Agenda

• Discover what methods for conversion: thermochemical or biochemical, or a hybrid of the two - have the greatest yields and energy extraction value for MSW
• Navigate the risks inherent in each conversion process and discover what processes have been taken to mitigate these risks
• Decipher the viability of emerging conversion technologies for MSW feedstock to biofuels - what will it take to get these technologies commercialised 

• Increase your revenue through front end recycling, sorting and separating
• Understanding the importance of front end equipment and a proper waste analysis
• Recognize the importance of selecting a “proven” turn key supplier

• Mitigate your project risks to in order to attract capital
• Address feedstock, technology, commodity and construction challenges for successful project development
• Learn exactly how to bring your MSW to biofuels plants to commercialization

Jim Macias, CEO, Fulcrum BioEnergy

• Key pitfalls revealed in the project's journey to commercialisation: gain an insight into how risks were mitigated and obstacles successfully overcome
• Learn about the strategic partnerships the company made to establish growth, finance and long term security
• What innovative finance structure was proven as a credible pathway to full scale commercialisation; how can these principals be integrated into your project

• Hear from one of the first U.S.-based companies to successfully produce biofuel from waste on an industrial scale through finished fuel production
• Learn how the company successfully addressed the scalability, energy, and non-homogeneous feedstock obstacles that have limited biomass conversion initiatives in the past
• Understand the yields and production capability of MSW on varying scales - understand what is necessary to stay competitive

• Realise how building partnerships is critical to the success of your biofuels project
• Examine how waste can be converted by integrating a proven sorting process to overcome hard-to-handle MSW - with a patented gasification technology and high value fuel production process
• Get your project off the ground and enhance the credibility of your process by developing partnerships and building relationships throughout the supply chain

• Understand how the gasification platform can enhance the resource recovery of waste to produce high value gasoline
• Gage the progress of the USA's largest waste to gasoline project based in Taunton, Massachusetts - what challenges and breakthroughs has the project faced
• Decipher the viability of gasification & learn how the company is working alongside the City of LA, The County of LA and NYC for progress

• Gain insight into role gasification has played in the biofuels industry and the progression towards complex feedstocks such as trash and plastics
• Understand the market drivers, specifically in regard to climate legislation and the energy & fuel initiatives of the Department of Defense, and their role for the biofuels industry
• Hear the company's approach to technology risk, financing, building partnership and ensuring ROI

• Tap into the high value chemical market using MSW as a proven cost competitive feedstock
• Discover how this cost competitive bio-product can help you tap into the $5 billion market - with biobutanol products such as polymers, plastics, paints, coatings and resins
• Secure an additional revenue stream to fuel production or to enhance your value of your current process by employing a demonstrated advanced fermentation technology for n-butanol from MSW

• Understand how waste conversion fits into the overall strategy of a leading Waste Management Company
• What risks concern the Waste Management Company and what do they want to see from the industry and private partner before making a strategic investment

• Learn how the company developed key strategic partnerships with municipalities to large industrial groups, for the deployment of its commercial projects
• Examine how these partners will contribute to the success of your projects from feedstock to product sales
• Strengthen your own project by identifying how strategic partners' bring validation to the business model and process

• Gain a quantifiable insight into market growth opportunities for emerging municipal solid waste to biofuels technologies worldwide
• Understand the potential yields and production capacity of this feedstock
• Factor in the feedstock availability and cost of Municipal Solid Waste on a geographical scale and determine how you can tap into this resource

• Reposition waste as a strategic community resource; learn how to extract maximum value from recyclable materials and convert them into ‘recovered resources' to displace reliance on fossil fuels
• Enhance your MSW to Biofuels process by discovering how a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) is engineered to prepare hard-to-handle feedstock
• Drive profitability and efficiency by adopting a pre-sort and pre-treatment process that will boost the energy value of your waste

• Learn how an EPC contract is vital in obtaining finance for high risk biofuels projects
• Discover how to drive the project feasibility stage by working alongside an EPC contractor to overcome roadblocks to project success
• Understand how working alongside a respected EPC will ensure your project meets critical project timeframes, in a cost effective & efficient manner

• Discover what an end-market player looks for when guaranteeing the offtake of a final biofuel product - learn how Solena enhanced the commercial viability of their platform through their private partner British Airways
• Why Jet Fuel?  How producing a high-end product for a captive audience enables a unique, financeable offtake model
• Gain an insight into the company's approach to successfully building partnerships, ensuring ROI and gaining finance

• Examine the price outlook for the value of biofuels & calculate expected returns 
• Profile key elements that lenders and investors will look for in a project finance transaction - make sure your biofuels project meets their expected criteria
• Insight into key M&A due diligence points for growth: target your fact-finding mission and determine whether the biofuels focused acquisition makes sense for your company

• Find out how to prove your commercial viability to the investment community and navigate a complex capital-raising environment
• Identify what private investors (venture funds and private equity firms) look for when making investment decisions
• Consider the capital-raising options in the public markets, including IPOs, so you can position yourself for the best chance of success

• Given the current market environment, what financing mechanisms are available to developers to get their projects successfully up and running
• Discuss the key elements necessary for a successful project financing: what risks needs to be guaranteed to secure reliable financing
• Discover what transaction structures are being used in the most successful MSW to Biofuels projects today

• Understand what initiatives are being taken on a national level  to link environmental concerns with economic development opportunities
• Understand what innovative structures are being used today by both public and private bodies to combine resources and expertise in pushing forward the delivery of  biofuels projects' - what are the commitments both parties should make
• Realise how state/local government can  maximize financing available to them for these types of projects through finance tools such as bonds, TIF, tax credits and RLFs

Richard Fleming, President of theBoard of Trustee, Climate Prosperity Project, supported by Rockefeller Brothers Fund

• Meet a municipal group who plans to select a waste to biofuels conversion technology for a  public / private partnership
• Gain a unique perspective on how municipally owned facilities can team with emerging technologies to assist them in commercialization
• What needs do municipalities have and what questions do they want clearly answered before developing a public private partnership 

Rick Fosse, Public Works Director, Iowa City Public Works Department
Charlie Reighart, Recycling & Waste Prevention Manager, Baltimore County Dept. of Public Works & Vice President, Maryland Recycling Network

• Become expert on the market drivers for biofuel through the US Renewable Fuels Standard and determine how waste to biofuels can contribute to the US mandate for biofuel production and use for auto and truck fuel supply
• Understand how the RFS2 (the Renewable Fuel Standard program) and RINs (Renewable Identification Numbers) drives the viability of your project

• Why are the largest aviation and energy/technology companies in the world are putting weight behind biofuels
• Understand how the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) works, and how this public/private partnership assists commercialization activities by facilitating collaboration amongst all players in the alternative fuels space
• Realize the potential for stakeholders who are leading the development and deployment of alternative jet fuels for commercial and military aviation