RETECH

Today at 3:00 EST, POET CEO Jeff Broin will be speaking during the Opening Session as part of a CEO Panel at the Renewable Energy Technology Conference and Exhibition (RETECH) in Washington, DC. Carol Browner, Assistant to the President on Energy and Climate Change will also be presenting. I will post his speech later today.

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Biofuels Journal Presentation from POET CEO Jeff Broin

Jeff Broin, CEO of POET, delivered the keynote address at BIOFUELS JOURNAL's 2nd annual Commercial Ethanol Technology and Research Workshop. In the speech, he focused on the potential for the ethanol industry based upon the projected availability of feedstock over the next 20 years.

You can watch video of the speech here and here. Here is the presentation:

Biofuels Journal Workshop at POET this week

POET will be a busy place this week.

At our corporate headquarters in Sioux Falls, we’ll host a great lineup of ethanol researchers, experts and industry leaders for Day One of the BIOFUELS JOURNAL 2nd Annual Commercial Ethanol Technology and Research Workshop Wednesday and Thursday.

The focus of the workshop is to outline ways to make ethanol production more efficient and profitable. Technology such as displacing natural gas for energy savings, fractionation, and adding new co-products will all be covered. Industry progress in commercializing cellulosic ethanol will also be highlighted.

Wednesday's session will take place at POET. The Thursday session will be at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center in Sioux Falls.

Keynote speakers for the event are Jeff Broin, CEO of POET, and Brian Jennings, executive vice president of the American Coalition for Ethanol. For a full list of speakers and topics, see the agenda.

POET at Fuel Ethanol Workshop

POET is sponsoring and attending the 2009 Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Denver this week. If you're at the show, stop by booth #1624 and say hi.

POET Chief Executive Office Jeff Broin will participate on a panel discussion about the future of technology in the ethanol industry during the general session on Tuesday morning. Dr. Mark Stowers, Vice President of Science & Technology for POET, will presentation Wednesday morning on the status of our cellulosic ethanol project. Click here for the conference agenda.

At a press conference on Wednesday morning, POET will talk about some recent developments in our drive to commercialize cellulosic ethanol. Check out our web site for more details.

We'll be posting pictures from the show on our Flickr page.

If you're in Sao Paulo, is it still considered work?

You'll have to ask POET Director of Corporate Affairs Doug Berven. Next week he'll be traveling to Brazil to participate in the Ethanol Summit 2009. Although he will cover several topics, he will primarily talk about the present status and the future prospects for cellulosic ethanol.

Doug will be on a panel with the President and CEO of Novozymes, the CEO of CanaVialis and Alellyx and a leader at BP Biofuels. Keynoting the conference is former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

To get a better idea of his topic, here's a presentation that Doug gave at the 2009 BIO International Convention last week:

Advances in Ethanol

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The Three Policy Pillars of Ethanol

As a new presidential administration and Congress are preparing to take office, many people ask POET what the government should do to continue to support ethanol production in America. The prior post includes a speech that Jeff Broin gave to the American Council on Renewable Energy Phase II of Renewable Energy in America Conference, addressing that exact topic.

We've received several requests for the presentation that accompanied his speech, so I thought I'd post it here:

The Three Policy Pillars of Ethanol

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POET to present at ICIS Chemical Purchasing Summit

Yours truly will be in Boston on Thursday to give a presentation on the biorefinery of the future at the ICIS Chemical Purchasing Summit. The conference starts tomorrow and includes presentations from Wells Fargo Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, Accenture and many others. According to the agenda, I'm on the stage at 1:45 p.m. If you're in the area and interested in what the ethanol biorefinery will look like ten years from now, be sure to swing by.

Video of EPA Cogeneration Award

Footage from the general session of the 2008 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop was posted on USTREAM. It was during this session that POET Biorefining - Ashton received the Combined Heat & Power Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. You can see that clip starting at 2:07.12.

Video clips hosted by Ustream

I still plan to post the ten minute clip on POET TV, but I thought I'd put this up for those of you who couldn't wait any longer.

Speaking at FEW

Two POET VPs presented at panel discussions during the final day of the 2008 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Nashville, Tenn. Jeff Lautt, Executive VP of Corporate Operations spoke about driving down production costs on the New Technologies panel.

Lautt is pictured here at the far right answering a question during the Q&A portion of the panel discussion. For more pictures from the conference, check out our Flickr page.

Also, Dr. Mark Stowers, VP of R&D, gave a presentation at the Cellulose Biorefining panel. Stowers talked about how the corn ethanol plant of today is the foundation for the biorefinery of the future. His presentation, which was reported on in Ethanol Producer Magazine, is copied below.

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In addition, an interview with POET CEO Jeff Broin on ethanol plant efficiencies was posted on Domestic Fuel.

Photos from BIO

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.