2008 Pacific Rim Summit Plenary Sessions |
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Wednesday, September 10 Lunch Plenary Industrial Biotechnology - Novel Solutions to Global Energy Challenges |
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Don O'Connor, President, (S&T)² Consultants Inc. biography |
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Chris Somerville, Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign biography |
Thursday, September 11 Breakfast Plenary Crouching Elephant, Hidden Dragon - Industrial Biotechnology Innovation in the Pacific Rim |
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Pramod Chaudhari, Chairman, Praj Industries, India biography |
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Xiucai Liu, CEO, Cathay Industrial Biotechnology, China biography |
Lunch Plenary Synthetic Biology: Can We Make Biology Easy to Engineer? |
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Drew Endy, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, USA biography |
Friday, September 12 Breakfast Plenary Industrial Biotechnology: Enabling a More Sustainable Future |
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David Blume, Founder, International Institute for Ecological Agriculture biography |
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John Sheehan, President, PAS, Inc., USA biography |
Lunch Plenary Global Energy, Forestry and Chemical Industry Partnerships: A New Business Model for Advanced Biofuels? |
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Mike Burnside, President and CEO, Catchlight Energy LLC, a Chevron - Weyerhaeuser Joint Venture, USA biography |
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Jennifer Holmgren - Director, Renewable Energy and Chemicals, UOP LLC biography |
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Joseph Skurla, President, DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC, USA biography |
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David Turner, Executive Vice President, Lignol biography |
Invited 2008 Plenary Speakers |
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Paul Anastas, Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University, USA |
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John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility, UK
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Karl-Henrik Robčrt, Founder, Natural Step, Sweden |
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Marcos Jank, President, UNICA, Brazil |
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Sakayu Shimizu, Professor, Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan |