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Day1:November 18 Hotel Granvia Hiroshima
(with simultaneous translation)
Day1

 

8:30-9:30
registration
Opening Remarks
9:30-10:00
Masuo Aizawa
Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office
Itaru Watanabe
Senior Deputy Director-General, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Kenji Iiyama
President, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
Tamotsu Nomakuchi
President,National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Representative of Biomass-Asia Research Consortium
Keynote Speech
Chair: Shusaku Katayama (NARO)
10:00-10:15
Masamichi Saigou
Director, Environment and Biomass Policy Division, Minister’s Secretariat,
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)
10:15-10:30
Director, New and Renewable Energy Division, Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Department, Agency for National Recourses and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
10:30-10:45
Climate Change Policy Division, Global Environment Bureau,
Ministry of the Environment (MOE)
10:45-11:10
Coffee Break
Plenary Lecture
Chair: Akira Yabe (AIST)
11:10-11:35
Beau Damen
Bioenergy Officer – Forestry, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO-RAP, UN)
11:35-12:00
Sununtar Setboonsarng
Senior Agricultural Economist, Southeast Asia Department, Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
12:00-12:30
Kinya Sakanishi
Representative, Research Core for Asian Biomass Energy (ABECORE)
Director, Biomass Technology Research Center, AIST
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Toward Sustainable Biomass Utilization in Asia
Chair: Yoshioro Owadano (AIST)
Mohd Ali Hassan (UPM)
14:00-14:20
Xunpeng Shi
Associate Researcher, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
14:20-14:40
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan
14:40-15:00
Saryono Hadiwidjoyo
Director of Oil and Gas Downstream Busines Development, Department of Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia
15:00-15:20
Discussion
15:20-15:50
Coffee Break
Research and Technological Development for Sustainable Biomass Utilization in Asian Countries
Chair: Kinya Sakanishi (AIST)
 Li Haibin (CAS)
15:50-16:10
Shinya Yokoyama
Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
16:10-16:30
Chen Sau Soon
Senior General Manager, Environment and Bioprocess Technology Centre, SIRIM Berhad, Malaysia 
16:30-16:50
Senior Manager, New Energy Business B Unit, Mitsubishi Corporation
16:50-17:10
Discussion
17:10-17:20
Akira Yabe
Vice President, AIST
18:00-20:00
Workshop Dinner