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The European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Bioeconomy
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Bioeconomy 2.0: Commercial success and the path towards a brighter bio-based future Organised by
EFIB connects the brightest people to share the latest “bio-based innovations, and discuss opportunities and challenges as we are developing a circular economy, enabled by industrial biotech.
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Top reasons to attend EFIB 2017 zz Where business leaders, scientists and policymakers meet to network with over 650 attendees from throughout the bio-based value chain, including 75 speakers, during 1-to-1 meetings, extended breaks and networking receptions.
zz Mathieu Flamini headlines on why he decided to co-found an IB bio-based business and how they went on to build success at GFBiochemicals.
zz Keynotes will be delivered by Jyrki Katainen, European Commission Vice-President responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, Tom Heap, Rural Affairs Broadcaster active at the BBC, Tom van Aken, CEO at Avantium and Janez Potočnik, Co-Chair of the UNEP International Resource Panel and former EU Commissioner for Science & Research and Environment.
zz Leaders at Corbion, Cefic, Oxymem, Avantium and Intrexon explore the role of bio-based innovators in delivering ‘Bioeconomy 2.0’ and highlight what measures must be implemented through the possible revision of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy.
zz Brands including PepsiCo, LEGO Group, Michelin, L’OREAL and IKEA examine B2C challenges and opportunities and how the supply chain can create more dynamic bio-based markets.
zz 25+ presenters showcase the latest innovations and new bio-based solutions in the ever-popular Innovation Track.
zz Curate your own programme with track sessions featuring commercialisation success stories, the role of bioplastics in creating a circular bioeconomy, finance and investment and updates on national bio-based strategies.
zz Participate in EFIB’s latest PitchFest, where six of today’s most promising bioeconomy SMEs will pitch to a panel of influential VCs including BASF VC, S’InvesTec, Capricorn Venture Partners and Sofinnova Partners.
zz Visit the dynamic exhibition area to find out first-hand what the sector has to offer. zz Use the tailored 1-to-1 partnering system to schedule meetings whilst onsite with both new and existing contacts.
Networking Opportunities In addition to over five hours of networking during the conference breaks, you will also enjoy the following opportunities to meet your peers:
Monday 9 October Welcome reception at the SQUARE exhibition hall All workshop, site visit and full-access conference attendees are invited to the welcome networking drinks reception for a chance to preview the exhibition hall and take advantage of this time to schedule your 1-to-1 partnering meetings.
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Tuesday 10 October Networking reception at Kwint On the evening of conference day one, continue discussions started in sessions, catch up with partners and make new connections over a drink at the beautiful Kwint, just a minute’s walk away from the conference location.
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Pre-event sessions Monday 9 October
There will be a pre-event workshop and site visit taking place on Monday 9 October before the EFIB conference begins. The details of this workshop and site visit are still being confirmed; however do not delay in booking your conference ticket! As soon as the details are announced, all delegates who have booked their place will be informed and offered first refusal of tickets.
EFIB Advisory Board The programme is built by the industry for the industry and we thank the following experts for their role in producing this year’s conference:
Joanna Dupont-Inglis
Babette Pettersen
Anne Wagner
Director, Industrial Biotechnology EuropaBio
Chief Business Development Officer Capricorn Venture Partners
Research & Development Director TEREOS
Walter Pfefferle Senior Vice President New Business Development Evonik Nutrition & Care
Tjerk de Ruiter CEO Corbion N.V.
Dr Marc Delcourt CEO Global Bioenergies
Dr Carsten Sieden General Manager ARD
Senior Vice President, White Biotechnology Research BASF SE
Philippe Mengal
Thierry Stadler
Yvon Le Henaff
Executive Director Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking
Prof. Kevin O’Connor Professor and Head of Microbiology University College Dublin
Prof. Ludo Diels
Dr Neil Parry
Department of Research and Innovation University of Antwerp
Research Programme Director – Biotechnology Science Leader Unilever Research and Development
Tom Domen Global Head of Long Term Innovation ecover / method
Cyrille Pauthenier
Frédéric Druck
Dr Kaya Kaplancali
Secretary General bio.be/essenscia
CEO & CSO Abolis Biotechnologies
COO Bioserie
Chairman IAR Cluster
Puneet Trehan Material & Innovation Development Leader IKEA
Tom van Aken CEO Avantium
Rob van Leen Chief Innovation Officer and Member of the Executive Committee Royal DSM
Christophe RuppDahlem Head of Global Public Affairs Roquette
Dr Dirk Carrez Executive Director Bio-based Industries Consortium
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Conference Programme Day One Tuesday 10 October – Morning 08.00 Registration and morning refreshments 08.45 Welcome address from EFIB organisers Joanna Dupont-Inglis, Director, Industrial Biotechnology, EuropaBio
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THE FUTURE OF THE BIOECONOMY 09.00 Seeing the good from the trees Tom Heap, Rural Affairs Broadcaster 09.20 Fireside chat between Mathieu Flamini, Co-Founder, GFBiochemicals and Tom Heap, Rural Affairs Broadcaster - Building a successful business in the bioeconomy 09.40 European Commission address Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director-General DG Environment (ENV), European Commission 10.00 Morning refreshments 10.50 Economic Model Transformation and the role of the bioeconomy Janez Potočnik, Co-Chair, UNEP International Resource Panel – IRP, a Chairman, Forum for the Future of Agriculture - FFA and RISE Foundation 11.15 Message in a (bio-based) bottle – perspectives from a 10 year journey Tom van Aken, CEO, Avantium 11.45 Panel: Bioeconomy 2.0 – where to next for industry’s bio-based leaders? Chair: Lene Lange, Center for BioProcess Engineering, DTU Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark Tjerk de Ruiter, CEO, Corbion N. V. Wayne Byrne, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Oxymem Marco Mensink, Director General, European Chemical Industry Council - Cefic Hadyn Parry, Vice President Corporate Development, Europe, Intrexon Corporation Maggie Smallwood, CEO, BioVale 12.45 Networking Lunch
EFIB is my “go to” conference to get the latest trends in “European Industrial Biotechnology. It covers all aspects of the value chain from feedstocks through to end users and is unique for its focus of EU policy. I leave the conference feeling connected, informed and energised. Roger Kilburn, CEO, IBioIC
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EuropaBio, the European Association for Bioindustries, promotes an innovative and dynamic European biotechnology industry. It represents 79 corporate and associate members and bio-regions, and 16 national biotechnology associations in turn representing over 1800 biotech SMEs. Read more at www.europabio.org
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Tuesday 10 October – Afternoon COMMERCIALISATION SUCCESS STORIES
INNOVATION TRACK - CROSS-SECTORAL BREAKTHROUGHS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
14.10 Chair’s opening remarks 14.10 Chair’s opening remarks Sean Sutcliffe, Chief Executive, Green Biologics 14.15 Adapting strategies based on learnings 14.15 Canola protein, a unique plant-based protein John Melo, CEO, Amyris, Inc. Will van den Tweel, Venture Manager, Canola/Rapeseed Protein, DSM 14.45 Getting bio-based products to market: SME 14.30 Defining the advantages of bio-based products - Ynsect challenges and opportunities and Insects Christian Kemp Griffin, CEO, CelluComp Guillaume Daoulas, Business Unit Manager, YNSECT 14.45 Innovative, sustainable solutions for coated textiles Thomas Michaelis, Head of Textile Coatings EMEA/LATAM, Covestro 15.00 Biotechnologies to beauty, the next B2B 15.15 Technology enables products enables Frédérique Lafosse, Head of Strategic Projects, Givaudan Bioeconomy Dr Jürgen Eck, CEO, BRAIN AG 15.15 Derbipure: Bio-based technology for roof applications Dr Ir. Hans Aerts, R&D Innovation Director, Derbigum 15.30 Inspired by Nature: New interventions for microbial 15.45 Q&A session with speakers control across multiple markets Dr Neil Parry, Research Programme Director – Biotechnology Science Leader, Unilever Research and Development 15.50 Decovery® plant-based high performance resins for paint Adri van der Waals, Director of Marketing & Sales, DSM Coating Resins 16.00 Networking break THE ROLE OF BIOPLASTICS IN CREATING A CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY
INNOVATION TRACK - NEW TECHNOLOGIES SHOWCASE
16.30 Chair’s opening remarks 16.30 Chair’s opening remarks Christophe Luguel, Head of International Affairs, IAR François de Bie, Chairman, European Cluster Bioplastics 16.35 Panel with short presentations and a joint Q&A 16.35 Building a platform to engineer biology Ena Chan Cratsenburg, Chief Business Officer, Gingko session Bioworks Speakers include: 16.50 Accelerated development of bio-based processes through biosynthetic selections technology Eric Liegeois, Team Leader Fertilisers, Morten Sommer, Co-Founder, Biosyntia Detergents, Pesticides/Biocides, Plastics and Wastes Recycling, DG GROW, European 17.05 How robots, machine learning and AI are unlocking the Commission power of biology Tom Stephenson, Chief Commercial Officer, Zymergen Henri Colens, Public Affairs Manager, Braskem 17.20 Applications of bacteriocins loci for the control of Harmen Willemse MSc., Consultant Bio-based industrial strains Economy, NEN - Netherlands Standardization Dr Philippe Gabant, Co-founder and CSO, Syngulon SA Institute 17.35 Cellulose NanoCrystals: a biomaterial with great potential Mariagiovanna Vetere, Global Public Affairs Sébastien Corbeil, President and CEO, CelluForce Manager, NatureWorks LLC 17.50 Bringing new biotechnology products into the market Hadyn Parry, Vice President Corporate Development, Europe, Intrexon Corporation 18.05 New partnership for bio-based MEG from sugars Mateus Schreiner G. Lopes, Head of Innovation in Renewable Technologies, Braskem 18.20 Chair’s closing remarks 18.20 Chair’s closing remarks Sponsored by
18.30 Networking Drinks Reception at Kwint
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Conference Programme Day Two Wednesday 11 October – Morning 08.00 Registration and morning refreshments FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
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08.45 Chair’s opening remarks
08.50 Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking: setting the cornerstone for the bio-based industries in the EU Philippe Mengal, Executive Director, BBI JU 09:05 The economics of location: where on Earth to build commercial plants? Sarah Hickingbottom, Oleo & Bio Based Chemicals, LMC International 09:20 Case study: 10 lessons for building and financing Biotech SME Alex Michine, CEO, MetGen 09:35 PitchFest 5 of today’s most innovative start-ups pitch our panel of investor judges and after taking questions from the audience gain feedback from leading investment companies. PitchFest judges include: John Williams, Senior Partner and Chief Technical Officer, S’InvesTec LLC Michael Krel, Principal, Sofinnova Partners Michael-Jean Nettersheim, Investment Manager, BASF VC Rob van der Meij, Investment Manager, Capricorn Venture Partners
INNOVATION TRACK – SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH SUBSTITUTION: NEW BIO-BASED SOLUTIONS 08.45 Chair’s opening remarks Chair: Lene Lange, Center for BioProcess Engineering, DTU Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark 08.50 Strengthening the value chain through industrial partnerships: development of new bio-based aromatic polymers for foams and composites Elena Benedetti, Product Application Director, AEP Polymers 09.05 A future without toxic formaldehyde Thomas M Kläusli, Chief Marketing Officer, AVALON Industries 09:20 Making non-toxic solvent Cyrene® from cellulose: Circa Group’s story Jeff Eaves, General Manager, Circa Group 09:35 Ultra-selective conversion of ethanol to ethylene using Hummingbird® Technology Paul Langston, Licensing Manager – Process Technology, TechnipFMC 09:50 Bio-based aromatics through Sugar/Furan chemistry Monique Wekking, Sr Business Development Manager Biobased, TNO – Biorizon 10:05 Sustainable biomaterials from agro-wastes and fungi Stefano Babbini, Co-founder and CEO, Mycoplast 10:20 The development of Surfactgreen’s 100% performing green surfactants Xavier Roussel, CEO, SurfactGreen
10.35 Networking break LATEST INSIGHTS ON NATIONAL BIO-BASED STRATEGIES 11.05 Chair’s opening remarks James Philp, Science and Technology Policy Analyst, OECD 11.10 Short presentations will be followed by a Q&A session. Speakers include: Paul Henderson, Head of Bioeconomy Strategy, UK Government Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Mika Aalto, Deputy Director General, Enterprise and Innovation Department, Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment Bernardo Silva, Executive President, Brazilian Industrial Biotechnology Association – ABBI Kevin O’ Connor, Professor and Head of Microbiology, University College Dublin Murray McLaughlin, Advisor, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada
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INNOVATION TRACK - FUTURE FEEDSTOCKS 11.05 Chair’s opening remarks 11.10 How competitive could a European Bioeconomy be by 2050? Pierre-Alain Schieb, President, Strategic Foresight by BACKCASTING SAS and former Head, Futures Project, OECD 11.25 Scotland: a land of opportunity for biorefining waste, residues, by-products Roger Kilburn, CEO, IBioIC 11:40 Creating value from waste: extracting xylose from sugarcane bagasse Andreas Birmoser, SVP Strategy and Business Development, Biomaterials, Stora Enso 11:55 Waste to IB building blocks Dhivya Puri, Senior Technical Lead, R&D, Fiberight 12:10 Scaling-up a bio-process and diversifying it to 2nd and 3rd generation feedstocks Jean-Baptiste Barbaroux, Corporate Development Director, Global Bioenergies 12:25 Carbon recycling for fuels and chemicals production Carl Wolf, VP Europe, LanzaTech 12:40 Broad and sustainable feedstock base - an imperative for building and scaling up a bio-based future Johan Lunabba, Director, Sustainability, Neste Oyj
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Wednesday 11 October – Afternoon 12.55 Networking Lunch BRAND SPOTLIGHT 13.55 Chair’s opening remarks Babette Pettersen, Chief Business Development Officer, Capricorn Venture Partners 14.00 Keynote Jyrki Katainen, European Commission Vice-President responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness 14.20 How collaboration between Danimer and PepsiCo is driving evolution Brad Rodgers, R&D Director for Discovery & Sustainability, Global Foods Packaging, PepsiCo Stephen E. Croskrey, CEO, Member, Board of Directors, Danimer Scientific 14.50 Snapshot Panel - Brand perspectives on creating more dynamic bio-based markets Each brand will tell their bio-based story before a joint Q&A session Speakers include: Nelleke van der Puil, Vice President Materials, Engineering & Quality, LEGO Group Philippe Esnault, Global Director Strategic Alliances, Materials Product Line, Michelin Group Jean-Marie Julien, Packaging Expert, L’OREAL Johan Bruck, Deputy Material Innovation Leader, IKEA Alexia Delsalle, Materials Innovation Leader, Renault Group 15.40 Presentation of John Sime Award by EuropaBio Secretary General, John Brennan 15.50 Chair’s closing remarks and close of EFIB 2017
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