General Sessions
Monday May 17
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9:00-9:10 Introduction and welcome to the 26th Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium Mark Lyons, Alltech, Kentucky, USA |
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9:15-9:35 The world of branding. More than ever the agricultural industry is in need of branding, promoting our image as we deliver tasty, healthy, traceable food John Y. Brown, Former Kentucky Governor, father of the Kentucky Fried Chicken superbrand, recognized by Harvard Business School as one of the top business leaders of the 20th Century |
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9:40-10:00 Feeding the world’s biggest population: The Kentucky Fried Chicken – China story J. Pelaez, Yum Restaurants China, People’s Republic of China |
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10:05-10:50 The 2010 Alltech Bioscience Medal of Excellence – How do we feed the ever increasingly crowded world? How do we look beyond grains? How will we meet the needs of 9 billion people? Jim Pettigrew, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA |
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10:55-11:30 2010: A year for our industry to bounce back. A year to get the balance right for people and profits. A year to measure success, not by what we have done, but by what we can achieve in the future Pearse Lyons, Alltech, Kentucky, USA |
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11:30-1:00 Break for Lunch |
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
1:30-2:00
Outlook 2010: A session where the global banks and the animal production industry start talking – How do we interact in the common name of sustainability?
Nan Dirk Mulder, Associate Director Commodities, Feed and Animal Protein, Rabobank International
2:05-2:30
My view of China: A world to be fed, a world of opportunities
Nick Rosa, Continental Grain, People’s Republic of China
2:30-3:30
Alltech Young Scientist Award
Starting from a humble enrollment just a few years ago, this competition now stretches to all five continents. Join us as we revolutionize our education process, as we bring excitement back to agriculture. Help us grow our program to 50,000 students around the world as we encourage our future scientists and secure our future. Inge Russell, Alltech, Ontario, Canada
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-5:00
People, Profits and Planet: Views from around the world
In bouncing back, companies are focused on the top line of sales growth and the bottom line of profits. How should we address what UNICEF has called the triple bottom line, being profitable, respecting our customers and employees while sustaining the needs of our planet?
Moderator:
Aidan Connolly, Vice President, Alltech
Panelists:
Gordon Butland, Director, G&S Agriconsultants.Co. Ltd., Thailand
Osler Desouzart, Managing Director, OD Consulting Planning and Strategy, Brazil
Trent Loos, Loos Tales, Nebraska, USA
Patrick Wall, Associate Professor of Public Health, University College Dublin, Ireland
7:00-9:00
Discussion Dinners
Lexington Convention Center and Hyatt
(Buses depart from all outlying hotels at 6:30 p.m.)
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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8:00-8:15 Introduction |
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8:30-8:55 Alzheimer’s, A light at the end of the tunnel: The Dr. William Markesbery Memorial presentation Ronan Power, Center for Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition, Alltech, Kentucky, USA |
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9:00-9:25 Primacy in Science – What a decade can do and what the next decade has in store Karl Dawson, Center for Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition, Alltech, Kentucky, USA |
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9:30-9:50 The World Championships of Equestrian Sport – What the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games means to Kentucky, economically, sociologically and politically Jim Host, Jim Host Associates, USA |
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9:55-10:20 Using the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games to bridge the gap between agriculture and the consumer Mark Lyons, Alltech, Kentucky, USA |
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10:25-10:55Building a #1 team – How to select, motivate, mold and manage. How to recreate your talents, year in and year out John Calipari, Head Coach, University of Kentucky basketball team, Kentucky, USA |
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11:00-11:30 Closing Remarks |