9:00am – 9:15am: Opening Remarks

Speaker: A.J. (Sandy) Marshall, Executive Director of Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC)

 

9:15am – 10:15am: Panel 1: Establishing Biomass Supply and Stewardship

Facilitator: Murray McLaughlin, Adivsor, Forest Products Innovations (FPInnovations)

• Brian Cofell, General Manager, the Cellulosic Sugar Producers Co-operative (CSPC)

• Jordan Solomon, President and Chief Executive Officer, ECOSTRAT Inc.

• Sandy Ferguson, VP Corporate Affairs and Business Development, Conifex Timber Inc.

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10:30am – 11:15am: Panel 2: Building Strong Companies and Value Chains

Facilitator: Shauna Carr, Economic Development Officer, Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership (SLEP)

• Alex Ward, President of Canada Research, Origin Materials

• Alain Bourdages, Vice-President of Innovation and Energy, Resolute Forest Products

• Hamdy Khalil, Senior Global Director for Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Woodbridge Foam Corporation

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11:15am – 12:00pm: Panel 3: Building Strong Sustainable Ecosystems

Facilitator: Austin Beggs, Chief Executive Officer and Partners, TALM Services Inc.

• Chris Walton, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Research & Innovation in the Bio-economy (CRIBE)

• Rod Badcock, Executive Director, Nova Scotia Innovation Hub

• A.J. (Sandy) Marshall, Executive Director, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC)

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1:00pm – 2:15pm: Panel 4: New Partnerships and Projects in the Bio-sector

Facilitator: Rob Nicol, Manager of Bio-industrial Process Research Centre (BPRC), Lambton College

• John Almey, Application Scientist, GreenMantra Technologies

• Kalsi Sukhdev, Project Manager, DMT Bioproducts

• Anna Maveal, Process Optimization Manager, Motif Labs

• Ian McGregor, Co-founder and CTO, Drystill Technologies Inc.

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2:30pm – 3:45 pm: Panel 5: The BioDesign Workshop

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3:45pm – 4:00pm: Closing Remarks

Mehdi Sheikhzadeh, Executive Dean, Applied Research and Innovation, Lambton College