The 2008 International Bioenergy and Bioproducts Conference is positioned center stage in the emerging alternative energy arena, with the forest products industry-and pulp and paper mills specifically-poised to take the lead with a significant cellulosic biomass processing infrastructure already in place and biofuel production capacity within a relatively short reach. This two-day, highly focused conference explores both thermochemical and biochemical pathways available to today's chemical and mechanical pulp mills that can lead to fully integrated biorefinery capacity in the very near future.

The intensive program for this years IBBC event explores not only the latest biorefinery technologies, but also developing markets and the legal-legislative-investment sides of the bioenergy/bioproducts equation. Some 15 information-packed sessions take attendees through an in-depth analysis of where the industry currently is on the biorefinery front to where it will be in the next five years and beyond. A critical issue underlying all sessions is the immediate need to attract investment community involvement on an on-going basis.