June Event 2009

Sustainable Energy: Technion Innovation Helping Dutch Industries Meeting New Challenges

Program
11:30 Arrival and Registration
12:00 Technion Society Today! by Kobi Kurtz, founder of the Technion Society of the Netherlands
12:10 Lunch
12:40 Introduction by Pim van den Dam, KPMG
12:50 Innovation at Technion by Shimon Arbel, Technion University
13:15 Keynote Speaker
Prof. Gepstein, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
"Bio fuels- alternative for fossil fuels"
13:55 Closing by Kobi Kurtz

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Prof. Shimon Gepstein, Technion
Prof. Gepstein’s research has focused on the genetics of plant aging,
and on the development of genetic engineering and biotechnology-based
devices that can delay the process of plant aging. Additional agro-bio tech
projects being investigated in his laboratory are the development of drought
tolerant plants and technologies related to development of plants for the
production of bio fuels as an alternative for fossil fuels. His ultimate goal is
to develop a platform technology for integrating new genetic traits to plants
that will allow them to grow various species for bio fuel extraction on marginal
lands with minimal requirement for water supply. Developing such plants should
provide a net energy gain, have environmental benefits, be economically
competitive, and be producible in large quantities for bio fuel production without reducing food supplies