2013 Speakers and Programme Committee

Smithers Apex is proud to hightlight our Programme Committee and speakers for the 2013 Eurocoke Summit, to be held in Krakow, Poland on 23-25 April 2013. Learn more about these highly qualified industry leaders before heading to Poland:

Neil Bristow

Neil Bristow, Principal / Managing Consultant

H&W Worldwide Consulting Pty Ltd

Biographical details to follow.

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Ingomar Koehler

Ingomar Koehler, Senior Development Engineer

Procomco

Ingomar Koehler is a former Senior Development Engineer with ThyssenKrupp. He is now retired and working in a consulting capacity with procomco. He has over 30 years experience in all areas of cokemaking.

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Aleksander Sobolewski

Aleksander Sobolewski, Research & Development Deputy Director

Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal (ICHPW)

Aleksander's main interest of his research works include coke making technology and thermal processing of solid fuels and wastes. At present he is R&D Director of the Institute of Chemical Processing of Coal in Zabrze.

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Mike Barkdoll

Mike Barkdoll, Vice President

Forest Vue Research, LLC

Mike Barkdoll is the former Manger of Technology Development for SunCoke Energy and is currently the VP of Forest Vue Research,LLC a research company focused on developing non-traditional industrial processes.

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Viktor Stiskala

Viktor Stiskala, Senior Manager for Coal and Coke, Competence Center Metallurgy

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe

Viktor Stískala is a Dipl. Engineer in cokemaking and ironmaking with 25 years’ experience in coal research and cokemaking process. Before joining ThyssenKrupp in 2012 on position of Senior manager he worked as R&D Coal and Coke Cluster leader and Program coordinator in Arcelor Mittal and was a manager of ArcelorMittal Corporate Coke Lab in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Over his career in the Czech Republic he served in two election periods as President of the Czech Cokemaking Society and was also national representative in European Coke Committee.

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