4.15pm - 5.00pm
By using waste gases instead of food (for example sugarcane or corn), LanzaTech’s fermentation technology provides a sustainable, low-cost, low carbon fuel production process with no impact on availability of food or land.
LanzaTech has received a number of prestigious global awards for its ground-breaking green technology. It continues to blaze a trail by securing funding and partnerships with leading global companies and academic organisations in order to further develop and commercialise their technology.
Key themes: Innovation, Intellectual property, creating new markets and protecting theme, selling the vision, sustainability.
About Sean
Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder LanzaTech
Sean is the Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of LanzaTech. Sean spent the first 12 years of his life living in various countries around the world, including Mauritius, Zambia and Gibraltar, before his family returned to England. He now lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand. Sean and his wife Silvia have two young children, a daughter Cecilia and a son Liam. Sean is an enthusiastic (if not skillful!) soccer player when time permits; he is also an avid supporter of Middlesborough “Boro” Football Club. He dreams of one day having the time to sail with his gorgeous family around the Pacific...but first he needs to learn to sail... and help LanzaTech to commercial success!
