Programme start for facility tour registrants at Axis (building #118)

Walk-in & registration at Axis (building #118) with coffee/tea

Welcome & opening at Axis by Edwin Hamoen, Programme Manager Nature Based Materials - Wageningen University & Research

Tour Biobased Products Innovation Plant 

Tour Food Hall and afterwards Campus walk to Omnia

Programme start general at Omnia (building #105)

Walk-in & registration at Omnia (building #105) with coffee/tea

Session 1

Welcome & Opening of the symposium by Gerda Feunekes - Managing Director Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group (Wageningen University & Research)

Keynote lecture by Jacqueline Vaessen - Chair ChemistryNL (boegbeeld Topsector Chemie)

Presentation by Mark Smit - Waterschap Rijn & IJssel (WRIJ) - about: Kaumera: Bacterial EPS from wastewater to market application

LUNCH BREAK

Presentation by Michael Franzke - Ashland - about: What sustainability means today for a personal care ingredient supplier; the balance between sustainabillty and performance

Session 2

Presentation by Ana Morao - Corbion - about: Sustainability of biobased materials

Presentation by Evelien Maaskant - Wageningen University & Research - about: Highlights of recent developments in biobased building blocks and polymers

COFFEE BREAK

Presentation by Willem Elsinga - Elsinga Beleidsplanning en Innovatie BV - about: Potential of municipal Kitchen- and Garden waste as a raw material for producing fatty acids for animal feeds

Session 3

Presentation by Peter Geerdink - Wageningen University & Research - about: Intrinsic – Integrated sustainable processing of oil and functional protein from oilseeds

Presentation by Peter Geerdink - Wageningen University & Research - about: Biomass characterisation and valorisation

Questions & closing remarks by moderator

NETWORKING DRINKS