BBEST & IEA Bioenergy 2024 Conference
The BBEST – IEA Bioenergy 2024 Conference takes place in São Paulo, the capital city of the São Paulo state, Brazil, from 22 to 24 October 2024.
Every three years IEA Bioenergy organizes a conference to present the main developments in the bioenergy field. After successful events in 2012 (Vienna), 2015 (Berlin), 2018 (San Francisco) and 2021 (online), we now teamed up with BBEST – the Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference – which is held every three years in Brazil.
Organized by the Bioenergy Research Program (BIOEN/FAPESP), the IEA Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Program, and the Bioenergy Society (SBE), the BBEST – IEA Bioenergy 2024 Conference brings important topics such as responsible land use and agricultural productivity; feedstock mobilization; sustainability of bioenergy pathways; biofuels for air, sea and road transport; heat and power from biomass and waste; renewable gases; the future of biorefineries; the use of biogenic carbon; and strategies for the circular carbon economy.
The conference has 140 speakers from 31 countries, representing academia, research institutes, industries, governments and non-government organizations.
A glance on the program (all time indications are in Brasilia Time – BRT):
Tuesday 22 October
2.00 – 3.00 pm: opening ceremony
3.00 – 4.30 pm: keynote lectures from representatives of Brazil, the United States, India and the European Union
5.00 – 6.00 pm: BIOEN 25-Year Celebration
Wednesday 23 October
8.30 – 10.00 am: policy session – How can policies support the deployment of sustainable bioenergy towards its most effective uses (organized by IEA Bioenergy)
10.30 – 12.00 am: policy session – Building confidence and creating synergies within the bioeconomy (organized by the CEM Biofuture Platform)
1.00 – 2.30 pm: parallel sessions
| PS1: Sustainable Aviation Fuels | PS2: Mobilizing feedstocks and setting up supply chains | PS3: Biogas | PS4: BIOEN Biomass |
2.30 – 4.00: poster sessions & side event ‘International R&I cooperation on sustainable aviation fuels’ (ICARUS workshop)
4.00 – 5.30 pm: parallel sessions
| PS5: The future of biorefineries | PS6: Heat and power from biomass and waste | PS7: BIOEN Mobility and end use | PS8: BIOEN Biofuel Technologies |
Thursday 24 October
8.30 – 10.00 am: parallel sessions
| PS9: Biomethane and biohydrogen | PS10: Land use for bioenergy and the bioeconomy | PS11: Progress in transport biofuels | PS12: Biomass productivity |
10.00 – 11.30 am: poster sessions & side event ‘Sustainable Carbon’ (NWO)
11.30 am – 1.00 pm: parallel sessions
| PS13: Biofuels in emerging markets | PS14: Sustainability of bioenergy pathways | PS15: Renewable marine fuels |
2.00 – 3.30 pm: parallel sessions
| PS17: Grain biofuels and sugar-based biofuels | PS18: Making the most of biogenic carbon – BECCUS | PS19: Gasification and liquefaction pathways to biofuels and biochemicals | PS20: BIOEN Bioproducts and biorefineries |
4.00-5.00 pm: Closing ceremony – Award sessions
Friday 25 October: study tour to the Iracema sugar mill (180 km from São Paulo).