Main Conference Day 1

1 April

09:00

Latin America’s SAF & Aviation Decarbonisation Landscape: What is needed to scale up sustainability in the regional aviation industry?

  • Exploring LATAM’s SAF landscape: Assessing prospects for mandates, compliance mechanisms and SAF friendly government policies

  • Assessing the importance of create pricing mechanisms in Latin America to mitigate price elasticity in the region

  • What do the next 1, 3 and 5 years look like for Latin American SAF and hydrogen government policies?

  • How can biofuel infrastructure create a demand signal for more stringent regulation and capacity building?

  • What market mechanisms are in place, and which need to be enacted, to drive Latin America into becoming a global SAF powerhouse?

  • Lais Thomas
    Chief of Staff

  • Evaristo Pinhero
    President

  • Marcelo Braganca
    Vice President

  • Cesar Pereira
    Head of Sustainability for Commercial Aviation

  • Romina Altamirano
    Fuel Regulation and Market Analyst

09:45

Launching the Brazilian SAF Economy: Insights into the BNDES support mechanism, 2027 SAF mandate and the opportunity presented by the world’s most powerful biofuel economy

  • Understanding the opportunity of the ProBioQAV to achieve 10% reduction in GHG by 2037

  • How can the Fuel of the Future Bill provide market reassurance to the biofuels industry to investment in SAF?

  • How can BNDES and Finep’s combined investment of $6bn Reais accelerate SAF production?

  • Tiago Pereira
    President Director

  • Mauro Mattoso
    Head of Department

10:15

Networking Break & One-to-One Meetings

11:00

Ethanol Focus: Leveraging Latin America’s ethanol abundance, sustainability credentials and suitability to help scale sustainable aviation fuels

  • Accelerating global Alcohol-to-Jet SAF production: How can Brazil’s low carbon ethanol provide the necessary scale for AtJ production?

  • How can Brazil become the leading SAF producer in the world? Assessing the opportunity for Brazil to produce up to 35% of global production capacity by 2050

  • Utilising Brazil’s first-generation feedstock availability: How can sugarcane ethanol meet global demand for feedstock supply and carbon low-carbon intensity SAF?

  • What impact will European and North American regulation on ethanol have on scaling ethanol-based SAF production?

  • Regulatory Perspective: Assessing the impact European and North American regulation on ethanol’s impact on scaling global production of ethanol produced SAF

  • How can Brazil’s ethanol and biodiesel markets shift to accelerate SAF?

  • Natalia Castilhos Rypl
    Senior Associate

  • Juan Diaz
    Regional Deputy Director

  • Luciano da Silva
    Technical Advisor

  • Osorio Coelho
    Director of the Program of Innovations

11:40

Topsoe Presentation

  • Aldo Peiretti
    Senior Licensing Manager

12:00

SAF Feedstocks and Technologies for LATAM: Assessing alternative feedstock opportunities, cost, availability and certification

  • Analysing the scalability and diversity of feedstocks and technological pathways in Latin America

  • The HEFA opportunity in Latin America: How can soya bean production be utilised for HEFA production?

  • Exploring the opportunities for SAF feedstock production to co-exist with agriculture production without compromising land and technologies

  • How can biomass opportunities be utilised across Latin America to scale SAF availability?

  • The opportunity of palm: Can palm oil based SAF be considered an eligible feedstock? Is it scalable and sustainable?

  • How is the region poised to expand Power-to-Liquid capacity: The opportunity to access cheap renewable energy resources

  • With the Chilean National Development Agency selecting six green hydrogen projects for development to begin operation in 2025, how can these projects be converted to scale eFuels?

  • Livia Ignacio
    Head of South America

  • Yuri Schmitke
    Executive President

  • Carolina Grassi
    Business Development and Innovations Manager

  • Carolina Betancourt
    Manager BioRenewables

  • Juan Pablo Freijo
    Chief Executive Officer

  • Viviana Centanaro Andrade
    International Affairs Coordinator

12:45

How to unlock Latin America’s Feedstocks with Proven SAF Technologies

  • Rodrigo Teixeira-Pinto
    Latin America Account Manager

13:05

Networking Lunch & One-to-One Meetings

14:10

Adapting Biofuels for SAF: How can Latin America utilise existing regional biofuel infrastructure to accelerate SAF production?

  • Brazil’s head-start: How can existing biofuel refineries in the region be adapted and repurposed to create SAF production facilities?

  • Understanding the current project pipeline and where the best opportunities exist to produce SAF

  • What lessons can be shared, adapted and repurposed in LATAM from planned and operational SAF refineries in North America and Europe?

  • Adapting infrastructure to accommodate SAF: Assessing the required infrastructure and technology to repurpose existing biofuel refineries

  • Agustin Torroba
    Director

  • Evaristo Pinheiro
    President

  • Rajee Olaganathan
    Professor

  • Fabio da Silva Vindado
    Deputy Head of Biofuels and Product Quality

  • Tiago Quintela Guilani
    Sustainability, Decarbonisation and New Technologies

14:50

Brazilian policy Focus: Regional policy insights, the influence of global SAF mandates and incentives in Latin America’s market

  • The role of policy in supporting, or inhibiting, the agriculture industry to grow feedstocks at scale

  • How important are incentives for supply and producer decision-making long term – is the SAF industry on-track to becoming self-sustaining?

  • Regulators perspective: Assessing European and North American regulation on ethanol’s impact on scaling global production of ethanol produced SAF

  • How can policy provide incentives for traditional oil and biofuel majors to enter the SAF market?

  • What can be expected from the implementation of the Brazilian SAF mandate?

  • Assessing the importance of global policy to create demand certainty for regional SAF production

  • How can assurances of reliable regional regulation attract investment from international banks in the domestic SAF space?

  • Marcela Anselmi
    Energy Transition Manager

15:10

PureSAF: KBR’s Scalable Solution for De-Fossilizing Aviation

  • KBR’s PureSAF – a scalable and low-CI feedstock flexible platform

  • Transitioning to renewables using KBR PureSAF

  • Successful commercialization and execution of PureSAF by KBR

  • Key global opportunities for commercializing SAF

  • Monica Normark
    Director Biofuels

15:30

Networking Break & One-to-One Meetings

16:00

Energy Industry Roundtable: Highlighting the importance of upstream and downstream collaboration to ensure Latin America becomes a supply dominant SAF market

  • How can the aviation and energy value chain combine resources to mitigate risk and accelerate partnerships to enable large scale SAF production, distribution and quality standards

  • Understanding how the price-premium of SAF can be spread across the value chain, and examining the role of corporates and passengers in absorbing the cost

  • Examining the next steps needed from each part of the value chain to develop and scale new opportunities

  • How can cross industry collaboration mitigate investment risk for SAF projects?

  • How can the private sector provide an attractive investment platform for SAF and showcase the ability for sustainability to be profitable?

  • Agustin Torroba
    Director

  • Osorio Coelho
    Director Program of Innovations

  • Agustin Torroba
    Director

  • Yerko Gauquim
    Fuel Regulation and Market Advisor

  • Goncalo Periera
    Professor

  • Cesar Periera
    Head of Sustainability for Commercial Aviation

  • Robert Szolak
    Department Manager Sustainable Synthesis

16:40

SAF Certification Fireside Chat: The impact of sustainability and certification requirements on bringing feedstocks to market  

  • Evaluating barriers to commercialisation: Assessing the impact of ASTM certification for developing SAF pathways

  • How will European and American feedstock regulations impact Latin America’s capability to scale global availability of SAF?

  • How will certification requirements control which technologies and feedstock pathways enter the market?

  • What impact will certification have on exporting Latin America SAF to the world?

  • Carolina Grassi
    Business Development and Innovations Manager

  • Livia Ignacio
    Head of South America

  • Otavio Cavalett
    Director Advanced Technical Services

  • Cecilia Korber Goncalves
    Deputy Director of Projects and Programs

17:10

LCA, CI and iLUC Insights: Comparing feedstocks and analysing the impact of Life Cycle Analysis, carbon intensity and iLUC on SAF production and export

  • What impact does the carbon intensity of sustainable aviation fuels have on the overall cost?

  • What does the industry need to do develop borderless carbon intensity scoring and lifecycle analysis for the global SAF industry?

  • Assessing the role carbon intensity will have in distinguishing SAF produced via ethanol

  • What agricultural practices can be adopted to reduce the carbon intensity of SAF?

  • Understanding different feedstocks and their carbon intensity scores and measurement

  • Rajee Olaganathan
    Professor

  • Lars Metkemeyer

  • Goncalo Periera
    Professor

  • Daniel Costa Lopes
    Business Development Director

17:40 - 19:00

SAF Networking Drinks Reception

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