Building the bio business half-day seminar

2 October 2009

As concerns grow over energy security and the supply and cost of resources, biological materials and bioprocesses will come to dominate many areas of the process industries. Challenges face engineers, scientists, economists and policymakers, and process efficiencies will have to improve dramatically in areas from pharmaceuticals to fuels. This seminar will present some of the latest thinking on the issues and how the engineering and science community can help the world deal with them
Keynote speaker Ian Shott, founder, majority owner and CEO of Excelsyn, pharmaceutical services company, is the 68th President of IChemE. Ian was the Royal Society of Chemistry 2006 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year and Chairman of a major UK Government inquiry into industrial biotechnology as a source of innovation and growth (the report was released in May 2009).

Panel presenters include:
Emeritus Professor Peter L Rogers
University of New South Wales

Professor Mary O’Kane
NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer, NSW Office of Science and Medical Research

Outline programme

This seminar will involve presentation of core material by the key note speaker followed by presentations by each of the panel speakers. All speakers will take part in a chaired panel discussion, followed by a Q&A session. The official programme has been provided below.

Time and Place

2 October 2009
Time: 12:45 registration for 13:00 -17:00, followed by refreshments and networking

Registration

Please complete this form and fax it to: +61 (0)3 9642 4495 or email to austcourses@icheme.org