'Verd'Italia': new horizons of agroenergy and biofuels for an eco-sustainable economy

11.30am-1.30pm Agroenergy and agrofood: dual junction or necessary? -

Chair: Andrea Pannocchieschi d'Elci (Agroenergia-Confagricoltura)*

Chairman's address

New role of agriculture in renewable energy scenario
Riccardo Deserti (Coordinator of quality policies direction at the Department for economic and rural development policies - Ministry of Agricultural Food and Forestry Policies)

Bioenergy as an opportunity for development
Corrado Clini (Directorate General, Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea)

Daniela Valentini (Regione Lazio)

Bioenergy and Food Security: Issues and Perspectives
Andrea Rossi (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO)

"Agroenergy and Agri-foods" - science and technology for a new ethics of the agricultural development
Federico Vecchioni (Confagricoltura)

The biofuel between market, environmental sustainability and social justice
Francesco Maria Ciancaleoni (Coldiretti)

The future of agrienergies at the light of the new European Directive on the promotion of use of energy from renewables sources
Marino Berton (Presidente AIEL - CIA)

Discussion

2.30pm-4.30pm Political prospects and sustainability of biofuels: what future?

Chair: Gianfranco Venturi (University of Bologna - Italian platform of biofuels)

Chairman's address

Rosaria Fausta Romano (Ministry of Economic Development - Energy Department)**

Policy perspectives for biofuels: a worldwide assessment
Augusto Ninni (Institute of Economics of Energy and the Environment - IEFE - 'Bocconi' University, Milan - University of Parma)

Sustainable development of bioenergy: a possible challenge
Maria Michela Morese (Secretariat Manager Global Bioenergy Partnership Secretariat Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO)

Biofuel prospects and sustainability: what's future
Maria Rosaria Di Somma (General Manager Assocostieri - Biodiesel Producers Board)

Bio-ethers contribution to the future of bio-fuels
Walter Mirabella (EFOA - European Fuel Oxygenates Association)

Biofuels, the concerns for agriculture
Beppe Croce (Legambiente)

Bioenergy: major problems for Italy towards the 2020 objectives
Andrea Scarpini (Itabia - Italian Biomass Association)

Discussion

10.00am-12.30am Search and produce biofuels

Chair: Vito Pignatelli (ENEA Casaccia)

Chairman's address

New frontiers in biofuel research
David Chiaramonti (CREAR, University of Florence)

Research Activities on the production of second generation biofuel at Enea Research Centre Trisaia)
Giacobbe Braccio ( Section Head biomass of Enea Research Centre Trisaia)

Francesca De Ferra (ENI)**

Current situation and future prospectives for vegetable oils and biodiesel
Silvana Castelli (Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology, IBBA, CNR, Milan)

Biotechnological approach to bioethanol: substrates, processes and microorganisms
Sergio Casella (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, University of Padua)

Biowaste and algae knowledge for the production of 2nd generation biofuels
Silvano Simoni (University of Rome)

The lab city: chemical innovation to win the zero emission challenge
Luigi Campanella ('La Sapienza', University of Rome)

Learning from nature how to make biofuels
Guido Saracco (Professor of Industrial Chemistry; Head of the Deaprtment of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering - Politecnico di Torino)

Discussion

2.30pm-5.00pm Biofuels from algae: a revolution possible and sustainable

Chair: Raffaello Garofalo (EBB - European Biodiesel Board)

Chairman's address

Marine Microalgae: Biofuel and food of the future?
Mario Tredici (University of Firenze - Department of Agricultural Biotechnology)

Biofuels from microalgae: potential and limitations
Giovanni Giuliano (ENEA - Casaccia Research Center)

Microalgae: current utilization and future applicative trends
Patrizia Perego (University of Genova - Department of Chemical Engineering and Processing)

Willer Bordon (Enlag)

Biotreatment of gas wastes and biogas and biofuels
Federica Bassan (Microlife - MAD)

Algae, green gold: utopia or actuality?
Lorenzo Lastella (AlgaeFactor Srl)

Discussion