BBEST – IEA Bioenergy 2024 Conference: the scientific program is ready
Every three years IEA Bioenergy organizes a ‘triennium’ 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 have now teamed up with BBEST – the Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference – which is held every three years in Brazil. The BBEST – IEA Bioenergy 2024 Conference will take place in São Paulo, Brazil, from October 22nd to 24th, 2024.
The BBEST – IEA Bioenergy 2024 Conference will bring 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 scientific program has now been finalized. We will have 140 speakers from 31 countries, representing academia, research institutes, industries, governments and non-government organizations.
Registration for the conference and site visit is still possible.
The conference is an in-person event. Some of the plenary sessions will be broadcasted on YouTube.
A glance on the program (all time indications are in Brasilia Time – BRT):
Tuesday 22 October
2.00 – 4.00 pm: opening ceremony, with keynote lectures from representatives of Brazil, the United States, India and the European Union,
4.00 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
| Sustainable Aviation Fuels
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Mobilizing feedstocks and setting up supply chains | Biogas
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BIOEN Biomass
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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
| The future of biorefineries | Heat and power from biomass and waste | BIOEN Mobility and end use | BIOEN Biofuel Technologies |
Thursday 24 October
8.30 – 10.00 am: parallel sessions
| Biomethane and biohydrogen | Land use for bioenergy and the bioeconomy | Progress in transport biofuels | Biomass productivity
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10.00 – 11.30 am: poster sessions & side event ‘Sustainable Carbon’ (NWO)
11.30 am – 1.00 pm: parallel sessions
| Biofuels in emerging markets
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Sustainability of bioenergy pathways | Renewable marine fuels
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Innovative technologies for the production of sustainable biogas, biomethane and biofertilizers |
2.00 – 3.30 pm: parallel sessions
| Grain biofuels and sugar-based biofuels
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Making the most of biogenic carbon – BECCUS
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Gasification and liquefaction pathways to biofuels and biochemicals | 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).
