As I mentioned in the previous post, POET is in Chicago for the 2008 World Conference on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing. Yesterday, POET CEO Jeff Broin spoke to a gathering of the Governor's Ethanol Coalition and the plenary lunch session of the conference (pictured here).
More pictures from the conference are available on our Flickr page. Today, Mark Stowers, VP of R&D for POET, is speaking on a panel about our cellulosic ethanol project.
POET will be well-represented at the 2008 World Conference on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing which starts today in Chicago. At 12:15 tomorrow, CEO Jeff Broin will address a plenary session on the Biorefinery of the Future.
Among other things, Broin's speech will touch on the data recently released by Argonne National Laboratory at the USDA which shows the efficiency gains in ethanol production from 2001 to 2006. Over that five years, the ethanol yield per bushel of corn increased 6.4 percent, while energy and water use decreased 21.8 and 26.6 percent, respectively.
On Wednesday at 8:45 am, Dr. Mark Stowers, POET VP of Research & Development, will speak at a breakout session on Joint Process Developments in Biomass. He will be joined on the panel by representatives from Novozymes, ICM and Abengoa.
Stay tuned to the blog and I'll do my best to post reflections and photos from the conference. If you have questions or comments about the conference or their presentations, feel free to leave them below.
POET CEO Jeff Broin is pictured here presenting a keynote address this morning at the World Biofuels Markets Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The conference was attended by approximately 1,100 people from over 60 countries. Mr. Broin's speech titled "The Renewable Revolution" defended the current grain-based ethanol industry against other fossil fuel alternatives and predicted that the future economy would depend on renewable sources for biochemicals and biopolymers in addition to energy. Click here (PDF) to view a transcript of Mr. Broin's speech.
Several from POET are in Orlando for the 13th annual National Ethanol Conference. Jeff Lautt, Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations for POET, will be on a panel discussion. Details on his presentation can be found in a release on our web site.
If you're stuck in snowy South Dakota (like me), Chuck Zimmerman of Zimmcomm is at the conference and will be posting regular updates on the conference blog, including interviews and photos. I'll be following along.
Spring is just around the corner and the biofuels conferences are piling up. We started working on some press releases about who from POET is going where, but I thought I'd put the list out here first:
I'm sure there are more to come, but that ought to keep us busy for the Spring!
If there were as many cellulosic ethanol plants as there are cellulosic ethanol conferences, we'd have cured our country's addition to foreign oil by now. There are two this week to mention.
First, Doug Berven, the Director of Corporate Development for POET, is in Washington, D.C. to speak at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit. Today, the speaker at the luncheon was Chuck Connor, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Chuck Zimmerman of DomesticFuel grabbed an interview with the acting secretary after his speech. The full agenda of the conference is here (pdf).
While Doug is in D.C., Dr. Mark Stowers, VP of R&D for POET, is in Chicago to speak at the Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference. He will speak Thursday at 9:00 a.m. The full agenda is here (pdf).
While we're on the topic, POET was in Washington, DC earlier this month for a cellulosic ethanol conference put on by the Renewable Fuels Association. The event also featured a speech from Chuck Connor, acting secretary of USDA, who sorted out some of the food vs. fuel rhetoric.
Here's our booth at the ACE 20th Ethanol Conference & Trade Show. There was a lot of traffic this morning on the first day of the show. To see more pictures from ACE, go to our Flickr page.
POET is in St. Paul for the 20th Annual Ethanol Conference and Trade Show put on by the American Coalition for Ethanol. It starts tomorrow and runs through Thursday at the St. Paul River Centre.
Several POET team members will be giving presentations during the conference:
If you'd like to check out the entire agenda, it's on the ACE web site. If you're at the show, stop by booth 209. If you let me know you read this on our blog, I'll give you something. Not sure what it will be yet, but I'll come up with something by tomorrow.
As mentioned previously, we are in St. Louis for the Fuel Ethanol Workshop and it has been a busy couple of days. Yesterday, we made an announcement that POET has successfully produced cellulosic ethanol from corn cobs.
There was a fair amount of press in attendance both at the event and on a conference call line. I've posted several of the stories on our web site.
Cindy Zimmerman, who is blogging about the conference from Domestic Fuel, posted audio of POET CEO Jeff Broin making the announcement here. Later today, Dr. Mark Stowers, VP of R&D, will give an update on the cellulosic project on a panel with the director of R&D from Abengoa Bioenergy.
We're heading to St. Louis for the 2007 Fuel Ethanol Workshop. More than 4,000 people are expected for the industry's largest conference and several POET employees will be in attendance.
Those of us who are attending will be busy. On Wednesday, we'll be announcing a milestone reached in the production of cellulosic ethanol. On Thursday, Mark Stowers will give a presentation on the progress of our cellulosic project.
I'll be posting pictures and updates here as they occur.
Maybe he won't be singing (at least we hope he won't), but POET International Director of Business Development Mike Roth will be in Singapore for Biofuels Markets Asia which starts tomorrow. What he will do is give a presentation on ethanol production in the United States with a special focus on POET's cellulose ethanol project with the U.S. Department of Energy. I've posted a copy of the presentation below.
If you'd like someone from POET to speak at your conference, just go to the contact page on our web site.
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