Tuesday 12 March, 2024
| What Drives Commercialisation? | |
| Mary Coughlan (Master of Ceremonies) | |
| 10.00 | Welcome, Percy Foster |
| 10.05 | Minister Address: Pippa Hackett Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine |
| 10.20 | A Status of the Global Bioeconomy Juka Kantola, Founder and CEO, World Bioeconomy Forum |
| 10.40 | Driving the Scottish Bioeconomy Forward Commercially Dr Ian Archer, CEO, BioConnect Ireland |
| 10.55 | Q&A |
| 11.00 | Tea & Coffee Networking Break in Exhibition Hall |
| Best in Class | |
| 11.30 | Professor Martin Tangney OBE Founder & President Celtic Renewables Ltd Director Biofuel Research Centre, Edinburgh Napier University confirmed Multi-million-pound plant will use Celtic Renewables’ patented technology to convert 50,000 tonnes of unwanted and low-value biological material into high-value renewable chemicals, sustainable biofuel, and other commercially and environmentally valuable commodities. |
| 11.55 | Creating Ammonium Sulphate in Ireland from Industrial Liquid Waste In March 2023 Enva started construction of a new facility that will manufacture agricultural fertiliser pellets containing Ammonium Sulphate recovered by Enva from industrial liquid wastes. The €5m investment at Enva’s EPA licenced facility in Greenogue, Dublin will be the first of its kind anywhere in the world and will utilise an innovative process developed in-house by Enva. Enva have also received End-of-waste status from the Environmental Protection Agency for the ammonium sulphate. Kieran Staunton, Director, New Business Development, Enva |
| 12.15 | Q&A |
| 12.30 | Irish Bioeconomy Awards |
| 12.45 | RuralBioUp Networking Lunch |
| Session: Bioeconomy in Action in Ireland and Northern Ireland | |
| 13.45 | Nudging Apartment Tenants to Create Clean Food Waste Feedstocks for the Bioeconomy Percy Foster, Managing Director, Foster Environmental |
| 13.55 | Hemp: Barriers and Opportunities An introduction to hemp as a part of the Irish bioeconomy, the opportunities available to businesses and processors and a breakdown of the barriers to realising its potential. Freya Bartels, Hemp Cooperative Ireland |
| 14.10 | Biogas Innovations in Northern Ireland Ian Marshall, CASE, Queens University |
| 14.30 | Q&A |
| 14.45 | Moderator: Catriona Power, Circular Bioeconomy Cluster South West Discussion Panel: Bioeconomy Action on the Ground Dr. Dearbhail Ni Chualiann, Director, Údarás na Gaeltachta Prof Kevin O’Connor, BiOrbic Damien McConville, IntertradeIreland Deborah Evers, Irish Grown Wool Council |
| 15.15 | Moderator: Colin Kelliher, CEO, Ontario Genomic’s Canada Discussion Panel: Unlocking Finance Stephen McCann, SOSV John Corrigan, The Yield Lab Alan Costello, Resolve Ventures Niamh Sterling, Dog Patch Labs |
| 16.00 | ENDS |
| Tea & Coffee Networking Break in Exhibition Hall | |