Track 1: Production & Operations
Approaches for Assessing and Evaluating the Effectiveness and Value of New Process or Technology Deployments
With plant margins at record levels and optimism about long-term relief and stability in corn prices, producers are once again in a strong position to drive capital back into their operations to unlock new revenue streams and efficiencies. But with so many options available, how do plant management teams decide if a process tweak or investment will pay off and deliver real results. Looking through both a financial and scientific lens, these presentations will offer producers some measured and practical approaches to help vet the many choices the marketplace is currently offering.

• Moderator: Duncan Coffey, Commercial BioProcess & IPManager, Butamax
• Fred Clarke, Executive Vice President, Arisdyne Systems
  New Technology Adoption: Setting Business Objectives and Validation Performance
• Rex Roehl, Senior Director - Business Development, RC Fuels Inc.
  Conducting a Successful Fermentation Trial: A Supplier Perspective
• Paula Emberland, Benchmarking Business Analyst, Christianson & Associates PLLP
  Evaluating Advanced Technology Investments for your Plant
• Christopher Richards, VP International Business & Corporate Technology, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Preparing for an Effective Trial in an Ethanol Plant
• Mark Warren, Partner, Ascendant Partners Inc.
  Approach to Assess the Best Strategic Options for Business

Track 1: Production & Operations
Nature or Nurture: Examining the Impact that Strain Development and Fermentation Conditions have on Yeast Performance
Without a commitment to a robust yeasthealth strategy, achieving the industry’s upper tier of per bushel ethanol yield is unlikely. As the production years continue to tick off, the biology community supporting the industry has become more and more sophisticated. Panelists will share the latest knowledge about optimizing fermentation conditions for the yeasts the industry already has and offer a discussion about the strains the industry is developing for tomorrow’s fermenters. Rich in fermentation science the panel is a must for the industry’s roster of lab managers.

• Moderator: Stan Janson, Manager of Operations, Big River Resources LLC
• Don Cannon, Applications Scientist, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
  Profiling Yeast Metabolites for Fermentation Process Insights
• Jim Miers, TransFerm Product Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Controlling Glucose Levels in Fermentation for Optimal Yeast Performance
• Mario Cacho, Sales Director Americas, Fuel Ethanol, Leaf Technologies
  New Yeast Strain Development Techniques within the Realm of Classical Genetics for Tomorrow’s Biorefinery
• Garth Whiddon, Technical Service Lead, Syngenta Seeds, Enogen Group
  Transforming the Production/Fermentation of Corn Based Ethanol using a Grain Incorporated Alpha Amylase Feedstock

Track 1: Production & Operations
The Available Mechanical and Biological Methods for Quantifying, Capturing and Converting Recalcitrant Starches
Untapped starch becomes untapped profit opportunities if it is allowed to pass through the cook process without being liberated for downstream fermentation. Producers hoping to cash in on recalcitrant starches will need to bolster their understanding of where these starches are typically found, determining how much is there and finally the mechanical and biological options available to bring them into plant fermenters so that their greatest value can be realized.

• Moderator: Janice Ryan-Bohac, President & Plant Breeder, CAREnergy LLC
• Scott Kohl, Technical Director, ICM Inc.
  DDGS Starch Assay: How to Increase Ethanol Yields
• Ye Chen, Scientist, Novozymes North America
  Enhanced Residual Starch Determination Using NIR and Advanced Enzyme Technology
• Long Nguyen, Staff Scientist, Novozymes
  Use of a Unique Cellulase to Tap New Starch Pools for Ethanol Production
• John Kwik, President, Fluid Quip Process Technologies LLC
  Enhanced Milling and Liquefaction Method with Counter-Current Wash
• Nathan Misirian, Marketing Manager, Hydro-Thermal Corporation
  Slurry Tank Improvements

Track 1: Production & Operations
The Forever War: Pathways Available to Ethanol Producers for Bacterial Control and their Impact on Yield and Feed Coproducts
Two things regarding plant bacterial populations are true. First, they are always there, awaiting an opportunity to quickly grow their numbers and sink fermentation efficiencies. Second, their control is among the best opportunities to limit lost profits anywhere in the production process. A panel of some of the industry’s historic bacterial control providers bring producers up to speed on the current best practices in bacterial control while recognizing a global sensitivity to feed coproducts that have been exposed to antibiotics.

• Moderator: Dennis Bayrock, Global Director, Fermentation Research, PhibroChem Ethanol Performance Group
• Jenny Forbes, Manager New Product Development, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Improved Methods for Antimicrobial Selection
• Allen Ziegler, Global Biorefining Manager, Ashland Water Technologies
  Novel Antimicrobial Technologies Enable Biorefineries to Increase Production and Meet Regulatory Requirements
• Eric Sumner, Global Market Development Manager, DuPont FermaSure
  Improving Bacteria Control in Batch and Continuous Fermentation without Antibiotics
• Patrick Heist, Chief Scientific Officer, Ferm Solutions Inc.
  Prevention and Control of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria at Fuel Ethanol Facilities

Track 1: Production & Operations
A Sense of Where You Are: Process Control Strategies that Reduce Costs and Increase Yield
The ability of plant operators to achieve maximum efficiency and output directly correlates with their ability to constantly gather, analyze and act on operational data. Beginning by helping producers analyze their current process control technologies the panel then moves into current best practices in liquefaction, fermentation and chemical control. Higher yields and lower operating costs are in the offing for those producers willing to insist on deploying and utilizing the cutting edge technologies and approaches outlined in this comprehensive panel.

• Moderator: Robert Sauer, Director, CFO Systems LLC
• Hank Brittain, Director of Optimization & Advanced Control, OPX Control
  How to Score and Improve your Process Control System to Reduce Operating Costs
• Srinivas Budaraju, Lead Engineer, Rockwell Automation
  Model Predictive Control of Continuous Fermentation Process
• Bill Whitlock, Senior Scientist, Novozymes
  InDex—An Enhanced Analytical Method for Cook Process Optimization
• Glen Bowen, Platform Launch Team Manager, Water Technology - North America, Ashland Water Technologies
  Advantages of Performance-Based Monitoring and Control Systems in Process and Water Treatment Chemical Programs

Track 1: Production & Operations
Strategies for Capturing and Leveraging Operational Data to Manage Risk, Increase Yield and Drive Profitability
This panel asserts that the road to increased ethanol yields, greater profits and even a more informed risk management strategy hinges on a management team’s ability to manage and analyze collected operational and financial data. Producers suspicious that their data program needs to evolve will appreciate the attention given to the rewards floating in a sea of available data and the cloud and software based platforms that can be harnessed to drive a comprehensive data capture and analysis effort.

• Moderator: Sue Retka Schill, Senior Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine
• Joseph Windover, CEO, InCloud Control
  Control your Costs, Time, and Quality in the Cloud
• Nicholas Giffen, Senior Scientist-Data Analyst, Novozymes North America
  Golden Batch: Finding Gold by Analyzing Process Data
• David Spickler, Vice President, Marketing & Risk Management, Midwest AgEnergy Group
  Plant-Developed Risk Management Process and Software

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
Ethanol Margins Today and Strategies to Leave the Laggards and Join the Leaders
All ethanol producers buy the same commodities, use the same conversion approaches to produce the same products and coproducts yet achieve very different levels of profitability. To achieve the kind of margins achieved by the industry’s strongest producers, plant management must engage in a deliberate margin management program. This panel will outline how savvy producers can use hedging and risk management strategies to assure the plant delivers as much profit as the marketplace will allow. A snapshot of current profitability trends will begin the conversation and attention will be given to all of the variables that can impact a plant’s long term profitability.

• Moderator: Tim Snyder, President, Agri-Energy Solutions Inc.
• Connie Chappell, Benchmarking Consultant, Christianson & Associates PLLP
  Current Status of the Ethanol Industry: A Financial Perspective
• Will Babler, Principal, Atten Babler Risk Management LLC
  Managing Crush Margins with Option Hedging and Stress Testing
• Jay Beckel, Vice President, Safety & Health, ERI Solutions Inc.
  What is an Acceptable Risk? Risks beyond Just Margins can Cripple Operations!
• Chip Whalen, Vice President, Education & Research, CIH
  Ethanol Profit Margin Management

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
Analyze, Know, Communicate: Current Best Practices in Plant Safety Programs
Each new year brings new thinking and often, new regulations that can impact a plant’s current Plant Safety Program. This panel offers plant safety professionals an opportunity to evaluate the rigor of their PSM compliance approach, and get up to speed on new OSHA requirements for product labeling. Plant staff charged with both keeping employees safe and the plant in compliance in an increasingly rigorous regulatory environment will not want to miss this informative session. The panel is rounded out by a look at static electricity hazards and the recommended practices for limiting their associated risks.

• Moderator: Holly Jessen, Managing Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine
• Jim Lane, Senior PSM Engineer, ERI Solutions, Inc.
  PSM and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
• Robert Yule, Biorefining Applications Team Manager, Ashland Water Technologies
  New Requirements of OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard and What They Mean to Fuel Ethanol Producers
• Richard Puig, Regional Manager – Gulf Coast & Latin America, Newson Gale Inc.
  Static Electrical Protection in the Production and Movement of Flammable Liquids

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
The Smart Money: Practical Strategies for Keeping Your Ethanol Plant Environmentally Compliant
Anything less than a vigilant commitment to environmental compliance for ethanol producers is an invitation for an unfortunately timed plant inspection and potentially costly fines. These fines are avoidable and presenters on this panel will offer practical step-bystep instructions for bringing a plant into compliance and preparing for the eventual surprise inspections conducted by watchful state and federal regulatory agencies. In an era of increased regulatory attention, this panel will ease the stress that surprise inspections can bring to producers.

• Moderator: Jamey Cline, Business Development Director, Christianson & Associates PLLP
• Erica Montefusco, Director: Environmental, Health, Safety, Security, Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc.
  Successfully Passing an EPA FRP Drill Scenario
• Francis Lyons, Partner, Schiff Hardin, LLP
  Environmental Enforcement against Ethanol Producers
• Andrea Foglesong, Director, Environmental Affairs, ERI Solutions, Inc.
  Common Environmental Regulatory Pitfalls and the Associated Penalties
• Jessica Karras-Bailey, Principal, RTP Environmental Associates, Inc.
  Managing Environmental Compliance

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
Increasing Shareholder Confidence by Increasing Overall Plant Value and Providing Adequate Liquidity Opportunities
While most ethanol production facilities are not publicly owned their pool of investors have the same goals as anyone that owns a share of any common stock. Ultimately, investors put forward capital with the hope that it will be returned to them, with interest. This panel will provide ethanol plant management teams with some strategies for honoring those investor wishes through a number of different liquidation scenarios. Whether management teams are looking to engage in a whole enterprise liquidation event or they are simply hoping to provide liquidity to minority shareholders, this panel will offer answers to the most common questions surrounding plant valuation and shareholder liquidity.

• Moderator: Tom Bryan, Editor-In-Chief, Ethanol Producer Magazine
• James Eiler, Principal, Eiler Capital Advisors LLC
  Liquidity for Minority Shareholders
• Richard Wilichowski, Vice President, AccuVal-Liquitec
  How to Hire the Right Appraiser to Value Your Plant
• Scott McDermott, Partner, Ascendant Partners Inc.
  How to Leverage Strategic Planning and Capital Planning to Increase Company Valuation and Stock Value
• Donna Funk, Member, Biofuels Group, Kennedy and Coe LLC
  Understand Ways to Measure Shareholder Value and Opportunities to Create Liquidity for Minority Investors

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
The Track Ahead: Safely Increasing Capacity on the Nation’s Railways
The National Transportation Safety Board reports that ethanol transported by rail grew by nearly 450% between 2005 and 2010. In 2012, ethanol was the most frequently transported hazardous material on the entire rail system. With crude oil shipments increasing with no sign of abating, it is becoming clear that current rail capacity is inadequate to handle the movement of these important commodities safely. Near term fixes remain elusive, but this panel will outline the potential solutions available to both rail operators and the ethanol producers that rely on this vital piece of infrastructure.

• Moderator: Kristy Moore, Vice President, Technical Services, Renewable Fuels Association
• Tom Simpson, President, Railway Supply Institute
  The Myths and Realities of 111 Tank Cars
• Jim Holland, President & CEO, Pinnacle Engineering
  Lessons Learned: Release Prevention and Impact Mitigation
• John Gray, Senior Vice President, Policy and Economics, Association of American Railroads
  2014 Rail Capacity Issues

Track 2: Leadership & Financial Management
Using Technology and Marketplace Intelligence to Drive Energy Expenses out of Plant Ledgers
Energy is second only to corn in annual plant expenses. While certainly an operational requirement, energy is anything but a fixed cost. Producers hungry to drive energy expenses out of their operation will find a variety of options available to them. This panel provides a wide range of energy management opportunities for producers starting with simply a better understanding of the natural gas market, and then moving into a discussion of the more efficient use of thermal energy in coproduct drying and ending with an exploration of onsite energy production opportunities.

• Moderator: Tim Portz, Executive Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine
• Norm Cox, Director, Account Management, U.S. Energy Services Inc.
  Combined Heat and Power: An Alternative against Ever Increasing Electric Costs
• Rebecca DeMarr, Sr. Director, Marketing & Pricing, CenterPoint Energy Services Inc.
  The Bi-"Polar" Natural Gas Market
• Sharine Ma, APC Technical Consultant, Rockwell Automation
  Energy Optimization in DDGS Drying
• Scott Dyer, Chief Science Officer, AGREBON Inc.
  20% Carbon Reductions from Anaerobic Digestion of Thin Stillage
• Robert Kramer, Director, Energy Efficiency and Reliability Center, Purdue University-Calumet
  New Method to Increase DDGS Value and Ethanol Production

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Maintaining DDGS Value by Aligning Corn Oil Recovery Strategies with Downstream Fat and Protein Requirements
The variability of the project parameters outlined in this panel would not be possible without the incredible flexibility afforded by the anaerobic digestion platform. Two of the projects featured in this panel are of a high-solids nature and these presentations will focus on the technological approach to managing these kinds of substrates. The other two projects featured on the panel are wastewater treatment plants in unique settings that are both in the early stages of proving out the AD technologies that provide the best solution for their operations in the long term.

• Moderator: John Caupert, Executive Director, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
• Sabrina Trupia, Lead Scientist, Advanced Biofuels Initiative, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Quality Characteristics of DDGS from Conventional and Fractionated Corn: A Nutritional Comparison
• Harold Tilstra, Manager, Technical Support for DDGS Marketing, Purina Animal Nutrition LLC
  Adding Value to Reduced-oil DDGS
• Scott Kohl, Technical Director, ICM Inc.
  Fiber Separation Technology™ - New Plant Design for New Markets
• Pete Moss, Vice President, Marketing, Cereal Process Technologies
  New Pathway Petitions and Advanced Technology: Will they Significantly Change the Ethanol and Biodiesel Industries?

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Market Opportunities for Valuable Protein Streams Captured during Ethanol Production
Continued innovation in front and back end processing at ethanol plants is enabling the greater capture of the various fractions of every kernel of inbound corn. More and more, producers are investigating the opportunities to isolate and capture these fractions to increase their overall value. Protein increases significantly in value as it becomes isolated from fiber and starch. Attention will be given to not only the available methods of protein extraction, but also the early results from feed trials for these protein products.

• Moderator: Monty McCoy, Director of Technology, U.S. Water
• Michael Franko, Technical Projects Manager, Fluid Quip Process Technologies LLC
  High-Value Protein from Stillage
• Jennifer Aurandt, Technology Development Program Manager, Valicor Inc.
  VPRO: High Protein Meal from Stillage
• Dennis Evers, Chief Technology Officer, Meridian Biotech
  Bio-Conversion of Distillers Solubles into Fishmeal Replacement Product: Early Pig Diets and Aquaculture
• Peter Williams, Professor/ Business Development Manager – Biofuels, Associated British Agriculture
  Implications of Ethanol Bio-Processing in Livestock Production
• Kurt Dieker, Director, Product Development, ICM Inc.
  Cellulosic Sugars – Competitive Uses

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Biological and Mechanical Methods for Increasing the Capture Rate of Oil, Protein and Starch from Inbound Corn
As the ability of producers to isolate and extract the individual components of corn increases, so too do plant profit opportunities. Market rewards await those producers who choose to deploy and perfect kernel disassembly platforms like those outlined in this panel. Both mechanical and biological disassembly approaches will be discussed along with a robust discussion of the further refining pathways producers can engage to maximize these newly liberated corn fraction streams.

• Moderator: David Lococo, Executive Vice President, KATZEN International Inc.
• Sara Perrin, Scientist, Novozymes North America
  The Impact of Seasonal Variation on the Corn Oil Recovery Process
• James Bleyer, Senior Project Engineer, Valicor Separation Technologies
  VFRAC™ Stillage Processing Technology
• Michael Ladisch, Distinguished Professor & Director, Purdue University/LORRE
  Enzyme Catalyzed Disassembly of Corn Kernels
• Allen Lee, Principal, Lee Tech, LLC
  Post Distillation Selective Milling Process to Enhance Oil and Starch Recovery

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
Strategies for Ensuring Investments in Corn Oil Extraction are Delivering Maximum Dividends
While a vast majority of ethanol producers have deployed and are operating corn oil extraction technologies, very few currently further refine this important coproduct themselves. Presenters on this panel will assert that the returns for producers willing to migrate into on-site corn oil refining are worth the capital investment they require. Presentations will outline the available bolt-on refining technologies available to producers, the markets hungry for fuels they produce and the impact in-house corn oil conversion has on the bottom line.

• Moderator: Charles Ferrin, President, HK Instrument Systems
• Joe Riley, General Manager, FEC Solutions
  Is California the Corn Oil Mecca?
• Rachel Overheul, Director of Engineering, WB Services LLC
  Corn Oil: The Value of Quantity vs. Quality
• Peter Bell, Co-Founder, Renewable Fuel Products
  Renewable Diesel Production from Co-Products of the Corn-To-Ethanol Refining Process

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
How Producers Can Maximize their RIN Coproduct in a Dynamic Policy and Pathway Environment
The ability of ethanol producers to improve their processes and even introduce the production of new biofuel categories into their operation is outstripping the regulatory framework designed to reward this innovation. As regulators work to simultaneously accelerate the approval process for new pathways and provide marketplace surety for existing RINs, this panel will provide producers with some insight about how they must work to buttress their current RIN program while also ensuring that their program evolves in synchronicity with any new technologies they choose to deploy.

• Moderator: John Caupert, Executive Director, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
• Ashley Player, Manager, Energy Compliance Services, Weaver and Tidwell L.L.P.
  Have you been QAP'd?
• Jake Ferris, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
  Solving the Ethanol Blend Wall Problem with Biodiesel: A Scenario
• James Ramm, Partner & Senior Engineer, EcoEngineers
  Life Cycle Analysis and QAP Tools to Open New Fuel Pathways

Track 3: Coproducts & Product Diversification
The Knife that Cuts Both Ways: How Biogenic Carbon can be Both a Liability and an Asset for Ethanol Producers
Corn is nearly half carbon when measured on a dry weigh basis and when converted into ethanol a portion of it becomes carbon dioxide. For now, this carbon dioxide has generally had a neutral revenue position for producers, neither an asset nor a liability. Changes in the regulatory environment as well as the emergence of markets hungry for low carbon fuels is challenging this status quo. This panel will offer producers an opportunity to assess the readiness of their plant’s carbon strategy, limiting their exposure to the cost side of carbon, and maximizing the emerging profit opportunities.

• Moderator: Gary DeLong, Vice President, Degart Global
• Kayla Hornafius, Graduate Student, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  Corn Ethanol Product Diversification by CO2-EOR
• Steffen Mueller, Principal Economist, University of Illinois
  Opportunities for Ethanol in the Carbon Markets
• Jessica Karras-Bailey, Principal, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  GHGs and PSD: What Every Plant Needs to Know
• Chris White, Department Manager-US Midwest Environment, AECOM
  Changes to the Legal and Regulatory Framework for Permitting of Biogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Bill Roddy, Vice President, Sustainability, ERI Solutions Inc.
  Bioengineered Corn Feedstock Yielding 20% Carbon Reductions

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Updates from the Field I: Moving Past Construction and Onto Commissioning at North America’s First Class of Cellulosic Ethanol Plants
2014 is a critical waypoint on the journey into cellulosic production. Simultaneously, the industry is defending the policy that drove the innovations several organizations are right now working to make manifest with their first commercial scale installations. This panel will offer a comprehensive check-in with the projects everyone is hoping will achieve steady, nameplate production levels in time to remind policy makers and the general public of the original vision of the Renewable Fuels Standard and its promise of low carbon energy and rural economic vitality.

• Moderator: Kolby Hoagland, Program & Data Manager, BBI International
• Steve Hartig, General Manager, POET - DSM Advanced Biofuels LLC
  Cellulosic Ethanol and Project Liberty: Looking toward the Future
• Ken Hill, Business Development & Licensing Leader, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
  Global, Commercial Solutions for Cellulosic Biofuels by DuPont
• Christopher Standlee, Executive Vice President, Abengoa Bioenergy
  Advanced Ethanol: Coming Online

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Updates from the Field II: Reviewing the Global Race for the Successful Commercialization of Cellulosic Ethanol Production
The race to prove an economically viable production platform for advanced biofuels has attracted a global field. In this second installment of commercialization updates the players operating beyond the borders of the United States will share their progress, achievements and timetables moving forward. This panel features diversity not only in countries of origin but also in a broad range of feedstocks, conversion technologies and intended marketplaces.

• Moderator: Douglas Machon, Director, NAES Corporation
• Patrick Foody, EVP Commercial Development, Iogen Corp.
  Iogen Commercialization Update
• Clemens Heikaus, Business Development Manager, Clariant
  Cellulosic Ethanol: Using New Biomass Sources for Commercial Scale Production of Advanced Biofuels
• Tim Cesarek, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Enerkem Inc.
  Producing Ethanol from MSW at the Commercial Scale: The Case of Enerkem and the City of Edmonton
• Henrik Maimann, Vice President, Dong Energy
  It's Not Rio at Carnival Time, Baby: Doing Cellulosic Deals in Brazil and Asia
• Vonnie Estes, Managing Director, USA, GranBio Investimentos S.A.
  GranBio: Commercialization of Cellulosic Fuels and Chemicals in Brazil

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Reviewing Emerging Biological and Thermochemical Production Pathways to Cellulosic Ethanol
Without the determination of a clear winner or winners in the race for cellulosic process technology market share, a continuation of robust research and development efforts is to be expected. This panel examines a broad range of technologies still being perfected at bench and pilot stages. Technologies including bacterial, mechanical and catalytic pathways will be shared. Professionals interested in getting a broad view of the industry’s emerging processes working through the commercialization pipeline will appreciate this panel’s variety.

• Moderator: Stephan Blum, Chief Technology Officer, Whitefox Technologies Limited
• Girish Srinivas, Director, Business Development, TDA Research
  Homogeneous Catalytic System for Converting Biomass-Derived Synthesis Gas into Fuel Ethanol with Removal of Water
• Jerry Gargulak, Business Development Manager, Borregaard / LignoTech
  BALI Commercialization
• Jeremy Javers, Cellulose to Ethanol--Team Lead, ICM Inc.
  ICM’s Line of Sight to Cellulosic Ethanol
• Nagib Ward, Vice President, Business Development, Deinove
  DEINOL: Creating a Cost-Effective Consolidated Bioprocess

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Strategies for Growing Advanced Biofuel Production from the Fertile Ground of Currently Installed Starch Capacity
Cellulosic material is already abundant within the plant envelopes of the installed, operating and financially healthy starch based ethanol production complex. It should come as no surprise then that industry interest steadily grows for conversion approaches that would enable every producer to capture the profit improvement opportunity that cellulosic gallons would provide. These presentations will offer producers a pragmatic look at the readiness of technologies to make them and their facilities not only starch based producers, but cellulosic producers as well.

• Moderator: Jesper Bang Andersen, Partner, Leifmark
• Bill Herdt, Validation Engineer, Arisdyne Systems
  Cavitation: A More Viable Option for Corn Fiber Conversion
• Steve Rust, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Edeniq, Inc.
  Cellulosic Ethanol Revolution Begins
• Phil Madson, President, KATZEN International Inc.
  Defining Generation 1.5
• Bob Randle, Vice President, Commercialization, xF Technologies
  A New Advanced Fuel Blend Component made from Corn or Biomass and Ethanol

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
Conversion Begins at Harvest: Biomass Collection and Storage Techniques and How they Impact Downstream Conversion and the Bottom Line
Long before steel began coming out of the ground in Emmetsburg, Hugoton, Vero Beach or Nevada work was being done on the biomass collection programs that would eventually be called upon to feed these new facilities. As the work and research progressed, the enormity of the job and consequences for not getting it just right came into sharp focus. This panel will underscore the widely understood idea that a facility’s success hinges upon a well thought out strategy for biomass removal and storage that begins in the field.

• Moderator: Jennifer Cooke-Yin, Attorney, Stinson Leonard Street LLP
• Keith Brazzell, Chief Operating Officer, Genera Energy Inc.
  Beyond Harvest: Improving Logistics and Preprocessing in Industrial-Scale Biomass Supply Chain Solutions
• Adam Wirt, Biomass Manager, POET
  Feeding a Cellulosic Ethanol Plant: The Feedstock Logistics of Project LIBERTY
• Jorgen Lyngso, American Representative, Processbio
  Fully Automatic Bale Handling System: Dramatically Increase Throughput and Elimination of Safety Threats by Manually Handling with Forklifts
• James Hettenhaus, President & CEO, CEA Inc.
  Wet Cellulosic Feedstock Storage

Track 4: Cellulosic & Advanced Ethanol
How Innovations in Pretreatment are Driving Down the Cost of Extracting Fermentable Sugars from Cellulosic Feedstocks
If pretreatment strategies to unlock sugars from cellulosic materials can be perfected and introduced to the market at reasonable costs, the success and growth of the cellulosic ethanol industry is all but assured. Without these strategies the industry is likely to languish. Presentations on this panel promise a data rich investigating of both the leading pretreatment strategies and their ability to deliver sugar streams to waiting downstream production processes as well as how their costs correlate to and ultimately determine producer profits.

• Moderator: Michael Ladisch, Distinguished Professor & Director, Purdue University/LORRE
• Sabrina Trupia, Lead Scientist, Advanced Biofuels Initiative, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  An Assessment of the Impact of Particle Size Adjustment in Maize Stover Bioprocessing
• M. Clark Dale, Chairman/CEO, Bio-Process Innovation Inc. & CTO of Advanced BioFuels Corporation
  Comparison of Pretreatment Technologies for Commercial Application
• Barry Wortzman, Vice President, Business Development, GreenField Specialty Alcohols Inc.
  Pretreatment: The Key to a Sustainable Cellulosic Ethanol Industry

BONUS PANEL
Reviewing Pending Regulations and What They Mean for Producers
Producers have come to expect that the regulation of their production processes is in a constant state of evolution. Keeping abreast of new regulations is part and parcel with operating an ethanol plant. This bonus panel will bring attendees up to speed on the Food Safety Modernization Act and its impact on producers, new TSCA Chemical Data Reporting requirements and an analysis of the vacatur of the Deferral Rule.

• Chandler Taylor, Vice President/Senior Environmental Consultant, Barr Engineering Company
  Implications of the U.S. Court of Appeals Vacatur of the Deferral Rule for Corn Ethanol Facilities Expanding Production
• Gary DeLong, Vice President, Degart Global
  Implementation of Food Safety Modernization Act at Ethanol Plants
• Robert Hanley, Senior Environmental Scientist, TRC Environmental
  TSCA Chemical Data Reporting: 2016 is not far off