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Exploring Innovations, Policies, and Technologies

IBBC 2026 provides a dynamic, impact-driven platform that reflects the breadth of today’s bioenergy and bioeconomy landscape. It encourages participants to transcend traditional boundaries, integrate perspectives across technologies, markets, and policies, and challenge assumptions on sustainable scale-up. By sharing novel results, practical lessons, and cross-disciplinary collaborations, delegates help shape a program that connects innovation with deployment and drives the next wave of bioenergy and bioeconomy solutions towards 2035–2040.

Plenary Session

This session focuses on how bioenergy and the bioeconomy can move beyond pilot and demonstration projects toward large-scale, competitive deployment. Speakers will address commercialization challenges, industrial competitiveness, energy security, and the role of bio-based solutions in achieving net-zero targets.

This plenary explores where bioenergy fits within future energy systems alongside electrification, hydrogen, and Power-to-X. The discussion emphasizes hard-to-abate sectors and looks at how different pathways can work together rather than compete.

This session examines how biomass resources and conversion technologies can be better aligned with real market needs. It highlights the shift from technology-driven innovation to market-driven deployment and discusses how to avoid solutions that are technically impressive but commercially irrelevant.

A candid discussion on what differentiates successful FOAK projects from those that fail to reach commercialization. The session covers technical bottlenecks, financial constraints, realistic investment expectations, and the importance of strong industrial partnerships.

This plenary examines how bioenergy solutions can support sectors that are difficult to decarbonize, including aviation, shipping, heavy transport, and industry. Discussions address sustainable aviation fuels, biomethane, biohydrogen, infrastructure compatibility, and sector-specific deployment constraints.

This session examines how the bioeconomy contributes to climate mitigation through robust carbon management strategies. Speakers address life-cycle assessment, carbon accounting, BECCS, emerging net-negative pathways, carbon markets, policy frameworks, and measuring real climate impact.

Special Featured Session

This interactive panel brings together industry, finance, academia, and policy to discuss real-world scale-up experiences. Panelists will share lessons from both successful and unsuccessful projects, focusing on risk-sharing, EPC integration, licensing models, and investment decision-making.

Led by Joana Silva (Head of Biotechnology, Arborea, Portugal), this session explores algae as a scalable and resource-efficient biomass platform. Topics include industrial cultivation, integration into energy and bio-based value chains, and climate and sustainability benefits.

This closing panel reflects on what technologies and systems are most likely to scale by 2035–2040. The discussion focuses on aligning research, policy, and investment with real industrial needs and market realities.

Academic Track

This session addresses the availability, quality, and sustainability of biomass resources needed to support long-term bioenergy deployment. Discussions include feedstock diversity, supply stability, and environmental constraints that influence project viability.

Focused on technologies that prepare and separate biomass into usable fractions, this session explores how pretreatment and fractionation enable flexible use of biomass for fuels, energy, and bio-based products. Scalability and energy efficiency are key themes.

Focused on catalytic processes for upgrading biomass-derived streams, this session covers catalyst design, stability, and application in producing fuels, chemicals, and materials. Practical challenges in industrial operation are also discussed.

This session examines how bioenergy systems interact with hydrogen and Power-to-X pathways. Discussions focus on system efficiency, infrastructure compatibility, and the role of biomass in future integrated energy systems.

Industry Track Sessions

This session focuses on real-world challenges in sourcing and transporting biomass at scale. Topics include logistics, cost control, contract structures, and strategies to manage supply and price risks.

Industry experts share operational experience with commercial and near-commercial bioenergy and biorefinery technologies. The session emphasizes reliability, maintenance, performance, and lessons learned from operation.

This session looks at biorefineries from an asset-management perspective. Discussions cover operational flexibility, uptime, performance optimization, and long-term economic viability.

This session addresses how investment frameworks, policy design, and market signals influence deployment. It focuses on financing structures, risk perception, and how policy coherence can accelerate or delay projects.

This session highlights regional models where bioenergy, industry, and waste streams are integrated. It explores how industrial symbiosis and bioeconomy clusters support local deployment, resilience, and value creation.

Focused on moving innovation into the market, this session discusses licensing, commercialization, and collaboration models. It highlights how partnerships between universities, industry, and government enable successful deployment.
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Joint Academic–Industry Session

Biochemical conversion and biomanufacturing technologies enabling sustainable production of fuels, chemicals, and materials from biomass, including fermentation systems, bioprocess scale-up, process optimization, and Quality-by-Design (QbD) and PAT-supported process development.

Participants will discuss thermochemical processes such as gasification and pyrolysis, as well as hybrid systems combining multiple conversion routes. The session focuses on performance, integration, and suitability for large-scale energy systems.

This session examines different bioenergy carriers, including gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels, and their role in energy systems. Topics include infrastructure compatibility, performance requirements, and end-use applications.

This session presents techno-economic analyses that directly inform scale-up and investment decisions. Discussions focus on cost drivers, sensitivities, trade-offs, and how data is used by industry and investors to decide what to deploy.

This session explores how environmental impacts are measured and reported across bioenergy value chains. It connects life-cycle assessment, ESG metrics, and certification to competitiveness, investment decisions, and public trust.

This session focuses on designing biorefineries as integrated parts of broader energy and industrial systems. Topics include flexibility, heat and energy integration, and coupling with renewable electricity, hydrogen, and carbon management.

Participants will explore how digital tools, AI, and advanced modeling support optimization, reliability, and decision-making in bioenergy systems. The session highlights practical applications such as digital twins, predictive maintenance, and supply-chain modeling.

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