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2009 Sustainability Workshop
March 11-12, 2009
Westin City Center | Dallas, TX
Overview
Will your company remain productive for the next 20 years? How about the next 50 or 100?
It will be, if you make the right choices now.
Attend the new IDFA 2009 Sustainability Workshop to learn what you need to do right now to ensure your dairy company can sustain and improve its viability well into the future.
The IDFA 2009 Sustainability Workshop sessions are designed to bring you up to date on the most current issues and solutions the industry has to offer. Whether you’re a newly appointed sustainability “expert” or a concerned steward looking for new ways to reduce your company’s carbon footprint and increase your cost-savings, this is the place to be.
Sixteen highly informative sessions are being offered on topics ranging from carbon footprints and “green” marketing, to sustainable packaging, utility cost reduction and eco-effective disposal of acid whey. Check out the agenda for a complete listing of session topics and presenters.
Sustainability is the foundation for every successful 21st century business. Are you ready? We are.
Join us March 11-12 at the Westin City Center in Dallas. We’ll show you shades of green you’ve never seen before!
Agenda
Day One - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
| 7:30 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome & Introduction Speaker: Clay Detlefsen, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, International Dairy Foods Association |
| 8:20 a.m. |
What Is YOUR Carbon Footprint and Why Should You Care? Because you want your business to thrive for generations without damaging the resources we all need to sustain a healthy industry and a healthy planet. This session will define the fluid milk carbon footprint, as well as Dairy Management Inc.'s effort to quantify and publish that footprint. While the analysis is focused on fluid milk, the majority of greenhouse gas emissions are associated with farms that supply milk for all dairy products. Learn how the dairy footprint applies to you, as a processor, and what sustainability means for the entire dairy industry. Speaker: Darin Nutter, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor, University of Arkansas |
| 9:05 a.m. | Reaching the Summit and Beyond In June 2008, Dairy Management, Inc. created and sponsored an exciting sustainability summit. Attendees at that meeting identified sustainability innovations that needed to be pursued by milk producers. At this session, get the latest information about how the innovations developed during the summit have continued to grow toward successful implementation. Speaker: Erin Fitzgerald, Director, Social & Environmental Innovation Consulting, Dairy Management Inc. |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Congratulations – You're Our Sustainability Expert! Now what? If your job description has recently changed or expanded to include sustainability, you’re not alone! Join two of your dairy industry peers to hear how they inherited the title “sustainability expert.” They’ll discuss what that title really means, both in terms of long-range strategic planning and during day-to-day operations. They’ll help you understand the issues you’re likely to face and recommend resources for you to tap as your new responsibilities unfold. Speakers: David Crowley, Environmental Health & Safety Director, HP Hood LLC Howard Depoy, Director of Power, Refrigeration and Sustainability, National Dairy Holdings |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Going Toe to Toe with Your Carbon Footprint What size is your carbon footprint? Are you trampling the environmental landscape or trying to tiptoe through the tulips? All of us can make our carbon footprint smaller and have a positive effect on the planet – this session will show you how. Discover the ways other companies have reduced their environmental impact and forged smaller pathways to profitability. Moderator: David Crowley, Environmental Health & Safety Director, HP Hood LLC Speakers: Darin Nutter, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor, University of Arkansas Jennifer Orgolini, Sustainability Director, New Belgium Brewing Co., Inc. Sonja Tuitele, Vice President, Communications, Aurora Organic Dairy |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. | How Sustainable is My Company? Measure Your Success They’re right here, right now: the tools you need to measure your corporate sustainability. Our expert will walk you through the latest footprinting tools, including the GRI Standard and how to measure your company’s greenhouse gas emissions. The expectations and requirements of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol will also be covered in this highly informative session. Speaker: Mark McElroy, Executive Director, The Center for Sustainable Innovation |
| 2:00 p.m. | The New "Green Grocer": Retailers Tell All Retailers are organizing, educating and implementing sustainable in-house practices to reduce their carbon emissions. Many approaches are underway to reduce packaging waste, reduce energy used by lighting and refrigeration and increase recycling. We’ll discuss how to create partnerships with suppliers who understand and engage in similar opportunities. Learn what retailers are doing and how you can work with them to achieve maximum sustainability. Speakers: Anne-Marie Roerink, Director, Research, Food Marketing Institute?Michael W. Hewett, Manager of Environmental Services, Publix Supermarkets, Inc. |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Solar-Powered Chips and Power Dip: How Frito Lay Harnessed the Sun While many of us in the dairy industry struggle to identify the best ways to achieve greener manufacturing processes, others in the food industry have already implemented highly successful processes, plants and programs. In this session, get the inside scoop on the new Frito Lay solar-powered “Sun Chips” facility. Al Halvorsen, Director of Environmental Sustainability for Frito Lay Inc., will shed some light on the company’s environmental philosophy and how you too can implement sustainable manufacturing. Speaker: Al Halvorsen, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Frito Lay Inc. |
| 4:00 p.m. | From Cow to Consumer: The Life Cycle of Sustainable Packaging Packaging has always been vital to the success of any product, from how well it protects your product to how well it appeals to the consumer. Sustainable packaging is today’s ideal, but what is it and does it work for milk? This workshop uses the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to help you understand the importance of packaging in the life cycle of fluid milk. Our expert will explore incremental vs. transformational innovations in packaging. You’ll hear mini case studies about companies that have used source reduction and recycling to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce greenhouse gasses – all while remaining attractive to the consumer. It’s a life cycle you won’t want to miss! Speaker: Gail Barnes, Vice President Technology & Packaging, Dairy Management Inc. |
| 4:00 p.m. | Energy Intelligence: the Missing Link? Demystifying Methods of Effective Energy Data Collection and Management Is your company “energy intelligent?” Every company needs to approach its energy assets with a plan, and many dairy industry leaders are scrutinizing energy use and carbon emissions. But what is your company’s energy intelligence? This new way of approaching your company’s energy consumption has far reaching ramifications for success in a world of carbon legislation, sustainability and rising and volatile energy costs. Even with energy analysts and analytics already in place at your facility, there is always innovation in the technology sector. New solutions, currently available and currently in deployment, will be the focus of this session. Immediate, real-time data and the ability to convert the analytics into actionable, measurable metrics will be the focus, which will include 1-2 working examples in the industry, as well as lessons from the field. This session includes:
Speaker: Staffan Akerstrom, Chief Operations Officer, EPS Corp |
Day Two - Thursday, March 12, 2009
| 7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Top 11 Ways To Improve Energy Efficiency at a Dairy Plant Unplug, turn off, turn in … to an energy saver! If you’re looking for concrete ways to curb energy use at your dairy plant, this is the session for you. Learn the top eleven energy-saving changes everyone should consider, including “the guy who flips the switch or turns the valve.” Speakers: Ted Bobkowski, Director, Maintenance Operations, Leprino Foods Company?Anne Giesecke, Ph.D., President, A & D Policy Analysis, Inc. |
| 9:00 a.m. | Waste to Profit: Turning Your Waste into Renewable Energy and Carbon Finance By using concepts that are common to the biopharmaceutical industry, you can turn your process waste into profit. The next generation of methane digesters focuses on influencing the sophisticated metabolic reactions inside bacterial cells by controlling the environment outside the cells. We’ll discuss how to turn a waste stream into electricity and steam, look at a project pro forma, and review carbon financing and environmental stewardship. Speaker: Mike Brown, PE, VP of Engineering and Technology, Sustainable Biotech, Inc. |
| 9:45 a.m. | Seven Steps to Savings: Start a Utility Cost-Reduction Program There are seven simple steps to achieve successful reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in processing facilities. Case studies will show how implementation of energy efficient processes and programs result in lower utility costs. Our experts will also tell you how to secure funding, set goals and implement ideas and help you avoid common pitfalls in the budget process. If you’re not interested in saving money you can go to another session – but if your bottom line could use a little extra profit, this is the session for you! Speaker: Calvin Wohlert, Principal, Solution Dynamics, LLC |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Milk Lo$$e$! Expen$ive and Not Sustainable Sustainability embodies the most efficient and judicious use of resources and raw materials. Milk losses are not only contrary to profitability but also counter to sustainability. Understanding and minimizing losses should be a priority for all dairy processors. This session will discuss how to reduce these losses and boost your company’s profit and sustainability. Speaker: Craig Nelson, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Vigilistics, Inc. |
| 11:15 a.m. | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Re-think! Southwest Dairy has been successfully using a technology called Photon Initiated Oxidation (Piox) to reduce waste load and chemical usage in its dairy, bakery and ice cream plant. The result: more efficient operations and reduced surcharges on wastewater. Attend this session to learn Southwest’s tactics for reusing chemicals, saving BTUs and reducing labor and time in their key operations. Before you know it, you’ll be re-thinking your own reduction tactics. Speakers: Tom Grisham, Partner, Analytical Environmental Laboratories?Toby Breland, Dairy Plant Manager, Brookshires Dairy |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Cool Water Saves Cool Millions What can a plant do to reduce usage of water, energy and chemicals? This session presents a comprehensive and compelling case study detailing one plant’s fight to monitor and revamp its use of these essential resources. Significant improvements were made and significant lessons were learned. Come hear the fascinating story of Ecolab's efforts to reduce the water temperature used for cleaning – a method that not only saves energy, but saves millions of gallons of water. Speaker: Peter Fernholz, Vice President, Research, Development and Engineering, Ecolab Inc. |
| 2:15 p.m. | Where There’s a Will There’s a Whey: Turning a Disposal Liability into Renewable Energy Is your company using the most cost-effective means to dispose of acid whey? Is transporting the waste to local farmers becoming a financial and environmental drain? This session will evaluate the latest methods to convert the methane to steam, hot water or electricity, which can also produce additional revenue for your processing plant. These technologies can be particularly helpful for manufacturers located in states with Renewable Portfolio Standards or similar programs that support renewable energies. Speaker: Raj Rajan, Vice President, Engineering, Ecovation, Inc. |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Capturing the Brand Value of Sustainability: The Do's and Don'ts of Green Marketing Navigating the scientific, technical and operational challenges and opportunities of sustainability is challenging enough. How do you manage the marketing and communication issues of sustainability to create the greatest credit and value for your brand? This session gives an overview of the growing brand value to be found in properly communicating your sustainability efforts, and some basic principles of how to responsibly and effectively go about that task. Speaker: Roger Weller, Executive Vice President, Brand Strategist, Edelman/goodpurpose |
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