Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Stoel Rives LLP, a leading full-service law firm, is proud to have been at the forefront of the explosive growth of renewable energy in recent years. Rated one of the nation’s best renewable energy law practices by both Chambers and Partners and U.S. News & World Report, we represent major national and international energy developers and operators in wind, biofuels, ocean and tidal, geothermal and solar energy projects throughout the United States and abroad. Our services encompass all aspects of power project licensing, local permitting, financing, taxation, real estate, equipment, procurement, construction, project acquisition and project operations. Stoel Rives has advised clients in connection with more than 100 large wind energy projects that were online operational at the end of 2010, representing a total of 11,130 MW of installed capacity in the U.S. and Canada.
For more information, visit www.stoel.com.
Silver Sponsors
Applied Chemical Technology is an engineering company specializing in process and product development for the chemical, bio mass, fertilizer, food and pharmaceutical industries. We are an international company working with clients to take their ideas from the conceptual stage to commercialization. Projects range in size from a $5,000 lab project to a multi-million dollar production facility. Many of our projects are one of a kind, custom designed plants or equipment. Our services include lab and pilot plant operations, engineering, design and fabrication of complete process plants, skid-mounted plants and equipment combined with on-site project management during installation and start-up. All work is conducted under confidentiality agreement. ACT holds no patents and all rights to technology and products are assigned to the client by ACT.
For more information, visit appliedchemical.com/.
Myriant is a science and technology driven company creating a new paradigm in specialty
chemicals manufacturing. Focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary
biocatalyst technology for conversion of renewable feedstocks into high value biobased
chemicals, Myriant is a leader in the implementation of an integrated biorefinery approach for
production of chemicals and biofuels. For more information, visit www.myriant.com
For more information, visit www.myriant.com/.
Sriya Innovations is a Kleiner Perkins funded company with technology that can revolutionize the biomass to biochemicals and biofuels industry. The key to Sriya’s technology is the very fast deconstruction and hydrolysis of biomass into its component streams of xylose, glucose and lignin. Due to the rapid reactions, with the entire process taking less than 2 minutes, and the absence of any consumables like enzymes, Sriya has the scalable platform to produce the lowest cost cellulosic sugars from both a capital and operating expense perspective. Additionally, Sriya has technologies to further convert those sugars into a variety of biochemicals including ethylene glycol and furfural, food products including various polyols and biofuels including cellulosic ethanol.
For more information, visit www.sriyanova.com/ .
Bronze Sponsors
Tiber Creek Partners provides subject matter expertise, including scientific and business counseling, to biotechnology companies that seek to use non-dilutive capital from the U.S. Government, foreign governments, and non-governmental organizations as part of their commercialization objectives. Tiber Creek Partner offers a full understanding of funding and procurement opportunities and helps communication the advantages and the state of development of its clients' technology so that it resonates most effectively with funding and purchasing decision-makers. This approach seeks to maximize success and reduce risk, while ensuring access to novel sources of funding.
For more information, visit www.tibercreekpartners.com/.
Verdezyne is pioneering green chemistry, leading the shift from a petroleum-based to a biobased economy. We are fusing chemistry and biology to achieve breakthroughs in manufacturing everyday products from renewable resources. By advancing green chemistry, Verdezyne is developing unique fermentation processes for producing renewable fuels and chemicals that reduce our dependency on petroleum and minimize our environmental footprint. Fueled by consumer demand for sustainable products, the market for green chemistry is emerging rapidly and traditional producers are embracing the need.
For more information, visit www.verdezyne.com.
Luncheon Sponsors
Genencor®, a division of Danisco A/S, is a world leading enzyme supplier and a pioneer in enzyme innovation and metabolic pathway engineering.
Genencor improves processes and product performance, and creates new products, for a spectrum of industries. The sectors we serve range from biofuels and laundry detergents to animal nutrition and food. Genencor was founded in 1982, and today is part of the large Danisco A/S global group, with a sales and distribution network that spans more than 40 countries. Worldwide, the division employs about 1500 people, a dedicated team of world-class experts driving Genencor to become the growth engine in industrial biotech.
For more information, visit www.genencor.com/bioisoprene.
Competitive Energy Insight (CEI), established in 1997, has developed a suite of mature and highly software products for the analysis of investments in renewable energy applications including biofuels and bio chemicals projects, and all areas of power. We both license these models for your direct use, and use them broadly in our project development consulting practice serving as a bench to support your in-house team. All of the EconExpert tools are Excel-based, making them completely customizable, auditable and adding all of the features of Excel to EconExpert’s powerful features and architecture. Importantly, the EconExpert Models are far more than spreadsheets. Behind each model is powerful Visual Basic programming that provides highly advanced menu/wizard driven functionality taking Excel and your analysis capability to a completely new level. Standardized, accurate and applicable from simple screening to bank quality/investment grade analysis of virtually any project investment, acquisition or divestiture, EconExpert has been applied to literally billions of dollars of energy project investments including on-site generation applications, renewable energy projects and large multi-hundred million dollar central power station investments.
For more information, visit www.CEInsight.com.
Supporting Sponsors
Each day, the 28,000 people of Archer Daniels Midland Company transform crops such as corn, oilseeds, wheat and cocoa into food ingredients, animal feeds, and agriculturally derived fuels and chemicals. With crop sourcing, transportation, storage and processing assets in more than 60 countries, ADM connects farmers’ crops with the needs of the global marketplace.
For more information, visit www.adm.com.
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products and fine chemicals to crude oil and natural gas. As a reliable partner to virtually all industries, BASF’s intelligent system solutions and high-value products help its customers to be more successful. BASF develops new technologies and uses them to open up additional market opportunities. It combines economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility, thus contributing to a better future. BASF has over 95,000 employees and posted sales of more than EUR 62.3 billion (approximately USD 80 billion) in 2008.
For more information, visit www.basf.com.
Dow is a diversified chemical company that combines the power of science and technology with the “Human Element” to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. The Company delivers a broad range of products and services to customers in approximately 160 countries, connecting chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help provide everything from fresh water, food and pharmaceuticals to paints, packaging and personal care products. In 2008, Dow had annual sales of $57.4 billion and employed approximately 46,000 people worldwide. The Company has 150 manufacturing sites in 35 countries and produces approximately 3,300 products. On April 1, 2009, Dow acquired Rohm and Haas Company, a global specialty materials company with sales of $10 billion in 2008, 98 manufacturing sites in 30 countries and approximately 15,000 employees worldwide. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted.
For more information, visit www.dow.com.
MWV is how brands take shape. We’re the global leader in end-to-end packaging solutions spanning Personal & Beauty Care, Healthcare, Food, Beverage, Food Service, Tobacco, Home & Garden, and Media & Entertainment and more. MWV has 900,000 acres of forest under sustainable management and a strong presence in specialty chemicals derived from trees. We’re committed to social responsibility and sustainability in our products, and in our approach. We improve air quality and road construction through our innovative Specialty Chemicals division and our Community Development & Land Management group helps local communities plan for a sustainable future.
For more information, visit www.mwv.com/.
Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries we create tomorrow’s industrial biosolutions, improving our customers' business, and the use of our planet's resources.
Novozymes uses biotechnology and enzymes to improve the use of resources in more than 40 industries around the world, including biofuel. Novozymes offers the leading technology platform for bioethanol production; within the biofuel industry, Novozymes' enzyme technology helps unlock the fuel potential of biomass.
In 2010 our enzymes will make it possible to produce cellulosic bioethanol by converting waste and agricultural residues into energy.
For more information, visit www.bioenergy.novozymes.com.
From a modest beginning, P&G has grown into the world's largest consumer goods products company that today markets brands in more than 180 countries, with on-the-ground operations in more than 80 countries. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, P&G had worldwide sales of more than $83 billion.
The company's strengths lie in its commitment to:
- Provide products of superior quality and value that improve the lives of the worlds consumers.
- Be a world leader in relevant scientific research and technology.
- Maintain economic success based on P&G's experience in managing the business with excellence and training, and developing people to build it.
Innovative research and development at P&G provides the superior products on which its commercial success is based. The company's total expenditures for research and development for fiscal 2007/2008 was more than $2 billion. P&G and its subsidiaries now have 28 innovation centers in 10 countries, on four continents. P&G's corporate tradition is rooted in the principles of personal integrity, doing what is right for the long-term, respect for the individual, and being the best at what it does.
For more information, visit www.pg.com.
Qteros is a venture-backed company committed to delivering innovative process technologies for clean transportation fuels that reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a price competitive with gasoline. Qteros is scaling up a unique microbial solution for converting non-food plants and waste into clean transportation energy. The Qteros scientists and business team are dedicated to producing liquid fuels to achieve a sustainable solution to the world's growing energy needs.
For more information, visit www.qteros.com.
Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil and bioproducts company and a leader in algal biotechnology. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Solazyme’s unique technology allows algae to produce oil and biomaterials in standard fermentation facilities quickly, efficiently and at large scale. These oils and biomaterials are tailored not only for biofuel production, but also as replacements for fossil petroleum and plant oils in a diverse range of products running from clean fuels and chemicals to cosmetics and foods. Solazyme’s oils and fuels provide compelling solutions to increasingly complex issues of fuel scarcity, energy security and environmental impact while fitting cleanly into the pre-existing multi-trillion dollar fuel infrastructure. Solazyme’s investors among others include Braemar Energy Ventures, Harris & Harris Group, Lightspeed VenturePartners, The Roda Group, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
For more information, visit www.solazyme.com/.