Matti Oksanen works as a Director in Gasum’s Biogas Business Unit with responsibilitities of product management, market development and investment portfolio of new projects. Gasum is leading the development of the Nordic gas ecoystem and building rapidly the biogas business in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Matti has a wide experience from renewable energy field having worked previously with liquid biofuels, renewable power projects and biomass. By education Matti is a forester (M.Sc forestry) and started his career in forest industry. 

www.gasum.com

Study of Technical Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology from 1988-1996 Diploma Thesis: Biomass Gasification in an Internal Circulating Fluidised Bed PhD Thesis at Vienna University of Technology finished in 2000 about: Production of Synthesis Gas from Biomass.

Main topics:
- Advanced Biofuels
- Biomass Gasification
- Usage of the gas from biomass gasification for synthesis gas applications
(Fischer Tropsch, Methanation, Hydrogen, Alcohols)
- Analytics and Measurements of synthesis gas
- Optimisation of commercial biomass CHPs based on gasification
- Representative of Austria in IEA Bioenergy Task33 Thermal Gasification of
Biomass
- Hybrid systems of renewable energy with biomass (Power to Liquids)

www.kit.edu

Since it’s foundation in 2010 Peter Jürgens is director of the REDcert GmbH which has been designated by German’s leading branch organisations in the agricultural and biofuel sector as a coordinator of the REDcert certification scheme for sustainable biomass and biofuels. In addition he is director of two other companies – ORGAINVENT and SeedGuard – which provide certification schemes and services in the field of food labelling and seed treatment. 

He studied agricultural science in Bonn and has a long experience with the development and operation of certification schemes in agribusiness and food sector. He’s also lead-auditor working for several certification bodies in the field of quality-, environmental- and food-safety management and
engaged as an instructor and inspector for the German Society for Quality (DGQ e.V.).

www.redcert.org

 Mr. Strömberg joined Scania in 2008. As Director for Sustainable Solutions, he is responsible for co-ordinating Scania’s activities on Sustainable Transportation for buses and trucks. Previously, he has held positions as:

•  Head of Environmental Department at Stockholm Arlanda Airport
  (Sweden’s major Airport);
• Environmental Manager at Stockholm Public Transport , Sweden’s largest public
  Transport Company;
• Environmental Manager at Swedish Railways Freight Division and GreenCargo.

At Stockholm Public Transport, Mr. Strömberg was responsible for setting up the World’s
largest fleet of heavy duty fossil free buses, powered by hybrid powertrains, hydrogen,
bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas from local waste.

• Mr. Strömberg is a member of EU’s expert group on advanced biofuels.
• Mr. Strömberg frequently lectures internationally on sustainable transport.
• Mr. Strömberg has an M.Sc. degree in Industrial Management and Engineering from
  Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Mr. Strömberg has served as President of the Fuels Cell Bus Club.
• Mr. Strömberg is an undefeated champion in the TV quiz show “Jeopardy”

www.scania.com

Niels Henriksen is Senior Advisor in New Bio Solutions a subsidiary of DONG Energy Bioenergy & Thermal Power (NBS). Niels has served DONG Energy (Denmark’s largest energy company) for almost 30 years, and has earlier been involved in coal-based power generation and numerous waste and renewable energy technologies for the last 20 years.

Today Mr. Henriksen is responsible for medium and long-term technology strategy, regulatory affairs, and funding related to the new bio and waste technologies in DONG Energy. He is also Chairman of the Danish organization Biorefining Alliance and Deputy Chairman of the boards of Inbicon A/S and Renescience A/S. 

Within the field of converting residue and waste to valuable products DONG Energy sees REnescience as promising technology for the global waste market. REnescience is an enzyme-based waste treatment solution created by DONG Energy. The technology has been developed from laboratory-scale, via a demonstration plant in Copenhagen, to the world’s first full-scale enzyme-based waste treatment plant –in Northwich, UK.

REnescience breaks with today’s practice of waste disposal and collection by centralizing the sorting of the waste - and in a more environmentally friendly way. Establishment of a REnescience plant is not necessarily a question of “either or”, it can be “both and” in terms of source separation and centralized separation. 

REnescience sorts waste much more effectively than individuals. It sorts out the non-degradable parts (glass, wood, plastic, metals etc.) and produce 3 to 5 times the amount of biogas from the biodegradable parts (food and paper waste) compared to sorting systems handled by individuals.

www.dongenergy.com

20 years as a medical surgeon mainly in Scandinavia but also in various African countries has made me a solution oriented person. As president of Biogasakademin my aim is to make biogas ”the talk of the town” for every visitor of Swedish airports, restaurants and restrooms.

www.biogasakademin.se

Yvonne Aldentun (M Sc Forestry) is working as an Analyst at Kalmar County Traffic, Sweden. Aldentun has extensive experience in sustainability issues from R&D at the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional authorities in Uppsala County and Kalmar County.

Her research and development work has covered nature conservation in forestry and sustainable forestry methods. She has also been a secretary in the forest policy investigation underlying Sweden’s forest policy today, focusing on sustainability issues.

Aldentun has been head of the nature conservation unit at the County Administrative Board in Uppsala County. Later she was responsible for Kalmar County’s efforts to become a fossil fuel-free region at Kalmar County Board which also included an EU-funded biogas project.

Today Aldentun is responsible for strategic development at Kalmar County Traffic, including the transition of regional public transports into fossil fuel-free operation. She is also involved in regional development issues for traffic development and infrastructure.

www.klt.se

Dr. Jan Liebetrau is Head of Biochemical Conversion Department at the Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ; German Biomass Research Center) in Leipzig.

After obtaining a Diploma in Civil Engineering Jan Liebetrau received his PhD at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on the topic “Control System for the anaerobic treatment of organic waste”. From 2006 to 2007 he was visiting scientist at the Alberta Research Council, Canada, working on a project “Integrated Manure Utilization System” (IMUS). From 2008 to 2010 he has been group leader before he became Head of the Department Biochemical Conversion at (DBFZ). Jan Liebetrau’s main research interests are process control of AD processes, solid state fermentation and emissions from biogas plants.

www.dbfz.de

Ralph Bahke, born 1964, studied Information Technology at the Technical University of Dresden. He joined VNG – Verbundnetz Gas AG in 1994 and became responsible for the planning of automation technology. In 2001 he changed to the Gas Transportation Department where he held various senior management positions.

Between January 2006 and November 2008, Ralph Bahke worked in senior management posts of the Network Marketing Department in the newly established transmission system operator ONTRAS. Since November 2008 he has been one of the two ONTRAS managing directors, responsible for the division controlling and development. From December 2009 to December 2015 Ralph Bahke was board member of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG).

In 2011, Ralph Bahke was appointed member of the Energy Advisory Board of the German Free State of Saxony. Since December 2012 he has been Chairman of the board of “Vereinigung der Fernleitungsnetzbetreiber Gas e.V.”, the association of German Transmission System Operators for Gas. 

www.ontras.com

Michael Niederbacher, CEO, CMO & Chairman of BTS Biogas, is graduated at the BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Science) in Vienna. As agriculturalist he devoted the last 15 years of his life to the world of biogas. Thanks to his work and experiences in all matters concerning biogas he is today one of the leading biogas experts in Europe. Since one of his biggest concern is pushing the biogas world to a higher level, he was cofounder first of the Klimaenergy fair in Bozen, then of the Consorzio Italiano Biogas (CIB) in march 2009 and finally of the European Biogas Association (EBA).

One of his goals is to substitute at least one nuclear power plant by biogas plants.

He is member of the CIB Board and Technical Committee and Member of the EBA’s CAC.

www.bts-biogas.com