Georgia Tech’s Renewable Bioproducts Institute will host its annual executive conference Growing Resources Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow: People, Technologies & Ideas, March 7-8 at the Global Learning Center in Midtown Atlanta. The opening address will be delivered by John Williams, CEO of Domtar, a company on the forefront of the effort to convert sustainable wood fiber into useful products on which people rely every day. Faculty, students and company leaders will take part in the two-day event, which drew more than 160 attendees last year. The conference provides a platform for Georgia Tech researchers to share the latest innovative techniques and advances in renewable bioproducts with industry leaders searching for solutions and opportunities in their own workplace.

In addition to a variety of presentations, panel discussions and the popular student poster competition, a special session is planned to address implications and opportunities inherent for companies in the recently awarded “Rapid Acceleration of Process Intensification Deployment” (RAPID), a Department of Energy Innovative Manufacturing Institute for which Georgia Tech is a partner with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.