Announcing Recent Advances in Fermentation Technology(RAFT) 12. The next RAFT meeting will be held October 29-November 1, 2017 at the Hyatt Coconut Point, Bonita Springs (Ft. Myers), Florida. The theme will be “Driving Innovation and Stability from R and D to Commercialization and Beyond”, and leading the program committee will be Program Chair Tiffany Rau of Evonik-Degussa. More information will become available late 2016.