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NZIFST Annual Conference



PROGRAMME

"Let's Talk - Co-operation, Collaboration, Communication"

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While every effort will be made to deliver the speakers as and when advertised, please note that this programme is still SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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NZIFST Executive Manager

Phone: 06 356 1686
Fax: 06 356 1687






 

DAY ONE, Tuesday 26 June, 2012
7.45am Registration opens
8.30am - 10.30am

Session A1: Opening PLENARY - Let's Talk.  Chair:  Cathy McArdle, President NZIFST
Hon Steve Joyce (Minister for Science & Innovation)
Andrew Patterson (RadioLIVE) - Working together
Kevin Marshall - A call to arms - a Riddet Institute contribution to a NZ agri-food strategy
Bill Falconer (Meat Industry Association)
10.30am - 11.00am Morning Tea
11.00am - 12.30pm Session B1: PLENARY - Communicate and …...
Pingfan Rao (IUFoST President-elect)
TBC
TBC - The Food Bill
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm - 3.00pm Session C1: Sustainability/Protecting IP

Anne Cargill (Cawthron) -
Characterising and aggregated dairy protein: a collaborative effort
Spring Humphreys (Fonterra) -  Fonterra's school milk programme: a sustainable project
Allan Main (Mainly Consulting) - Don't let IP issues stop you collaborating		 Session C2:
Session C3: Emerging Ingredients

Vijayalakshmi Sarojini - Synthetic antifreeze peptides for applications in the food industry
John Taylor (Uni of Pretoria) - African nutricereals as functional food ingredients
Andy Livingstone (DSM) - New enzymes for food manufacturers

Session C4: Food and Health

David Cameron-Smith (Liggins Inst) - Digesting nutrition for an aging population
Simon Thornley (Uni of Auckland) - Fructose: new insights from epidemiology and addiction medicine
Charles Brennan (Lincoln Uni) - Extrusion Technology: potential to deliver nutritional and sensory benefits to the consumer
3.00pm - 3.30 pm Afternoon Tea
3.30pm - 5.00 pm Session D1: Dairy  Innovation

Colin Prosser (Dairy Goat Coop) - Innovation in goat milk products
Peter Brown (James & Wells Intellectual Property) - How to recognise and protect your IP in the dairy sector and then collaborate with others to leverage your innovation
Catherine Willis (GNDP Mintel Aust) - Know 2015, a look at "big picture" trends and how they relate to specific industries		 Session D2: Meat/CRI/Uni


Brad Kim (AgResearch) - Mapping the high oxygen MAP: impacts on meat quality
John Mills (AgResearch) - Challenging the conventional wisdom on lamb spoilage
Mustafa Farouk (AgResearch) - Novel meat-based foods		 Session D3: Saga of the Apple

Karen Sparrow (MAF) - NZ apple exports to Australia
Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse (Plant & Food Research) - Apples and foods for wellbeing
Richard Volz (Plant & Food Research) - Breeding and development of red-fleshed apples		 Session D4: Healthy Foods

John Monro (Plant & Food Research) - Food-based dietary control of glycaemia
Margot Skinner (Plant & Food Research) - Antioxidants and beyond: health benefits from antioxidant rich beverages
Suman Mishra (Plant & Food Research) - Food structure, carbohydrate digestibility and human health
5.00pm - 5.30pm Dairy Division AGM
5.00pm - 7.30pm Networking Social
7.00pm - 9.30pm Student Function
DAY TWO, Wednesday 27 June, 2012
7.45am Registration opens
8.30am - 10.00am Session E1: MAF/Food Safety

Roger Cook (MAF) - Risk management
Marion Castle (ESR) - Fresh produce: controlling microbiological contamination from water and biological fertilisers
TBC - Dairy process regulatory changes		 Session E2: Kiwifruit - Psa

David Tanner (Zespri) -Psa research: global collaboration to maximise the rate of recovery
Matt Templeton (Plant & Food Research) - The whole genome sequence of Pseudomonas syringae pf, actinidiae: insights into pathogenticity and genome dynamics
Joel Vanneste (Plant & Food Research) - The absolute necessity, and the potential dangers of, scientific communication in time of crisis - the example of Psa		 Session E3: Health & Nutrition

TBC
Pip Duncan (Vegetables.co.nz) - Spreading the vege word
Barbara Thomson (ESR) - Promoting consumer safety, health and wellness through dietary modelling		 Session E4 : Novel Technologies

Indrawati Oey (Uni of Otago) - New adavancements on Pulsed Electric Field processing and challenges for NZ
Murat Balaban (Uni of Auckland) - Evaluation of colour and other visual attributes of foods with machine vision
Tony Mutukumira (Massey Uni) - Emerged and emerging food preservation technologies
10.00am - 10.30am Morning Tea
10.30am - 12.00pm Session F1: Halal Forum


A forum discussion		 Session F2: Food Engineering

A forum discussion		 Session F3: Compliance in Food Labelling

Anne Hofstra (IANZ) - Have confidence in your choice of testing laboratory
Joe Edwards (Russell McVeigh) - The Fair Trading Act
Anny Dentener-Boswell (Adecron) - Reformulating to improve your "front of pack" look		 Session F4: New Science Frontiers

Laurie Melton (Uni of Auckland) - Pectin methyesterase solves a difficult problem
Ofir Benjamin (Uni of Otago) - Flavour release from emulsions and beverages in the mouth
Bronwen Smith (Uni of Auckland) - Fabulous, fascinating fibre
12.00pm - 1.00pm Lunch
1.00pm - 1.45pm Poster Session - authors in attendance
1.15pm - 2.00pm NZIFST AGM
1.00pm - 5.00pm Open Trade Show Day + exhibitor advertorials
2.00pm - 3.30pm

Session G1: Local and Global Foods

Chris Fortune (Farmers' Markets) - Principles of the Farmers Markets movement, benefits of buying and eating local
TBC - Food miles and zero carbon foorprint - do they still drive overseas consumers' purchase decisions?
TBC - Organic farming: not just about capturing lucrative markets 

 Session G2: Forum - Collaboration Equals Value

A two-session forum that aims to give attendeess insight into collaboration within the food sector: new ideas, motivation		 Session G3: Product Development

Paul O'Brien (Easi-Yo) - Establishing new dairy markets in Europe
Roger Harker (Plant & Food Research) - Wine industries and their products
Lee Huffman (Plant & Food Research) - Food concept development for clinical trials		 Session G4: Riddet Report: Models of Collaboration in Industrial Engagement

Shantanu Da (Riddet Centre) - Open innovation concepts - industry/researcher partnerships
Mark Ward (Riddet Centre) - A model of collaboration and industry engagement at the Riddet Centre
Mike Boland (Riddet Centre) - Technologies of future importance to the industry
3.30pm - 4.00pm Afternoon Tea
4.00pm - 5.30pm (Room being prepared for Awards Dinner) Session H2: Forum –  Collaboration Equals Value

Continues 		Session H3 : Food Innovation Network

What, why, how, who, when? - A series of brief case studies illustrating the breadth of services offered by the Food Innovation Network		 Session H4 : Poster Competition Oral Presentations

Finalists in the Student poster competition will give a 2 minute presentation on their poster
7.00pm - 11.30pm Awards Dinner & Dance
DAY THREE, Thursday 28, 2012  
  Sensory Breakfast  
8.00am Registration Open  
9.00am - 10.30am Session I1: Sensory

Sarah Jaeger (Plant & Food Research) - Using sensory and consumer research to inform plant breeding startegies
John Grigor (Massey Uni) - Measuring the dynamic sensory process of eating in solid and semi-solid foods
Anne Abraham (Fonterra) - Title TBC		 Session I2: Packaging

Gordon Robertson (Australia) - Biobased but not biodegradable: the new paradigm food packaging
TBC - Lightweighting of glass bottles
Ron Starnes (Alto Packaging) - Title TBC		 Session I3 : Microbiology: New Pathogens and Potential Hazards

John Brooks (AUT) - New food, old enemies
TBC - E Coli update
TBA		  
10.30am - 11.00am Morning Tea  
11.00am - 12.30pm Session J1: Plants for Health Using Cereals

John Ashton (Sanitarium) - Current market trends and consumer perceprions of cereal foods
Nigel Larsen (Plant & Food Research) - Food Structure and delivery of health and wellness
Kevin Sutton - Developing foods to control appetite - a combinatorial approach
Juliet Ansell - How gut microbiota interact with cereals and other plants for gut health		 Session J2: Insights from Overseas Experience

Kristy Giles - Quality assurance in berry fruit processing in Washington State
Dave Pooch - Poverty reduction through microscale food processing - UNIDO in India
Kirin Harrison - Savoury Sauces & The Earle Travelling Fellowship
Rebecca Klee - Title TBC
 Session J3: Food Safety Developments

Stella Stacey - Continuity planning for Christchurch
Steve Hather (RQA) - Food defence - systems to prevent your product from tampering
David Lowry (Ecolab) - Collaborative approach to hygienic design of food processing equipment: a win-win for food safety
TBC - IUFoST training initiatives		  
12.30pm - 1.15pm Lunch    
1.15pm - 2.00pm  JC Andrews Address  
2.00pm - 2.45pm Session K1: Final PLENARY Session:  An unmissable presentation!  
2.45pm - 3.00pm Conference Closing Ceremony  

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