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12th March	Pre- Congress Conferences
From 09.00	Biofuels Finance & Investment	Next Generation Biofuels	Biofuels Sustainability & Certification	Biofuels Policy & Regulation	Bioplastics & Biochemistry
13th March	World Biofuels Markets Congress Day One
09.00	Session 1-2: Global Markets, Global Industry
13.00 Choice of:	3A: Global Biodiesel		3B:Global Bioethanol
16.00 Choice of:	4A: Biodiesel	4B:Bioethanol		4C:Regional Focus – Latin America
13th March evening	World Biofuels Markets Gala Reception
14th March	World Biofuels Markets Congress Day Two
09.00 Choice of:	5A:Agriculture & Feedstocks	5B: Biofuels Production Plants	5C: Public Transport & Fleets	5D:Pipelines & Shipping
13.00 Choice of:	6A: New Feedstocks	6B: Quality & Distribution	6C:New Countries	6D:Transport Manufacturers
16.00 Choice of:	7A:Global Commodity: Trading & Pricing	7B: Biorefineries, Byproducts & Bioproducts		7D: New Transport Users
18.00	Closing Plenary: Towards The Bio Future
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The WBM 08 Speakers (confirmed as of 31st January 08)

• Tim Sebastian, Author, Journalist and Former Presenter of BBC’s HARDtalk
• Jose Maria Figueres Olsen, former President Costa Rica & former Chief Executive Officer, World Economic Forum
• Mariann Fischer Boel, Commisioner for Agriculture & Rural Development, European Commission
• Lord Oxburgh, former Chairman, Shell & Chairman, D1 Oils
• David Rothkopf, President & Chief Executive Officer, Garten Rothkopf
• Jens Riese, Principal, Biofuels & Industrial Biotech Practice, McKinsey & Co.
• Giuseppe di Carpegna, Chief Executive Officer, Desmet Ballestra Oleo
• Jeff Broin, Chief Executive Officer, POET
• Per Falholt, Executive Vice President Research & Development, Novozymes
• Tjerk de Ruiter, Chief Executive Officer, Genencor
• Peter A. Abaya, President & Chief Executive Officer, PNOC - Alternative Fuels Corporation, The Philippines
• Nick Brooks, Chief Executive Officer, Bioverda, Europe
• Doug Hooper, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Bioenergy, Canada
• Rahul Kale, Managing Director, KemOleo Pte Ltd (A Wilmar Company), Singapore
• Rob Tripp, Chief Executive Officer, Benefuel, USA
• Walter Pfeiffer, Partner Oil & Chemicals, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Germany
• Andrew Owens, Chief Executive Officer, Greenergy, UK
• Marcos Sawaya Jank, President & Chief Executive Officer, UNICA, Brazil
• Lutz Guderjahn, Vice President, EBio & Chief Operating Officer, CropEnergies, Germany
• Claus Sauter, Chief Executive Officer, Verbio
• Raffaello Garofalo, Secretary General, European Biodiesel Board
• Dr Jochen Petersen, Chief Financial Officer, Choren Industries, Germany
• Harri Turpeinen, Vice President Corporate Stakeholder Relations, Neste Oil Corporation
• Thomas Gameson, Director, Government & Public Affairs, Abengoa Bioenergy, Spain
• Rob Vierhout, Secretary General, European Bioethanol Fuel Association (eBIO)
• Camilla Slunge Dowling, Environment Manager, OKQ8, Sweden
• Josef Modl, Executive Vice President, Vogelbusch, Austria
• Plinio Mario Nastari, President, Datagro, Brazi
• Sergio Flores-Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, InfinityBio, Brazil
• Martin Fraguio,Chief Executive Officer, MAIZAR, Argentina
• Hector Huergo, President, Argentine Association of Biofuels and Hydrogen (AABH)
• Marcello Brito, Commercial Director, Grupo Agropalma, Brazil
• Miguel Almada, Biofuels National Programme Manager, National Agriculture Office, Argentina
• Dr Expedito Parente, President, Tecbio, Brazil
• Dietrich Klein, Chairman, EU Commission's Advisory Group on Energy Crops & Chairman, Bioenergy Working Party, COPA - COGECA
• Tim Kroenke, Head of Biofuels, Syngenta, Switzerland
• Juergen Logemann, Vice President Technology Management, BASF Plant Science, Germany
• Dusty Post, Global Technology Corn Crop Lead, Monsanto, USA
• Dr. Gurumurti Natarajan, Chief Operating Officer, Terasol Energy, USA
• Dr Mark Winslow, Special Advisor on Biofuels, ICRISAT
• Dror Kfir, Vice President - Biofuels, Netafim
• Margaret Garn, Editor, Biofuels International, UK
• Shashank Inamdar, BioCynergy & Managing Director, Praj Industries, India
• Dan Parker, Chief Executive Officer, ParkerMessana Consulting Engineers, USA
• Christian Dupraz, VP Gasoline, Petrochemicals & Renewables, Axens, France
• Dr. Jeremy Tomkinson, Chief Executive Officer, National Non Food Crops Centre, UK
• Dr Ganapathy Arumugam, Chief Executive Officer, Enhanced Biofuels and Technologies, India
• Douglas Frater, President & Chief Executive Officer, Global Green Solutions, Canada
• Peter Hanratty, Chief Executive Officer, Fuelstock, UK
• Daniel Liwimbe, Chief Executive Officer, Ethanol Malawi, Malawi
• Kevin McGeeney, Chief Executive Officer, Starsupply Renewables, Switzerland
• Ed Lehrburger, Chief Executive Officer, PureVision Technology, USA
• Marco Marchioni, Chief Executive Officer, Merloni Progetti Spa
• Andrew Kingston, Chief Executive Officer, Dynamotive, Canada
• Paul Benetti, Chief Executive Officer, GEM BioFuels PLC, UK
• Véronique Hervouet, Chair, European Biofuels Technology Platform
• Jennifer Holmgren, Director, Renewable Energy and Chemicals Business. UOP LLC
• Koen Vanhoutte, Founder & Director of Sciences, SBAE Industries
• Aristides Patrinos, President, Synthetic Genomics
• Patrick Gruber, Chief Executive Officer, Gevo
• Robert Walsh, President, LS9
• Jack Huttner, Vice President, Genencor
• Arnold Klann, Chief Executive Officer, Bluefire Ethanol
• Per Carstedt, Chief Executive Officer, SEKAB
• Prof. Jan de Bon, R & D Manager, Royal Nedalco
• Prof Birgitte K Ahring, Chief Executive Officer, BioGasol
• Charles Nielsen, Manager, Research & Development, Dong Energy
• Emmanuel Petiot, Global Business Development Manager, Novozymes
• Neil Renninger, SVP, Research and Co-founder, Amyris Biotechnologies
• Eric Apfelbach, President & CEO, Virent Energy Systems
• Jonathan Wolfson, Chief Executive Officer, Solazyme
• Michael Jackson, President, Syntec Biofuel
• Todd Alexander, Partner, Chadbourne & Parke
• Ajit Nazre, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
• Brian Bolster, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
• Roger Blears, Senior Partner, Martineau Johnson
• Anna Halpern-Lande, VP Business & Corporate Development, Tellurian Biodiesel
• Roger Brown, Head of Renewable Energy, Standard Bank
• Francisco Blanch, Head of Commodity Research, Merrill Lynch
• Donna Clarke, Biofuels Business Development Manager, WHEB Ventures
• Mark Campanale, Associate Director, London Bridge Capital & Founding Director, UK SIF
• Kona Haque, Senior Commodities Editor, Macquarie Bank
• Sebastien Ribatto, Managing Director, Societe Generale
• Fabrizio Donini-Ferretti, Head of Energy, Dexia Credit Loca
• Edgar Ahn, Technical Director, BDI - BioDiesel International, Austria
• Heather Allen, Sustainability Officer, UITP (Union of Public Transport)
• Gustaf Landahl, Head of Department Planning & Environment, City of Stockholm and Coordinator BEST
• Michael Cooper, President, Biofuel Brokers, LLC, USA
• Marcelino Guedes F. M. Gomes, Pipeline & Terminals Director, Transpetro / Petrobras, Brazil
• Kris Truyens, Alternative Fuel Services, SGS, Belgium
• Paul O’Neill, Transport Treasure, Deloitte, UK
• Jonathan Morley, Lead Specialist & Team Leader, MARPOL Section, Lloyd's Register EMEA, UK
• John Cusick, Tank Ship International
• Bob Avant, Bioenergy Program Director, Texas A&M University, USA
• Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Executive Director, Europe & Africa, International Fuel Quality Center
• Walter Mirabello, Managing Director, Lyondell Italia, Italy
• Hans Keuken, Managing Director, H.E. Blends, The Netherlands
• Matthew Johnston, SAGE Centre, Nelson Institute, USA
• Shige Kobayashi, General Manager, Technology & System Analysis, Toyota R&D Labs Inc. & Coordinating Lead Author, 4th Assessment Report, IPCC
• Urban Wästljung, Corporate Environmental Affairs, Scania, Sweden
• Dr Simon Godwin, Manager, Automotive Issues, Daimler, Belgium & lead author of the WEC - Transport Study
• Anders Röj, Fuels and Lubricants, Volvo Technology Corporation
• Jonathan Kingsman, President, Kingsman, Switzerland
• Will Babler, Risk Manager, First Capitol, USA
• Richard Whitlock, Director of Industrial Crops, Frontier AG, UK
• Prof Wim Sotaert, Professor of Industrial Bioscience, Ghent University & founder of Ghent Bio-Energy Valley
• Dr Marita Veringa Niemela, Vice President Biofuels, Poyry Engineering, Finland
• Robert Outram, Team Leader, Specialty Chemicals, Frost & Sullivan, UK
• Matt Carr, Policy Director, Industrial and Environmental Section, Biotechnology Industry Organization, USA
• Sabine Froning, Managing Director, Euroheat, Belgium
• Robert Wilson, Chairman, Pöyry Consulting
• David Edwards, Virgin Trains, UK
• Dr Ganapathy Arumugam, CEO & Group Science Director - Biofuels Research and Development Centre, Enhanced Biofuels and Technologies, India
• Dr Expedito Parente, President, Tecbio, Brazil
• Jennifer Holmgren, Director, Renewable Energy & Chemicals Business, UOP LLC
• Dr Simon Godwin, Manager, Automotive Issues, Daimler, Belgium and lead author of the WEC - Transport Study
• Simon Robinson, Big Biofuels Blog & ICIS
• Edward Meir, Commodities Analyst, MF Global
• Caroline Midgley, Biofuels Team Manager, LMC International
• Mark Williamson, Assistant Director Renewables Energy, Ernst & Young
• Gustavo Oubinha, Head of Corporate and Structured Finance, Rabobank
• Chris Groobey, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
• Dr Gunter Festel, Founder, Festel Capital
• Michael Liebreich, Chairman & CEO, New Energy Finance
• Peter Conway, Director, Project Financing Solutions
• Marc Schmitz, Senior Manager, Project Finance, Rabobank
• Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho, Bioenergy Specialist, IADB (Inter American Development Bank)
• Ivan Stocker, Manager Bio-Energy, DeSmet Engineers
• Philipp Hasler, Director, Emerald Technology Ventures
• Anders Braennstroem, President, Technology Transfer, Volvo Technology Transfer AB
• William Lese, Managing Director, Braemer Energy Ventures
• Justin Adams, Director Technical Strategy, Venturing & Innovation, BP
• Kirsten Staer, Director of External Affairs, Novozymes & Chair of the Biofuels Task Force, Europabio
• Andre Faaij, Associate Professor; Coordinator Research Energy Supply & System Studies, Copernicus Institute - Utrecht University
• Dr. Ir. Arij van Berkel, Program Manager, TNO
• Koen Vanhoutte, Founder & Director of Sciences, SBAE Industries
• Homero Bañados Perez, Director of Sciences & Green Energy, Akion, Spain
• Matt Caspari, Chief Executive Officer, Aurora Biofuels
• Doug Frater, President & CEO, Global Green Solutions
• Alexandre Rojey, Director of Sustainable Development, IFP & Chair, Conversion Process, European Biofuels Technology Platform
• Tom Todaro, Chief Executive Officer, Targeted Growth
• Anna Rath, Vice President, Commercial Development, Ceres
• Paul Winters, Director, Communications, Biotechnology Industry Organisation
• Juergen Logemann, VP Technology Management, BASF Plant Sciences
• Andre Wakker, Manager, Renewable Energy Group, ECN Policy Studies
• Marc Londo, Senior Researcher, Unit Policy Studies, ECN Research Centre of the Netherlands and member of REFUEL
• Kyriakos Maniatis, Biofuels and Industry, EC, DG TREN
• Raffaelo Garofalo, Secretary General, European Biodiesel Board
• Maelle Soares Pinto, Manager, European Biofuels
• Martin von Lampe, Agricultural Economist/Policy Analyst, OECD
• Martin Junginger, Assistant Professor, Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University
• Kevin McKinley, Deputy Secretary General, International Organisation for Standardisation
• Professor John A. Mathews, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Australia
• Raffaello Garofalo, Secretary General, European Biodiesel Board
• Mark Hanson, Senior Partner, Stoel Rives
• Rob Vierhout, Secretary General, EBio
• Luc Pelkmans, Project Manager, VITO (coordinator of the PREMIA project)
• Roland Stein, Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
• Hikka Summa, Head of Bioenergy, Biomass, Forestry & Climate Change, DG Agri & Rural Development, European Commission
• Silvia Prieler, Research Scholar, IIASA
• Aat Peterse, Programme Manager, Low Carbon Cars, T&E European Federation for Transport and Environment
• Dr Robert Edwards, Renewable Energies Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission – DG Joint Research Centre
• Kurt Koenighofer, Biofuels Expert, Joanneum Research
• Ausilio Bauen, Director, E4Tech and Research Fellow, Imperial College
• Suzanne Hunt, Biofuels Consultant, Department of Energy, USA
• Imke Luebbeke, EU Bioenergy Policy Officer, WWF
• Greg Archer, Director, LowCVP, UK
• Dr. Jan M . Henke, meo Consulting Team, Germany
• David Glensiter, Systems & Services Certification, SGS, Belgium
• Charlotte Opal, Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels
• Paul Hodson, DG TREN, European Commission
• Lars Friberg, Guest Researcher, Centro Clima, Brazil
• Edgardo Iozia, Member, European Economic and Social Committee & Rapporteur EESC Opinion Biofuels Progress Report
• Daniel Liwimbe, Chief Executive Officer, Ethanol Malawi
• Paul Benetti, Chief Executive Officer, GEM BioFuels PLC, UK
• Giulio Volpi, Future Energy Solutions, Brazil
• Uwe R. Fritsche, Oeko-Institut, Germany
• Ina Küddelsmann, Sustainable Land and Resource Management Capacity Builder, Germany
• Gao Pronove, Managing Director, GHG Management Institute, USA
• Dr. Ingo Klenk, Sudzucker, Germany
• Philip Watson, E4tech, UK
• Dr Matt Carr, Director, Policy, Industrial and Environmental Section, Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO), USA
• Dirk Carrez, Public Policy and Industrial Biotech Director, EuropaBio
• Ramani Narayan, University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, USA
• Dr Marvin Duncan, Senior Agricultural Economist, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, US Department of Agriculture, USA
• Dirk Carrez, Public Policy and Industrial Biotech Director, EuropaBio
• Dr Marian Mours, Director, SusChem
• Dr Francesco Degli Innocenti, Ecology of Products and Environmental Communication Manager, Novamont, Italy
• Erwin Vink, Environmental Affairs Manager, NatureWorks, Netherlands
• Dr Oliver Peoples, Chief Scientific Officer, Metabolix, USA