Conference Programme

Sunday 20 September 2015

10:00 Executive Meeting (Board Members only)

13:30 CSR Meeting (Committee Members only)

15:30 Membership Meeting (Committee Members & Ambassadors)

18:00 Chairman’s Welcome Reception

Monday 21st September 2015

08:00 Marketing Workshop (All welcome)

“Bridging the gap between R&D and egg marketing”
Dr. Tia M. Rains, Senior Director of Nutrition Research & Communications, Egg Nutrition Center, USA

09:15 Conference Opening

Chairman’s Welcome from Cesar de Anda

Dr. Maria Flachsbarth, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, Germany

Host Welcome by Caspar von der Crone

10:00 Conference Session: Customer Focus

10:00 “Leadership and the impact of food production on the planet”

Carlos Saviani, VP Food Sustainability, World Wildlife Fund, USA

10:20 “IEF Update”

Steve Manton, IEF Chairman

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Conference Session: Customer Focus

11:00 “Dunkin’ Brands: leading through innovation”

Jeff Miller, Executive Chef & VP Product Innovation, Dunkin’ Brands, USA

11:30 “Creating value through marketing, research and development”

Ivan Noes Jorgensen, Group CEO, Hedegaard Foods, Denmark

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Conference Session: Avian Influenza Summit

“Understanding AI”
Dr. Arjan Stegeman, Utrecht University, Netherlands

“US outbreak overview and role of bird migration and transmission”
Chad Gregory, United Egg Producers, USA

“US producer perspective and looking to the future”
Jim Dean, Center Fresh Group, USA

“AI control measures”
Prof. Hongwei Xin, Egg Industry Center, Iowa State University, USA

15:10 Q & A

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Conference Session: Avian Influenza Summit

“The role of the OIE in relation to avian influenza. Responsibilities of public and private sector in disease control at national level”
Dr. Brian Evans, OIE, France

“International trade. Provisions of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code with regards to avian influenza to mitigate impacts on international trade”
Dr. Alejandro Thiermann, OIE, France

“Compartmentalisation”
Kevin Lovell, SAPA, South Africa

“AI monitoring”
Dr. Klaus-Peter Behr, AniCon Labor, Germany

17:00 Q & A

19:00 Gala Dinner at the German Historical Museum

Tuesday 22 September 2015

08:30 Conference Session: International Reviews

10:00 Coffee

10:40 Conference Session: Showcase for Marketing Eggsellence

Presentations for the Golden Egg Marketing Award

11:45 Lunch

13:45 Conference Session: Biosecurity – Keys to our future

Introduction
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Preisinger, Lohmann Tierzucht, Germany

“Farm business analysis”
Richard Geiselhart, Spreenhagener Vermehrungsbetriebe, Germany

“The role of biosecurity in prevention and control of avian influenza”
Dr. Brian Evans, OIE, France

“The concepts of zoning and compartmentalisation”
Dr. Alejandro Thiermann, OIE, France

“The importance of biosecurity to egg businesses”
Andrew Joret, Noble Foods, UK

“The role of biosecurity in prevention and control of poultry diseases”
Dr. H.M.Hafez, Institute of Poultry Diseases, Free University, Berlin, Germany

“De-population biosecurity”
Dr. Klaus-Peter Behr, AniCon Labor, Germany

14:55 Discussion Panel

Led by Prof Dr Rudolf Preisinger

15:40 Coffee

Wednesday 23 September 2015

08:00 International Egg Nutrition Consortium Scientific Symposium

“Egg Nutrition Research Update: exploring the impact of egg consumption on various aspects of human health and disease”

“The effects of dietary protein on human health”
Dr. Nina Geiker, Copenhagen University, Denmark

“Eggs and diabetes”
Dr. Bruce Griffin, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

“Egg yolk fractioning: creating a lower cholesterol egg”
Dr. Mario Diaz, University of Oviedo, Spain

12:00 All Delegates’ Networking Afternoon at Fischerhütte

Thursday 24 September 2015

08:30 EPI Workshop (All welcome)

“Yolk processing: technology and functional products”
Prof. Tong Wang, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, USA

09:45 Conference Session: Egg Processing

09:45 “Shaping the future of the egg products industry: the industry perspective”

Jim Dwyer, President and CEO, Michael Foods, USA

10:15 “Industry market report”

Rick Brown, Senior Vice President, Urner Barry, USA

11:00 Coffee

11:40 Conference Session: Egg Processing Regional Reviews

A present-day analysis of the egg processing industry region by region

12:20 IEC Global Leadership Conference Kuala Lumpur 2016 Promotion

12:30 Lunch

14:30 Conference Session: Business Analysis

IEC Visionaries Panel
A panel discussion of the egg industry’s key leaders and innovators including; Jim Dwyer, Frank Pace, Thor Stadil and Cesar de Anda

15:30 Closing Ceremony

Including the presentation of the Golden and Crystal Egg Awards

15:50 General Assembly (All welcome)

Including the handover of Chairmanship

16:15 Coffee

19:30 Informal Oktoberfest Evening at the Hofbräuhaus