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Speaker Profiles
Once again, the International Food Symposium offers an impressive line up of
international speakers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, UK, USA and The
Netherlands, including:
 Professor
David Hughes, Imperial College London (Monmouthshire, Wales, UK)
Headliner at International Food Symposium, David will share his extensive
knowledge, humorous insights and big picture predictions of global food trends.
 Mr.
Charlie Bigham, Founder & CEO, Bighams (London, UK)
London entrepreneur growing Bighams from an idea to a successful chilled ready
meal manufacturer in the world's largest ready meal market. (UK £1.2billion
annually).
 Mr.
Gary Johnson, Senior Director, Worldwide Supply Chain Management, McDonald's
Corporation (Chicago, IL, USA)
Gary is responsible for the beef, chicken, pork and fish needs of over 30,000
McDonald's restaurants in 119 countries serving over 48 million customers
daily. Gary's presentation "Today's Strategies for Tomorrows Consumers" is a
must see for all those in the food industry.
 Dr.
Kevin Spencer, (Riverside, IL, USA)
Kevin is a leading consultant working internationally as a food manufacturing
systems analyst and R&D specialist. Former VP and Senior Scientist and
Technical Adviser for Safeway (UK) and Liquide Air (France). Kevin will speak
on "Opportunities for Application of New Technologies in Food Packaging: A
Global Perspective".
 Mr.
Christopher Wolf - Director Strategic Innovation,
The Turover-Straus Group, Inc. (USA)
As the Director of Strategic Innovation, Christopher creates new innovative
processes and develops growth-driven insights for The Turover Straus Group, one
of the U.S.'s leading food & beverage new product strategic planning,
concept and product development companies. His background includes advising
food companies such as Gerber, Tyson, Sara Lee, Campbell's, M&M/ Mars,
French's, Pepsi, Yum!Brands, Dairy Queen, Wendy's, and Sysco. Christopher will
focus on the ever expanding foodservice industry, US consumer food trends, with
a special report on marketing to Hispanic consumers.
 Mr.
Ian Longson - Director General, Department of Agriculture Western Australia
(Perth, WA, Australia)
Australia has successfully branded its food products with a reputation for
quality, purity and freedom from disease and plans to add $3 billion annually
to the Australian agri-food sector. Hear about their successes and strategies
for future growth.
 Dr.
Susan Nelle - Managing Director, National Food Industry Strategy (NFIS Ltd.)
(Canberra, ACT, Australia)
"Business and government see things differently, do things differently, use
different language and have different concerns, but they have the same
objectives". Hear about NFIS Ltd, a partnership between industry and
government, that has resulted in changes to government policies and a
re-invigorated food industry.
 Ms
Linda Pizzey - President - Pizzey Milling (Angusville, MB, Canada)
From Manitoba farmer, to baker of flax bread for country fairs, to North
America's largest, most experienced specialty-flaxseed ingredient supplier. A
great case study in adding value to commodities on the farm.
 Dr.
Willie Loh, Manager - Market Development Manager, Cargill Specialty Canola
Oils, Cargill Inc. (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Health and wellness is an enduring trend in the food industry and products on
the supermarket shelf in five years will be designed to target consumers with
specific nutritional benefits. Dr. Willie Loh will talk about how Cargill
Specialty oils are targeting this market.
 Mr.
Steve Allan, Chairman of the Board and President, Calgary Stampede (Calgary,
AB, Canada)
Acting as a link between rural and urban people, the Stampede is creating a
year-round domestic and international destination that will attract business
and leisure travelers to a unique western experience. Steve will share some of
the plans for this transformation of Stampede Park.
 Dr.
Peter Zuurbier, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Peter Zuurbier is the Senior Advisor of the Executive Board of Wageningen
University and Research center in the Netherlands. He is an Associate Professor
in Business Administration focusing his research, training and consulting
activities on food chain development domestically and internationally. He is a
visiting professor at Sao Paola University this year.
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