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Global Business of Food Agenda
(Subject to Change)
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
| 7:45 - 8:15 |
• Breakfast
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| 8:15 - 8:35 |
• Opening
Session - Welcome from Sponsor Bayer CropScience
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| 8:35 - 9:35 |
• Tough
Going in Global Food Markets: Must it Always Be So?
Dr. David Hughes, Imperial College London (UK)
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| 9:35 - 10:15 |
• Brazilian
Poultry Industry: Global Superpower?
Dr. Peter Zuurbier (Wageningen University, The
Netherlands and visiting professor
Sao Paola University (Brazil)
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| 10:15 - 10:40 |
• Networking
Break
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| 10:40 - 12:15 |
• Special
Country Focus: AUSTRALIA
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| 10:40 - 11:25 |
• Clean,
Green and Mean - How Australian Agriculture is Positioning Itself
in Global Competitive Food Markets
Mr. Ian Longson - Director General - Department
of Agriculture - Western Australia
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| 11:25 - 12:10 |
• Creating
Competitive Advantage Through Innovation Along the Value Chain -
Lessons Learned from the Australian Experience
under the National Food Industry
Strategy.
Dr. Susan Nelle - Managing Director - National
Food Industry Strategy Ltd. Australia)
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| 12:10 - 12:30 |
• Q
& A
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| 12:30 - 14:00
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• Networking
Lunch
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
• Mr.
Steve Allan, President & Chairman, Calgary Stampede (Canada)
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| 14:30 - 15:40 |
• Keynote
Presentation: Today's Strategies for Tomorrow's Consumers
Mr. Gary Johnson - Senior Director, Worldwide
Supply Chain Management,
McDonald's Corporation
Session Sponsor: Alberta Pork
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| 15:40 - 16:10 |
• Networking
Break
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| 16:10 - 17:00 |
• The
Power of a Loaf of Bread
Ms Linda Pizzey, President - Pizzey Milling (MB,
Canada)
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| 17:00 - 19:00 |
• "Taste
of Alberta & Canada Networking Reception"
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
| 7:45 - 8:15
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• Breakfast
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| 8:15 - 9:15 |
• Leveraging
Consumer Trends in the US
Mr. Christopher Wolf - Director Strategic
Innovation, The Turover-Straus Group, Inc.
(USA), will discuss what is new in the US food
industry in general, with a particular
focus on the growing Latino market
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| 9:15 - 10:00 |
• Addressing
Health Trends: Food Industry Response to Trans Labeling
Dr. Willie Loh - Market Development Cargill
Specialty Canola Oils (USA)
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| 10:00 - 10:10 |
• Mr.
Darcy Fitzgerald - General Manager- Alberta Livestock Industry
Development Fund
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| 10:10 - 10:30 |
• Networking
Break
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| 10:30 - 12:00 |
• Innovative
Food Packaging and the Emergence of Ready Meals
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| 10:30 - 11:10
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• Opportunities
for Application of New Technologies in Food Packaging:
A Global Perspective
Dr. Kevin Spencer, (USA) will examine innovative
packing and manufacturing
processes with particular focus on meat packaging
and ready meals.
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| 11:10 - 12:00 |
• The
Bighams Story: How to Succeed in a Competitive Ready Meal Market
Mr. Charlie Bigham - CEO & Founder of Bighams
(London, UK) will talk about his
journey from founding a start-up company to his
present day operation providing
chilled ready meals to one of the UK's leading
food retailers Waitrose
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| 12:00 - 12:30 |
• Interactive
Session Moderated by Dr. David Hughes interviewing Dr. Kevin
Spencer and Mr. Charlie Bigham
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| 12:30 - 12:50 |
• What
Did We Learn at the International Food Symposium 2006? Wrap Up Dr.
David Hughes
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| 12:50 - 13:00 |
• Concluding
Remarks
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| 13:00 - 14:15 |
• Farewell
luncheon for International Guests and Delegates
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