Conference Programme
| 8.30am - 9am | Conference registration |
| Arrival tea & coffee | |
| 9am - 9.10am | Welcome: Mike Underhill, Chief Executive-Designate, EECA |
| 9.10am - 9.25am | Opening Address: Minister of Energy, Hon. David Parker |
| 9.30am - 10.15am | Key Note Speaker: Rick Zalesky, Chevron, US |
| 10.15am - 11am | Key Note Speaker: José Edison Parro, President of the Brazilian Automotive Engineering Association, Brazil |
| 11am - 11.30am | Morning Tea |
| 11.30am - 12.15pm | Government update on the biofuels sales obligation: David Crawford (Ministry of Transport) and Andrew Saunders (Ministry of Economic Development) |
| 12.15pm -1pm | Panel Discussion: Industry issues and Q & A session: Rick Zalesky; Jose Edison Parro; David Crawford; Liz Yeaman (EECA); Andrew Saunders; Perry Kerr (Motor Industry Association); Dickon Posnett (Argent Energy) and Jim Collings (Shell New Zealand |
| 1pm -2.10pm | Lunch |
| 2.10pm - 2.30pm | International Speaker: John Benemann, International Network on Biofixation of CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Microalgae |
| 2.30pm - 2.50pm | Howard Moore, LanzaFuels Ltd: Manufacturing Ethanol from Maize in New Zealand |
| 2.50pm - 3.10pm | Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy New Zealand: Cold properties of biodiesel blends - a technical overview |
| 3.10pm - 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.30pm - 3.50pm | Trevor Stuthridge, Scion Research: Emerging opportunities for lignocellulosic biofuels |
| 3.50pm - 4.10pm | Barrie Leay, Aquaflow Bionomics: Aquaflow's research and development of biodiesel from algae and its prospects and economics in New Zealand |
| 4.10pm - 4.15pm | Conference wrap up |
| 4.15pm - 5.30pm | Networking Drinks |
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