Tentative Agenda

Day -2: September 3, 2024

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Day 2 - Plenary Session 4: Towards Sustainable Bio-Energy Mix
Venue: Amaltas - A
Plenary Session 4: Towards Sustainable Bio-Energy Mix

Address by Chief Guest:

Shri Manohar Lal Khattar , Hon'ble Minister of Power & Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India (Invited)

Address by Guest of Honor:
Ms. Vini Mahajan , Secretary (DWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India (Invited) Address by Mr. Rajiv Agarwal, Director (Technical) , Engineers India Limited (EIL) (Invited)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Track 1

Potential in CBG Sector -1.0
Economic Feasibility and Evolving
Downstream Modalities Presentation & Panel Discussion
Track 2

Potential in Biomass Sector- 1.0
- Policies & Mandate
- Technology
(Presentation & Panel Discussion)
Track 3

Potential in Sustainable Aviation Fuels
(Presentation)
Venue: Amaltas – A
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Nidhi Sahu, Manager, IFGE)
Venue: Parijat (2nd Floor, 201)
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Anamika Ghosh, Manager, IFGE)
Venue: Amaltas – B
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Rakhi Sharma, Manager, IFGE)
- Ms. Roopa Mishra, Joint Secretary (SBM), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India

- Mr. Anand Kumar Jha, Director (GPI), Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India

- Mr. Y.B Ramakrishna, Chairperson, IFGE CBG Producer Forum, Former Chairman- Working Group on Biofuel Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

- Mr. Kapil Kumar Jain, Executive Director (Marketing-Retail LNG) GAIL (India) Limited

- Mr. Ketan Jadhav, Partner, EAC International Consulting

- Representative from Industry

Moderator : Mr. Ashish Kumar, Vice Chairman, IFGE CBG Producer Forum & Managing Director VERBIO India Pvt Ltd.
Chairperson of the Session:
- Mr. Satish Upadhyay, Mission Director, SAMARTH Mission

- Representative from the Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India (Invited)

- Shri T. S. Venkataraman, Chairman & Managing Director, Esvin Advanced Technologies Ltd.

- Mr. A.N. Meshram, Deputy Commissioner (M&T), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt. Of India

- Mr. Shivam Mungiya, Enliven Nature (LLP)

- Mr. Subodh Kumar, Chairperson, IFGE: BGAF, ED Val Pro & Former ED IOCL.
- Moderator : Mr. Anant Bansal, Core Member IFGE: BGAF
Chairperson of the Session: - Mr. Vikram Dev Dutt, Director General, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Invited)

Co-chair of the Session:
- Mr. Mandava Prabhakar Rao, President, Indian Sugar & Bioenergy Manufacturers Association (ISMA)

Presided by:
- Dr. SSV Ramakumar, Executive Vice President in the role of CTO Greenko/AM Green

- Mr. Amitabh Khosla, Country Director, International Air Transport Association-IATA

- Mr. Ravikant Gupta, Sr. GM (R&D), Engineers India Limited (EIL)

- Mr. Sachin Lokhande, Director Business Development, Lanzajet Inc. - Representative from EBTC

- Moderator: Mr. Gaurav Goyal, Asst. Vice President, Business Head-Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Praj Industries Ltd
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Track 1

Potential in CBG Sector -2.0
India CBG Infrastructure Market Assessment & Attractiveness (Panel Discussion)
Track 2

Potential in Biomass Sector – 2.0
- Feedstock
- Supply Chain Management
- Energy Market
Track 3

Potential in 1G Ethanol Industry:
Current Status and Future
Perspectives
Venue: Amaltas – A
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Nidhi Sahu, Manager, IFGE)
Venue: Parijat (2nd Floor, 201)
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Anamika Ghosh, Manager, IFGE)
Venue: Amaltas – B
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Rakhi Sharma, Manager, IFGE)
Chair of the Session:
- Shri Narendra Bhoosan, Principal Secretary- Energy & Additional Sources of Energy, Government of Uttar Pradesh

- Co- Chair of the Session:

- Mr. Praveer Kumar Aggarwal, Executive Director, GAIL

- Dr. Tushar Patil,, Assistant VP, Corporate Strategy, Praj Industries

- Representative from Thermax

- Mr. Raj Mohan NC, Managing Director, Spantech Engineers Pvt Ltd

- Mr. Varun Karad, CEO, REnergy Dynamics (RED)

- Mr. Vijay Kumar Lanka, General Manager, Armatec India Pvt. Ltd

Moderator: Mr. Som Narayan, Director Carbon Masters
Chairperson:

Mr. Virinder Sharma, Member Technical, Commission for Air Quality Management

- Director- Principal Scientist, ICARIARI (Invited)

- Mr. Sanjay Jain, Business Head, Livgreen Cleantech Pvt. Ltd

- Shri Surinder Pal Singh Virk, General Manager (Biomass), NTPC

- Dr. Sachin Kumar, NIBE, Kapurthala

- Col. Sandeep Singh, DCM Shriram (Invited)

- Representative from the Food and Beverage Industry

- Mr. Viral Gamit, Corporate Sustainability, Arvind Mills

Moderator: Col. Rohit Dev, CoChairperson, IFGE: Biomass Global Associates Forum
Chairperson of the session:
- Sh. Aswani Srivastava, Joint Secretary (Sugar) Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

- Shri Deepak Balani, DG , ISMA

- Shri Prakash Naiknavare, MD, National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd

- Mr. Mr. Yashodhan Mankame, EVP - Bioenergy, Praj Industries

- Shri R.L. Tamak, Executive Director & CEO (Sugar & Ethanol Business), DCM Shriram Limited

- Shri Sameer Sinha, CEO, Triveni Sugar (Invited)

- Mr. Dilip Patil, MD, Karmayogi Ankushrao Tope Samarth SSK Ltd

- Moderator: Mr. Ravi Gupta, ED, Shree Renuka Sugars (Confirmed)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Networking Lunch
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Track 1

Potential in CBG Sector - 3.0
Taming the Feedstock Challenges and Success Factors (Panel Discussion)
Track 2

Carbon Capture Storage and Carbon
Capture Utilization (Panel Discussion)
Track 3

Possibilities of 2G Ethanol
(Panel Discussion)
- Chair of the Session:
Mr. Shantanu Gupta, ED, IOCL

- Mahesh Girdhar, MD & CEO Ever Enviro Pvt Ltd

- Mr Tushar Lowalekar, Founding Member & Chief Business Officer, Biofuel Circle Pvt. Ltd.

- Cdr Subodh Rao (Retd), Head of Projects, Jwala Bioenergy

- Mr. Govind, VP Business Development, TruAlt Bioenergy

- Dr. Tushar Patil, Assistant VP, Corporate Strategy, Praj Industries

- Representative from EBTC

- Moderator- Mr. Atul Kharate, Chief Operating Officer, IndianOil Adani Ventures Limited
Chairperson of the Session:
- Dr. V. K. Saraswat, Member, NITI Aayog, and Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

- Mr. Vijay Mittal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India (Invited)

- Shri Dhiraj Kumar Srivastava, Chief Engineer, Ministry of Power, Government of India (Invited)

- Shri Dhiraj Kumar Srivastava, Chief Engineer, Ministry of Power, Government of India (Invited)

- Dr. Sasisanker Padmanabhan, Senior Principal Scientist, Praj Industries

- Mr. Sangeet Jain, Vice President ESG, Strategy & Alliances, LanzaTech Private Limited

- Mr. Yash Aggrawal, Co-Founder - Carbonetics Carbon Capture

- V P Bhandarkar, DGM & Head Innovation, Thermax Limited

- Dr. R N Maiti,, CGM (R&D), Engineers India Limited (EIL)

- International Expert

Moderator: Mr. Keshav Goela, Director, SS Gas Lab Asia
- Chairperson:
- Mr. Gulzar N, Joint Secretary (Policy & FCI), Department of Food and Public Distribution, Minister of Consumer Affairs (Invited)

- Mr. Vijay Kumar Nirani, MD, TruAlt, Bioenergy (Confirmed)

Representative from Oil India (Invited)

- Representative from Indian Oil (Invited)

- Mr. Vaibhav Tiwari, Sr. General Manager, Products, Praj Industries

- Mr. Naresh Goel, Pingaksh Beverages Private Limited (Invited)

- Ms. Heli Antila, CEO-Chempolis OY

Moderator: Shri Subodh Kumar, Chairperson, IFGE: BGAF, ED, ValPro, Former ED, IOCL
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Networking Tea
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Track 1

Potential in CBG Sector - 4.0>
Presentation and Panel Discussion: FOM
As Source of Organic Carbon Sequestration
Track 2

Panel Discussion: Potential of BioMobility in India
Track 3

Session on Emerging Biomaterials & Biochemicals
(Presentation)
Venue: Amaltas – A
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Nidhi Sahu, Manager, IFGE)
Venue: Parijat (2nd Floor, 201)
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Anamika Ghosh, Manager, IFGE)
Venue: Amaltas – B
(Session Coordinator: Ms. Rakhi Sharma, Manager, IFGE)
Chair of the Session :
- Dr. Tina Soni,, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Chemical & Fertlizers, (Invited)

- Mr. Vivek Taneja, Vice President & Business Head - Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) at Reliance Industries Limited

- Mr. Kevin Houston, Director, Carbon Masters

- Dr. Navindu Gupta, ED SPS Biochem Pvt Ltd

- Officer from Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (Invited)

- Mr. Velumurugan, ADG, ICAR (Invited)

- Mr. Basavaraj, General Manager, CBG, Praj Industries

Moderator: Mr. Ashish Kumar, Vice Chairman, IFGE CBG Producer Forum & Managing Director VERBIO India Pvt. Ltd
Chair of the Session :
- Mr. Rajnath Ram, Advisor (Energy), NITI Aayog, Government of India (Invited)

- Mr. K.C. Sharma, Chief Engineer (MVL), Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India (Invited)

- Mr. T Surya Kiran, Executive Director, Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASRTU) (Invited)

- Mr. Atul Mulay, Chairman, Bioenergy Committee of IFGE, President Bioenergy, Praj Industries

- Representative from the Railway Board of India, Government of India (Invited)

- Dr. Reji Mathai, Director, Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) (Invited)

- Ms. Alexandra Pietila, ChiefGrowth Officer, Eflexfuel (StepOne Tech)

- Mr. Vikram Gulati, Country Head & Executive Vice President (Corporate Affairs & Governance), Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Limited (TKM)

- Moderator: Mr. Rajesh Menon, Director General, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) (Invited)
Chair of the Session :
Dr. G. Sridhar, Director General, Sardar Swaran Singh National

- Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala

- Dr. S. Dasappa, Professor, Centre for Sustainable Technologies/ ABETS, CGPL, Indian Institute of Science

- Prof. V. K. Vijay, IREDA Chair Professor, CRDT, IIT Delhi

- Dr. Alka Sharma, Scientist `H’, Advanced Biofuels, Sustainability - (Scientific Decision Unit), Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (Invited)

- Dr Debashish Ghosh, Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum

- Mr. Shrikumar Suryanarayana, Chairman, Sea6 Energy Pvt. Ltd. (Invited)

- Dr. Ashvini Shete / Dr. Anand Ghoshalkar, Praj Industries

Moderator: Representative from IFGE
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Dinner Session
Venue: Hotel Radison Blue, Dwarka
Address by Chief Guest:
Shri Pralhad Joshi , Hon’ble Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India (Invited)

Address by Guest of Honor:
Shri Murlidhar Kisan Mohol, , Hon'ble Minister of State for Cooperation and Civil Aviation, Government of India (Invited)

8:30 PM Onwards Dinner