Vienna to Welcome Industry Leaders at European Algae Industry Summit 2018

ACI’s European Algae Industry Summit 2018 will take place on 25^th & 26^th April in Vienna, Austria. Already on its 8^th annual edition, this two day c-level event will once again bring together key players within the algae industry including leaders from cosmetics, food, feed, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals across the globe allowing attendees to gain a deeper understanding of recent industry developments and, most importantly, economically viable applications.
Agenda committee members include:

Syed Isa Syed Alwi, Group CEO, Algaetech Group Of Companies
Olivier Lepine, Managing Director, AlgoSource
Mine Uran, CEO, Alver
Sammy Boussiba, Head, Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory, Ben-Gurion University
Mario Tredici, Vice President, EABA
Silvia Fluch, COO, Ecoduna
John R. Benemann, CEO, MicroBio Engineering

Join us in Vienna where key industry players will give in-depth presentations and get involved in the Panel Discussions with senior level audience covering the most important topics in the market. The conference will also offer an exhilarating series of presentations, sessions and Q&A’s to deepen connections and move the sector forward.

Topics that we will cover include:

• Global Updates on Algae Trade
• LCA and Techno-Economic Analysis
• Market Establishment with High Value Applications Cultivation
• Efforts towards Economically Efficient Technologies
• Microalgae in Chemicals, Commodity & Speciality Feeds
• Waste Water Treatment
• Algae: The Future of Food?
• Advantages of Algae in Nutraceuticals & Cosmetics
• Industry Case Studies: What Can We Learn from Both Successes & Failures?

50 leading international algae industry experts to visit the newly expanded Ecoduna plant:

During the afternoon of Tuesday 24^th April, a prior to the conference, a limited number of attendees will receive the unique opportunity to Ecoduna’s “Hanging Gardens” Plant.

Ecoduna is a young SME founded in 2010 using proprietary photobioreactor(PBR) technology  for microalgae biomass production. With the currently 21 employees, and its patented technology of vertically flowing PBRs (i.e. hanging gardens) ecoduna produces biomass of various algae species of high quality. Based in Austria, ecoduna is growing algae strains all year round in the demonstration plant with the goal to produce biomass for omega3 algae oil extraction. In 2017 the technology is taken to industrial scale with the construction of a 1ha production facility. During the site visit, both locations, the demonstration plant with the R&D set up as well as the industrial production site will be visited.

For further information, please contact:
Dimitri Pavlyk
Marketing Manager, ACI
T: + 44 (0) 203 141 0627
E: [email protected]

We welcome you to join our leading experts at Europe’s cutting edge “8th European Algae Industry Summit”!
Please click on the link below to visit our event’s agenda:
http://www.wplgroup.com/aci/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/EALe8_Agenda_MKG.pdf

About ACI: ACI, a UK owned company, has been running successful conferences in the USA since 1999. Headquartered in Chicago with offices all around the States, ACI opened its European head office at the end of 2005 and has expanded rapidly, launching a series of events in key industries including maritime, energy, oil & gas, cosmetics, chemicals & media.