International Inc.
• Harold Tilstra, Manager, Technical Support, DDGS Marketing, Purina Animal Nutrition LLC
  Processing Effects on Nutritive Value of Distillers Grains
• Sabrina Trupia, Assistant Director, Biological Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Improving Human Nutrition by Feeding DDGS to Layer Hens
• Peter Williams, Business Development Manager - Biofuels, Associated British Agriculture
  Is it Economical and Sustainable to Continue Producing DDGS? We can do Better
• Kevin Roepke, Manager, Global Trade, U.S. Grains Council
  DDGS Export Market

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Exploring the Potential For New Milling Strategies to Increase Plant Yield and Reduce Operating Expenses
Corn entering ethanol facilities is ground to begin the process of capturing and converting the available components of the grain. Producers have options available to them for this process step and the decision about investing in a more robust milling strategy has to be viewed within the context of increased ethanol and corn oil yield. Rich in data gathered from the field, this panel will help producers work towards a milling sweet spot that delivers the greatest return on any investments they choose to make in this production process.

• Moderator: Larry Johnson, Owner, LLJ Consulting & Business Development
• John Robinson, President, Drying Technology Inc.
  Update on Improved DDGS Moisture Sensing and Control
• John Kwik, President, Fluid Quip Process Technologies, LLC
  Selective Grind Technology Options to Increase Ethanol and Oil Yield
• Garth Whiddon, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Milling Parameters and their Effect on Residual Starches
• Leon Langhauser, Chief Executive Officer, LAI Ethanol Bio Tech Div, Langhauser Associates Inc.
  Sustainable Corn Refining Process: Integration of Dry, Wet, and Bio-Grinds

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Cellulosic Colloquium: Reviewing Construction Progress on the Industry's First Commercial Scale Facilities
With on-the-ground construction, commissioning and plant optimization updates from four of the world’s leading pursuers of cellulosic ethanol, this panel will take you inside of the commercial scale-up ropes and showcase the challenges being transcended by producers in North America and abroad. Find out how frontrunners in the cellulosic race are working cooperatively with feedstock suppliers, envisaging multi-plant strategies and jockeying for first-to-market licensing plays. Learn how capital costs are coming within reach and build an insider’s understanding of the technologies, strategic partnerships and core value propositions behind each offering.

• Moderator: David Lococo, Senior Vice President, KATZEN International Inc.
• Ken Hill, Business Development & Licensing Leader, DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol
  Creating Value from Farm to Fuel: DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol
• Steve Hartig, General Manager, POET- DSM Advanced Biofuels LLC
  POET-DSM Business Update
• Mark Dietzen, Senior Licensing Manager, INEOS Bio
  First Commercial Cellulosic Bioethanol
• Delane Richardson, Vice President, Business Development, Chemtex
  Commercial Production of Cellulosic Ethanol at the Beta Renewables Crescentino Plant
• Pat Foody, EVP, Advanced Biofuels, Iogen Corporation
  Update on Commercialization

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Parallel Production: Scaling Up Cellulosic Output at Existing Starch Based Facilities
As the world’s large-scale cellulosic ethanol plants rise from the difficult build-and-commission stages, another advanced ethanol promise is emerging from within North America’s existing fleet of first-generation grain ethanol facilities. This panel will examine the “ethanol 1.5” technology offerings that can help existing plants posture for roles in the industry’s future landscape, from fiber separation and particle size optimization plays to alternative feedstock examinations. Find out how bolt-on, integrated technologies may help plants increase their yields by as much as 10% and bring more than one billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol into the marketplace.

• Moderator: Thomas Corle, Chief Executive Officer, Leifmark
• Philip Madson, President, KATZEN International Inc.
  Generation 1.5: Posturing for Change
• Jeremy Javers, Principal Research Scientist, ICM Inc.
  Generation 1.5 Fiber to Cellulosic Ethanol
• Steve Rust, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Edeniq Inc.
  Cellulosic Ethanol in Today's Plant
• Sabrina Trupia, Assistant Director, Biological Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Cellulosic Ethanol from Whole Corn Right Here, Right Now

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
A Progress Report on the Race to Commercialize Cost Effective Pathways to the Saccharification of Cellulosic Material
Radical advancements have been made in reducing the expense of lignocellulosic conversion, but the associated cost of enzymes for saccharification is still a major pitfall on the path to the full commercial viability of cellulosic ethanol. Find out how innovative companies are making cellulosic sugars economically viable through more efficient enzyme utilization and overall reductions in the capital profile of biomass conversions. This panel will offer a diversified look at the latest efforts to bring down the cost of cellulosic sugars, from high-shear-enabled pretreatment and hydrolysis to the novel utilization of fungal crude enzyme extracts and select microorganisms.

• Moderator: Max Crandall, Chief Executive Officer, Terrestrial Carbon Analytics
• Albrecht Läufer, Vice President, Lignocellulosics, Direvo Industrial Biotechnology GmbH
  Direvo BluCon®: A Novel Consolidated Bioprocessing Approach to Low-Cost Lignocellulose Fuel Ethanol
• Ananda Nanjundaswamy, Assistant Professor, School of Ag, Research, Extension & Applied Science, Alcorn State University
  Development of Fungal Crude Enzyme: Commercial Enzyme Cocktail for Potential Cost Reduction of Cellulosic Biomass Saccharification
• Doug Rivers, Director, Research & Development, ICM Inc.
  Line-of-Sight: New Technology Commercialization through a Value-Added Platform Approach
• Tom Griffin, Chief Technology Officer, Edeniq Inc.
  Cellulosic Bolt-on Technology for High Purity Sugars

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Understanding the Growing Role of Algae in the Continued Evolution of Biofuels Production
Discover the budding relationship between ethanol and algae. As ethanol producers continue to search for new and diversified revenue streams, the once implausible idea of piping CO2 to an integrated or over-the-fence algae production facility is no longer a laugher. With strengthening global demand for high-value, algae-derived products—and a high-profile demonstration plant in Iowa—this is now an opportunity worth looking at. Shifting from co-location opportunities to production technology, this panel will include details on a state-of-the-art system for real-time monitoring of algae production and a direct-to-ethanol algae platform that’s not only promising, but flat-out cool.

• Moderator: Kolby Hoagland, Program & Data Manager, BBI International
• Victoria Kurtz, Algae Technologies Manager, Fluid Imaging Technologies Inc.
  A Dynamic Imaging Cell Monitoring System for Real-Time Analysis of Algae-to-Biofuel Production
• Jim Stark, Vice President of Investor and Media Relations, Green Plains Renewable Energy
  Monetizing CO2: Getting Value out of the Last Third of the Corn Kernel the Next Bolt-on in Ethanol
• Brian Cooper, Project Manager, Hazen Research Inc.
  Challenges in Large Scale Processing of Algae for Fuels
• Shayani Pieris, Assistant Professor of Plant Science, Missouri Baptist University
  Enhancing Carbon Capture by Algae for Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency as a Biofuel Feedstock

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Crossing the Conversion Chasm: Emerging Approaches for Unlocking the Profit Potential of Cellulose
Cellulosic ethanol conversion requires cellulase and beta-glucosidase to degrade cellulose materials into simple sugars for microbial utilization. Discover a new yeast strain that is able to utilize cellobiose to produce its own beta-glucosidase, thereby drawing down the cost of cellulosic ethanol production. Also, find out what strides scientists are making in engineering stress-tolerant ethanol yeast by manipulating metabolic pathways. Explore the potential for microorganisms to become true bacterial micro-factories for the production of cellulosic ethanol and biobased chemicals, and gain knowledge about opportunities for process integration being proven at one new demonstration-scale biorefinery.

• Moderator: Sue Retka Schill, Senior Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine/ Biomass Magazine
• Lewis Liu, Molecular Biologist, USDA-ARS
  A New ß-glucosidase Producing Yeast for Lower-Cost Cellulosic Ethanol Production using Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation
• Debasish Ghosh, Lab Manager & Lead Scientist - Molecular Sciences, Ferm Solutions Inc.
  Engineering Stress Tolerant Industrial Fuel Ethanol Yeast by Regulation of Metabolic Pathways involved with Stress Tolerance
• Emmanuel Petiot, Directeur Général & CEO, Deinove, France
  Emergence of a C6-C5 Bacterial Micro-Factory
• Gisle Johansen, Senior Vice President R&D and Business Development, Borregaard / LignoTech, Norway
  The Biorefinery Approach to Production of Lignocellulosic Ethanol and Chemicals from Lignocellulosic Biomass

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Leveraging New Products and Process Pathways to Deliver New Revenue Streams to Your Facility
Near future trends show that individual ethanol plants will be profitable—or not—based on how they manage their coproducts and differentiate to advanced or cellulosic RINs. Find out why the ethanol plants will likely morph their setups and specialize their product offerings as unique regional demands and the ability to manufacture new products creates pull. Also, examine the green energy side of the advanced ethanol equation, with a close look at gas-fired cogeneration and biodigester platforms, including one that’s enabling two U.S. ethanol plants to cash in on D5 RINs.

• Moderator: Richard Weiner, Chair, International Law Department, & Vice President, Fredrikson & Byron P.A.
• Scott Kohl, Technical Director, ICM Inc.
  Realities of Ethanol Today
• Shane Chrapko, Chief Executive Officer, Himark bioGas Inc.
  Himark Solutions Delivering $55-59 Million Annually to 100 mpgy Ethanol Plants
• Dennis Evers, Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer, Meridian Biotech, USA
  Generating Clean Biogas and/or High Protein Biosolids from Stillage: Turning Costs into Profits
• Suresh Jambunathan, Director, Business Development, Recycled Energy Development
  Gas Fired Cogeneration: A Silver Bullet at Ethanol Plants for Renewable Energy and Boiler MACT?
• Sabrina Trupia, Assistant Director, Biological Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  There is More to Sorghum than Meets the Eye: Sweet Sorghum Inclusion Rates in Ethanol Production