We've started to get confirmed speakers for the Collective Biodiesel Conference in July....



The Conference will be from July 18th through July 20th.

We have several more speakers we're working on right now, but for the current list so far, visit the site:
http://www.collectivebiodiesel.org

Hope to see many of you there as I'll be showing my mug around the place....

Details on registration are at the site:
http://www.collectivebiodiesel.org

Thanks,
Graydon

Just out of curiosity....
Who here is planning on coming?

-Graydon

Graydon
The wife and I where thinking about it,we could use a break.It would be a nice drive and would be good to here from like minded peaple.
The speaker line up looks good as well.This would be the first one for us could you tell me more about it? I have been to the web site and it sounds like a fun time.
Thank you
Matt

Graydon,
I'm trying to set it up. I would really like to attend.

Matt,
It's a really cool conference. We try to get as many cool speakers as we can to talk about issues that home brewers, coops, and small producers would be interested in.

It's not like the NBB conference where all the talks are by vendors trying to sell you something either. It's a much nicer event as far as that goes. You won't see booths either where people are trying to cram stuff down your throat to buy either (there WILL NOT be a Utah Biodiesel Supply booth there...now if you come up & ASK me about something, sure, I'll tell you but I'm not there to sell stuff..this is the fun conference for me).

Anyway, lots & lots of fun topics & speakers.

You can look at presentations from two years ago here:
http://www.collectivebiodiesel.org/presentations/

Here's the list from last year:
http://www.collectivebiodiesel.org/presentations/index07.php

It's just a ton of fun too & we try to keep it casual and as informative as we can.

Hope to see you there!

Joe_M,
I'd LOVE to see you there & finally have a chance to meet our own "GM Guy" in person....

-Graydon

For those coming (or considering coming)....
They just posted the schedule...

http://www.collectivebiodiesel.org
-Graydon

I can't believe that my schedule once again won't allow me to go, but that's a fact. Dang.

I'm in the same boat with Kumar. I sure wish I could go but finding the time for me is just not possible when fuel prices are hitting new highs every other day.

The only reason Graydon is going is because he has a back-up to take care of things while he is absent.

Yep. I've been training him well....

He's been doing an awesome job!
-Graydon

Yeah I am in the same boat.
I know it is a pain, but I do have a suggestion. It would make it easier to plan and attendance would increase if the planning was done 3-4 months ahead of time. The meeting that I am attending for work in December is already planned to the degree that I could already have my flight and hotel reservations done if I wanted. I realize that not all the details can be worked out. But it does make a big difference on attendance if you give someone one month to plan or 3-4 months to plan.
I am not trying to be negative as I would really like to attend, there just wasn't enough time to plan for it.
DD

We actually announce the date when it will be quite a bit before the conference (we announced this date clear back in the winter).

However, nailing down the speakers & planning the conference itself is quite a chore as we don't really have anyone doing it full-time (to keep the price down).

Yeah, I know, we can't get it all done as fast as people would like, but we did announce the date quite a few months ago.

Getting all the speakers & topics nailed down takes the lion share of the time though...

But, if you do plan on coming, it's gonna be a great one...

-Graydon

It's basically always been the third week of July.
-Graydon

See all of those coming this next weekend!

(looks like we have folks coming from all over too--check out the new map they put up!)
http://collectivebiodiesel.org

-Graydon

How did the conference go?
DD

The conference was great!
You can see the pictures here.
http://www.collectivebiodiesel.org/photos/2008conference/

I must be getting old...I don't take near the pictures I used to.

Here's the speakers list...
http://www.collectivebiodiesel.org/speakers/index08.php

The presentations will be available as soon as they're uploaded & I have a chance to generate the links to them.

All the talks were also video's this year and they're deciding on how to post those...it may just initially be a DVD, but not sure at this point.

The conference was great though!
-Graydon

Did you see any algae oil?

Nope! Still waitin!
-Graydon

Graydon w/ "Mr. Biodiesel Smarter".


His shirt said
"I'd rather be Spankin Esters"....

-Graydon

Check out what was parked in the SL Airport parking lot on my way home...



Dang! What a waste of a good semi!
-Graydon

Frankie Abralind (Biodiesel Smarter), Jon Mueser (Algae Biodiesel God!), Lyle Rudensey (Biolyle.com)