On 15 November 2019, Life Sciences Queensland Limited (LSQ) will hold The Asia-Pacific Bioeconomy Policy Summit at the State Library of Queensland.

The Summit will provide an excellent platform to ensure that the bioeconomy is recognised as a key opportunity and influence on economic and social development. It will bring together key international industry stakeholders including fuel and energy companies, agricultural companies, investors and funding agencies, bioenergy researchers, program directors, and policy makers, among others, to explore the bioeconomy across a world class program.

The morning sessions will seek to demonstrate both the similarities and differences between political goals, approaches and priorities for bioeconomy development around the world. Through these discussions we seek to explore opportunities for reciprocated learning and potential future collaborations.

Generally national strategies are more closely related to bioeconomy policymaking, while regional strategies may be developed by bioeconomy clusters and tend to be shaped by several factors and networks in a specific region, often in less formal ways. The afternoon sessions will explore bioeconomy strategies at the regional level in Australia and look at various cases of regional bioeconomy clusters across the world.

Speakers

Prof. Paul Bertsch, Queensland Government - Interim Queensland Chief Scientist, CSIRO - Deputy Director-Science of the Land and Water Business Unit
Dr. David Bressler, University of Alaberta, Canada - Associate Dean Research and a Full Professor within the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences
Mr. Dylan Gower, C.L.E.A.N. Cowra Inc - Project Facilitator
Ms. Leanne Kemp, Queensland Government - Queensland’s Chief Entrepreneur
Dr. Elspeth MacRae, Scion - Chief Innovation & Science Officer
Mr. Bas Melssen, Novozymes - Regional Director, Public Affairs & Sustainability - Southeast Asia
Prof. Ian O'Hara, Queensland University of Technology - Principal Research Fellow - Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering, Bioenergy Australia - Director. Queensland Government - Queensland Biofutures Industry Envoy
Ms. Kylie Porter, GW3 - Acting CEO
Dr Peter Riddles, CSIRO - Board Member, Chair of Board Science Excellence Committee
Prof. Emeritus Dr. Morakot Tanticharoen, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) - Senior Advisor to the President of NSTDA
Assoc. Prof. Claudia Vickers, CSIRO - Director of the Synthetic Biology Future Platform. The University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology - Group Leader
Mr. Brett Wiskar, Wiley - The Chief Future Officer
Dr. Bo Yu, CAS-TWAS Centre of Excellence for Biotechnology - Executive Director

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