Featuring: AFPM Distinguished Safety Awards
The Distinguished Safety Award (DSA) is AFPM’s most prestigious award. The DSA recognizes member companies that have attained an exemplary level of safety performance. Recipients are chosen by a selection committee comprised of members of the AFPM Safety and Health Committee. Join us for the announcement of the 2020 award winners!
Keynote Presentation
Price: $125
Open to registered attendees only. Tickets must be purchased by March 4. No tickets or same-day seating will be available on-site.
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Processing Bio derived Feeds in an FCC Unit
This presentation will include a case study using a Regenerator kinetic model and demonstrate the FCC unit’s ability to process heavier bio or waste derived oil with RegenMax technology.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Outlook for Green FCC Technology
This session presents the proven practices and challenges with proposed solutions for five tenets of a successful Green FCC Technology, including lowering emissions, improving energy efficiency, reducing use of natural resources, utilizing catalyst innovations and co-processing biogenic and plastic feedstocks.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Technip Energies practices on green FCC technology.
Speaker: Scott Golczynski, Senior Technologies, Technip Energies Process Technology
Attracting and keeping talented employees is the most critical activity in the long-term success of any organization. In this interactive presentation, Dr. Anderson will share what he has learned from research and twenty years of helping organizations hire and keep the best employees.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Gain knowledge regarding the 5 functions of management.
2. Design a recruiting system to locate, hire and develop the best talent.
3. Utilize a review system that acknowledges / rewards good behavior and holds accountable “bad” behavior.
Speaker: Steve Anderson, Ph.D., Integrated Leadership Systems
With the ever-increasing commitments of CO2 reduction, the path to realizing those commitments seems more uncertain than ever. Haldor-Topsoe, the global leader in energy-efficient technologies to produce clean transportation fuels, as well as ammonia, methanol, and hydrogen, will discuss how hydrogen can be used to decarbonize existing assets. In addition, a discussion of how methanol and ammonia are expected to become fuels and energy carriers, as part of the energy transition.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. What are people doing with hydrogen to decarbonize?
2. The energy transition to ammonia and methanol as fuels in various end-use sectors.
3. Understand key considerations to select the best energy carrier.
Speaker: Johan W. Malan, Senior Licensing Manager, Haldor Topsoe
Once you arrive at Tre Posti, a former high-end restaurant turned event venue, and venture indoors to the Harvest Room, a Chef will begin demonstrating the process of making award winning appetizers. As you sip a refreshing glass of sparkling wine and enjoy the sampling of appetizers made, it is then your turn at preparing your own rendition! This interactive activity is extremely popular among those in Napa and is anticipated to fill up fast! Depending on weather, this activity may be conducted outside.