Keynote Case Study:  Using Capital and Strategic Partnerships to expand your Biofuels Network

• Value of partnerships can be multi-faceted:  grow logistics, develop infrastructure, expand network and access capital
• Partners can enable as well as validate a business play
• Developing strong relationships can jumpstart your business, accelerate your speed to market, mitigate risk, and broaden the breadth and depth of your product offering

Dan Oh, Chief Financial Officer, Renewable Energy Group

09.45

• Market overview - trading activity, structure of transactions, overview of working financial instruments, mergers & acquisitions and joint ventures
• Winning deal structures - issues impeding and developing the biofuels industry
• Achieving returns and measuring ROI
• Which part of the value chain is worth investing in - producers of feedstocks or refiners using first generation technology?
• Emerging investment strategies for biofuels - drivers and challenges

Moderator:
Eric Bowen, VP, Energy and Director, Biofuels, Sigma Capital Group Panellists:     
Shai Weiss, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Fuels
R. Andrew de Pass, Managing Director, Citigroup Venture Capital International
David Fennema, VP, Biofuels, Marathon Capital LLC
Dan Oh, Chief Financial Officer, Renewable Energy Group

Fiscal Incentives: How to create Investment Opportunities in Biofuels

• Impact of legislation, tax incentives and subsidies on biofuels investment
• Examining EU Biofuels Subsidies and Obligations on biofuels investment

Panellists:     
Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Executive Director, Europe & Africa, IFQC Biofuels
Roger Blears, Partner, Martineau Johnson
Michael Schaefer, Analyst, Equinet Securities AG

Risk Management: Feedstock Risk and Policy Risk

• How do you mitigate risks?
• Diversifying risk across markets, processes, technologies and managements

Will Babler, Risk Manager, First Capitol Risk Management (awaiting final confirmation)

11.55

Case Study:  Role of Hedge Funds in Biofuels Projects

• Case study: First hedge mechanism supplied by major investment bank
• Hedge fund investment strategies

Brian Bolster, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

• CDM as a financing option for biofuels
• How CDM is adding revenue streams to developing countries biofuels projects

Panellists:     
Tony White, Head of Advisory, Climate Change Capital
Courtney Blodgett, CDM Project Manager, EcoSecurities
Phil Doyle, Vice President, Econergy UK

12.45

Project Finance Case Study

• Why project finance?
• Case study: the total project finance package: Green Spirit Fuels £85m bioethanol plant

Malcolm Shepherd, Chief Executive Officer, Green Spirit Fuels
Jon Williams, Head of Sustainable Development, HSBC

Case Study:  Debt Finance for Biofuels Projects 

• What kind of financing structures are possible for bio fuels projects
• What are the main risks for the project? In the biofuels market, there is no correlation between the feedstock (wheat, maize, etc) and the output (bioethanol).
• How do you mitigate these risks as much as possible?

Marc Schmitz, Senior Manager, Project Finance, Rabobank

Project Debt Financing

• Why project finance?
• What is the process of raising project finance
• Key requirements/lessons learned
• Pitfalls

Anthony Doherty, Biofuels Business Development Director, Bioverda

Comparing Traditional & New Structures such as Mezzanine Financing

• Mezzanine financing: when is it appropriate and how is it structured?
• What do mezzanine lenders look for?
• Risks and issues

Tom Murray, Managing Director & Co-Head, Loan and Debt Capital Markets, WestLB

Raising Private Equity Financing for Biofuels

• Why VCs are interested in the sector
• Key areas of consideration for equity investment
• Risks and showstoppers for equity investment

Donna Clarke, Biofuels Business Development Manager, Wheb Ventures

IPOs: Current and Future Trends

• How are public quoted companies performing?
• Price trends and future market patterns
• Case studies

Michael Leibrich, Director, New Energy Finance

Keynote Presentation: Investing in Next Generation Biofuels

• Feedstocks
• Converstion technologies
• Infrastructure
• Customer expectations

Rick Zalesky, Vice President Biofuels and Hydrogen, Chevron Technology Ventures

Financing Next Generation Biofuels Technologies

• Risks and returns from biofuels investments
• Successful partnership strategies
• How to create profitable alternative fuel companies
• Are VC firms providing project finance for biofuel facilities rather than for the technology?

Panellists:     
Jamie Richards, Partner, Foresight Venture Partners
Philipp Hasler, Investment Director, SAM Private Equity
Even Bakke, Managing Director, Bankinvest New Energy Solutions

Environmental Impacts of a Large Scale Biofuels Industry
Jean-Philippe Denruyter, Climate & Energy Policy Officer, WWF, Belgium

The Global Impacts of the Biofuels Industry
Suzanne Hunt, Biofuels Project Manager, Worldwatch, USA

The Social Impacts of Biofuels Industry
Olivier Genevieve, President, Ethical Sugar, France

Climate Friendly Biofuels
Dr Robert Edwards, Joint Research Centre - CONCAWE, European Commission

Measuring the Sustainability of Biofuels Companies
Dr. Matthias Fawer-Wasser, Vice President, Sustainability,
Bank Sarasin, Switzerland

Networking Lunch Break

Global Bioenergy Partnership
Speaker to be announced

Biofuels Increasing Productivity and Rural Economies
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, West & Centre Hub, United Nations Office for Project Services, Senegal

Impact of Biofuels on Food Markets
Jan Kees Vis, Director of Sustainable Agriculture, Unilever & President, Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil Production

UK Biofuels Scheme: Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership
Greg Archer, Director, Low Carbon Vehicles Partnership

Practical Case Study: Sustainability Policy
Speaker to be announced

Netherlands Biofuels Sustainability System
Jacqueline Cramer, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, University of Delft, The Netherlands

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Keynote Case Study:  Bringing Next Generation Biofuels Technology to Market- Development and Prospects of Biobutanol

• Biofuels - an alternative energy supply with a smaller associated environmental footprint
• Metabolic engineering will enable the development of new advanced biofuels
• Improved economic conversion of cellulosic feedstocks will be a significant enabler of industry

John Ranieri, Biofuels Vice President and General Manager, DuPont         

EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE:
Speeding the Transition to Next Generation Biofuels

• Overcoming challenges to large-scale production of next generation biofuels
• Creating incentives to support the development of next generation low-cost biofuel technology
• What policy level changes are needed to make next generation biofuels technology competitive
• Financing next generation biofuels - is there enough financing for the commercialisation of next generation biofuels?

Panellists:              
Stephen Gatto, Chief Executive Officer, BioEnergy
John Ranieri, Biofuels Vice President and General Manager, DuPont     
Suzanne Hunt, Biofuels Manager, Worldwatch Institute
Jeremy Tomkinson, Chief Executive, UK National Non-Food Crop Centre
Pierpaolo Cazzola, Analyst, International Energy Agency

Overcoming Technical and Commercial Challenges and making Cellulosic Ethanol a Reality?

• Latest developments in cellulosic ethanol production
• Technical and commercial challenges
• Current and future investment opportunities for cellulosic ethanol technology

Panellists:  
Carlos A Riva, Chief Executive Officer, Celunol Corp
Murray Burke, Vice President and General Manager, SunOpta
Mohammed Moniruzzaman, Vice President Biomass Technology, BioEnergy
Mike Muston, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Broin Corp
Ricardo Arjona, R&D Project Manager, Abengoa Bioenergy

New Improvements for Lignocellulosic Ethanol

• Improvements of enzymatic hydrolysis
• Improvements of ethanol fermentation
• Process integration

Frederic Monot, Head of Biotechnology, Institut Francois du Petrole and Co-ordinator, European Project, NILE

Case Study:  Results from World's First Fully Integrated Lignocellulosic Bioethanol Pilot Plant

• Lignocellulosic bioethanol technologies - bottlenecks
• Operation experiences from the worlds first fully integrated lignocellulosic pilot plant
• The path forward

Birgitte K Ahring, Chief Executive Officer, BioGasol

BTL Commercialisation and Development

• Technological innovation for BTL commercialisation and development
• Biomass (fuel) and gasification key sector

Tord Fjallstrom, Chairman, European Biomass Industry Association

Case Study:  Fast Pyrolysis Technology for New Biofuels Alternatives

• Fast pyrolysis technology - fuels produced from biomass
• Breaking cost barriers
• Integrating into medium/heavy biofuels
• Mobile fuel production

Andrew Kingston, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dynamotive

Large Scale Fischer-Tropsch Diesel Production: Opportunities and Challenges to Shift from Black (Coal) to Green (Biomass)

• Entrained-flow gasification based CtL technology
• Entrained-flow gasification based BtL technology
• Pre-treatment and (co-) conversion challenges
• Technical and economic opportunities

Robin Zwart, Project Manager, BioSyngas and SNG and
Ir A Van der Drift, Programme Manager Gasification, ECN

Case Study:  Biomethanol, The Real Acceptable Alternative

• Biomass for biofuel unquestionable and available
• Technology breakthrough - producing substantial quantities of biomethanol
• Green (global) certificates and ‘swaps' on biofuel-production
• Biomethanol - a base for green feedstocks (DME/Formaldehyde etc.)

Paul Hamm, Interim Chief Executive Officer, BioMethanol Chemie Holding

Case Study:  Algae: An Emerging Global Feedstock for Biofuels

• The latest technology developments
• What does the business model look like
• Growing this opportunity to achieve commercial success

Paul Rodzianko, Vice President - International, GreenFuel Technology Corp

Opportunities for Biotechnology:  Engineering Feedstocks for Ethanol Production

• Ethanol production provides many opportunities to create value through the application of biotechnology.  For cellulosic ethanol production this is extremely important in order to realize the supply capacity potential at a competitive price.  In this talk I discuss economic opportunities for biotechnology applications, what their potential is, and what level of investment they may warrant
• One area of focus is feedstock engineering where I present an analysis on what the process cost impact can be given current expectations for the near term implementation of cellulosic processes

Michael Raab, Founder and Chief Scientist, Agrivida

Biogas Markets
9 March 2007, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Brussels
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