mobilization to the developing world
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PROGRAMDay 1 - Tuesday 14th, June 2016
11:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration opens
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Adam Ballroom
Official opening of Emerging Technologies for Global Food Security Conference: Mobilization to the Developing World
MC: Maurice Moloney, Executive Director and CEO Executive, Global Institute for Food Security
Opening remarks: Randy Burton Director, Public Relations and Communications, PotashCorp
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Adam Ballroom
Ruth K. Oniang’o Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND); Founder, Rural Outreach Program (ROP) Africa; Chair of Boards, SAA/SAFE; 2014 IFAMA Distinguished Service Award Recipient; 2014 FORTUNE Magazine one of 30 Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink
Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, TUFTS University, USA
Nairobi, Kenya
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Adam Ballroom
Nitrogen Fixation Gary Stacey MSMC Endowed Professor of Soybean Biotechnology Curators’ Professor of Plant Sciences Joint Curators’ Professor of Biochemistry, University of Missouri
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Convention Foyer Refreshment break Sponsored by Saskatchewan Pulse Growers
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Battleford Ballroom
IQ2 Debate Introductory remarks
Sponsored by Innovation Saskatchewan
PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Saskatoon, SK Canada, Delta Bessborough HotelJune 14-16, 2016
Mobilization to the Developing World
3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Battleford Ballroom
IQ2 Debate Moderator: Rex Murphy
Mark Lynas, Cornell Alliance for Science, Oxford, UK Jennifer Thomson, University of Cape Town, South Africa Barbara Burlingame, Massey University, New Zealand Peter Langridge, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Sponsored by Innovation Saskatchewan
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm Convention Foyer Welcome reception (Cocktails and appetizers)
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Crop Performance and Nutritional Quality Adam Ballroom
Soil Health & Sustainability Battleford Ballroom William Pascoe
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm Resistance genes introduced into bananas for Xanthomonas wilt and nematodes in Uganda
Leena Tripathi Plant Biotechnologist, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya
Nutrient stewardship: Its role in soil health, sustainability and crop production.
Terry L. Roberts President International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), Peachtree Corners, GA, USA
Aflasafe: Development to Delivery of an Aflatoxin Mitigation Technology to Improve Food Safety in Africa
Ranajit Bandyopadhyay Senior Plant Pathologist International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria
1:45 pm – 2:15 pm High-value genes for crop improvement – why still so few make it into breeding programs
Sigrid Heuer Science Coordinator and Program Leader Nutrient Efficient Crops Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Sustainable Intensification of smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: new science to tackle a persistent problems
Bernard Vanlauwe R4D Director International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya
African Orphan Crops – Solutions through Nutrition
Sheleme Beyene International Development Research Centre Hawassa University, Ethiopia
Wednesday - 15th, June 2016
7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration opens
8:30 am – 9:15 am Adam Ballroom
Soils and World Food Security
Rattan Lal Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science; Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center; President Elect, International Union of Soil Sciences; Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
9:15 am – 10:00 am Adam Ballroom
New approaches to exploiting plant secondary metabolism: Induction of defence and production
John Pickett Michael Elliott Distinguished Research Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and National Academy of Sciences (US) Foreign Associate Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
10:00 am – 10:30 am Convention Foyer Refreshment break sponsored by Saskatchewan Pulse Growers
10:30 am – 11:15 am Adam BallroomGene Editing Neal Gutterson, Dupont Pioneer, Iowa, USA
11:15 am – noon Adam Ballroom
Impact of European Regulation & Attitude Lesley Anne Glover, Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission Vice-Principal External Affairs & Dean for Europe University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Noon – 1:00 pm Adam Ballroom Lunch Guest speaker invited Sponsored by Nestlé
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2:15 pm – 2:45 pm Push-Pull: A pro-poor innovation for enhancing food security and environmental sustainability in Africa
Zeyaur Khan Thomas Risley Odhiambo Distinguished Fellow, Principal Scientist ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya
Soil Sustainability: Roots and performance
Soil health and sustainability
Michael Frodyma Senior Manager, Novozymes North America Inc. Durham, NC, USA
Bt cowpeas are resistant to podborer
T. J. Higgins Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Agriculture, Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Australia
2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Apomixis: a potential revolution for seed production
Tim Sharbel Research Chair in Seed Biology, Global Institute for Food Security, Saskatoon, SK
Nitrogen fixation
Speaker invited
International Development Research Centre
Gene editing
Speaker invited
International Development Research Centre
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm Convention Foyer Refreshment break sponsored by Alberta Wheat Commission
Crop Performance and Nutritional Quality
Adam Ballroom
Sponsored by Genome Enterprise
3:45 pm – 5:30 pm
Soil Health & Sustainability
Battleford Ballroom
3:45 pm – 5:30 pm
Abiotic Plant Stresses that threaten Plant Security
William Pascoe
Sponsored by Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission
3:45 pm – 5:30 pm
3:45 pm –4:15 pm
Biofortification
Erick Boy Head of Nutrition HarvestPlus
Rattan Lal Speaker/moderator Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science; Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center; President Elect, International Union of Soil Sciences; Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland
The Ohio State University, Columbus,OH
speaker 2 TBA
speaker 3 TBA
speaker 4 TBA
Salt Tolerance
Mark Tester Associate Director of the Center for Desert Agriculture Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
4:15 pm – 4:45 pm
4:45 pm – 5:15 pm
Bert Vandenberg Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Next generation genomics technologies for enhancing genetic gains in chickpea for ensuring nutritional and food security in developing countries
Rajeev Kumar Varshney Research Program Director – Genetic Gains, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) & Winthrop Research Professor University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Crop mineral nutrition
Leon Kochian Director Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, USDA-ARS Professor, Department of Plant Biology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Acid soil tolerance in Africa
Jurandir Magalhaes Research Scientist, Embrapa, Sete Lagoas, Brazil
Drought Tolerance Speaker
Peter McCourt, Professor, Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto
6:15 pm – 7:00 pm Convention Foyer Pre-dinner reception / networking
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Adam Ballroom Gala dinner Guest speaker: Rob Saik, AgriTrend
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Thursday - 16th, June 2016
7:30 am – 3:00 pm Registration opens
8:30 am – 9:15 am Adam Ballroom
Biodiversity and Food Security
Susan R. McCouch Rice Genetics lab, Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
9:15 am – 10:00 am Adam BallroomPhotosynthesis
Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor, Departments of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
10:00 am - 10:30 am Convention Foyer Refreshment break sponsored by Canadian Canola Growers Association
Sustainable Development Goals Panel
Adam Ballroom Sponsored by National Research Council
10:30 am - noon
Policy & Regulation Panel
Battleford Room
Sponsored by CropLife Canada
10:30 am - noon
Novel Technologies in Developing Countries
William Pascoe
10:30 am - noon
10:30 am - noon Role of the private sector and food security
Anne Roulin VP Nutrition, Health & Wellness and Sustainability Nestle SA, Vevey, Switzerland
Mark Matlock Senior VP Food Research Archer Daniels Midland, Decatur, Illinois, USA
Juan Gonzalez-Valero Head Public Policy and Sustainability, Syngenta, Switzerland
Pierre Herben Chief Technology Officer, Yara International, Oslo, Norway
Lesley Anne Glover Moderator
CFIA to talk about Canadian regulatory system
Why it’s important to regulate the product, not the process
Phil MacDonald Kenya experience
Ruth Oniang’o
Greg Giokas Canadian Consul General Bangalore, India
Low Level Presence Stephen Yarrow Vice President, Plant Biotechnology CropLife Canada
Kiran Sharma Principal Scientist (Cell & Molecular Biology); Director-Platform for Translational Research on Transgenic Crops (PTTC); CEO AgriBusiness & Innovation Platform International Crops Institute Andhra Pradesh, India
11:00 am – 11:30 am Peter Kulakow Leader Cassava Improvement Program, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA), Nigeria
11:30 am - noon CABI’s innovative use of technology to address problems in food security and plant health
Andrea Powell Chief Information Officer, CABI, Oxfordshire, UK
Noon – 1:00 pm Adam Ballroom Lunch speaker TBA
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Adam Ballroom Fresh air break
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Adam BallroomMajor threats to world agriculture
Sarah Gurr Chair in Food Security, Head of Biosciences, Exeter University, UK
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Adam Ballroom Plenary speaker TBA
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Convention Foyer Refreshment break
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Adam Ballroom Stephen McGurk Vice-President, Programs, International Development Research Centre
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Adam Ballrooom Plenary speaker TBA
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Closing networking