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April 13: Wednesday
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Breakfast and Registration
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Sponsored by Agris Corporation, a John Deere Company |
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Welcome
Steven
Pueppke, Associate Dean for Research, College of Agricultural,
Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign |
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Keynote Speaker
Kathleen
Eisenhardt, Professor of Management, Stanford University |
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Break |
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Panel #1 End-Users
Moderated
by Curt Miller,
Supervisor, Eastern European Operations
Cooperative Business International, Inc.
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(10-minutes each) with open discussion
for 40 minutes.
Will Duensing,
Director, Quality Assurance and
Technical Services, Bunge Milling
David
Bossman, Former Executive
Director, American Feed Industry Association
Eduardo de la Fuente,
Director of Quality Control, Maseca
Jeff
Norman, Corn Procurement Manager, Tate & Lyle
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Lunch - Sponsored
by Pioneer, A DuPont Company |
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Panel #2 Grain Handlers and Producers |
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(10-minutes each) with open discussion
for 40 minutes.
Lynn Clarkson,
President, Clarkson Grain Co., Inc.
"Soybean Quality Rewards Program," Dale
Crawford, Illinois Soybean Association
Chuck Cawley, Illinois Farm Bureau
“Opportunities
and Challenges in the
Production of IP Grains” Larry
Groce, Sales and Marketing Advisor, Premium Ag
Products, LLC
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Break - Sponsored
by Illinois Farm Bureau ® |
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Panel #3 Seed Companies -
Moderated by Randy Nelson, USDA-ARS, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign |
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(10-minutes each) with open
discussion for 40 minutes.
"Selecting and Aligning New Soy Grains for Diverse
Food Applications," John
A. Schillinger, President,
Schillinger Seed & CEO, Heartland Fields, LLC
Pradip
Das, Director, Crop
Analytics, Monsanto Co.
Peter Coaldrake,
Director, Grain and Nutritional
Sciences, Maize Development, Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l,
Inc., A DuPont Company
"Identity Preservation and 'Due Care' in the
Coming Age of Traceability," Thomas
P. Redick, Attorney,
United Soybean Board
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April 14: Thursday
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Breakfast |
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Industry Tours
focusing on risks, problems, possibilities in grain
informatics.
1.
Monitoring Quality Attributes in the Export Market
Channel
a. GeneScan
b. FGIS
c. ADM Export Elevator
at Destrehan
2. Handling Technologies
for Specialized Attributes
a. Bunge
Export Elevator at Destrehan
b. Total Transportation
Inc.
c. ADM Export Elevator
at AMA |
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Lunch - Sponsored
by FOSS |
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Panel #4 Testing Equipment and Informatics
Moderated by
Dirk Maier, Purdue University, NC-213
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(10-minutes each) with open discussion
for 40 minutes.
Jan-Ake
Persson, Global Grains
Manager, Foss
Jerry Halterman,
Managing Director, GeoVeritas
Ching-Hui Tseng,
QTA Technical Manager, Cognis
Fred Roth, Director
of Business Development, Agris Corp.
Dave Crompton,
President, OPIsystems, Inc.
Richard Dempster,
Director, Product and Technological Development, American
Institute of Baking |
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Break |
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View from the
Frontlines: New IP Models in Action - Moderated
by Tony DeLio, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director
of Business Development for the University of Illinois
at Champaign-Urbana |
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Case Study #1 |
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”Visualizing
a New Paradigm for Quality-Conscious Market Channels,”
Dan Kallestad, CEO,
Cerys Systems, Inc. |
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Case Study #2:
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Paul
Smolen, Bunge
Bunge adding greater value for their more discriminating
buyers |
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Case Study #3:
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Wade
Ostrander, Field Agent, North Kansas City Missouri,
National Starch and Chemical Company
High Extractable Starch Corn |
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Reception |
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Dinner - Sponsored by the College
of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
at the University of Illinois
Speaker: Robert Easter, Dean, College of ACES |
April 15: Friday
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Breakfast - Sponsored
by Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. and GeneScan |
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Panel #5 Facilitating International
Trade - Moderated by Lowell Hill,
Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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(10-minutes each) with open discussion
for 40 minutes
Dave
Shipman, Deputy Administrator, GIPSA, FGIS, USDA
Dennis Thompson,
CEO, llinois Crop Improvement
Association, Inc.
Steve Tanner, Director of Technical Services Division,
GIPSA, FGIS, USDA Technical Center
Kent
Sisson, Assistant Deputy
Administrator for Marketing, FAS, USDA
Juan Batista,
Agrifood Quality Director, Agrifood Health and Quality
National Service, Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock,
Fishery and Food, Argentina |
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Break |
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Breakout Sessions: |
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Moderated by
Bill Jorgenson, Mike Sweat and Amy Bantham, SJH
and Company |
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1) R&D Needs: Infrastructure
Management, Commercial Models |
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a. Private
b. Public
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2) Government Policy Changes |
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a. Calibration, and Equipment and
Facility Standards
b. Regulatory and 3rd Party
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3) Rotating Annual Technology Conference |
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a. Positive Attributes
b. Negative Attributes
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Lunch - Sponsored
by Monsanto |
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Keynote Speaker
"The
Frontier of Food Traceability: Flowers Foods and Wal-Mart" |
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Jimmy
Woodward, CFO & Senior VP, Flowers Foods |
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Ken
Parnell, Vice-President Meat, Seafood and Deli,
Wal-Mart (retired) |
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Conclude |
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