Conference Programme
Sessions will cover a vast array of topics including:
- Regenerative Agriculture
- Biobased and biodegradable materials
- Food and agricultural wastes
- Bioenergy
- International perspectives and global trends
- Finance and investment and more
With an opportunity to have your questions answered by the experts.
The full agenda will be released later in 2021, stay tuned for updates.
Conference Programme
FULL Programme Now Available
Thursday 23 & Friday 24 July
Location: Broadcast live and recorded in Zoom webinar
The fourth ANZBI Conference is a two day information sharing & networking event featuring the launch of ANZ Biochar Industry Group (ANZBIG), 16 presentations and 2 discussions focussed around restoring the reef catchments through regenarating soils and transforming materials with bioenergy, biochar & wood vinegar. All presentations will be broadcasted & recorded in the Zoom webinar for the first 100 delegates. All presentations are pre-recorded with live Q & A
FULL PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE
Last Years Programme
Day 1 – Broadcast & Recorded in Zoom Webinar - Thursday July 23
Thursday 23rd July 2020
| Time & Location | Presentation | Speaker | Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.00 to 9:30am | Introduction, update & housekeeping | Don Coyne | Public Officer - ANZ Biochar Industry Group (ANZBIG) |
| 9.30 to 10:00am | Keynote - Biochar in Far North Queensland | Distinguished Professor Michael Bird | James Cook University |
| 10:00 to 10:30am | Keynote – Review of the art of the scientific understanding of biochar | Visiting Professor Stephen Joseph | UNSW, UNE, Univ. Wollongong & Nanjing Ag Univ. |
| 10:30-11:00am | Morning Tea | ||
| 11.00 to 11.30am | Keynote - Accelerated carbonation of biochar reinforced cement fly ash composites: Enhancing & sequestering C02 in building materials | Associate Professor Ajit Sarmah | University of Auckland |
| 11.30 to 12.00noon | Bioenergy & Biochar | Ian Stanley & Peter Burgess | Rainbow Bee Eater |
| 12.00noon to 12.20pm | A CRB Salvage Value Project Transforming dead coconut palms into charcoal and biochar | Dan Etherington | Niulife Foundation |
| 12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:30pm – 1:50pm | Biochar Analysis Explained | Graham Lancaster | Environmental Analysis laboratories - Southern Cross University |
| 1.50 to 2.10pm | A Decentralized Biomass Torrefaction Reactor Concept for Biochar Production | Kevin S. Kung | MIT University - United States |
| 2.10 to 2.30PM | Biochar's Cost Constraints are Overcome in Small‐Scale Farming in Tropical Soils in Lower‐Income Countries | Samuel Robb | PhD Student -University of Queensland |
| 2.30 to 2.50PM | Report from the Pacific Biochar Initiative | Frank Sanders | Healing Habitats |
| 2.50 to 3.10PM | Emerging carbon markets – opportunities for biochar | Annette Cowie | NSW DPI & UNE |
| 3.10 to 3.30PM | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3.30 to 3.50PM | Biochar, Soil Carbon & Carbon Trading | Ignatius Verbeek | Carbon-X |
| 3.50 to 4.10PM | Biochar industry to circular economy: A Singapore case study | Professor Chi-Hwa Wang & Assoc. Prof Kua Harn-Wei | National University of Singapore |
| 4:10- 5:00pm | Panel Discussion & Wrap Up | Selected Panel | Various |
Day 2 – Broadcast & Recorded in Zoom webinar - Friday July 24
Friday July 24, 2020
| Time & Location | Presentation | Speaker | Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:30 | ANZ Biochar Industry Group (ANZBIG) Launch | Nigel Murphy | Green Man Char & ANZBIG Board |
| 9:30-10:30 | Code of Practice Launch & Discussion | Nigel Murphy | Green Man Char & ANZBIG Board |
| 10:30-11:20am | Morning tea | ||
| 11.20 to 11.40 | Coverting sewage sludge waste plastics and wood to biochar | Dean Hurlstone & Stephen Joseph | Conhur |
| 11:40-12:00 | Using mineralized biochar and biochar fertiliser to exam the efficacy on suppressing nematode diseases in sweet potato | Upamali Peiris & Dr. Chengyuan (Stephen) Xu | Central University of Queensland |
| 12:00-12:20 | Turning biochar into Activate Charcoal | Lewis Dunnigan | ByGen |
| 12:20-12:40 | Quantitative and qualitative analysis of harvesting residues in Australian plantations | Dr Mohammad Reza Ghafffariyan | University of Sunshine Coast |
| 12:40-1:40 | Lunch | ||
| 1:40-2:00 | Waste to Energy Technology | Shaun Scallan | Capricorn Power |
| 2:00-2:20 | Biochar for mine tailings and their water | Suzanne Allaire | Pyrolist |
| 2:20-2:40 | CO2 Value Australia’s Carbon Removal Market | Sophia Hamblin Wang | CO2 Value Australia |
| 2:40-3:00 | Carbonfuture Trading | Hannes Junginger | Carbon Future |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Integration of biochar with other carbon sequestration technologies - an opportunity for landscape regeneration and large-scale carbon sequestration | Wolfram Buss | Australian National University - Canberra |
| 3:20-3:40 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:40 - 5:00pm | Panel Discussion & Wrap Up |