'From Food to Fuel to Fashion' at BIO 2006 in April
16 Mar '06
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• Steen Riisgaard, president and CEO of Novozymes, will discuss the sustainable nature of industrial biotechnology and the move from a petroleum-based economy to a bio-based economy.
• Leendert Stall, CEO of DSM Pharmaceuticals, will highlight how industrial biotechnology enables the development cleaner manufacturing processes for vitamins and food additives.
• Brian Foody, president and CEO of Iogen, will discuss the development of cellulosic bioethanol through industrial biotechnology. • Jim Barber, CEO of Metabolix, will showcase the company's sustainable, bio-based, biodegradable natural plastics and chemicals that are a result of industrial biotechnology.
• Dennis McGrew, president and CEO of NatureWorks, will discuss the development of polymers and plastics from corn and other natural resources through industrial biotechnology.
The panel will be moderated by Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO's Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology Section.
BIO united the organizations' 503 companies and 18 employees under one umbrella with a representative governing board that reserved one-third of its seats for emerging companies.