Economics, Regulations, and New Market Opportunities

Biofuels and Chemicals

Hear from industry leaders:

Basil Karampelas, American Process Inc.

Babette Pettersen, BioAmber

Brian Conroy, BP Biofuels

Alan Shaw, Calysta Energy

Andres Villegas, Catchlight Energy

Candace S. Wheeler, General Motors

Bob Bernacki, Gevo

Vonnie Estes, GranBio Investimentos AS

Tom Buis, Growth Energy

Greg Krissek, ICM

Allen Julian, MBI International

Bruce Dale, Michigan State University

Anna Rath, NexSteppe

Simon Thorne, Platts

Roxana Ionici, Platts

Shameek Ghosh, Platts

Steve Hartig, POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels LLC

John Doyle, PRIMUS Green Energy

Kef Kasdin, Proterro, Inc.

Ronald Miller, PRISMA Advisors, LLC

Daniel Oh, Renewable Energy Group

Susan Lafferty, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Marvin Duncan, USDA

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Gain Insights into Current Issues and Outlook for the Sector:•EconomicsofBiofuels–OvercomingtheChallenges

•EvaluatingPolicyFuturesforEthanolandBiofuelsintheUS–BeyondRFSII

•BiodieselasanAdvancedBiofuel-NewOpportunities

•NaturalGas–FriendorFoeofBiofuels?

•CellulosicSugarDevelopmentatScale–SugarPathways

•ButanolasBiofuelandBiochemical

•Bio-BasedChemicals–SuccessfulBusinessModels

•BiofuelFeedstocks–NewDirectionsandNewOpportunities

•PLUS!–Over12CaseStudiesandUpdatesonAdvancedBiofuels and Chemicals

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DAY1:Thursday,September26,2013

7:45 Conference Registration and Networking Breakfast

8:45 Chair’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

Ronald H. Miller, Managing Director, Prisma Advisors, LLC

Biofuels at a Crossroads - Policy Challenges FollowingUnprededentedGrowthandSuccess

9:00 Economics of Biofuels and Policy Challenges of RFS II •Crunch times for the blendwall•How can the industry overcome the challenges of RFS II? •Dynamics of agricultural feedstocks and biofuels •Can ethanol compete with gasoline on an energy

equivalent basis?

Simon Thorne, Global Editorial Director, Agriculture & Petrochemicals, Platts

9:30 Evaluating Policy Futures for Ethanol and Biofuels in the US – Beyond RFS II•RFS II – Where is it going? Change of policy vs. status quo•Do RIN prices drive up the price of gasoline significantly?•RFS and TIER 3 standards •Outlook for the 2013 Farm Bill•Impact of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard•What it would take to roll out E85 nationally

Moderator: Susan Lafferty, Counsel, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLPTom Buis, Chief Executive Officer, Growth EnergyCandace S. Wheeler, Ph.D., GM Technical Fellow, General Motors

10:30 Biodiesel’s Role as an Advanced Biofuel•RINs, food, and THEN Fuel•New opportunities for biodiesel as an advanced biofuel

Daniel Oh, President and Chief Executive Officer, Renewable Energy Group

11:00 Networking & Refreshment Break

11:30 Sustainability for US Corn Ethanol – Longer Term Perspectives •How far can we expand ethanol production in the US

sustainably? •How can we integrate first and second generation ethanol?

What would it take? •How can we deploy logistics systems for second generation

ethanol?•What infrastructure exists that could be incorporated?

Bruce Dale, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University

Allen Julian, Chief Business Officer, MBI International

12:15 Networking Luncheon

Economic Challenges - Natural Gas andAlternativeFuels

1:30 Perspectives on Global Biofuel Markets

•Impact of US biofuels policy on ethanol and biodiesel worldwide

•The changing supply outlook and inter-relation between US and Brazil

•Trading dynamics – Options for trading RINs•Price discovery and assessment

Roxana Ionici, Senior Biofuels Analyst, PlattsShameek Ghosh, Associate Editor, Biofuels and Petrochemicals, Platts

2:15 Natural Gas – Friend or Foe of Biofuels?•Examples of companies using natural gas as a feedstock for

ethanol and chemicals•Hybrid models – Understanding models of biobased products

with natural gas as a source of upgrading or as a feedstock•Can a market-based approach succeed without government

subsidies or mandates?•Markets for natural gas based fuels•Can biofuels complete in a world of abundant natural gas

and NGLs?

Moderator: Marvin Duncan, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, USDAAlan Shaw, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Calysta EnergyJohn Doyle, Chief Infrastructure Officer, PRIMUS Green Energy

3:30 Networking & Refreshment Break

Advanced Biofuels and Chemicals - Key Developments in Technology and Cost of Production

4:00 The POET-DSM Cellulosic Ethanol Platform for Fuels and Chemicals•POET-DSM’s pioneering work in building a commercial scale

cellulosic ethanol plant •Making cellulosic ethanol competitive with grain ethanol•Building on Project LIBERTY, a project to license cellulosic

ethanol from corn crop residue

Steve Hartig, General Manager-Licensing, POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels LLC

4:30 Strategic Partnering for Feedstock, Offtake, and Conversion Technology – Case Study of Catchlight Energy •Update on Catchlight Energy, a joint venture between

Chevron and Weyerhaeuser

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•Catchlight Energy’s forest-to-pump services for cellulosic biofuels facilities

○ providing feedstock and offtake services ○ licensing conversion technology ○ supporting R&D focused on environmental sustainability

Andres Villegas, President, Catchlight Energy

5:00 Producing Advanced Biofuels and Chemicals in Brazil•Economics of cellulosic ethanol in Brazil and in world markets•Technology update – investing in and partnering with

technology companies•Building a cellulosic sugar supply chainVonnie Estes, Managing Director-North America, GranBio Investimentos AS

5:30 Advances in Production Processes – Cellulosic Sugar Production at Scale•Overview of API’s cellulosic sugar technologies- AVAP® and

Green Power+®• Demonstrations of the technologies at API’s two biorefineries Basil Karampelas, President, American Process Inc.

6:00 Wine & Cheese Networking Reception

DAY2:Friday,September27,2013

7:45 Networking Breakfast

8:45 Chair’s Introduction to Day TwoRonald H. Miller, Managing Director, Prisma Advisors, LLC

Advanced Biofuels and Chemicals - Key Developments in Technology and Cost of Production

9:00 Roadmap to the Future – Cellulosic Ethanol•Key attributes of cellulosic ethanol

•Key drivers for success

•BP’s involvement in developing and commercializing the technology

Brian Conroy, Ph.D., Head of Market Strategy and Regulatory Affairs, BP Biofuels

9:30 Butanol as a Biofuel and a Chemical•Understanding the potential and importance of butanol

•An alternative fuel to help overcome the blendwall

•Potential as a value-added feedstock for fuels

•Update on butanol development and production in the US and Brazil

Bob Bernacki, Vice President Business Development, Gevo

10:00 Biochemicals - Successful Business Models•Markets for biochemicals

•Where are the best business opportunities?

•Understanding the different economic and policy drivers in Europe and the US

Babette Pettersen, Senior Vice President, BioAmber

10:30 Networking & Refreshment Break

11:00 Continuous Photosynthetic Production of Sucrose – Breaking the Sugar Cost Barrier•Case study of Proterro, the only company that makes sucrose

instead of extracting it from crops•Lowering the cost of sugar to less than $.05 per pound,

enabling large scale economical production of biofuels and biochemicals

•Sucrose is produced from CO2, so is not subject to the volatility that can disrupt sugar crops

Kef Kasdin, Chief Executive Officer, Proterro, Inc.

11:30 Biofuel Feedstocks – New Directions and New Opportunities•Market challenges for feedstocks in US and other advanced

markets

•Feedstock market outlook in Brazil

•NexSteppe activities in Brazil focusing on sweet sorghum

•Advantages of sweet and high-biomass sorghum in the agricultural cycle of Brazil

Anna Rath, Chief Executive Officer, NexSteppe

12:00 Biofuel Feedstocks - Grain Sorghum as an Advanced Biofuel•Grain sorghum as a feedstock

•Advantages of sorghum as an energy crop

•How sorghum works as an “advanced biofuel” under the RFS

•Lessons for dedicated energy crops – Current experience and new directions

Greg Krissek, Director of Government Affairs, ICM

12:30 Close of Conference

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“The conference provided an excellent, high quality overview of key actors in the 2nd generation biofuels industry. It also provided a very good contact opportunity between biofuels technology providers and the oil industry.” — Patrik Löwnertz, Chemrec (Platts Biofuels attendee)

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