Keynote Presentations:
Prof. Roger Ruan/ United States/ Waste Valorisation for Circular Economy Development

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Prof. Huu Hao Ngo/ Australia/ Insightful exploration of algae in circular economy

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Prof. Ashok Pandey/ India/ Sustainable Solid Waste Management: A Case Study in India

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Prof. Hailong Wang/ New Zealand/ Biochar: Transforming Waste Biomass into a Negative Emissions Solution

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Plenary/Invited Presentations:
Prof. Dan Tsang/ Hong Kong/ Renewable hydrogen production from food waste

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Prof. Helene Carrere/ France/ Feedstock preparation for dry batch anaerobic digestion in leach bed reactor: from lab-scale to full scale application Hans Oechsner/ Germany/ Fibres and biogas from separately collected municipal biowaste

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Prof. Fan Lv / China/ Application of Biochar in Anaerobic Digestion: Challenges during a Lab-to-Field Transition

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Prof. Thallada Bhaskar/ India/ High value carbons from lignocellulosic biomass: opportunities and challenges Prof. Ajay Kalamdhad/ India/ Waste to Wealth: A comprehensive study on biogas in India

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Prof. Guanyi Chen / China/ Integration of biomass digestion and pyro-gasification: progress and challenges

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Prof. Lixiang Zhou/China/Recovery of organic matter and nutrients from the anaerobic digestate of animal waste or food waste by biological conditioning and dewatering

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Prof. Qiyong Xu / China/ A hydrothermal coupled pyrolysis process for effective management of food waste digestate

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Prof. Ji Li/ China/ Composting industry in China: situation and perspectives

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Prof. Mark R. Wilkins/ United States/ PHB Production from simultaneous utilization of maize fiber hydrolysate and maize distillers’ oil

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Prof. GuoXue Li / China/ Clean production of organic fertilizer from livestock manure

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Prof. Quanguo Zhang/ China/ Research progress of hydrogen production from bio-methanol reforming

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Prof. Apostolis Koutinas/ Greece/ Biorefinery electrification as a sustainable and circular approach for the production of succinic acid from crude renewable resources

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Prof. Christophe Vial/ France/ Experimental evidence of hydrogen mass transfer limitation in biological methanation

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Prof. In Seop Chang/ Korea, Republic of/ CO Dehydrogenase (CODH) Overexpression Primarily Boosts Up Metabolic Rates in Biological CO2 Capture via Acetogenesis

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Dr. Dimitrios Ladakis/ Greece/ Sustainability analysis of aviation bio-fuels’ production via fermentation process utilizing spent coffee grounds and orange peel residues.

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Prof. Yen Wah Tong/ Singapore/ Improving food waste anaerobic digestion efficiency with biochar in decentralized systems

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Prof. Luciana Vandenbeerghe/ Brazil/ Strategies for polyhydroxyalkanoates production in a biorefinery

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