Energy, Environment, and Emerging Industries: Biomanufacturing
Agenda
April 22, 2026
8:00 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
Convocation Room, Friend Center
8:45 a.m.
Welcome
Claire White, Associate Director for Research, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Professor of Civil and Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
8:50 a.m.
Framing the Day
Sarah Glaven, Moderator, Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow, Princeton University
The goal is to build a framework that will inform a data-driven biomanufacturing strategy reflecting the future of industrial infrastructure in the United States. The group will identify knowledge gaps, including data and analysis gaps, that need to be filled to create this strategy.
The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment will convene stakeholders across the discovery to commercialization pipeline and facilitate a structured conversation around three domains that will shape the future of biomanufacturing in the United States: 1) feedstock, 2) technology, and 3) renewable power.
9:00 a.m.
Morning Keynote – Industry Perspective
Mark Warner, Chief Technology Officer, Liberation Bioindustries
Title: Is the U.S. Fulfilling its Biomanufacturing Vision?
9:30 a.m.
Break
9:45 a.m.
Session 1 – Today’s Challenges
Goal and Instructions
10:00 a.m.
Session 1 – Lightning Talks
Terry Yosie, Former President and CEO, World Environment Center
Title: A Tectonic Shift in Supply Chain Governance
Paul Hill, Principal, Berkeley BioProcess
Title: Helping Industrial Biotech Win: Navigating Costs and Innovation
Joe Shaw, SVP of R&D, Manus
Title: Accelerating the Transition to BioAlternatives – Foundational Technologies to Unlock American Biomanufacturing Potential
10:30 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m.
Roundtable Discussions
Topic 1 – Feedstock
Zara Summers, Topic Moderator, Chief Strategy Officer, LanzaTech
Greg Jaffe, Topic Moderator, President, Jaffe Consulting/Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture
Topic 2 – Power and Energy
Terry Yosie, Topic Moderator, Former President and CEO, World Environment Center
Jay Fitzgerald, Topic Moderator, Center Director, Renewable Resources and Enabling Sciences, National Laboratory of the Rockies
Topic 3 – Process Technology
Sarah Richardson, Topic Moderator, Independent Consultant and Industry Expert
Z. Jason Ren, Topic Moderator, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
Opening Remarks
Iain McCulloch, Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Mapping feedstock across the United States – A conversation with DOE’s Valerie Reed
Eric Larson, Senior Research Engineer, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University
Title: A Future Scenario for Bioenergy in the U.S.
Valerie Reed, Director, Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office, Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, Department of Energy
Title: Bioeconomy Priorities 2026
1:15 p.m.
Break
1:30 p.m.
Afternoon Keynote – Future Perspective
Prateek Mahalwar, CEO, BIOWEG
Title: From Deep tech to Industrial Scale: Building Cost-Competitive Circular Biomanufacturing in Europe
2:00 p.m.
Session 2 – Tomorrow’s Promises
Goal and Instructions
2:15 p.m.
Session 2 – Lightning Talks
Liz Onderko, CEO, Capra Biosciences
Title: Capra Biosciences: Biomanufacturing for Rapid Commercialization and Scaling
Joshua Yuan, Chair of Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering; Director, Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing (CURB) NSF Engineering Research Center
Title: From Biomass to ElectroBiomanufacturing: How Transformative Innovations Can Become Translational
Laura Orella, Table Lead, Director of R&D, Sunflower Therapeutics
Title: Democratizing Biomanufacturing through Continuous Microfactories
2:45 p.m.
Roundtable Discussions
Topic 1 – Feedstock
Zara Summers, Topic Moderator, Chief Strategy Officer, LanzaTech
Greg Jaffe, Topic Moderator, President, Jaffe Consulting/Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture
Topic 2 – Power and Energy
Terry Yosie, Topic Moderator, Former President and CEO, World Environment Center
Jay Fitzgerald, Topic Moderator, Center Director, Renewable Resources and Enabling Sciences, National Laboratory of the Rockies
Topic 3 – Process Technology
Sarah Richardson, Topic Moderator, Independent Consultant and Industry Expert
Galen Dods, Senior Policy Advisor, BioMADE
3:45 p.m.
Breakout Readouts
4:45 p.m.
Wrap-up and Next Steps
5:00 p.m.
Reception
Friend Center Atrium