To fully fulfill the promise of the Renewable Fuel Standard, another 20 billion gallons of renewable biofuel production capacity will have to be developed, funded and come online. Without policy certainty this task begins to look Herculean. This panel, populated with executives from next generation producers paired with leadership from the trade groups that represent them, will explore where the advanced biofuels sector is politically, how its value proposition resonates with lawmakers now and which specific policy outcomes are vital to continued sector growth.

• Erick Lutt, Director of Policy, Industrial & Environmental Section, Biotechnology Innovation Organization
  The Importance of Federal Policy to Drive Investment and Development of Advanced Biofuels
• Graham Noyes, Managing Attorney, Noyes Law Corporation
  How California's Carbon Policies Increasingly Drive Advanced Biofuels Demand
• Sarah Caswell, Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Edeniq
  Strong and Stable Policies Help Drive Cellulosic Biofuel Investment and Growth: A Company’s Perspective
• Casey Wasser, Director of Policy, Missouri Soybean Association/Missouri Biodiesel Coalition
  Missouri Biodiesel Coalition Advocacy

While there is nearly unanimous consent within the industry that corn fiber represents the corn ethanol industry’s most promising pathway to cellulosic gallons, opinions vary on the best process pathway available to producers. This panel will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the corn fiber technologies under development, the arguments for their varied approaches and the commercialization and deployment progress each has achieved in the last year.

• Michael Franko, Vice President, Fluid Quip Process Technologies LLC
  Corn Fiber Streams for Cellulosic Ethanol
• Miloud Araba, Head, Technical Services, Enogen, Syngenta
  Corn Kernel Fiber Conversion through Cellerate® Process Technology
• Mark Yancey, Chief Technology Officer, D3MAX
  Increase Your Grind and Produce Cellulosic Ethanol from Corn Kernel Fiber with D3MAX
• Jim Kacmar, Director of Engineering & Operations, Edeniq Inc.
  Cellulosic Ethanol: An Innovative Approach to Your Plant’s Profitability
• Brandon Emme, Principal Scientist, ICM Inc.
  Commercial Pathway to High D3 Volumes from Corn Kernel Fiber

While corn oil streams generate welcome revenue for ethanol producers who have invested in extraction, presenters in this panel will ask producers to imagine a corn oil program delivering even greater value via on-site conversion to biodiesel. This panel will feature technologies available today that once deployed brings the added value of converted corn oil back to ethanol plant balance sheets. Presenters will make the economic case that the further refining of corn oil is an opportunity not for some other marketplace actor, but for the ethanol plant itself.

• Mark Fashian, Director, Mcgyan Biodiesel LLC
  High Yield, Bolt-On Biodiesel Production from Distiller's Corn Oil (DCO) Using the Continuous Mcgyan® Process
• Dean Camper, Chief Technology Officer, Saola Energy LLC
  Diversifying Ethanol Plant Product Streams by Converting Corn Oil to Renewable Diesel
• James Bleyer, Director of Technology Development, Trucent (formerly Valicor Inc.)
  Micro-X: Diversifying Ethanol into the Diesel Market with D7 RINS
• Rahul Bobbili, President & Chief Technology Officer, RPS-Renewable Process Solutions
  Introduction to HYBRID.T Biodiesel Production Technology: Efficient, Economical & Robust

The production of next generation biofuels will likely rely on the same microorganisms upon which the first generation of production was built; enzymes and yeasts. The difference of course is in the sophistication of these enzyme and yeast strains and their ability to unlock and eventually ferment more complex carbohydrate chains than their first generation counterparts. This panel will provide attendees with an opportunity to review the leading next-gen enzyme and yeast developments aimed at speeding next gen commercialization efforts.

• Miloud Araba, Head, Technical Services, Enogen, Syngenta
  Corn Farmers Produce Enzymes for the Fuel Ethanol Industry
• Mickel Jansen, Senior Scientist, DSM
  1.5G Dynamic Duo: High Performing Enzyme and C5 Yeast
• Hamid Rismani Yazdi, Senior Scientist, Novozymes
  Advanced Yeast and Customized Enzymes for Increased Reliability and Production
• David Schwalje, Business Development Manager, Axens North America
  Commercialization of Second Generation Biofuels: Ethanol and Renewable Middle Distillates

One of the most promising aspects of next generation biofuel production is the promise of decoupling biofuel production from a short list of grain inputs and significantly growing the roster of feedstocks available for conversion. While first generation biofuels added value to two main grain inputs, next generation biofuel production holds promise for a number of sectors with a glut of low, or negative value material. Two presentations will remind attendees that opportunity lies wherever sugars can be found while another looks closely at the state of municipal waste streams as a viable input for biofuel and biochemical production.

• David McConnell, Vice President Business Development North America, Enerkem Inc.
  How Waste-to-Biofuels Technology Plays a Vital Role in the Transition toward Sustainable Mobility and the Case of Enerkem
• Douglas Rivers, Independent Contractor/Consultant, Sunflwr Inc.
  Clean Sugars: What are They and What Do They Mean to Your Ethanol Plant?
• David Ripplinger, Extension Economist, North Dakota State University Extension
  Northern Plains Energy Beet Ethanol Update
• Steve Hartig, Vice President Technology Development, ICM Inc.
  Innovations in Ethanol Production