Speakers announced for Bioenergy Conference & Expo

January 3, 2014, Atlanta, Ga. – The 2014 Bioenergy Fuels
& Products Conference & Expo has released its first list of speakers
and moderators for the event to be held March 18-19 at the Omni Hotel at CNN
Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The preliminary list includes 40 participants,
representing a range of technologies and products. Additional speakers will be
announced soon.

The latest addition to the Keynote Speakers lineup is Huey
Long, senior principal at Mountain Creek Group. Long has worked in the forest
products industry for nearly half a century, serving in various capacities from
forest management and fiber procurement to manufacturing executive, including
his current role as a consultant for wood fiber utilization firms desiring to
initiate, operate or improve their management processes and protocols. He is a
professional forester who began his career with the U.S. Forest Service. Long
was appointed to President Clinton's Provincial Advisory Committee as part of the
Northwest Forest Plan, and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of
the Partners of the Cherokee National Forest.

Long joins previously announced keynoters Rick Holley, CEO,
Plum Creek Timber; John Campbell, managing director, Rollcast Energy; Bill
Gaston, principal, Wood Resource Recovery; Steven Hall, senior project manager,
ReEnergy Holdings; Malcolm Swanson, president, Astec, Inc.

Each morning starts with a general session, featuring the
keynoters, followed by simultaneous technology sessions in the meeting rooms.

The initial list of speakers includes:

—Lou Boos, president, Nordic Engineering

—Brian Buchanan, material handling manager, ProcessBarron

—John Campbell, managing director, Rollcast Energy

—Brad Carr, president, Integrated Environmental Solutions

—Daniel Cassens, professor Dept. of Forestry, Purdue
University

—Giordano Checchi, owner, Sunomi LLC

—Benjamin Davis, vice president business development, Domtec

—Bill Gaston, principal, Wood Resource Recovery

—Seth Ginther, executive director, U.S. Industrial Pellet
Assn.

—Dr. Rakesh Govind, president, PRD Tech

—Steve Gray, Gray Wood Systems

—Jim Hall, president, JWH Associates

—Steven Hall, senior project manager, ReEnergy Holdings

—Rick Holley, CEO, Plum Creek Timber

—Tim Hughes, director of Biofuels, Kentucky Energy and
Environment Cabinet

—Andrew Johnson, vice president, TSI Inc.

—Soile Kilpi, principal, Pöyry Management Consulting

—Dirk Koltze, executive vice president, Büttner,

—Huey Long, senior principal, Mountain Creek Group

—Kurt Malzer, executive vice president, Fulghum Fibres Div.
of Rentech

—Jarrad Markley, chief product engineer, TSI Inc.

—Cam McAlpine, president, PR Media Strategic Communications

—Dean McCraw, principal, McCraw Energy

—Martin Morrill, director air purification, Clariant

—Ryan Morrow, area sales manager, Firefly

—Steven Nelson, general manager, Wolf Material Handling
Systems

—Zarko Ognjenovic, CEO, MJ Wood

—Jose Pedrajas, CEO, Prodesa NA

—Justin Price, principal, Evergreen Engineering

—Charlie Schulz, COO, Seeger Green Energy

—Bijan Shams, president, Cogent Industrial Technologies

—Dominik Steiner, process engineer, Scheuch

—Dr. William Strauss, president, FutureMetrics

—Malcolm Swanson, president, ASTEC, Inc.

Subject matters in the sessions will include The Industrial
Wood Pellet Sector: An Overview from the U.S. Forest to the UK and EU Power
Plant; Fire Safety for Pellet Manufacturing and Port Terminal Storage, Handling
and Ship Loading; Dryer Island Technologies; Air Emissions and Dust Control;
The State of Woody Raw Material Supply for Bioenergy Applications; Process and
Operational Efficiencies; Fuel Procurement and Wood Yard Handling and much
more.

Registration is open at bioenergyshow.com/registration.