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