Conference Programme
Sunday 2 April 2017
10:00 Executive Meeting (Board Members only)
14:00 GRSE Meeting (By invitation)
16:00 Membership Meeting (Board Members and Ambassadors)
18:00 Chairman’s Welcome Reception
Monday 3 April 2017
08:00 Marketing Workshop (All welcome)
Speaker: Désirée Heijne, WING: University of Vechta, Germany
‘Public trust – The WING Transparency Initiative’
Speaker: Tim Lambert, Egg Farmers of Canada
‘International Egg Nutrition Consortium – Moving forward’
Speaker: Anina Kjaer, Danish Egg Association, Denmark
‘International Egg Nutrition Consortium- Report from Banff Nutrition Conference’
09:30 Official Conference Opening
10:00 Keynote Speaker: Prof David Hughes, Imperial College London, UK
‘Consumers and the plant protein mega-trend: Implications for the global egg industry’
10:30 Coffee
11:10 Economics Session: Driving efficiencies in egg production – Advances in layer nutrition
Speaker: Prof Leo den Hartog, Wageningen University & Trouw Nutrition, Netherlands
‘Innovation in layer nutrition’
Speaker: Steve Pritchard, Premier Nutrition, UK
‘The impact of nutrition on bird behaviour’
Speaker: Paulien Rutten, Hendrix Genetics, Netherlands
‘How to feed and manage layers for long production cycles’
Question & Answer Session
Speaker : Steve Manton, IEF Chairman
‘IEF update’
Speaker: Cesar de Anda
‘Latin American Poultry Congress Promotion’
12:40 Lunch
14:15 Egg Production Session: Avian Influenza: Situation, prevention and sanitation. Presented by the IEC AI Expert Group
Speaker: Dr Alejandro Thiermann, OIE, France
‘Avian Disease: Global situation report’
Speaker: Prof Ian Brown, Animal and Plant Health Agency, UK
‘Current threats from Avian Influenza and future perspectives for protection and control’
Speaker: Chad Gregory, UEP, USA
‘USA Avian Influenza situation update’
Speaker: Dr Travis Schaal, Hy-Line International, USA
‘A Culture of Biosecurity’
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Customer Focus Session: Egg sales – Increasing volume and value
Speaker: Prof Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK
‘Multi-sensory food packaging at the point of sale & beyond’
17:00 Networking Reception
Tuesday 4 April 2017
08:30 EPI Workshop (All welcome)
Speaker: Prof Toni Wang, Iowa State University, USA
‘Creating high protein liquid drinks – Improving the heat stability of egg white’
08:30 Economics Workshop (All welcome)
Speaker: Prof Hans-Wilhelm Windhorst, WING/IEC, Germany
‘The EU egg industry in transition’
10:00 Egg Processing Trade Session
Speaker: Randy Green, Watson Green, USA
‘Impact of the Trump presidency on global trade’
Speaker: Wilbert Hilkens, formerly ABN Amro, Netherlands
‘The EU in transition – The impact of Brexit on trade’
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Egg Processing Session: Supporting egg consumption
Speaker: Anne Alonzo, American Egg Board, USA
‘The promotion of eggs and egg products in the USA’
Speaker: Prof Toni Wang, Iowa State University, USA
‘Innovating egg products – Opportunities for infant formula’
Speaker: Tim Lambert, Egg Farmers of Canada
‘International Egg Nutrition Consortium – Working for you’
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Egg Production Session: Layer housing – A global issue
Speaker: Kevin Lovell, SAPA, South Africa
‘OIE global hen housing standards: Process and timelines’
Speaker: Prof Joy Mench, University of California-Davis, USA
‘Dealing with outcomes-based global standards’
Speaker: Chad Gregory, UEP, USA
‘Non cage egg production in the USA’
Q&A session
15:20 IEC Global Leadership Conference Brugge 2017 Promotion
15:30 Chairman’s closing remarks
Ben Dellaert
19:00 Informal dinner and band at the Le Meridien Hotel