2024 Speakers and Keynotes
Explore our esteemed roster of speakers and keynotes for the 2024 North American Biochar Conference. For the latest updates and a complete speaker list, refer to the Whova conference app.
Keynote Speaker - Tuesday
Virginia Jameson
Deputy Secretary for Climate and Working Lands at the California Department of Food and Agriculture
Keynote Speaker - Wednesday
Johannes Lehmann
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor at Cornell University
Soil Biogeochemist and Biochar Pioneer
Keynote Speaker - Wednesday
Candiss Williams
National Soil Health Specialist Candiss Williams: Championing Soil and Water Conservation for USDA
Presenters
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Alexandru Let
State Asphalt Services
Amy McCrae Kessler
US Biochar Coalition
Andreas Hackl
Next Generation Elements GmbH
Andrew White
CHAR Technologies Ltd.
Angela del Pilar Barrero Bernal
Advanced Resilient Biocarbon
Annie Nichols
Pacific Biochar Benefit Corporation
Benjamin Wong
Von Wong
Bernardo del Campo
ARTi
Bert Bennett
ICM Inc.
Bryan Eagle
Glanris
C Tabor Teachout
Biochar Coalition
Caitlin Kelly
South Pole
Candiss Williams
USDA NRCS
Carlos Rodriguez-Franco
US Department of Agriculture - US Forest Service
Cathal Fitzgerald
Arigna Fuels
Catherine Brewer
New Mexico State University
Chaiwe Mushauko-Sanderse
CaDev
Charles Becker
USDA Forest Service, Cooperative Forestry
Chris Jones
University of Arizona
Chris Wiberg
Timber Products Inspection / Biomass Energy Lab
Christoph Mizelli
NAWARO ENERGIE Betrieb GmbH
Chuck Hassebrook
National Center for Appropriate Technology
Chuck Hegberg
Resource Environmental Solutions LLC, Hanover Borough
David Lanning
Forest Concepts, LLC
David Lefebvre
University Of British Columbia
Debbie Dumroese
USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Deborah Aller
Cornell University
Derek Pierson
USDA Forest Service
Dr. Sara Duarte
The Next 150
Elaine Oneil
CORRIM
Eric Mayer
Napachar
Erwin Bogner
American BioCarbon
Fernando Migliassi
The Biochar Impact Company
Frederick Tornatore
TSS Consultants
Gregory Stangl
Phoenix Energy
Han-Sup Han
Northern Arizona University
Hansjörg Lerchenmüller
European Biochar Industry Consortium (EBI)
Harshal Kansara
Rochester Institute of Technology
Hugh McLaughlin
Trinity Biocarbon
James Kench
Kita
Jeff Hallowell
Biomass Controls PBC
Jeffrey Bortniker
Maxsum Environmental
Johannes Lehmann
School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section Cornell University
John Webster
US Biochar Initiative
Joseph Kochanski
Puro Earth
Josiah Hunt
Pacific Biochar
Justin Britton
CAL FIRE
Kathleen Draper
Carbon Standards International
Kelpie Wilson
Wilson Biochar Associates
Kristin Trippe
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service
Kurt Spokas
USDA-ARS
Lalitha Gattumukkala
Celignis Biomass Lab
Lori Tunstall
Colorado School of Mines
Lucinda Li
Cornell University
Ludvig Landen
BIOCHAR.TECH
Luisa Marin de Block
General Biochar Systems
Mark Elless
U.S. Department of Energy
Melinda Gonzales
UC Merced
Mercedes del Campo
ARTi
Myles Gray
US Biochar Initiative
Natalie Van Dyke
ElectraTherm
Nicolas Barbarosch
Caligenia
Nikolaus Wohlgemuth
Carbonfuture
Presentations
Climate Action Reserve
Rachel Seman-Varner
American Farmland Trust
Robert Kovach
PYREG Inc.
Roger Smullen
Earth Foundries, Inc.
Rose Harris
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ryan Letourneau
Grain Ecosystem
Ryan Ramage
Valley Environmental
Sachin Bhide
Stellantis Venture Labs
Seth Kane
University of California, Davis
Somayeh Nassiri
University of California, Davis , Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Stefan Jirka
Verra
Steiner Ueli
Carbon Standards International AG
Stephen Feher
Board member of Butte County Fire Safe Council and Pardise Ridge Fire Safe Council; Regenerate Pardise and Member of the Pardasi Garden Club.
Steve Peterson
USDA-ARS-NCAUR
Suzanne Allaire
GECA Environnement
Sébastien Lange
Biopterre
Takuto Nagata
TOWING Co., Ltd
Ted Christie-Miller
BeZero Carbon
Thomas Butler
KMW Energy Group
Thomas Trabold
Rochester Institute of Technology
Tobias Schweitzer
AIRA Holding GmbH
Tom Miles
US Biochar Initiative
Tristan Springer
CarbonPilot
Tyson Nicoll
Southwest Biochar Products
Virginia Jameson
California Department of Food & Agriculture
Wihan Bekker
Ikhala Impact - CHARR App
Wyatt Catron
3Degrees
Yvan Hernandez-Charpak
Rochester Institute of Technology