October 01st 2025
8th Annual EUstarch value chain and fermentation October 13-14 Berlin (Germany).
Agenda:
Day 1
12:30
Registration & Networking Lunch
13:25
Chairman’s Welcoming Remarks
Simon Bentley, Managing Director
Commoditia Ltd
13:30
Strengthening starch’s central role in the EU bioeconomy: Policy pathways for resilience, competitiveness, and market expansion
Nellie Hajdu, Managing Director
Starch Europe
14:00
EU wheat starch and vital wheat protein market
Michael Andreae Jaeckering, Owner
Jaeckering Mühlen- und Naehrmittelwerke GmbH
14:30
European potato starch market
Andre Heilemann, Head of R&D
Emsland-Stärke Gmbh
15:00
Discussion followed by Tea
15:45
Feeding the Future Starts With Seeing Clearly: How LCA and Transparency Guide Sustainable Land Use
Dick van Beek, CEO
Aminola
16:15
New clean label technology to modify starch
Dr. Jovin Hasjim, Research and Development Engineer
Roquette
16:45
Innovative egg replacer solutions with peas
Cyril Francart, CEO
FlavaPulse
17:15
Final Discussion. End of Day One. Followed by Networking Reception
Day 2
09:00
Chairman’s Welcome Remarks
Henk Jaap Meijer, Director & Owner
Meijer Consult BV
09:10
Macro and microeconomic forces shaping the starch value chain in a volatile blend of risk, tariffs disruption, and shifting demand patterns
Simon Bentley, Managing Director
Commoditia Ltd
09:40
Chemo-enzymatic extraction of dietary fibres from corn processing
Prof. Francisco Vilaplana, Director of Food
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
10:10
Discussion. Followed by Coffee Break
10:50
Valorising starch-based side streams into biomaterials
Dr. Anne Lamp, CEO & Co-Founder
traceless materials GmbH
11:20
Fermentation of food waste streams (potato processing) into
i) Fatty acids; Scalability & LCA and carbon savings
Niels van Stralen, Founder & Chief Growth Officer
ChainCraft BV
ii) Oil & Fats
Jeroen Hugenholtz, Chief Technology Officer
NoPalm Ingredients B.V.
12:10
Development of new applications and products for plant-based residual from petfood, feed to renewable chemicals
Gert-Jan Hermanussen, Head of Procurement
Looop Company
12:30
Discussion followed by Lunch
14:00
Sustainable protein consumption via fermentation processes
i) Can precision fermentatively produced protein be the next big thing?
Will van den Tweel, Project director
Those Vegan Cowboys
ii) Biomass fermentation of yeast to provide stability, protein loading and more to condiments & beverages
Tomas Turner, CEO | Co-Founder
Cosaic
15:00
Leveraging fermentation technology & combined AI to transform agricultural byproducts into nutritious and sustainable ingredients
Bosco Emparanza Garcia, CEO & Founder
Moa Foodtech
15:30
Clean label mycoprotein solutions from valorised agriwaste streams
Iria Varela Campo, CEO & Cofounder
ODS Protein
16:00
Final Discussion. Tea
17:00
End of conference
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