Ethanol producers enjoy great variety in their options for enzymes and yeast choices and greater still are the options available to producers to expand their operations via an altogether new production process. The challenge for producers now lies in making informed decisions about which option to choose? This panel narrows its scope to fermentation and looks to offer attendees a way forward to decisions based on well-considered plant trials paired with an informed understanding of how lab scale results do and don’t translate once deployed at full operational scale.

• Rachel Murdy, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  How to Implement an Effective Plant Trial
• Tony Schindler, North America Application Development Leader, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
  Harvesting the Potential of Virtual Plant Technology in the Bioethanol Industry
• Jenny Forbes, Product Manager of Yeast & Antimicrobials, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Fermentation Scale Down: Important Considerations for Lab Scale Evaluations
• Yanhong Zhang, Director of Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Representative Sampling for Corn to Ethanol Production

Best-in-class plant management teams know that investments in staff development compound and yield real dividends quarter after quarter. This panel will feature presentations on the latest platforms available to producers to deliver valuable training to their teams, but will take the conversation a step further by exploring the role that digital badges are beginning to play in helping management teams and direct supervisors more quickly identify areas of proficiency and areas in need of further training. Finally, the conversation will explore the role that quality, job-specific skills training can play in plant retention efforts.

• Rick Cowman, President, Welding Training Solutions Inc.
  Reducing Turnover through Value-Added Training
• Kerry Greathouse, Associate Scientist, Technical Service, Biofuel, Novozymes
  Training the Ethanol Industry Workforce
• Kevin Tucker, Assistant Professor- Chemistry, Faculty Fellow NCERC, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
  Digital Badges for the Bioeconomy Workforce

Increased revenues from corn oil extraction have led to increased research efforts in pathways to more efficient extraction approaches within the ethanol production process. This panel will look closely at the state of play within corn oil extraction, featuring both a comprehensive overview at the capture rates the industry is achieving as well as a deep dive into some emerging technologies promising even greater oil capture ratios. The panel will be anchored by a presentation making an argument for greater accuracy in captured oil measurement and a platform from which that can be accomplished.

• Jennifer Aurandt, Director of Technical Services, Trucent (formerly Valicor Inc.)
  Bringing Science to Corn Oil Extraction
• Chris Calvey, Senior Scientist, Xylome Corporation
  Increasing Oil Production at Ethanol Plants through Bioconversion of Stillage
• Tim Clark, Vice President - Technology and Execution, Industrial Solutions, Veolia Water Technologies
  Improving Efficiencies in Evaporators/Syrup Line Flows

With the specter of RFS or RIN reform once again dominating industry conversations, the interest in establishing and growing foreign markets for ethanol has never been higher. Industry trade groups and our commodity partners are all hard at work to blaze a trail for ethanol sales in markets around the world. The dynamics of growing demand for ethanol in markets like Mexico, India and China all unfold against a backdrop of an administration keen on recalibrating the country’s trade relationships. This panel will offer attendees updates on the most promising near term opportunities for increased foreign sales.

• Jim Miller, President, Agriculture and Biofuel Policy Consulting LLC
  Ethanol Trade: Gaining a Foothold in Overseas Markets
• Eric Brandt, Renewable Fuels Marketer, CHS Inc.
  Going Global: Growing the International Market for Ethanol
• Monty McCoy, Director of Technology, Process Technologies, U.S. Water
  Understanding the Export Market
• Josh Pedrick, Ethanol Editor, Platts
  Mexico's Developing Ethanol Market

To fully fulfill the promise of the Renewable Fuel Standard, another 20 billion gallons of renewable biofuel production capacity will have to be developed, funded and come online. Without policy certainty this task begins to look Herculean. This panel, populated with executives from next generation producers paired with leadership from the trade groups that represent them, will explore where the advanced biofuels sector is politically, how its value proposition resonates with lawmakers now and which specific policy outcomes are vital to continued sector growth.

• Erick Lutt, Director of Policy, Industrial & Environmental Section, Biotechnology Innovation Organization
  The Importance of Federal Policy to Drive Investment and Development of Advanced Biofuels
• Graham Noyes, Managing Attorney, Noyes Law Corporation
  How California's Carbon Policies Increasingly Drive Advanced Biofuels Demand
• Sarah Caswell, Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Edeniq
  Strong and Stable Policies Help Drive Cellulosic Biofuel Investment and Growth: A Company’s Perspective
• Casey Wasser, Director of Policy, Missouri Soybean Association/Missouri Biodiesel Coalition
  Missouri Biodiesel Coalition Advocacy

Ethanol producers know that plant yield is tightly correlated to the environment they are able to create for their yeast populations. The elimination of inhibitors and the introduction of vital macronutrients are priority one for production teams and decades of experience have further refined yeast health programs across the industry. Still, production methodologies are changing and with it the environment yeast populations are expected to propagate within. This panel features the best thinking in yeast health for the operating conditions of today’s production fleet.

• Dennis Bayrock, R& D Director, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Micronutrients and Yeast Nutrition: High (excess) and Low (limiting) Concentrations Inhibit Yeast Performance
• Patrick Mandulak, Scientist, Novozymes
  Maximizing Yeast Performance by Using a Liquefaction Protease
• Matt Hawkins, Application & Field Scientist, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Application and Value of Supplemental Nutrition for Superior Yeast Performance in Fuel Ethanol Fermentations of Corn Mash

The decision to go-forward with a multi-million dollar plant expansion project can occur only after satisfying a number of important production, finance, and permitting stakeholders. This panel brings together experts from these important disciplines to help plant management teams devise a decision making process designed to illuminate any potential shortcomings in a project under consideration. Using case studies to illustrate their point, these presenters will help attendees identify the pitfalls that without sound analysis could escape their attention and prove costly down the road.

• Tiffany Trottman, Business Development Manager, Nelson Engineering Inc.
  Case Study: Assessing Plant Expansions and Optimization using Aspen Process Modeling
• Ryan Brock, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Plant Expansions: Pitfalls and Missteps in Internal Industry Growth
• Jessica Karras-Bailey, Principal, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  Plant Expansions and Environmental Permitting Risks
• Brittany Ferguson, Senior Associate, K-Coe Isom
  The Changing Model of Evaluating Capital Expenditures and Cash Flow

The days of seeing ethanol plants as a producer of ethanol and a singular coproduct are over. While distillers’ grains continue to offer financial rewards, the industry’s most progressive plants are pushing towards feed co-product streams with even greater value than their current DDGS offering. This panel looks well beyond the co-product offering so common within the industry now and towards a co-product stream that captures and adds value through densification, the isolation of protein or yeasts, or potentially the production of altogether new products like flavorings and fragrances.

• Bill McMeans, Strategic Sales, Rayeman Elements Inc.
  Dramatically Increased DDGS Value through Densification
• Ryan Mass, Feed Business Manager, ICM Inc.
  New High Value Product Diversification
• John Kwik, President, Fluid Quip Process Technologies LLC
  MSC Plus: 3 Feed Product Streams
• Nick Lurty, Principal Consultant, n2 Solutions
  Novel Deployment of Modern Portfolio Theory to Achieve Sustainability for Dry-Grind Ethanol Producers

While the x’s and o’s of fuel quality specifications, how they are determined and how they are updated may elude the majority of the ethanol industry’s rank and file, they have a very real impact on efforts to establish new markets and grow existing ones. This panel will feature the industry professionals sitting at the fuel specification table discussing what they see as a crucial piece of the sector’s growth strategy. Presenters will make a compelling case that without continued vigilance and action, fuel specifications could become an unwelcome bottleneck in key markets.

• Chuck Corr, Manager, Biofuels Technical Service, ADM
  ASTM International Updates
• Kristi Plack, Chief Science Officer, Soliton Laboratories
  ASTM Initiative to Draft a New Standard for Determination of the Converted Fraction of Starch and Fiber
• Kristy Moore, Principal, KMoore Consulting
  International Fuel Specifications, Ethanol Export Market Development
• Chris Bliley, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Growth Energy
  Regulatory Compliance: Challenges and Opportunities for Biofuels
• Mark DeVries, Vice President Business Development, POET
  High Octane Fuel Initiatives

While there is nearly unanimous consent within the industry that corn fiber represents the corn ethanol industry’s most promising pathway to cellulosic gallons, opinions vary on the best process pathway available to producers. This panel will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the corn fiber technologies under development, the arguments for their varied approaches and the commercialization and deployment progress each has achieved in the last year.

• Michael Franko, Vice President, Fluid Quip Process Technologies LLC
  Corn Fiber Streams for Cellulosic Ethanol
• Miloud Araba, Head, Technical Services, Enogen, Syngenta
  Corn Kernel Fiber Conversion through Cellerate® Process Technology
• Mark Yancey, Chief Technology Officer, D3MAX
  Increase Your Grind and Produce Cellulosic Ethanol from Corn Kernel Fiber with D3MAX
• Jim Kacmar, Director of Engineering & Operations, Edeniq Inc.
  Cellulosic Ethanol: An Innovative Approach to Your Plant’s Profitability
• Brandon Emme, Principal Scientist, ICM Inc.
  Commercial Pathway to High D3 Volumes from Corn Kernel Fiber

As the industry matures and plant teams work to maximize the opportunity presented by their inbound corn streams, more and more is being asked of yeast populations. New carbohydrates are being targeted for conversion, higher tolerance to common yeast stressors is desired and greater flexibility for changing production environments are all on producer wish lists. This panel will provide attendees with an opportunity to review the industry’s best yeast strain options for these desired capabilities.

• Matthew Richards, Director, Application Technology, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Biotech Yeast: A Decade of Innovation to Assist Producers
• Eric Sumner, New Business Development Manager, DSM
  Very Low Glycerol Producing Yeast Delivers Significant Ethanol Yield Increase and Higher Tolerance
• Caroline Peres, Principal Scientist, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
  Developments in Yeasts for the Dry Grind Ethanol Industry
• Dale Earls, Staff Scientist, Technical Service, Biofuel, Novozymes
  Novel Yeast Strains Reset Performance Expectations

The first in a two-part series focusing on the role of plant data in operational decision making will seek to establish the challenge of distilling enormous troves of data into more digestible, real-time guidance. These presentations will make clear that even greater production efficiencies are within most producers’ reach if they can commit to sharpening the focus of their data collection and analysis programs.

• Jo Ordonez, Applications Project Manager, Cooling Water, Solenis LLC
  The Use of Performance Based Monitoring and Control to Optimize Water, Chemical and Energy Consumption in an Ethanol Plant’s Cooling Systems
• Cam Fowler, Senior Director Technical Service and Marketing, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Data Drives Incremental Gains
• Craig Truempi, Director of lloT Reliability, ATEK Technologies
  Industrial IoT to Drive Production Efficiency, Innovation, Maintenance and Productivity
• Elizabeth Waguespack, Scientist, Technical Service, Biofuel, Novozymes
  Automated Reporting to Harness the Power of Data

Plant financial teams are charged with weaving a tapestry of profitability out of a tangle of commodities that often act independently of one another. While strong ethanol yield numbers can go a long way in delivering strong returns, without a well-considered margin maintenance strategy strong production numbers aren’t certain to deliver desired levels of profitability. This panel not only promises a discussion about leading risk management strategies, but will also feature a discussion about the tools available to confidently understand the impact of those strategies on plant ledgers.

• Chip Whalen, Vice President of Education & Research, Commodity & Ingredient Hedging
  Decision Tools for Evaluating Forward Ethanol Margins
• Justin Mentele, Principal, Manufacturing & Biofuels Group, K-Coe Isom
  Taking Advantage of Tight Margins
• Ken Graeber, President & CEO, Encore Energy Services Inc.
  Preventing a Budget Blowout: Natural Gas Market Dynamics and Risk Management Strategies for Natural Gas Procurement

The growth in global demand for protein continues to track upward with a growing population and many professionals believe the ethanol industry is sitting on vast inventories of undervalued protein. Presenters in this panel will carry that argument forward and make the case for ethanol management teams to look hard at investments that promise to unlock greater opportunities in this promising protein market. Discussions will look at process approaches available to isolate these protein streams and the specific downstream markets anxious to welcome a new protein source to their feed marketplace.

• Bryan Tracy, CEO & Cofounder, White Dog Labs Inc.
  Anaerobic Fermentation of Starch or Dry-Grind Coproducts into High-Value Single-Cell-Protein
• Michael Franko, Vice President, Fluid Quip Process Technologies LLC
  Global Protein Demand Fulfilled by Ethanol
• Russell Heissner, SVP Business Development & Operations, KnipBio
  A Proteinplus Platform Biotechnology to Meet the Needs of Aquaculture
• Joe Fitzgerald, Founder, Shockwave LLC
  A New, Dry-Fractionation Technology for the Ethanol Industry

While corn oil streams generate welcome revenue for ethanol producers who have invested in extraction, presenters in this panel will ask producers to imagine a corn oil program delivering even greater value via on-site conversion to biodiesel. This panel will feature technologies available today that once deployed brings the added value of converted corn oil back to ethanol plant balance sheets. Presenters will make the economic case that the further refining of corn oil is an opportunity not for some other marketplace actor, but for the ethanol plant itself.

• Mark Fashian, Director, Mcgyan Biodiesel LLC
  High Yield, Bolt-On Biodiesel Production from Distiller's Corn Oil (DCO) Using the Continuous Mcgyan® Process
• Dean Camper, Chief Technology Officer, Saola Energy LLC
  Diversifying Ethanol Plant Product Streams by Converting Corn Oil to Renewable Diesel
• James Bleyer, Director of Technology Development, Trucent (formerly Valicor Inc.)
  Micro-X: Diversifying Ethanol into the Diesel Market with D7 RINS
• Rahul Bobbili, President & Chief Technology Officer, RPS-Renewable Process Solutions
  Introduction to HYBRID.T Biodiesel Production Technology: Efficient, Economical & Robust

This second part of a two-panel discussion on the capture and utilization of plant data looks both at methods for developing supreme confidence in the quality of inbound data and the ultimate goal of using that data to replicate the plant yields achieved by a production team’s best operator. Presentations promise to make a strong economic case for investments in data capture and analysis with bottom line improvements that approach $1 million for an average sized plant.

• Jin Lou, Sr. Technical Engineer, Honeywell Process Solutions
  Achieving Operational Excellence Using Advanced Multi-Variable Predictive Process Control
• Derek Payne, Senior Research Associate, Novozymes
  Continuous Improvement: Measurement System Analysis
• Yanhong Zhang, Director of Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Identification and Quantitation of Nutritional Compounds
• Maged Sharaf, Director of Scientific Business Development, Camag Scientific Inc.
  HPTLC Separation and Quantification of Carbohydrates in Ethanol-Fermentation Monitoring Samples

The ethanol industry is well seasoned in the ongoing art of controlling bacterial infections at ethanol plants, but the science of the practice continues to evolve. This panel will provide attendees with the latest thinking in microbial control, what makes them resistant to antimicrobials and the growing understanding of how biofilms form and contribute to the antibiotic resistance of some bacterial populations. The impact of unchecked biofilm on plant yields and operational uptime will be articulated so attendees can better understand the economic argument for their aggressive control.

• Andrew Ledlie, North America Marketing Manager, Solenis LLC
  Capturing Significant Profit Dollars through Biolfim Control and Cooling Capacity Improvements
• Wayne Mattsfield, Staff Scientist, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Biofilms 2: Resistance or Persistence?
• Stephanie Gleason, Technical Service Leader, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
  Microbial Metabolites: The Good, the Bad, and the Aromatic
• Carlie LaTourell, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Bacterial Contamination: Causes, Control, and Cost

As promised the Trump administration wasted little time in moving on comprehensive tax reform and a thorough understanding of what they mean for ethanol plants and their investors is critical for plant financial teams. Speakers will outline in detail the opportunities to drive down the overall tax liability for ethanol plants as well as the near term saving opportunities for individual investors. Populated with the industry’s most recognized names in accounting and tax guidance, the discussion promises attendees an opportunity to ensure that their tax strategy maximizes the opportunities that shook out in the first real tax reform package in decades.

• Bradley Pederson, Partner, Christianson PLLP
  Talking Tax Change: Need-to-Know Implications for Biofuels Producers and Investors
• Donna Funk, Principal, K-Coe Isom
  Tax Reform One Year Later

While there is broad agreement that corn quality impacts both ethanol yield and co-product quality, the extent of the impact is less well-understood. The presentations in this panel will allow attendees to catch up on the latest thinking about the impact of corn quality on the industry generally and individual plants specifically. Informed by research from industry trade groups, agricultural research universities and industry benchmarking analysis this panel will assert that while producers must work with the corn available to them, they can have a better understanding of what they might expect operationally from feedstock with dynamic quality profiles.

• Charles Hurburgh, Jr., Professor, Iowa State University Iowa Grain Quality Initiative
  Long Term Corn Quality Patterns and Their Annual Impacts on Ethanol Yields
• Connie Lindstrom, Senior Biofuels Analyst, Christianson PLLP
  Quality Feedstock and Its Impact on Plant Revenue
• Shon Van Hulzen, Director of Quality Control, POET
  Mycotoxins in DDGS: An Ethanol Industry Initiative to Improve the Integrity of Mycotoxin Results on DDGS

The production of next generation biofuels will likely rely on the same microorganisms upon which the first generation of production was built; enzymes and yeasts. The difference of course is in the sophistication of these enzyme and yeast strains and their ability to unlock and eventually ferment more complex carbohydrate chains than their first generation counterparts. This panel will provide attendees with an opportunity to review the leading next-gen enzyme and yeast developments aimed at speeding next gen commercialization efforts.

• Miloud Araba, Head, Technical Services, Enogen, Syngenta
  Corn Farmers Produce Enzymes for the Fuel Ethanol Industry
• Mickel Jansen, Senior Scientist, DSM
  1.5G Dynamic Duo: High Performing Enzyme and C5 Yeast
• Hamid Rismani Yazdi, Senior Scientist, Novozymes
  Advanced Yeast and Customized Enzymes for Increased Reliability and Production
• David Schwalje, Business Development Manager, Axens North America
  Commercialization of Second Generation Biofuels: Ethanol and Renewable Middle Distillates

This panel discussion begins with a broad overview of the most common NOVs (Notice of Violation) experienced by ethanol producers, and then narrows its focus to the control of air emissions. Underpinning any good air emissions control program is a robust maintenance program designed to ensure that air pollution control assets are performing at their maximum efficacy. Special emphasis will be given to stack testing methodologies with an eye on streamlining a regulatory requirement that can trip up even the most experienced compliance professionals.

• Jessica Karras-Bailey, Principal, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  EPA’s Top Violations, How These Violations Relate to an Ethanol Plant, and What Your Plant Can Do to Minimize Exposure
• Greg Thompson, Key Account Manager, Durr Systems Inc.
  How to Improve a RTO Air Pollution Control System’s Reliability and Operational Efficiency
• Jason Linkimer, Senior Environmental Scientist, Barr Engineering
  Environmental/Regulatory Compliance: Optimizing Your Stack Testing Experience
• Jordan Laster, Vice President Analytical Services, Alliance Source Testing
  Effective Planning for Efficient Ethanol Stack Tests

Without a motivated and skilled team running it, an ethanol plant will not deliver the kind of financial returns its owners and investors expect. This panel will explore strategies to inspire plant teams to new levels of commitment and proficiency, offering specific guidance on achieving a workplace culture that can seem elusive. Beginning with a discussion about accountability and trust, panelists will offer attendees a road map for developing a plant team unified in its mission and well positioned to achieve ambitious operational and financial goals.

• Kristie Haefner, Firm Administrator, Christianson PLLP
  Building an Organization of “Sticky” Employees
• Ron Faciane, Director, GP Strategies Corporation
  How Developing Workforce Skills Impacts Process Efficiency, Reliability, and Regulatory Compliance
• Danielle McCormick, Talent Advisor, K-Coe Isom/K-Coe People
  Tools and Techniques for Creating a High Performance Culture

Beginning in September of 2017 ethanol producers fell under the purview of the Food Safety Modernization Act and this September producers will be expected to ramp up and deploy preventative controls at their facilities. This panel will walk attendees through the looming requirements and clearly outline the steps they’ll have to take to comply. A presentation from a leading cleaning and sanitizing products provider will put attendees at ease if they have questions about residue migration and FSMA compliance.

• Tony Rizzardi, Senior Regulatory Specialist, Ecolab Inc.
  FSMA Cleaning and Sanitizing Products Maintaining Compliance
• Jessica Buckley, Senior Environmental Scientist, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  Are You Ready for Some FSMA? Preparing for Inspections and Implementing Compliance Plans
• Brian Schasel, Environmental/Technical Manager, Big River Resources LLC
  FSMA Compliance: a Producer's Perspective

In 2017 the nation-wide ethanol average inclusion rate eclipsed 10%, a major milestone for an industry eyeing even greater market share in the liquid fuel marketplace. The road to higher inclusion rates is beset with a number of policy and regulatory entanglements however, and the industry is hard at work to overcome each of them in turn. This panel will lay out the impediments to increased market access for mid and high level ethanol blends and the market opportunity that awaits if they can be overcome.

• John Fuher, VP Government Affairs, Growth Energy
  Fixing RVP: A Guide to Higher Blends
• Dean Drake, Manager, Transportation and Regulation Team, Defour Group LLC
  The Economics of Mid-Level Ethanol Blend Fuels
• Chris Bliley, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Growth Energy
  Driving Demand: E15 and Moving toward High Octane, Midlevel Blends

One of the most promising aspects of next generation biofuel production is the promise of decoupling biofuel production from a short list of grain inputs and significantly growing the roster of feedstocks available for conversion. While first generation biofuels added value to two main grain inputs, next generation biofuel production holds promise for a number of sectors with a glut of low, or negative value material. Two presentations will remind attendees that opportunity lies wherever sugars can be found while another looks closely at the state of municipal waste streams as a viable input for biofuel and biochemical production.

• David McConnell, Vice President Business Development North America, Enerkem Inc.
  How Waste-to-Biofuels Technology Plays a Vital Role in the Transition toward Sustainable Mobility and the Case of Enerkem
• Douglas Rivers, Independent Contractor/Consultant, Sunflwr Inc.
  Clean Sugars: What are They and What Do They Mean to Your Ethanol Plant?
• David Ripplinger, Extension Economist, North Dakota State University Extension
  Northern Plains Energy Beet Ethanol Update
• Steve Hartig, Vice President Technology Development, ICM Inc.
  Innovations in Ethanol Production

The use and treatment of water at ethanol plants is an energy and hardware intensive process, introducing the potential for inefficiencies and increased production costs across the production platform. This panel will offer a comprehensive overview of the lifecycle of water within an ethanol plant, introducing energy saving approaches in steam production, dehydration and cooling. Water discharge will also be given attention and an argument for a migration to Zero Liquid Discharge operating platform will be made.

• Jared Galligan, Director of Capital Projects, U.S. Water
  Industry Update: Water Re-Use and Reduction
• Jason Van't Hul, Director of Marketing Biofuels Industry Technical Consultant, Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company
  Thin Stillage Clarification
• Shrikant Rathi, General Manager, Praj Industries Limited
  Simultaneous Expansion and Energy Reduction of Your Ethanol Plant

As the ethanol industry reaches maturity individual plants are increasingly finding themselves at a financial crossroads. Some early investors may be looking to cash out of their now decade old investment while others are clearly interested in doubling down and expanding on their initial investment. Satisfying the aspirations of a diverse investor roster requires significant financial dexterity and thoughtful planning. This panel will help management teams satisfy their investors whether those investors are ready to exit now, or are hungry for a new era of investment and returns.

• Donna Funk, Principal, K-Coe Isom
  Distributions, Stock Redemption, Liquidity: What do Shareholders Want?
• Scott McDermott, Partner, Ascendant Partners Inc.
  Financial Tools for Next Level Business Success in Ethanol
• Connie Lindstrom, Senior Biofuels Analyst, Christianson PLLP
  Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Value of Ethanol Biorefineries

Producers already engaged in the Low Carbon Fuel Market and producers weighing the benefits and pursuing pathways will each find value in the presentations within this panel. The panel features discussions about the program and the market opportunity it can create for producers as well the planned changes to the program scheduled for near term implementation including a third-party verification step that producers engaged in the market will need to comply with as early as next year.

• Jessica Buckley, Senior Environmental Scientist, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  What's New in LCFS: Looking Toward the Future of the Pacific Coast’s Low Carbon Fuel Programs
• Kari Buttenhoff, Manager, Christianson PLLP
  Preparing for LCFS Verifications
• Ashley Player, Senior Manager, Weaver
  Diversifying Credit Generation - D3, D4, D5, and LCFS
• Jim Ramm, Director of Engineering, EcoEngineers
  Low Carbon Intensity for Market Preference and Profitability Protection