Valdis Bisters holds an MSc in Physics and currently undertakes PhD studies on Zero Carbon Development at the University of Latvia. He is an ex Climate Policy Director at the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Latvia responsible for development of carbon trading mechanisms and has initiated set up of the Green Investment Scheme to use earmarked revenues from Kyoto international emission trading. He has completed sovereign sales under the international private law at the scale of $250 million. He was actively involved in designing training programs on environmental science, environmental management and sustainable development. Now he works as private consultant and developer of innovative technologies for circular economy.

Giovanni Cappello is very experienced industrial engineer and visiting lecturer at Politecnico di Milano on gasification and CO2 capture and storage with an MBA from the Università Bocconi di Milano. He has filed patents on thermochemical reforming processes, and started his journey in gasification R&D and system design back in 2002. He has developed and commissioned downdraft, updraft gasifiers in South America, Asia and Europe, and has completed a long technology road map to come up with the most efficient and economically feasible route on advanced gasification. His recent gasification work is related to a demo installation in Milan which takes gasification to a new level of tar free syngas and overall system efficiency suitable for further downstream gas processing to replace fossil products.

Juris Kalviss is highly qualified engineer in gasification and gas cleaning industries. His track record goes back 20 years when he built the first biomass gasification system in Latvia. He has been consulting in implementation of downdraft, mixed type updraft-downdraft, staged and vortex gasifier projects. He has hands on experience in engineering of product gas cooling and cleaning technologies, experience in engineering and operations of infrasound and mechanical cleaning systems of hot gas heat exchangers, experience in 3D CAD engineering software SolidWorks, Autodesk software suite, and open code CFD software OpenFOAM, as well as simulation software Comsol Multiphysics.

Dennis Ross Morrey is a graduate of Engineering Sciences with a specialization in Industrial Engineering from the University of Piura, Peru. He has dedicated his profession to holistically study, understand and interpret some biological systems and natural phenomena to conceptualize and mimic their potential application in various industrial sectors and environmental changes. With Giovanni Cappello, he is the co-founder of CO2APPS, an Italian company dedicated to the integration of advanced industrial technologies to generate negative carbon emissions through the production of hydrogen and the reduction of acidification of seawater. At Hyrogas, his work focuses on the research and development of the mathematical algorithm that simulates the thermochemical reforming of organic matter with the smallest possible carbon footprint.