Workshops are designed for sponsors to discuss specific and focused business or technical information with conference attendees and to allow for more give and take with the participants in the audience. All workshops will be held on Tuesday May 1, from 10:30 AM- 12: 00 PM.

RFS Targets—How (and When) Will They be Met?

Room: Osceola A

The RFS2 is a game-changing policy that assures absolute global importance for advanced biofuels for the United States. It made it clear that there would be a market for this advanced technology and that there would be a price mechanism. America has responded powerfully bringing together farming and technology and in the process established US as the leader of advanced biofuels across the globe.

Learn how this industry is being created from the companies that are making it a reality. Hear how new projects are impacting the RFS2, the significant job opportunities and the contribution to domestic energy security. These key players will demonstrate that the RFS2 is working and that this industry is benefitting the future of all Americans.

Commercializing New Technologies Meeting the Demand for Advanced Biofuels

Sponsored by: INEOS Bio

Room: Osceola B

Microbial Expression Systems And Scale Up Issues And Large Scale Production With High Density Fermentations

Sponsored by: Lonza

Room: Osceola 1–3

The panel will discuss issues encountered when taking the fermentation process from bench scale through to commercial manufacturing. In each stage of scale up, there are various challenges to overcome which can continue into commercial manufacturing.

Moderator
JoAnne Carilli-Stevenson, Lonza

Panelists
Mirka Cikosova, Lonza
Torsten Schmidt, Lonza
Bobby Bringi, MBI
Mark Burk, Genomatica
Steve Schnitt, Estee Lauder

IP Workshop on Practical Patent Law—Developing Technology Protection Strategies for Business and Technology Managers in View of The New Patent Laws

Sponsored by: Woodcock Washburn LLP

Room: Osceola 4–6

This workshop is geared towards business and technology managers, not lawyers. T he key practical effects of the new patent laws will be reviewed. U pon completion of the workshop business and technology managers will be able to do the following: 1) identify important Intellectual property (IP) of the company, 2) design and implement IP protection processes in view of the new changes, and 3) implement new IP strategies enabled by the new patent laws.

Presenters
Dr. Jeffrey H. Rosedale, Partner, Co-Chair of the Cleantechnology and Nanotechnology Practice Groups, Woodcock Washburn LLP
Dr. S. Maurice Valla, Partner, Chair, Biotechnology Practice Group, Woodcock Washburn LLP

Deploying Industrial Biotechnology for Development and Large Scale Production of Biofuel

Presented by: World Council on Industrial Biotechnology

Room: Naples 1–3

This workshop brings together world-leading experts to analyze the recent status of biofuel and provide future direction. The topics to be covered include platform technologies for biofuel development, technologies for biomass pretreatment, metabolic engineering and other tools for developing biofuel producers, and current status and future prospects of biofuel commercialization.

Moderator
John Pierce, BP Biofuels (Co-Chair of the WCIB)

Presenters
Jens Nielsen, Professor and Director, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Alan Berry, Director, Novozymes
Philippe Soucaille, Professor, INSA, France
George Chen, Professor, Tsinghua University, China
William Provine, Director, DuPont

Development and Commercialization of Biorefineries

Presented by: World Council on Industrial Biotechnology

Room: Sarasota 1–3

This workshop brings together world-leading experts to analyze the recent status of biorefineries and provide future direction. The topics to be covered include overview on fully flexible fully integrated biorefineries, strategies for successful biorefinery development, new tools for strain development, and commercialization of bio-based chemicals and bio-based polymers.

Moderator
Andrew Hagan, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
(Moderator of WCIB)

Presenters
Bernhard Palsson, Professor and CEO , DTU NNF Center for Biosustainability, Denmark
Han-Oh Park, President and CEO , Bioneer, Korea
Christophe Schilling, President and CEO, Genomatica, USA
Oliver Peoples, Founder and CSO , Metabolix, USA