Biomass-Asia Workshop[malaysia/asia/japan]

Registration: 9:00

9:30-9:50

Motoyuki Suzuki: Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office
Akira Yoshikawa: Deputy Director-General, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, MEXT
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa: President of AIST, Representative of Biomass-Asia Research
Consortium

9:50-11:30Chair: Masakazu Yamazaki (AIST)

9:50-10:10: The Development of Biomass Energies and the Role of Japan as a Forerunner of Emerging Problems
Hiroshi Komiyama
President, The University of Tokyo

10:10-10:30: New "Biomass Nippon Strategy"
Hiroyuki Suematsu
Director, Environment Policy Division, Minister's Secretariat, MAFF

10:30-10:50: Toward Expansion of Biomass Energy Introduction
Haruhiko Ando
Director, New and Renewable Energy Division, Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Department Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI

10:50-11:10: Bioenergy: Local and Global Potentials, Competitiveness and Impacts on Food Security
Josef Schmidhuber
Senior Economist, Global Perspective Studies Unit, Office of the Assistant Director General (ADG), FAO, Rome

11:10-11:30: The Role of Science and Technology in Biomass Development
Sakarindr Bhumiratana
President, NSTDA, Thailand

11:30-13:15Lunch

13:15-15:45Chair: Kenji Iiyama (The University of Tokyo),
Koichi Yamamoto (FFPRI)

＜PANELISTS＞: Cambodia: Sovanna Toch
Deputy Director, Department of Energy Technique, Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME); China: Wu Chuangzhi
Director, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); India: Rakesh Tuli
Director, National Botanical Research Institute; Indonesia: Wahono Sumaryono
Deputy Chairman for Agroindustry and Biotechnology,
The Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT); Laos: Bouathep Malaykham
Head of Rural Electrification Division, Department of Electricity, Ministry of Energy and Mines; Malaysia: Ahmad B. Ibrahim
Vice President, Research and Technology Division, SIRIM Bhd.; Myanmar: Mya Mya Oo
Acting Rector, Yangon Technological University; Philippines: Jessie C. Elauria
Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology, University of the Philippines Los Banos; South Korea: Jin-Suk Lee
Biomass Center Leader, Principal Researcher, Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER); Thailand: Paritud Bhandhubanyong
Director, National Metal and Materials Technology Center (MTEC), (NSTDA); Vietnam: Tran Dinh Man
Deputy Director, Institute of Biotechnology, Vietnam Academy of Sciences (VAST)

15:45-16:10Coffee Break

16:10-17:40Chair: Yutaka Mori (JIRCAS), Kinya Sakanishi (AIST)

16:10-16:30: Overview of the Research Project of ASEAN Biomass R&D Strategy
Yoshiyuki Sasaki
Principal Research Scientist, Biomass Technology Research Center, AIST

16:30-16:50: Industrial Revolution on Biomass Energy (BEF/BDF)
Issei Sawa
Manager, Liquid Fuel Project, Machinery Business Initiative Unit, Mitsubishi Corporation

16:50-17:10: NEDO's Domestic and International Bioenergy Utilization Activities
Yuji Nakajima
Project Coordinator, Waste and Biomass Team, New Energy Technology Development Department, NEDO