09:30 - 10:10Registration and coffee/tea

10:10 - 12:00Session 1: Aquatic Biomass - BioFuels & By-products

Introduction; Role of algae in a sustainable bioeconomy
by Dr. Happach-Kasan, FDP-Bundestagsfraktion Ernährung und Landwirtschaft ^DE

Title to be defined
Prof Min Thein, General Manager (retd), Myanmar Spirulina Factory, Sagaing  and Professor Botany, Mandalay University, Myanmar 

Airbus alternative fuels targeting carbon neutral aircraft operations
Dr. B. ( Bernd ) Kisilowski, AIRBUS Operations GmbH ^DE

Optimization of microalgae production in tropical area
Dr. Laurent Blériot, CEO Bioalgastral SAS ( BAO) La Reunion ^FR 

How to fulfill the algae promise; make a chain of industrial partners
Dr. R. ( Ronald ) Korstanje, Business Development Manager at TNO Quality of Life ^NL

12:00 - 13:30Lunch break - Information market & poster presentations

13:30 - 15:30Session : Production systems, scale and economics

Photobioreactors; Designed principals
Prof. Dr.  O. (Otto) Pulz - ESMB, IGV GmbH ^DE

Macroalgal cultivation in the North Sea: Experiences in Germany and Perspectives
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.  B. (Bela) Buck,  Head of section: Marine Aquaculture for Sustainable Fisheries (IMARE), Head of Working Group Marine Aquaculture, Maritime Technologies and ICZM ^DE

Effect of O₂:CO₂ ratio on the primary metabolism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Dr. A. (Annette) Kliphuis, DSM ^NL

Sustainable feedstock supply in production chains
Prof. dr. ir. R.H. (René) Wijffels, professor in Bioprocess Engineering, Wageningen University ^NL

15:30 - 16:00Coffee/tea break - Poster presentations & information market

16:00 - 18:00Session 3: Genetic Enginering vs. Strain Colllection

The potential of micro-algae for the production of biofuels and bio-products
Dr. S. (Stephen) Mayfield, Director, San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology and John Dove Isaacs Chair of Natural Philosophy Division of Biological Sciences University of California^USA

ONE innovative way to improve efficiently microalgae performances: Optimized Natural Evolution
Dr. B. (Bernard) Kudla, Doctor, Strategy and Innovation ECO-SOLUTION ^FR

A year of sustainable seafarming in the Netherlands
Dr. W.(Willem) A. Brandenburg & Dr. J. ( Julia ) Wald, Wageningen University, Plant Research International Agrosystems Research ^NL

Life Cycle Analysis of algal biodiesel and future prospects for algae biotechnology
Dr. L. (Laura) B. Brentner PhD, Wageningen University ^NL

18:00 - 19:30Evening programme

08:30 - 09:00Registration and coffee/tea

09:00 - 11:00Session 4: BioRefinery Concepts

Biorefinery of Microalgae: production of high value products, bulk chemicals and biofuels
Prof. M. (Michel) Eppink, Associate Professor at the Bioprocess Engineering Group at Wageningen University,  Department Head Downstream Processing Biopharmaceutical Division of Synthon BV ^NL 

Production of bio-ethanol from microalgae through cell surface engineering
Prof. Dr.A. (Akihido) Kondo, Professor Kobe University ^JP

Principles of biorefineries
Prof. Dr. B. (Birgit) Kamm, Honorary Professor Biorefinery Technology, FI Biopos e.V. and BTU Cottbus, ResearchCenter Teltow-Seehof ^DE

Move toward biorefinery and water refinery within a novel photobioreactor
Prof. M.(Amin) Hejazi, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute Iran,  Head of Microorganisms and Biosafety Department, Agriculture Biotechnology Research Institute ^IR

11:00 - 12:30Lunch break - Information market & poster presentations

12:30 - 14:30Session5: Sustainable Aquatic Cycles

Microalgae in Aquaculture
Dr. P. (Peter) Waldeck, IGV-GmbH ^DE

Integration of aquaculture and hydroponic into a (nearly) emission free aquaponic system assuring recycling of process water in urban farming
Prof. Dr. Werner Kloas, Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries Department of Inland Fisheries ^DE

Diatom production
Dr. T. (Theodor) Fahrendorf, CTO CSO NOVAGREEN ^DE 

Sustainability of Microalgae Biomass Production for Fuels and Feeds
Dr. J.R. (John) Benemann, PhD, Benemann Associates ^USA

Microalgae have hurdled the registration in the German Positive List for Straight feeding Stuffs – why?
Dr. W. (Walter) Staudacher, DLG e.V ^DE

14:30 - 15:00Coffee/tea break

15:00 - 17:00Session 6: Innovative Applications of advanced biotechnical solutions

Innovations in algal biofuels within NAABB
Dr. J. (Jose) Olivares, Executive Director of the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB), Los Alamos National Laboratory^USA

Process development for hydrogen production with Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Prof. Dr. -Ing. C. (Clemens) Posten, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Institute for Life Science Engineering Division Bioprocess Engineering ^DE

Blue is the new green
F. (Fredrika) Gullfot, PhD, Simris Alg AB ^SE

Commercializing Floating Photobioreactor Technology: cost economics, industrial scalability
M. (Miguel) Verhein, Executive Director Algasol Renewables ^ES