Track 1: Production
Track 1 is tailored to industry professionals focused on production efficiency, plant optimization, process control, advanced maintenance, compliance, quality control, safety and other important areas of facility operations. This track will particularly appeal to ethanol plant managers, operations managers, process engineers, maintenance managers, lab managers, commodities managers, operators and other personnel seeking the latest production and operational solutions.
Topics within this Category Include:
- Yield Optimization
- Fermentation
- Bacterial Control
- Process Efficiency
- Integrated Process Control
- Plant Diagnostics
- Fractionation/Biorefining
- Water Efficiency
- Maintenance
- Lab/Quality Control
- Analytical Methods and Standards
- Environmental Compliance
- Abatement Technology
- Environmental Health & Safety
- Grain Handling, Storage, Logistics
- Equipment/Technology Innovations
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Track 2: Management
Track 2 is customized for ethanol industry executives, board members, directors and top-tier facility managers who have financial and/or managerial oversight of ethanol plants. From risk management and marketing to SEC reporting and accounting, this track is ideal for “C-level” executives, board members, investors, business managers, accountants, financial managers and other professionals engaged in plant/project finance and overall company management.
Topics within this Category Include:
- Risk Management, Commodities
- Policy/RINS
- Federal Tax Laws & Incentives
- Insurance
- Finance, Project Development
- Bankruptcies, Distressed Facilities
- Securities and Exchange Commission Reporting
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Workplace Trends
- Hiring Practices
- Management and Training Practices
- Workforce Training
- Marketing
- Accounting
- Carbon Credits
- Capitalizing on Carbon
- Lifecycle Analysis
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Track 3: Coproducts
Track 3 is custom-made for attendees interested in ethanol plant coproducts production, marketing and use. From production technology to domestic and international marketing and transport, this track will include a broad cross section of issues central to commodities managers, risk managers, distillers grains merchandisers, lab managers, researchers, animal nutritionists, and the vast number of equipment, technology and service providers that sustain the global distillers grains production and supply chain.
Topics within this Category Include:
- Production Trends
- Market Outlook
- Quality Control and Analysis
- Microbial Control/Antibiotics
- Non-Antibiotic Solutions
- Merchandising
- Fractionation
- Corn Oil Extraction
- Coproduct Innovations
- Drying Technology
- Marketing/Markets/Use
- Trade/Exports
- Enhanced Biomass Separation Technologies
- Transportation
- Product Standardization
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Track 4: Cellulosic Ethanol
Track 4 will be tailored toward attendees with a specific interest in utilizing, processing, handling or managing livestock or poultry wastes. The growth of the U.S. animal-raising industry has posed new Track 4 is custom-made for attendees interested in ethanol plant coproducts production, marketing and use. From production technology to domestic and international marketing and transport, this track will include a broad cross section of issues central to commodities managers, risk managers, distillers grains merchandisers, lab managers, researchers, animal nutritionists, and the vast number of equipment, technology and service providers that sustain the global distillers grains production and supply chain.
Topics within this Category Include:
- Production Trends
- Market Outlook
- Quality Control and Analysis
- Microbial Control/Antibiotics
- Non-Antibiotic Solutions
- Merchandising
- Fractionation
- Corn Oil Extraction
- Coproduct Innovations
- Drying Technology
- Marketing/Markets/Use
- Trade/Exports
- Enhanced Biomass Separation Technologies
- Transportation
- Product Standardization
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