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Worldwide Food Expo Education Program
and Pre-Expo Workshops
October 24-27, 2007
McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois USA
Pre-Expo Workshops
Worldwide Food Expo Education Program
Dairy Schedule At-A-Glance
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Worldwide Food Expo Education Program
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| 8:15 - 11:30 a.m. |
Plant Operation Short Course: Six Sigma for the Food Industry
Room S102
Producing quality products and maintaining customer satisfaction are essential. Six Sigma is a quality management process that's widely embraced. Learn from a master black belt how you can put it to use to enhance quality.
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Don L Redinius, Master Black Belt and Six Sigma Executive Training, President, Agillist Group, Inc. (AGI) |
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| 8:15 - 9:15 a.m. |
Concurrent Sessions I |
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Part 1
S101AB In FranklinCovey's "The 4 Disciplines of Execution," managers learn to lead a process that will enable their teams to achieve unprecedented results against their goals. By changing the way they engage their teams, managers can make dramatic improvements in the impact their teams will have on organizational performance.
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Mark Josie, Senior Consultant, FranklinCovey
David Williams, Execution Specialist, FranklinCovey |
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Flavored Milk in Schools
S103BC Significant public attention is being focused on the epidemic of child obesity and the food products that students are being served in school. A new industry-wide program has been developed to promote healthier beverage-consumption options and increased consumption of lowfat and fat-free milk in schools. Hear how processors and ingredients suppliers are developing new great-tasting lowfat flavored milk products.
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Doug Adams, President, Prime Consulting |
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Plant Regulation Update: USDA Dairy Grading Participation
S105D
A "must-attend" for all plants operating under USDA's Dairy Plant Survey and Grading Program. Learn about the latest changes since the appointment of Bill Coats to lead the program, including the approved equipment program, annual statistics on plant status, laboratory testing program, third-party disinterested surveys and the export certificate program. By understanding the benefits and details of this long-running USDA program for dairy plants, you can evaluate how this service fits into your company's long-term goals.
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Philip Wolff, USDA/AMS/Dairy Grading Branch |
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Succession Planning
S105A
True for small and large companies, succession planning is of key strategic importance. With the retirement of the baby boomers, it is important to focus on developing talent at every level of the organization. Learn about the key to succession planning by understanding how to match the future goals of the organization and the talents of individuals in your company.
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Andrea Fredrickson, Director, American Institute of Management, Inc. |
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Global Beverage Trends
S104AB
See what new innovative beverage products are being developed around the globe and hear how they will affect the U.S. market.
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Jason Holway, Marketing Consulting Director, Zenith International Ltd. |
| Sponsored by American Beverage Association |
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En Español: Getting Better Yields
S105BC
This session will discuss and demonstrate how processors can get better yields from their whole muscle products - specifically poultry - through better cutting and deboning.
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Fabio Nunes, Brazil |
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Food Tech
S106B
Food Tech II: Processing, Sanitation and Food Safety
| 8:15 a.m. |
Recent Food Defense Initiatives - Updates from FDA
Don Kautter, Acting Supervisor of the Food Defense Team in the Office of Food Defense, Communication and Emergency Response, FDA |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Food Safety: Case Studies from the Food Industry
Scot McLeod, Senior Vice President, CDC Software |
| 8:45 a.m. |
SIMATIC IT Manufacturing Execution System
Walter Staehle, Director, Food and Beverage Competence Center, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Energy Supply Technology to Support the Environmentally Responsible Manufacturer of Food
David Gardner, Senior Project Manager, POWER Engineers |
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| 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. |
Concurrent Sessions II |
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution - Part 2
S101AB
In FranklinCovey's "The 4 Disciplines of Execution," managers learn to lead a process that will enable their teams to achieve unprecedented results against their goals. By changing the way they engage their teams, managers can make dramatic improvements in the impact their teams will have on organizational performance.
| Speakers: |
Mark Josie, Senior Consultant, FranklinCovey
David Williams, Execution Specialist, FranklinCovey |
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Best New Products in 2007
S103BC
What new foods and beverages are capturing consumer attention this year? What are the latest trends in food and beverage products? What are consumers looking for when they walk down the grocery aisle? This session will review the best new products of 2007.
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Lynn Dornblaser, Director, Global New Products Database Consulting Services, Mintel International Group |
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Reliability Assessment: The New Approach to Plant Maintenance
S104AB
Don't be left behind when the rest of the dairy processing industry embraces this new practical system to reduce operational downtime caused by equipment or system breakdowns. RA is designed for corporate level operational managers and plant level operations managers and staff. Learn how some companies have successfully utilized a combination of computer tracking and home-built systems to stay ahead of the equipment-repair and preventive-maintenance game.
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Randy Alter, Business Consultant, ABB Reliability Services |
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Automation Technology and Robotics in the Meat Industry
S105A
The future is now for meat plants, as technology is making plant operations more efficient and more cost effective. Learn how you can apply automation and robotics in your plant and what international experts are doing in this rapidly advancing field.
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Soren Rasmusen, Managing Director, SFK America, Inc. |
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En Espanol: Enhancing Ham Products
S105BC
A discussion as to how processors can get more out of their ham products. How can processors improve quality and yield through new processing technologies, ingredients and enhancements? Case studies from Latin American processors will be discussed in this program.
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Oscar Esquivel, ConAgra, USA |
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Meat Tech
S105D
Meat Tech will feature presentations by exhibitors on operations and technical issues critical to all aspects of meat, poultry and seafood processing.
| 9:30 a.m. |
Improving Facility Air Quality: Methods and Technologies
Presented by Mark Redmond, President ,Hendon & Redmond Engineers/Architects |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Sanitary Meat Processing Equipment Design
Presented by Jim Schumacher, Corporate Director of Equipment Sales. Weiler and Company, Inc. |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Can You See the Forest Through the Trees?
Presented by Chris Remus, Director of Technical Training, JohnsonDiversey |
| 10:15 a.m. |
Microbial and Practical Advantages of Woven Polymer Cryogenic Freezer Belts
Presented by Ronald C Idol, Development Manager, Air Liquide Industrial U.S. L.P. |
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Dairy Tech
S106A
Dairy Tech II - Processing, Ingredients and Formulation
| 9:30 a.m. |
24/7 PMO Mixproof Valve
David Medlar, President, Tuchenhagen Flow Components, LLC |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Westfalia Separator Cold Milk Separator Technology
Markus Hullmann, Dipl. Engineer. Westfalia Separator, Inc. |
| 10:00 a.m. |
High Pressure Reverse Osmosis of Whey Products
Mike Grigus, Process Engineer Manager. GEA Filtration |
| 10:15 a.m. |
Sustainable Packaging
Ed Klein, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Tetra Pak Inc. |
| Sponsored by Dairy Foods |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. |
Super Session II
Generations, Lifestyles and the Future of the Food Industry
Grand Ballroom
Neil Howe, best-selling author and national speaker, is a renowned authority on generations in America. He will give you powerful insights into today's generations, what motivates them as consumers and workers, and how they will shape our national future. Howe's broadly cyclical perspective, oriented around familiar generational life stories, will put the future into a stunning yet personal focus that you won't forget.
An economist, historian and demographer with graduate degrees in economics and history from Yale University, Howe has spoken to a wide variety of corporate and nonprofit audiences, from Ford Motor Company, J. Walter Thompson, AARP and PBS to Merrill Lynch, the Marine Corps, the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the Central Intelligence Agency. He is also Advisor on Public Policy to the Blackstone Group, Senior Advisor to the Concord Coalition and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Neil Howe, Speaker and Author |
| Sponsored by Danisco |
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