Wednesday 2 March 2022

08.45 – 9.45 CET
13.15 – 14.15 India time 

Opening session (watch recording)

CHAIRS:
Kyriakos Maniatis, EU Chair, Former European Commission, DG ENER

Y.B. Ramakrishna, India Chair, Former Chairman – Working group on Biofuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

Welcome

Maria Georgiadou, Senior Expert – Renewable energy R&I policy, European Commission
“The EU Perspective for Renewable Fuels” (read presentation)

Paolo Frankl, IEA
“Role of Advanced Biofuels for Net Zero” (read presentation)

Jim Spaeth, U.S. Department of Energy, Bioenergy Technologies Office & Chair Biofuture Platform
“Progress of the Biofuels Platform, Plans and Progress of the Biofuture Platform Clean Energy Ministerial Initiative” (read presentation)

Tomas Ekbom, IEA Bioenergy & Task 39 Leader
“Biofuels to Decarbonize Transport”

Ravneet Mann, Invest India, Vice President
“The India Opportunity & An introduction to Invest India”

09.45-10.05 CET
14.15-14.35 India time

Keynote
Andrew Murfin, New Fuels-Low Carbon Fuels, Shell,
“Emerging Landscape of advanced biofuels” (read presentation)

10.05-11.05 CET
14.35-15.35 India time
Panel discussion 1: Global Developments in Advanced Biofuels, are we moving forward?

Moderator:
David Chiaramonti, Polytechnic of Torino

Panellists:

Paolo Frankl, IEA

Tarun Kapoor, Chairman, Energy Transition Advisory Committee

Maria Georgiadou, Senior Expert – Renewable energy R&I policy, European Commission

Jim Spaeth, U.S. Department of Energy, Bioenergy Technologies Office & Chair Biofuture Platform

Divyesh Desai, New Fuels-Low Carbon Fuels, Asia, Shell

Tomas Ekbom, IEA Bioenergy & Task 39 Leader

11.05-11.15 CET
15.35-15.45 India time
Coffee Break

11.15-13.30 CET
15.45-18.00 India time
Session: Advances on Sustainable Aviation Fuels Session (watch recording)

11.15-11.25 CET
15.45-15.55 India time
Keynote
Laxmi Narasimhan, Venture Technology Advisor, Low Carbon Fuels, Shell
“Technology pathways for Sustainable Aviation fuels production – An overview”

11.25-11.45 CET
15.55-16.15 India time
Keynote
Yvon Bernard, Business Development Manager, Bio & Rewenables, Axens
“Advanced Technologies to Produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel” (read presentation)

11.45-12.00 CET
16.15-16.30 India time
Anjan Ray, Director, CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum
“An indigenously developed, potentially hundred percent drop-in, SAF from India.” (read presentation)

12.00-12.15 CET
16.30-16.45 India time
Oskar Meijerink, Head of Future Fuels and part of SkyNRG
“The opportunity of SAF and consequences of ReFUEL EU – a market outlook” (read presentation)

12.15-12.30 CET
16.45-17.00 India time
Preeti Jain, Director, Business Development &  Government Relations, LanzaTech
“Alcohol to Jet: Opportunities for SAF in India” (read presentation)

12.30-13.30 CET
17.00-18.00 India time
Panel discussion 2: Commercialisation of SAF

Moderator:
Dasappa Srinivasaiah, Chair, ICER, Indian Institute of Science

Panellists:
Laxmi Narasimhan, Venture Technology Advisor, Low Carbon Fuels, Shell

Yvon Bernard, Business Development Manager, Bio & Rewenables, Axens

Anjan Ray, Director, CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum 

Oskar Meijerink, Head of Future Fuels and part of SkyNRG, SkyNRG

Preeti Jain, Director, Business Development & Government Relations, LanzaTech

13.30-13.35 CET
18.00-18.05 India time
Conclusions of Day 1

Kyriakos Maniatis, EU Chair, Former European Commission, DG ENER

Y.B. Ramakrishna, India Chair, Former Chairman – Working group on Biofuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

Thursday 3 March 2022

 08.50-09.00 CET
13.20-13.30 India time
Kyriakos Maniatis, EU Chair, Former European Commission, DG ENER

Y.B. Ramakrishna, India Chair, Former Chairman – Working group on Biofuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

Welcome

09.00-10.45 CET
13.30-15.15 India time
Session: Market deployment of Biomethane (watch recording)

09.00-09.30 CET
13.30-14.00 India time
Keynote
Claus Sauter, CEO, Verbio AG
and
Ashish Kumar, Managing Director, VERBIO India Pvt Ltd.
“Making a Sustainable Biomethane Investment Case in India: VERBIO’s WIP (work in progress)” 

09.30-10.45 CET
14.00-15.15 India time
Panel discussion 3: Biomethane for decarbonising transport and greening the grid

Moderator:
Arthur Wellinger, Managing Director, Triple E&M

Panellists:
Claus Sauter, CEO, Verbio AG
and
Ashish Kumar, Managing Director, VERBIO India Pvt Ltd. 

Som Narayan, Carbon Masters

Uwe Fritsche, Scientific Director, IINAS 

Sharad Mittal, RNG, Low carbon Fuels Asia, Shell

Shivangi Tiwary, Manager, Invest India

10.45-13.50 CET
15.15-18.20 India time
Session: Commercialisation of Cellulosic ethanol (watch recording  part 1  |  part 2)

10.45-11.05 CET
15.15-15.35 India time
Keynote
Rehman Faizur, Head of Bio2X, Fortum India
“Biomass to Biofuels: Pathway towards carbon neutrality” (read presentation)

11.05-11.25 CET
15.35-15.55 India time
Keynote
Johan Thevelein, Managing Director, Novel Yeast
“Development of superior industrial yeast strains for economically sustainable production of advanced biofuels”
(read presentation)

11.25-11.35 CET
15.55-16.05 India time
Coffee break

11.35-11.55 CET
16.05-16.25 India time
Keynote
G S Krishnan, Novozymes, India
“Importance of innovation and the role of enzymes in bioethanol production” (read presentation)

11.55-12.10 CET
16.25-16.40 india Time
Pierluigi Picciotti, Licensing Manager Green Chemistry, Versalis
“PROESA® Technology” (read presentation)

12.10-12.25 CET
16.40-16.55 India time
Hernane Genu, Raizen
“Tranforming sugarmills into bioenergy parks” (read presentation)

12.25-12.45 CET
16.55-17.15 India time
Keynote
Mallikarjun Navalgund, Business Development, Praj Industries
“PRAJ’s cellulosic ethanol technology: Assured success” (read presentation)

12.45-13.45 CET
17.15-18.15 India time
Panel Discussion 4: Cellulosic  ethanol, moving to global commercialisation

Moderator:
Paolo Corvo, BFPartners

Panellists:
Fortum

Novozymes 

Pramod Kumbhar, Chief Technology Officer, Praj Industries, matrix-R&D Center

Jorge Martinez Gacio, Technology team Manager, Technology & Technical Support Business Division, Axens 

Johan Thevelein, Managing Director, Novel Yeast

Renato Godinho, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil

13.45-13.50 CET
18.15-18.20 India time
Conclusions of Day 2

Kyriakos Maniatis, EU Chair, Former European Commission, DG ENER

Y.B. Ramakrishna, India Chair, Former Chairman – Working group on Biofuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

Friday 4 March 2022

08.50-09.00 CET
13.20-13.30 India time
Kyriakos Maniatis, EU Chair, Former European Commission, DG ENER

Y.B. Ramakrishna, India Chair, Former Chairman – Working group on Biofuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas 

Welcome

09.00-13.30 CET
13.30-18.00 India time
Market deployment –  Hurdles for advanced biofuels
(watch recording  part 1  |  part 2  |  part 3)

09.00-09.20 CET
13.30-13.50 India time
Keynote
Mrs. Vartika Shukla, Chairman & Managing Director, Engineers India Limited
“Biofuels: Greening the Energy Landscape”

09.20-09.35 CET
13.50-14.05 India time
Marco Bonvini, NextChem
“SAF Regional Production” (read presentation)

09.35-09.50 CET
14.05-14.20 India time
Dasappa Srinivasaiah, Chair, ICER, Indian Institute of Science“
“Thermochemical conversion of biomass to  hydrogen and chemicals”

09.50-10.05 CET
14.20-14.35 India time
Ingvar Landälv, Fuels & Energy Consulting,
“Solutions to the ‘chicken and egg’ issue when introducing a new fuel” (read presentation)

10.05-11.20 CET
14.35-15.50 India time
Panel Discussion 5: Challenges in deploying biorefineries (scaling up, policy eco system, high CAPEX/OPEX, financing, pricing & mandates)

Moderator:
Tarun Sawhney, Chairman, CII-Bio Energy CII Task Force

Panellists:
Ayush Mathur, Chief General Manager, EIL

Paolo Corvo, BFPartners

Ingvar Landälv, Fuels & Energy Consulting

Subodh Kumar, Former Executive Director, Indian Oil Corporation Limited

11.20-11.30 CET
15.50-16.00 India time
Coffee Break

11.30-12.30 CET
16.00-17.00 India time
Panel Discussion 6: Biomass availability and Sustainability issues

Moderator:

Y.B. Ramakrishna, India Chair, Former Chairman – Working group on Biofuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

Panellists:

Ashok Kumar, Principal Scientist & Product Placement Lead – Asia, ICRISAT

Calliope Panoutsou, Imperial College London, faculty of natural sciences

Ashish Kumar, Managing Director, VERBIO India Pvt Ltd.

Claus Sauter, CEO, Verbio AG

Myrsini Chrystou, CRES

Kjell Andersson, SVEBIO

12.30-13.30 CET
17.00-18.00 India time
Round Table discussion: Challenges and Opportunities of Advanced Biofuels Technology commercialisation

Moderator:
Eric van den Heuvel, Studio Gear Up, the Netherlands

Panellists:
Sponsors  

Divyesh Desai, New Fuels-Low Carbon Fuels, Shell
or
Laxmi Narasimhan, Venture Technology Advisor, Low Carbon Fuels, Shell 

Ashish Kumar, Managing Director, VERBIO India Pvt Ltd.

Claus Sauter, CEO, Verbio AG

Amardeep Puri, Country Sales Manager, Axens India

Rajiv Agarwal, Executive Director, EIL

13.30-13.35 CET
18.00-18.05 India time    
Conclusions of EU-India-BCE

Kyriakos Maniatis, EU Chair, Former European Commission, DG ENER

Y.B. Ramakrishna, India Chair, Former Chairman – Working group on Biofuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas