About Us
We’re BEES (Bioenergy Events and Services), a small, independent, and international team that has been organizing events in the bioenergy sector for over 20 years.
Since our very first wood energy exhibition, we’ve grown with the industry—creating and delivering events such as Biogaz Europe, Salon Bois Energie, Bioenergy World Americas, Bioenergy World Europe, Hypac, and ReGen Europe. These have taken place in Italy, Brazil, and each year in France, where we’re based. Our flagship event, Bio360, has evolved into one of the leading international gatherings for the bioenergy sector.
Hands-on, experiential events have always been part of our DNA. For many years, our shows featured live demonstrations of forestry machinery in action—wood chippers of all scales, sawmills, loggers, and cutters—bringing the entire transformation process of the raw material to life. Indoors, we engineered smoke extraction systems to safely showcase wood and pellet stoves, ovens, and boilers in full operation. We created events so compelling that people would jump fences just to be part of them.
We’re based in Lyon, and on a clear day, you can look east and see the snow-capped Alps. And we want them to stay that way. That’s why sustainability is not just a theme of our events—it’s embedded in how we run them.
Each year in Nantes, Bio360 welcomes more than 6,000 participants and 450 exhibitors from over 40 countries. It hosts multiple conference streams with over 250 speakers across 50 sessions, organizes sector-specific study tours and innovation awards, and fosters genuine opportunities for collaboration and connection.
All of our events are eco-certified, adhering to an independent environmental charter that helps us continuously reduce our impact.
As an independent team, we’re deeply committed to the sector. We listen. We adapt. And we strive to stay not just in step with the industry, but one step ahead—helping to shape its future, not just reflect its present.
We never rest on our laurels. Guided by the trust and enthusiasm of our community, we’re ready to broaden our horizons and take on a bigger role in the global bioenergy conversation—beyond our historical European roots and into new territories.
Our History
With a history dating back to 1998, when renewables were still termed alternative and notions of the bioeconomy were just “apples in the eye” of a handful of pioneering thinkers, our story begins.
Bio360 today is in fact a grouping of three events organised historically by Bees: the Salon Bois Energie (2005-2020), Biogaz Europe (2010-2020) and Regen Europe (2018-2020). The Salon Bois Energie itself, famed for assembling the wood energy sector from A-Z was created by ITEBE in 1998 and was at the time the world’s first event for wood energy. It was acquired by Bees in 2005 and formed the basis for an evolving family of events for the bioenergy and bioeconomy sectors that culminates today in Bio360, a cross-disciplinary event that enables and encourages the development of synergies between the different strands of the bioeconomy and bioenergy sectors.
Who We Are
Based in Lyon, Bees, the organiser of Bio360, is a small, multicultural and dedicated team of event professionals with a combined experience of over 60 years.
"Nailing our colours to the mast": ancient seafarer’s used to nail their colours to the mast in order to signal what they stood for and what they would fight to protect. We do similarly and in our case, the colour is bright green !
This translates in our professional lives into a dedication to the transformative ambition of Bio360 and in our day-to-day existence, we work in offices that are heated and cooled by biomass and are powered by a mix of renewables. We also get around largely with bioNGV, electric bicycles and public transport. We even sometimes cook with solar heaters or micro-scale biomass gasifiers … not to mention our Ooni wood or biogas fired pizza oven !! … ie, we enjoy walking the talk as much as we can !