Conference program

Day 1, Wednesday, November 16, 2011

8:30 Start of Registration and Welcome Coffee

09:30 - 11:00 Welcome Remarks
Bioclusters as the center for regions development: international experience and options for Russia
Moderator: Sergey KALUZHNY, Director of Scientific and Technical Expertise Department, ROSNANO
Alex ABLAEV, President, Russian Biofuels Association
November thesis on industrial biotechnology
Alexander YANENKO, Professor, Scientific Director, Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (GosNIIGenetika), Moscow, Russia
Bioproducts from renewable raw materials: breakthrough in the world of industrial biotechnology
Vladimir BASKOV, Deputy General Director, Russian Energy Agency
Bioenergy and bioclusters
Nikolai SOROKIN, Ministry of Agriculture, Russia
Grain processing for regional development in Russian Federation
Vladimir POPOV, Technology Platform Coordinator, Director of A.N.Bach Institute of Biochemistry
Russian Technology Platform "BioTech2030", a tool for development of industrial biotechnology in Russia
Yuri SHUSHKEVICH, Head of Biotechnology Project, BASIC ELEMENT holding
Agriculture, industrial biotechnology and bioproducts from the point of view of futurologist

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee

11:30 - 13:00 Bioclusters as the center for regions development: international experience and options for Russia. Practical experience: grain processing and production of high value products: gluten, starch, bioproducts and animal feed

Dmitry ARSENEV, Director, NPK Ecology; Representative of "Russian Biotechnologies", a joint venture of EVONIK Industry and RUSBIOTECH companies
Engineering of complex projects for grain processing in Russia. Plant for grain processing and lysine production in Volgodonsk Rostov Region
Torsten SCHULZE, Senior Vice-President, Vogelbusch, Austria
Technological solutions of grain processing projects. Technologies of production ofcitric acid, bioplastics and biopharmacy
Bernd IMENKAMP, Director in Europe, Asia and Americas, VetterTek (Germany)
Use of biotechnology for prosessing of feedstocks
Eugene GRIN, Alfa Laval, Denmark
Grain processing plants with production of high added value products
Liekel FABER, Chairman Working Group, Association of European Business
Industrial biotechnologies and bioclusters
Andrey SIZOV, Executive Director, SovEcon Center
Potential of Russia in grain production and grain processing

13:00 Lunch

Press-conference

14:00 - 15:30 Biocluster Projects - high value products from starch and glucose syrups: organic acids, bioplastics and chemicals

Yuri SUTYAGINSKI, General Director, Titan-Agro, Omsk, Russia
Omsk industrial biotechnology site: realization of federal program "PARK: regional industrial-agrarian clusters"
Eugene GLADYUSHEV, General Director, AMYLCO group of companies
Case study: "Millerovo glucose-maltose company" - wet-mill plant, producing modified starches and glucose syrups. Site development through expansion of the product list and strategic partnerships
Sergei TSYGANKOV, Deputy Director for Research, Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Biofuel clusters in Ukraine: projects, products and feedstock
Vadim KHLESTKIN, PhD, "Nasha Laba" Company
Project of biopolymer industrial production based on grain processing products
Alexander KOPYLOV, Moscow State University of Design and Technology
Project of biotech site for manufacturing of sugary products from vegetable feedstock
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 Starches and gluten: market, production and application of gluten and modified starches. Wheat germ as a commodity.

Nikolai ANDREEV, corresponding member of RAAS, PhD, Director; Nikolai LUKIN, Deputy Director; State Research Institute of Starch Products
Status and prospects of grain processing for native and modified starches in Russia, sugary products in Russia
Dmitry NOVIKOV, Elomatic Oy, Finland
Nuances and potential difficulties of wheat starch and gluten production: Elomatic-Statech technology, project implementation in Russia
Nina GRADOVA, Professor, D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia
Possible industrial production of feed protein at the grain processing plants
Galina ERMOLAEVA, Professor, Director of Fermentation Institute, Moscow State University of Food Production
Application of starch syrups in food industry and biotechnology. Syrups market development

17:30 Cocktail

Day 2, Thursday, November 17, 2011

8:30 Welcome Coffee

9:30 - 11:00 Biobutanol, other alcohols and hydrocarbons produced by sugar fermentation
Vladimir ZVERLOV, Technische Universität München, Germany
Biofuels from microbes: biobutanol and other next generation fuels
Leonid KUSTOV, PhD, Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences
Bioethanol as feedstock for "green" polyethylene, rubbers and other chemical products
Ulf HENKEL, EPC Group, Germany
Engineering and building of biotechnological plants
Vladimir TIMOFEEV, Business Development Manager, Air Products LLC
Profitability improvement in biotech production thru sales and other use of carbon dioxide (СО2).

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 - 14:00 "SyngasTek-2011", seminar on syngas processing
Vladimir DEBABOV, Professor, PhD, Corresponding member of Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director, Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (GosNIIGenetika), Moscow, Russia
Syngas as a raw material for biotechnology
Victor LITVINOV, Vladimir SHIRSHKOV, Vladimir PIYALKIN, St. Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy
Current status and prospects of direct gasification of biomass
Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, Speaker TBD
Conversion of biosyngas
Alexander OKONECHNIKOV, Bioreks
Gasification of biomass and the use of syngas: a retrospective review, current status and future trends
Tatyana SOKOLOVA, Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Production of hydrogen and other chemicals by syngas fermentation

14:00 Lunch

15:00-18:00 Glucose and glucose-fructose syrups: market prospects, production and use. Maltose market after 2012. "Green" chemicals - the building blocks for chemical industry. Succinic, ascorbic, citric, lactic and other organic acids.
François ROUSSET, Market Director Sugar&Sweeteners and Natural biomolecules, NOVASEP
Chromatography, a powerful production tool in starch and starch derivatives industries
Tatiana FINOGENOVA, G.K.Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms
Production and market of citric acid
"Vyacheslav ASEYEV, Expert on polymers, Head of Scientific and Technical Group, Committee on Investments, All-Russian Non-governmental Organization for Small and Medium-Sized Business (OPORA)
Polylactid: a biodegradable polymer from vegetable feedstock. Technologies, features, application 

Ivan VAKAR, DANISCO, a Dupont division
Quality improvement of syrups produced from wheat and corn starch

18:00 End of Conference