Events

BANZ & other bio-focused events

Event title:	BANZ - Annual General Meeting
Time and Date:	1.30pm on 29th November 2011
Venue:	Intercontinental Hotel, Wellington
Details	If you would like to stand for election or re-election to the Board please advise Brian Cox. Attendance to the AGM will also be available via GoToMeeting. If you wish to attend via GoToMeeting please contact Connie Crookshanks to receive an invitation to the meeting.
Agenda & Registration:	Agenda here Please register your attendance here

Event title:	2nd Science Symposium on Next Generation Liquid Biofuels and Co-Products
Date:	28th to 29th November 2011
Venue:	Intercontinental Hotel, Wellington
Details:	This year's Symposium will be hosted by the Advanced Biofuels Research Network (ABRN). The Advanced Biofuels Research Network was formed out of the 1st Symposium and aims to promote better coordination and collaboration across biofuels research in New Zealand.
Registration:	Programme and Registration details here.

Event title:	NZTE hosted presentation by Andrew Goodison of FP Innovations, Canada
Time and Date:	3.00pm to 4.30pm, 29th November 2011
Venue:	Intercontinental Hotel, Wellington
Details	NZTE are holding a presentation by Andrew Goodison of FP Innovations in Canada who will be visiting NZ between 28th November and 2nd December 2011. Andrew is a Senior Project Manager and led the ongoing development of the Biopathways financial model and supported the teams that analysed markets for bio chemicals and bio materials. Andrew developed potential bio economy pathways for the forestry industry in Canada, including the analysis of financial, social, and environmental metrics (Carbon, employment, etc.) Some of the technologies examined included combined heat and power, fuel production, gasification, and pyrolysis oils for power. NZTE is supporting Andrew's visit to progress outcomes from the NZTE Bioenergy mission to Canada and to assist interested parties in helping to de-risk and accelerate Bioenergy activities. NZTE is working alongside Scion, who are organising the Advanced Biofuels Research Network Symposium on 28th and 29th November, to develop a visit programme for Andrew. A number of Government and industry stakeholders are invited to this meeting.
Registration:	If you are interested in participating, please contact Emma Keys at NZTE Telephone - +64 4 816 8322, Mobile - +64 21 0204 9955

	BANZ ANNUAL LIQUID BIOFUELS CONFERENCE "Celebrating Biofuels Today, Ensuring Biofuels for Tomorrow"
Date held / location	12th August 2011, Te Papa, Wellington
Focus of the Event	Conventional Biofuels Advanced Biofuels Users experiences Report back from mission to Canada in May 2011 Programme Registration Form Biofuels Case Studies
Media Materials	Speaker Details ROC Pty company profile Virgin Australia company profile Davy Process Technology company profile
Presentations	Presentations are available to attending delegates only. Please contact events@bioenergy.org.nz for a link to the presentations. If you did not attend the event but would like to view the presentations, please contact events@bioenergy.org.n
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	"Bioenergy Strategy Implementation Working Meeting
Date held / location	6 July 2011, HERA, Auckland
Focus of the Event	This Stakeholders Working Meeting was organised to update interested and involved parties of the activities post the release of the Strategy and contributions as to the next steps needed to achieve the vision set out in the Strategy. The event commenced with an update on progress towards: Economic Analysis of the Bioenergy Strategy – New Report Bioenergy Research Strategies - Scion A Gap Analysis and Action Plan for Implementation of the Bioenergy Strategy – New Report NZTE Delegation to Canada – Report Back and NZ lessons Discussions Groups were held to establish the next steps.
Workshop documents	Event Programme Whos Who at the event Presentations are available to attending delegates only. If you did not attend the event but would like to view the presentations, please contact events@bioenergy.org.nz

	"Bioenergy Opportunities for Councils"
Date held / location	19 April 2011, Rydges Hotel, Wellington
Focus of the Event	Bioenergy Opportunities for Councils in biogas, wood fuel and wood pellets and liquid biofuels.
Workshop documents	Event Programme Whos Who at the event Presentations are available to attending delegates only. If you did not attend the event but would like to view the presentations, please contact events@bioenergy.org.nz

"Gasification & Alternative Fuels Development" Workshop of IEA Bioenergy Task 33:Thermal Gasification of Biomass
Date held / location	14 April 2011, Copthorne Hotel, Commodore, Christchurch
Focus of the Event	Biomass gasification has been attracting more and more interest in research, development and commercialisation worldwide. This is driven not only by the concern for a sustainable environment, but also by the diverse products that gasification gas can produce including heat, electricity syngas, hydrogen and Gischer-Tropsch (FT) liquid fuels. The objectives of the workshop were - * to overview the current international R&D status of biomass gasification; * to update the R&D activities on gasification and alternative fuels in NZ; and * to provide technical information on gasification of various feedstock and fuel blends including woody biomass, coal and sewage biosolid. Invited speakers were active experts in biomass gasification and alternative fuels development from Australia, Austria, USA and NZ.
Workshop documents	Event Programme

"Appita Annual Conference & Exhibition"
Date held / location	10 to 13 April 2011, Rotorua
Focus of the Event	BANZ gave a presentation at this event. Click here to view the Appita website...
Workshop documents	more to come..

"Residues to Revenues Annual Event"
Date held and location	31 March 2011, Rotorua
Focus of the Event	The BANZ Executive Officer gave a presentation on the Bioenergy Strategy and its implementation at this event.
Workshop documents	Event Programme more to come..

"NZBio Conference"
Date held and location	21 to 23 March 2011, SKYCITY Convention Centre, Auckland
Focus of the Event	BANZ organised a session of 3-4 speakers at this event - the focus was on Liquid Buiofuels.
Workshop documents	click here to view news from the workshop

	"Making Bioenergy work for you"
Date held and location	28 February 2011, Holiday Inn, Wellington
Focus of the Event	Implementation of the NZ Bioenergy Strategy Gap Analysis Implementation Strategy
Workshop documents	Event Programme Whos Who at the event Breakout Discussion Group questions Click on the links below to view presentations from the event "Making It Happen - Bioenergy in Australia - Lesson's Learnt" Stephen Schuck, Manager Bioenergy Australia "The 'co-products' opportunity - delivering transport fuels and green chemicals" Kevin Snowdon, Vertichem "Producing biogas from wastes - NZ's big opportunity" Guenter Wabnitz, AECOM "Enhancing Australia's economic prosperity via bioenergy" Richard Niven, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, Australia "Learnings from real life wood energy case studies" Rob Mallinson, Living Energy "Research requirements and the transfer of international learnings" Michael Jack, Scion "Bioenergy - Making it Happen - Filling the Gaps and Realising the Opportunities" Brian Cox, Bioenergy Association of New Zealand

	"Biogas as a Transport Fuel
Date held and location	18 November 2010, Auckland
Focus of the Event	The workshop showcased innovative biogas vehicle fuel technologies and featured New Zealand based biogas experts speaking on the topics of biogas purification, biogas logistics, biogas vehicle conversions, gas vehicle fleet management as well as financial and legal aspects. The event featured a field trip to a biogas vehicle fuel pilot project and provided conference participants with an opportunity to experience the technology face to face in the field.
Workshop documents	Click on the links below to view presentations from the event Event Programme Who's Who at the event Biogas as a Vehicle Fuel, Guenter Wabnitz, Aecom Why can biogas transport fuel make sense for a landfill operator?, Logan Dingle, Transpacific Industries Greenlane's biogas upgrading technology - the Manuka Plant at Redvale, Don Duff, Greenlane Biogas Dual-fuel technology for using biogas in diesel trucks, Harvey Reid, DieselGas International RUC and excise tax issues for alternative fuels including biogas, Tony Frost, Ministry of Transport The in's and out's of operating a gas vehicle fleet, Craig Worth, Go-bus Wellington Lessons from the past - The biogas transport fuel project at the Christchurch wastewater Treatment Plant in the 1980s, Mike Bourke, Christchurch City Council An overview of different international development programs for gas fuelled vehicles, Keith Jones, Uniservices Potential options for biogas transport fuel use at a farm level, Rocky Renquist, Crop & Food Distributed Biogas Production& Nutrient Recycling, Loren Poole, Bioform World trends in biogas upgrading - a report from the VDI biogas upgrading congress in Frankfurt, Germany, Stephan Heubeck, NIW

	"Singapore Expo"
Date held and location	November 2010, Singapore
Focus of the Event
Workshop documents	Click on the links below to view presentations from the event. Event Programme Attracting Investors to Bioenergy - the New Zealand case study, B Cox BANZ presentations NZ Bioenergy Strategy and the Key Science/Research Role, Brian Cox, Executive Officer BANZ The Challenge and Opportunities of Second Generation Biofuels, B Cox BANZ

	"Moving Bioenergy Strategy to market Maturity"
Date held and location	15th October 2010, Auckland
Focus of the Event	This workshop was to allow participants gain an insight into the potential synergies between Canada and NZ and explore what options were available for accelerating the development of bioenergy in the two countries and to examine what NZ should be doing to achieve the vision outlined in the NZ Bioenergy Strategy. Speakers summarised the current bioenergy research programmes and outlined the initiatives currently being developed to assist move the research through to market maturity.
Workshop documents	Click on the links below to view presentations from the event. Event Programme "Canadian success in developing its wood-to-energy programme", Rory Gilsenan Chief, Resource Economics and Bioenergy, Canadian Forest Service (FCS), Natural Resources Canada NZ Bioenergy Strategy, Brian Cox, Executive Officer BANZ "Current NZ programmes for wood-to-energy research and the joint NZ / Canadian opportunities", Michael Jack, Scion Biomass to Liquid Fuels Technologies: A Short Overview, Ian Maxwell, Ignite Energy Resources NZ What I look for in a start-up, L Kerr, FRST

	"Biogas from Municipal Organic Waste"
Date held and location	13th May 2010, Christchurch
Focus of the Event	This workshop was held in conjunction with Energy Management Association of NZ (EMANZ).
Workshop documents	Event Programme Whos Who at the event View presentations from the event on the Biogas website here

	"Heating with Wood Chips"
Date held and location	6th - 7th May 2010, Dunedin and Otago
Focus of the Event	A showcase tour of modern wood chip boiler installations and their supply chains
Workshop documents	Event Programme Whos Who at the event View presentations from the event here

	Liquid Biofuel in NZ - "Emerging opportunities, sustainable development and increasing availability"
Date held and location	22nd April 2010, Wellington
Focus of the Event	This event showcased the progress that is being made on converting New Zealand’s indigenous resources into liquid biofuels. An update on a range of technologies and discuss the sustainability criteria currently being developed. Three speakers from Australia provided specific updates on what has been there: Bio-methanol – Barney Foran, Charles Sturt University, Australia Pyrolysis – Colin Stucley, Renewable Oil Corporation, Australia Algae – Prof. Michael Borowitzka, Perth – Murdoch University, Australia This workshop was run in association with the EECA Electric Vehicle and Biofuels Conference on the preceding day with a discount for joint attendance. More details at EECA Biofuels & Electric Vehicles Conference 2010.
Workshop documents	Event Programme Whos Who at the event View presentations from the event on the Liquid Biofuels website here

	"Using Wood Energy for Industrial and Commercial Heat Requirements"
Date held and location	22nd, 25th and 26th March 2010, Auckland, Dunedin & Christchurch
Focus of the Event	A series of 3 Wood Energy workshops targeting Consulting Engineers.
Workshop documents	Presentations can be viewed on the Wood Energy Knowledge Centre website here

	"Development of New Zealand Bioenergy Strategy"
Date held and location	9th February 2010, Wellington
Focus of the Event	This workshop takes a detailed look at where we are, what the potential is and where individual sector players may go from here. The aim is that by the end of the workshop that each attendee has a clear picture of the bioenergy potential for New Zealand so that appropriate policies and actions can be developed by Government and investors alike. This is your opportunity to influence what that picture looks like and to identify your role in the action. The aim is that attendees leave the day with a picture of the opportunities, priorities and pathways.
Workshop documents	View presentations from the event here

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