Speaker announcement: Who to expect at the RSB Innovations Meeting

With the RSB Innovations Meeting only 2 weeks away, we are excited to share a list of confirmed speakers for the full-day conference (5th October), representing innovators and industry leaders from a wide range of sectors and organisations like Boeing, GE Aviation, World Energy, Campbell Consulting – Clean Economy Works LLC, CAAFI, NWF, UPM, US Dept of Transport, United Airlines, IATA, Amazon, Argonne National Laboratory, WWF, LanzaTech, Heineken, FAA Office of Environment and Energy, Port of Seattle, San Francisco Airport, EDF, ClimateWorks, Ørsted and Twelve  – and more on their way!

See below:

• 9am-9:15am – Welcoming Plenary
  Elena Schmidt (Executive Director, RSB)

• 9:15am-9:30am – Keynote
  Valentina Vecchio (Global Sustainability Policy & Partnerships, Strategy Leader, Boeing)

• 9:15am-9:30am – Keynote
  Gene Gebolys (CEO, World Energy)

• 9:50am-11am – Sustainable biomass policies: From headwind to tailwind for a strong bioeconomy
  Todd Campbell (Campbell Consulting – Clean Economy Works LLC)
  Steve Csonka (CAAFI)
  David DeGennaro (NWF)
  Oona Koski (UPM)
  Andres Franco (Procter & Gamble)
  

• 11:30am-11:40am – Keynote
  Allen Paxson (VP and GM of Commercial Programs Strategy, GE Aviation)

• 11:40am-1:10pm – Impact accelerator: A session of the RSB SAF Policy Platform on book and claim
  Kristin Lewis (US Dept of Transport)
  Aaron Robinson (United Airlines)
  Daniel Chereau (IATA)
  Abby Donovan (Amazon)
  Colleen Zumpf (Argonne National Laboratory)
  John Holler (WWF)
  

• 11:40am-1:10pm – Disrupting certification to scale the bioeconomy
  Alix Grabowski (WWF) with inputs prepared by organisations including LanzaTech and Heineken

• 3pm-4:30pm – Innovative solutions to decarbonise aviation: The role of airports
  Dr Anna Oldani (FAA Office of Environment and Energy)
  Stephanie Meyn (Port of Seattle)
  Erin Cooke (San Francisco Airport)
  

• 3pm-4:30pm – Power-to-X: Validating sustainability and creating confidence
  Pedro Piris (EDF)
  Anna Stratton (ClimateWorks)
  Katrine Stenvang (Ørsted)
  Andrew Stevenson (Twelve)

• 5pm-5:15pm – Wrap up
  Elena Schmidt (RSB)
  Maiju Helin (Neste)
  
  

For more details on the sessions, please see here.

Further details for the welcoming cocktail (4th October), group dinner sponsored by GE Aviation (5th October) and the site visit sponsored by World Energy (6th October) will be made available in due course.

Please note, the RSB Annual Conference 2022 will take place from 28th November to 1st December. Registrations are also open for this event. Click here for more info.