SCHEDULE OF EVENTS [as of August 28, 2007]
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MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
 

MONDAY, AUGUST 27 [back to top]
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Exhibitor Set-up
12:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Kansas State University RFID Tour

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28 [back to top]

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration

8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Exhibitor Set-up

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Opening General Session

Moderator:  Dr. Robert Fourdraine, Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium

Session Summary: Invited speakers will provide an overview of North American efforts to enhance marketing and protection of the food supply.

  • Opening Remarks and Introduction

    • Scott Stuart, NIAA Chairman of the Board

  • Traceability from an Animal Disease Perspective

    • Dr. John Clifford, USDA/APHIS/Veterinary Services

  • An Overview of the Canadian Traceability System

    • Julie Stitt, Canadian Cattle Identification Agency
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. General Session I - Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Moderator:  Victor Velez, California Department of Food & Agriculture
Session Summary: This special session will provide an overview of the recent United Kingdom FMD outbreak, and how the U.S. is prepared to address a potential FMD outbreak.

  • Impact of FMD – A UK Case from the Producer’s Prospective

    • Raymond Brown, Orchard Farm, Cheshire, England

  • Results from a U.S. FMD Simulation

    • Dr. Clair Thunes, University of California-Davis

3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Refreshment Break in the Foyer

3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

General Session II – Current Status of North American Traceability Programs

Moderator:  Glenn Fischer, Allflex USA, Inc.
Session Summary: This session provides a general overview of current and planned regulatory and industry systems that provide disease, marketing and food safety traceability programs. What does it mean to the livestock producer, and how can we keep these programs compatible?

  • Quebec’s Comprehensive Traceability System – A Real World Solution

    • Linda Marchand, Agri-Tracabilite Quebec

  • Canada's Multi-Species Traceability Initiative

    • Ron Axelson, Canadian Livestock Identification Agency

  • Traceability in Voluntary Audit Based Programs

    • Samantha Simon, USDA/APHIS/Agriculture Marketing Services

  • Value-Driving Identification, Traceability and Verification

    • Leann Saunders, IMI Global, Inc.

  • Traceability/Value Creation

    • Lance Storer, Cargill Meat Solutions

  • The Swine ID Plan and Pre-Harvest Traceability

    • Dr. Patrick Webb, National Pork Board

5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Reception in Exhibit Hall

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29 [back to top]

7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

General Session III –  Practical Solutions in Place Today

Moderator:  John Heller, Colorado Department of Agriculture
Session Summary: This session will present an overview of practical solutions that are in place today. This will include a discussion on lessons learned and what can be done to improve existing systems.

  • Tracking System for Bovine Tuberculosis

    • Kevin Kirk, Michigan Department of Agriculture

  • Traceability Effectiveness of the National Scrapie Eradication Program

    • Dr. Lyndon Irwin, American Sheep Industry

  • NAIS Brand States Working Group Update

    • John Picanso, Colorado Department of Agriculture

  • National Connectivity of Web-based Regulatory Processes via GlobalVetLink

    • Kevin Maher, GlobalVetLink LC

  • Extending Existing Commercial Systems - PigCHAMP Example

    • Bob Brcka, PigCHAMP

  • New York State Cervid Program

    • Dr. John Huntley, New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

General Session IV – Where Will Technology Take Us?

Moderator:  Dr. Michael Coe, Global Animal Management, Inc.
Session Summary: New breakthroughs in technologies may open up new opportunities to the livestock industry.

  • Disease Program System Integration

    • Rich Baca, United States Department of Agriculture

  • California Equine Identification Project

    • Dr. John Evans, California Department of Food and Agriculture

  • Disease Testing Results and Read-Write Capable EID

    • Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Animal Profiling International

  • Using RFID for Enhanced Production and Reproduction Record Management in Dairy Cows and Reduced Labor Cost

    • Steven Smith, DHI-Provo

  • SOMARK, A New Approach to Animal ID

    • Mark Pydynowski, SOMARK Innovations

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch Break on their own

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

General Session V - Creating Value from Traceability

Moderator:  Brett McConkey, Canadian Cattle Identification Agency
    Session Summary: This session will focus on how value can be created from traceability. This includes consumer aspects, gaining marketing advantages for the food animal industry and non-food livestock industry.

  • Creating Value from Traceability

    •  Dr. Henry Moreau, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry

  • Building Traceability: Solutions from the Ground Up

    • Yvonne Tollens, Computer Aid Professional Services, Ltd.

  • “Where’s the Money in Traceability?” (For the Producer)

    • Chuck Fries, AzTx Cattle Company

  • Tracking from Birth to the Consumer, The CNB Way

    • Wayne Fasholtz, Country Natural Beef

  • Express Verified - Adding Value Through Innovation

    • Lee Irvine, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ltd.

  • Gaining Marketing Advantages Through Traceability

    • Earl Dotson, Validus Services, LLC
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

General Session VI – Gaining Production Efficiencies

Moderators: Colin Foster, Y-Tex Corporation and Dr. Nevil Speer, Western Kentucky University
    Session Summary:  This session will focus on how livestock producers and industry can gain efficiencies using traceability systems.

  • Value-Added Beef Production

    • Bill Helming, Bill Helming Consulting

  • Pork Chain Uses for Traceability

    • Collette Schultz Kaster, Smithfield/Farmland

5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Reception in Exhibit Hall


THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 [back to top]
7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Registration
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Exhibitor Teardown
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. General Session VII – NAIS Advancing Animal Disease Traceability
Moderator:  Dr. Robert Fourdraine, Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium

Session Summary: This session will include presentations from the NAIS program coordinators regarding future plans advancing Animal Disease Traceability.

  • Neil Hammerschmidt, USDA/APHIS/Veterinary Services

  • Dr. David Morris, USDA/APHIS/Veterinary Services

  • Dr. John Wiemers, USDA/APHIS/Veterinary Services

9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

General Session VIII – What Does the Future Hold?

Moderators:  Colin Foster, Y-Tex Corporation and Glenn Smith, AgInfoLink USA, Inc.

Session Summary: This session will focus on regulatory, industry and retail industry efforts regarding traceability that are underway that will impact the livestock producers, industry and consumers, followed by a discussion.

  • Quantifiable Food Safety and Measurable Sustainability with the Help of a Whole-Chain Traceability Network

    • Cristian Barcan, BASF

  • Traceability: Right and Reasonable?

    • Dr. Nevil Speer, Western Kentucky University

  • The Importance of Traceability to Enhance Marketing and Protection of the Food Supply

    • Bruce Knight, U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

  • Coming of Age in the Beef Industry

    • Dr. Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Closing General Session - Bringing it All Together

Moderator: Jon Caspers, NIAA Vice Chairman of the Board
   

Session Summary: This session will provide a discussion on the feedback gathered during the meeting and a wrap up of all the presentations.

  • Dr. Gary Smith, Colorado State University

  • Michele Vise-Brown, NIAA Chief Executive Officer