Opening Session – Keynote Speakers 

USA Renewable Energy Initiative:  The Path Forward, Chris Cassidy, National Business Renewable Energy Advisor, USA

Application of Natural Fiber (Jute) Products, Sudripta Roy, Secretary General, International Jute Study Group, Bangladesh

Keynote from the International Development Committee for National Ecological Industry, China

Track 1- Biobased Products from Plant Fibers

Keynote: Green biomaterials for Enhanced Sustainability in Biofuel Industries: New Value-added Uses of Lignin as Novel Industrial Products, Amar K. Mohanty, Premier's Research Chair in Biomaterials & Transportation, Director, Bioproducts Discovery & Development Centre, Dept. of Plant Agriculture & School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Canada

Track 2 – Production, Harvesting, and Processing of Kenaf and Allied Fibers

Keynote: Kenaf: Production, Potential, and Promises, Charles Webber, Agronomist, USDA, ARS, SCARL, USA 

Track 3 – Environmental Benefits of Using Non-wood Fibers

Keynote: Kenaf and Allied Fibers: Environmental, Social and Economic Opportunities and Challenges Thomas Rymsza, President, Vision Paper, USA

  Track 4 – Fiber Crops as Feedstock for Renewable Energy

Keynote: Generating Bioproducts and Bioenergy from Fibrous Biomass, Roger Ruan, Professor, Director, Center for Biorefining, University of Minnesota, USA

Track 5 – International Collaborations

Keynote: The World Needs Genuine Internationalists to Solve Regional and Global Problems － Our Efforts in Shikoku, Japan, Kazuhiko Sameshima, Professor Emeritus, Japan Kenaf Association, Japan 

Case Study – Low Cost and High Yield Kenaf Pulp for Paper Industry : A Case Study of A Kenaf Market Pulp Mill Project in Vietnam, Eric Xu, Principal Scientist/Manager, Pilot Plant / R&D Laboratory, Andritz Inc., USA