World Biofuels, Ethanol & Feedstocks Conference

Biofuels Industry Fundamentals Training Course

Instructor:
Umesh Patil
Director, Consulting
S&P Global Commodity Insights

• 08:00 Registration
• 09:00 Welcome and Introduction to Biofuels and Industry Overview
  • Understanding biofuels and terminology
  • Energy security and the role of biofuels in mitigating climate change
  • Overview of biofuel types and their global significance
  • Regulations, Policies and Incentives Mechanisms for Biofuels
  
• 10.30 Coffee break
• 11.00 Biomass Resources & Feedstocks
  • 1st and 2nd generation biofuels
  •Key feedstocks for biofuel production
  •Biofuels Production Processes
  
• 12.30 Lunch
• 13.30 e-Fuels: Power-to-Liquid (PtL)
  • Technology maturity assessment, scale-up risks, TRL
  • For carbon-based materials: sourcing of (green) CO2 feedstocks (options, issues & technologies)
  • Basic economic assessments, including projections on expected costs and their evolution
  • Projected market potential of products in e-fuels
• 15.00 Coffee break
• 15:30 Economics, Policies, and Environmental Impact
  • Economics of biofuels and e-fuels
  • Market outlook: short-term and long-term trends for biofuels and e-fuels
  • Carbon intensity of biofuel, policies, and key regulations (e.g., RFS2, RED II)
  • Key challenges, opportunities, and the role of biofuels in energy transition
• 17:00 Biofuels Training Course ends

• 08:30 Registration welcome coffee
• 09:00 Opening Remarks from the Chair
• Christoph Berg, Global Team Lead Biofuels, S&P Global Commodity Insights
• 09:10 Opening Presentation - Spain becoming a world leader in sustainable mobility
• 09:30 The future of biofuels: Biofuels in the global energy mix
  The expanding role of biofuels in decarbonising land, air and sea mobility
  Scaling-up sustainably produced low-carbon liquid fuels
  Supporting OEMs in the transition to sustainable transportation solutions
  Energy transition and biofuels demand growth in existing oil refining capacity
  All renewable fuels needed in the push for GHG reduction in transport – low-carbon biofuels to complement the electrification market
• Carlos Barrasa, Executive Vice President Commercial & Clean Energies, Moeve
• Antonio Vallespir, CEO, Vertex Bioenergy
• Thomas Garbe, Head of Petrol and Diesel Fuels, Volkswagen AG
• 10:20 Global biofuels outlook and policy impacts
  Biofuels blending mandates and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets – how these are impacting biofuel supply and demand globally.
  New regulations and GHG reduction targets drive demand and investment appetite.
• Christoph Berg, Global Team Lead Biofuels, S&P Global Commodity Insights
• 10:45 Refreshments Break
• 11:10 The feedstock challenge in the global race for low carbon fuelsBiofuel feedstock availability and carbon intensity reduction.
  Market dynamics for low carbon feedstocks.
  Are we heading to a supply crunch with growing demand for biofuels?
  The Interplay between oil, biofuels and agriculture
  Securing feedstock supplies for biofuel projects.
  Price mechanisms for feedstocks.
• 12:00 New growth horizons for ethanolExpanding opportunities for ethanol growth
• Fritz Georg von Graevenitz, CEO, CropEnergies AG
• 12:30 Networking lunch

• 14:00 International market dynamics: Global production expansion, trade and policy
  USA: SAF as the driver of investment.
  Brazil: Biofuels demand to outpace supply with increased blending and a greater push for RD and SAF.
  India: Biofuels at the centre of India's energy transition pathway - Achieving E20 with grain and sugar-based feedstocks.
  Europe: Policy matters: How RED III, RefuelEU Aviation and ReFuelEU Maritime are shaping the industry.
  Pakistan: Fuel ethanol goals and evolving export routes.
• Geoff Cooper, President & CEO, Renewable Fuels Association
• David Carpintero, Director General, ePURE - the European renewable ethanol association
• Ravi Gupta, Executive Director, Shree Renuka Sugars Limited
• 15:00 Refreshments Break
• 15:40 SAF:  Fuelling aviation change
  Industry adoption: Increasing SAF demand to decarbonise aviation.
  Economic viability: SAF production costs and pricing.
  Sourcing feedstocks and setting up a reliable SAF supply chain.
  Scaling up production of SAF with biobased, waste-based and synthetic feedstocks.
  Policy and legislative drivers to create demand certainty and new SAF production capacity.
  Alcohol-to-jet (AtJ) as a solution to solve the growing SAF demand challenge.
• Senior representative, OMV
• Senior representative, Boeing
• Sophie Byron, Global Head Biofuels Pricing, S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts)
• 16:30 Growth prospects for renewable diesel and  SAF
  Renewable diesel and SAF markets market expansion plans.
  Capacity build outlook: will we see a shift from RD to SAF?
  Feedstock and regulation are key drivers; strategies needed to navigate policy and secure supply
  Technology and process efficiency challenges and innovation.
• Konrad Jar, Executive Director for Strategy & Innovation, ORLEN S.A
• Berta Cabello Calvo, Renewable Fuels Director, Repsol
• 17:00 Bio-Bunkering: Accelerating the decarbonisation of the shipping industry with biofuels
  Making sustainable marine travel a reality.
  Meeting shipping sustainability goals and regulatory requirements with biofuels.
  Supply and demand projections and new investments.
  Enhancing logistics supply chains for biofuels in port facilities
  Ethanol as a low-GHG shipping fuel
  
• Dani Ruiz, Sustainable Fuels Manager, Port of Barcelona
• Roberta Cenni, Head of Biofuels, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping
• 17:30 Closing Remarks from the Chair
  
• 17:45 Networking drinks reception

• 08:30 Welcome coffee
• 09:00 Opening Remarks from the Chair
• 09:05 Leadership Panel: Navigating policy changes through diversification and decarbonization
  How to prosper in a world of shifting policies.
  Shaping tomorrow’s biorefinery.
  Getting to negative CI.
  Biorefinery innovation roadmap and product diversification.
• Doug Berven, VP Corporate Affairs, POET
• Bruno Serapião, CEO, Atvos
• 09:55 Facilitating the energy transition with advanced and waste-based biofuelsRealising the full potential of advanced biofuels.
  New opportunities in waste-based biofuels production and trade.
  Cellulosic ethanol advancements.
  Utilizing agricultural residues for biofuel production.
  RED and meeting the minimum share of 3.5% advanced biofuels in transport.
• Michael-Fiedler Panajotopoulos, Director, Public Affairs, Europe, Chevron Renewable Energy Group
• 10:20 Refreshments Break
• 10:50 Reducing the carbon intensity of your biorefineryEmploying onsite carbon capture and sequestration
  Converting biogenic CO2 to X
  Reduction of natural gas usage
  alternative methods of electricity generation
  Reducing the carbon intensity in the whole biorefinery value chain
  
• Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim, Vice President of R&D and Innovation, Marquis
• Lars-Gunnar Edh, Executive Vice President, Lantmännen Energy Sector
• 11:30 Investing in Biorefineries
  How to access investment and finance
  Scaling new biofuel projects.
  
• 12:00 Non-fuel spotlight: markets, trade dynamics and risk of CMR classification
  Biocide-CLH : the threat of CMR classification to EU non fuel industry
  Green chemistry, from ethanol to plastics
  EU and FTA’s endangering the EU ethanol industry
  
• Koen van Maldegem, Partner, Alcohol Task Force (ATF) Consortium
• Hubert de Biolley, Partner, KWST GmbH
• 12:30 Networking lunch

• 14:00 Boosting productivity, cost competitiveness and lowering carbon footprint
  Technology innovations, efficiency improvements and sustainability advancements.
  Biorefinery process innovations.
• 14:40 Getting the best out of biofuel co-products
  Improving the sustainability and profitability of the biorefinery with co-products.
  Producing high-protein animal feed.
  Biogas to biomethane opportunities.
• 15:10 Greener biofuels - GHG reduction in biofuels by incorporating climate-smart agricultural practices
  Farming technologies to lower GHG from biofuels production.
  Improving crop yield and sustainability.
  AgTech, smart farming and reducing the carbon intensity of agricultural production for biofuels.
• 15:45 Closing Remarks from the Chair
  
• 16:00 End of Conference