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• PLENARY 2 – Bioeconomy - Open Innovation for market success
  21 October 2014, by Hein DE KEYZER, Jean-Marc Lefebvre, Michel Philippe, Raphaël MESTANZA

  How brand owners or downstream users get involved in the value chain and manage innovation processes?
  Opening speech: Jean-Marc LEFEBVRE, Vice President of MATIKEM & CNRS Research Director
  Chairman: Raphaël MESTENZA, Chief Innovation Officer, SPECIALCHEM
  Open Innovation and Commercial Acceleration for bio-based chemicals and materials using Digital Marketing approaches - Raphaël MESTENZA,Chief Innovation Officer, SPECIALCHEM
  Eco-Design of Green Chemistry Ingredients for Sustainable (...)

• Plant based Chemistry as a contribution to Sustainable Chemistry
  21 October 2014, by Andreas KICHERER, Pierre BARTHELEMY, Thibaud CAULIER, Ward MOSMULLER, Ylwa ALWARSDOTTER

  Chairman: Ward MOSMULLER, Director Public Affairs, DSM
  Bio-based resources, an opportunity for sustainable chemistry, Pierre BARTHELEMY, Executive Director Research and Innovation, CEFIC – Member of the SusChem Board, SUSCHEM
  Mass balance- an innovative approach for the use of biomass in chemical industry - Andreas KICHERER, Sustainability Strategy, BASF
  Locally Grown Plastics, utilization of cellulosic feed stock – Ylwa ALWARSDOTTER, Executive Vice President, SEKAB Biofuels & (...)

• New chemicals from carbohydrate
  21 October 2014, by Emmanuel PETIOT, Joop GROEN, Marcel LUBBEN, Muriel DEWILDE, Wim SOETAERT

  Chairman: Wim SOETAERT, Professor industrial biotechnology, Director of Centre of Expertise for Industrial Biotechnology and Biocatalysis (InBio.be), Ghent University, Faculty of BioScience Engineering
  Biorizon is scaling up technology for biobased aromatics - Joop GROEN, Senior Manager New Business Development, TNO
  Novel biocatalysts for the production of glycosides - Muriel DEWILDE, Business development manager, BIO BASE EUROPE PILOT PLANT
  A novel host strain for industrial (...)

• Global engineering
  21 October 2014, by Christine CHIRAT, Jean-François YOT, Vincent Gavroy, Wolfgang RANFFT DR.-ING

  Chairman: Jean-François YOT, Directeur Général, EKIUM GROUP
  Lignocellulosic biorefinery for the production of cellulose and green surface active agents – Christine CHIRAT, Associate Professor, Head of the Biorefinery: chemistry and ecoprocesses research group, GRENOBLE INP – PAGORA
  From lab scale to demo plant and industrial scale, an integrated approach for white biotechnology process development – Anthony BRESIN, Chief scientific Officer, ARD (AGRO-INDUSTRIE RECHERCHES ET DEVELOPPEMENTS) (...)

• Biomass as the cornerstone of bioeconomy – questions of availability, supply, efficient use and sustainability
  21 October 2014, by Agnes VAN ARDENNE, Anne Wagner, Hugues DE CHERISEY, Juliette JACQUES , Willem SEDEREL

  Chairman: Agnes VAN ARDENNE, Chair, DUTCH BIOREFINERY CLUSTER –
  Representant, COPA COGECA (LTO) - EUROPE
  Biomass availability as a raw material for chemicals - Hugues DE CHERISEY, Consultant
  Biorefineries: the crossroads to food, bio chemical products and bio energy Anne WAGNER, VP Innovation, TEREOS
  The sustainable supply of the European starch industry - Julliette JACQUES, Deputy Managing Director, STARCH EUROPE
  The importance of innovation and entrepreneurship for biobased (...)

• New chemicals from vegetable oils
  21 October 2014, by Fabien DEBAUD, Jack GRUSHCOW, Jean-François Rous, Marco PECCHIARI, Stefano FACCO

  Chairman: Jean-François ROUS, Directeur Innovation, GROUPE AVRIL
  Development of camelina as a high value petroleum substitute in the production of polymers and lubricants – Jack GRUSHCOW, CEO and Founder, LINNAEUS PLANT SCIENCES INC.
  OLERIS® 2-OCTANOL: a plant-based product with promising future – Fabien DEBAUD, Specialty Polyamides R&D Director, ARKEMA
  Matrìca: an integrated biorefinery for new innovative and sustainable chemicals - Marco PECCHIARI Business development Manager, (...)

• Lignocellulosic processes from pilot to flagship
  21 October 2014, by Frédéric MARTEL, Gilles AMSALLEM, Michel DELMAS, Nadine ESSAYEM

  Chairman: Christophe Luguel, International Affairs Manager, IAR
  Industrialization of Plant based chemistry’s Innovation: the French panorama, Christophe Luguel, International Affairs Manager, IAR
  The optimized bio-refinery: optimal leveraging of all the componenets of the biomass to provide the bioeconomy with intermediates matching cost and quality requirements – Gilles AMSALLEM, CEO, BIOMÉTHODES
  BIOLIGNIN™: the key element of lignocellulosic biorefining – Michel DELMAS, founder and (...)

• Coatings and Solvents
  21 October 2014, by Bas Overzier, Carine Lefèvre, Florent NICOLAS, HENRI PLANEIX, Laurent LEVASSEUR, Mary-Hélène DELVAUX, Olivier CHOULET, Patrick FUERTES

  Chairman: Carine LEFEVRE, Director, CoRI-Coatings Research Institute
  High-performances biobased alkyd resins from renewable resources like bio succinic acid – Olivier CHOULET, CEO, ECOAT & Florent NICOLAS, Business Development Manager, BIOAMBER
  EU PEF – Future direction for assessing and communicating Environmental Footprint of Products – Bas OVERZIER, Sustainability Manager, PPG Architectural Coatings EMEA
  Environmentally friendly alternative to precision degraseing – cleaning (...)