Registration

8:00 am

Welcome & Introduction of Keynote

USDA Biofuels Policies:  Next Steps to Market - William Hagy, Deputy Administrator of Business Programs, USDA (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)

How Do We Get There From Here?
Moderator:  Sarah Cottrell, Energy & Environmental Policy Advisor to Governor Bill Richardson

• Mainstreaming Biofuels:  A Perspective from the Aeronautics Industry - Ned Ferguson, Vice President, The Boeing Company (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Biofuels & America's Transportation Economy - Patrick Kelly, Fuel Specialist, American Petroleum Institute (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Agricultural Challenges Facing Southwestern Crops & Algal Development - Dr. Abbas Ghassemi, Director, Institute for Energy & the Environment, Executive Director, WERC
  

Break

Sustainable Algal Biofuels at Scale: A Prospectus - Dr. Al Darzins, Principal Researcher, National Bioenergy Center, NREL (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)

Federal & State Biofuel Policy: Status & Prospects for Advancement
Moderator: Tim Zenk, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Sapphire Energy 

• U.S. Congressional Policy Initiatives on Biofuels - Jim Turner, Director of Energy Policy for Association of Land Grant Colleges, former Chief Counsel, U.S. House Science Committee
• Southwestern States’ Policies Impacting Biofuels - Tom Bowles, Science Advisor to Governor Bill Richardson (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Marketplace Insight Gained from RFS Implementation - Clayton McMartin, President, Clean Fuels Clearinghouse (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)

LUNCHEON - Keynote Speaker
The Honorable Tom Udall
U.S. Senate (D-NM)

New Crops / New Challenges:  Agriculture & Biofuels
Moderator:  Dr. Robert Coppedge Economist, Emeritus Professor NMSU
Alternative Feedstocks:  A Roadmap to Market.  A Panel of experts in low-moisture, third generation crops take on the issues of growing and marketing biofuel on a commercial scale in the Southwest

• Dr. Dick Auld, Rockwell Professor, Plant & Soil Science, Texas Tech Univ (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Scott Johnson, General Manager, Sustainable Oils, LLC (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Peter Attia, Senior Director of Business Development & Corporate Strategy, Sapphire Energy (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Greg Fisher, Executive Director, Roosevelt Comm. Development Corp (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)

Break

The Top Minds Tackle a Tough Issue:  A Look At the Cutting Edge of Science
Joint Moderators:  Dr. Grant Hefflefinger, Senior Manager Molecular & Computational Biosciences & Biofuels Program Lead, Sandia National Laboratories and Dr. Jose Olivares, Deputy Division Leader, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A Panel of scientists discuss the cutting edge of Algal Research & Development

• Dr. Pete Lammers, Center for Excellence in Hazardous Materials Management (CEHMM) & NMSU Professor
• Dr. Qiang Hu, Arizona State University, invited
• Dr. Stephen Mayfield, Department of Cell Biology & The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
• Dr. Pat Unkefer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Adjourn & Reception

Todd West, Program Lead, 90 Billion Gallon Biofuel Deployment Study Sandia National Laboratories - General Motors Corporation

Future Markets / Present Challenges 
Moderator:  David Hadley, Business Development Executive, Los Alamos National Laboratories

• Jeff Grove, ASTM (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Bryan Willson, Solix Biofuels
• Mike Mendez, Sapphire Energy
• Jeff Trucksess, Vice President, Green Earth Fuels

Environmental Issues: Roadblocks or Bridges? Indirect Land Use; Applying Lifecycle Analysis; and, Climate Change Policy and the Biofuels’ Market
Moderator: Dr. Cecelia Williams, Principal Member, Sandia National Laboratories

• Dr. Ben Wu, Vice President, LiveFuels, Inc (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Dr. C. Meghan Starbuck, New Mexico State University (View PowerPoint slides - PDF)
• Ron Pate, Sandia National Laboratories
• Doug Lynn, Executive Director, Center for Excellence in Hazardous Materials Management (CEHMM)  
• Dr. George Oyler, Johns Hopkins University

Linking Policy to Action: New Mexico’s Delegation at the Policy Forefront
Moderators:  Tim Zenk, Vice President, Sapphire Energy & Ross Garrity, CEO, ARFuels, Inc.
Congressmen Martin Heinrich, (D-NM)
Congressman Harry Teague, (D-NM)
Congressman Ben R. Lujan, (D-NM), invited