Dr Richard Cropp is a Green Energy Innovator and German Chemical Technology Specialist, who is currently residing in Malaysia. Over the last 20 years, he has been passionately developing and promoting innovative technology to create sustainable energy alternatives. His 2020 innovation is a patent-pending system to convert Biomass and/or Plastic such as palm waste into liquid fuel. To use this and any other combustible fuel he has designed the World’s first Positive Displacement Turbine to create twice the power at half the size and weight of a conventional engine...with almost 50% Fuel Saving. He is also an in-demand speaker at business and environmental conferences for his vast knowledge of the global green/clean energy challenges particularly in Asia.

Tom Miles is the president of T.R. Miles, Technical Consultants, Portland, Oregon, a biomass energy consulting firm, which designs, develops, installs, and commissions systems for processing wood, agricultural, and urban residues. His knowledge of ash transformations led to recycling nutrients using pyrolysis of residues to biochar. He has sponsored and hosted online discussions of biomass energy since 1994 and biochar since 2006. He is Executive Director of the United States Biochar Initiative and past chairman of the International Biochar Initiative. 

Hans Langeveld studied tropical agronomy at Wageningen University. He started his career at the economic faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he worked on food production and land use issues. He specialised in sustainable agriculture at Wageningen University and Research Centre, developing into a specialist on a land use, nutrient management and climate (Greenhouse Gas emissions), analysing nutrient emissions, sustainable bioenergy and biobased economy. In 2008, Hans started a company, Biomass research, which serves governments, companies and NGO’s. Over the past few years, it provided input to complex issues related biomass availability, biobased economy and sustainable land use issues. Hans has co-authored books on agricultural systems, biomass and biobased economy, and has given over 200 presentations. He is board member of the Dutch Bioeconomy Federation