Mr. Kelly Birkinshaw
Advisor to Vice Chair Boyd
The California Energy Commission

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Alison Goss Eng
Lead for Sustainable Bioenergy Production Biomass Program, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy

Martin Keller
Director
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Timothy Donohue
Principal Investigator, Director
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

Blake Simmons
Vice-President, Deconstruction Division Manager, Energy Systems Department
Joint BioEnergy Institute Sandia National Laboratories

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS:

Tony Arand
Founder and CEO
Envirepel Energy Inc

Alex Aravanis
Senior Director of BioEngineering
Sapphire Energy

Jim Long
Venture Partner
Gabriel Venture Partners

Jie-Sheng Chen
Dean FENG Shouhua
Jilin University

Stephen Decker
Senior Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Harrison Dillon
CTO, President and Co-Founder
Solazyme

Peter Fransham
VP Technology
ABRI Tech Inc

Ramon Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
Rice University

Jack Grushcow
President and CEO
Linnaeus Plant Sciences Inc.

David Haberman
President
IF, LLC

John Hamer
Managing Director
Burrill & Co

David Hazlebeck
Program Manager
General Atomic

Bill Haywood
CEO
LS9

Matthias Hess
Computational Analyst
DOE Joint Genome Institute

Rahul Iyer
Chief Strategy Officer
Primafuel, Inc.      

Doug Jamison
Chairman and CEO
Harris & Harris Group, Inc

Lawrence Kass
Partner
Milbank

Tyler Krutzfeldt
Founder and Managing Director
Mont Vista Capital

Gerry Kutney
Chief Operating Officer
Alterna Energy Inc.

Jim Lane
Editor
Biofuels Digest

Kathy Lardizabal
Protein Biochemistry Team Lead
Monsanto Company

Mary Martis
Vice President, Director, Wastewater Services
URS Corporation

John Miller
Co-Director
Bronco Biodiesel

Jennifer Milne
Energy Assessment Analyst
Global Climate and Energy Project GCEP, Stanford University

Mano Misra
Professor, Director
University of Nevada

Bill Orts
Research Leader
U.S. Department of Agriculture Western Regional Research Center, California

Christopher Potter
Senior Research Scientist
NASA Ames Research Center

Kinkead Reiling
Co-Founder
Amyris

Arunas Ramanavicius
Professor
Center of Nanotechnology and Material Science, Faculty of Chemistry

John Sams
President & Chief Operating Officer
Raven Biofuels

Richard Sayre
Director, ERAC Institute for Renewable Fuels
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Neal Stewart
Racheff Chair of Excellence in Plant Molecular Genetics
University of Tennessee

Todd Taylor
Lead Biofuels Attorney
Fredrikson & Byron

Bryan Willson
CSO, Solix Biofuels Director, Clean Energy Supercluster
Solix Biofuels/Colorado State University

John G. Wimer
Director, Systems Division
National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States Department of Energy

Oliver Peoples
Chief Scientific Officer
Metabolix

Stefan Unnasch
Managing Director
Life Cycle Associates


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