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PROGRAMDay 1 - Tuesday 14th, June 2016

11:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration opens

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Adam Ballroom

Official opening of Emerging Technologies for Global Food Security Conference: Mobilization to the Developing World

MC: Maurice Moloney, Executive Director and CEO Executive, Global Institute for Food Security

Opening remarks: Randy Burton Director, Public Relations and Communications, PotashCorp

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Adam Ballroom

Ruth K. Oniang’o Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND); Founder, Rural Outreach Program (ROP) Africa; Chair of Boards, SAA/SAFE; 2014 IFAMA Distinguished Service Award Recipient; 2014 FORTUNE Magazine one of 30 Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink

Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, TUFTS University, USA

Nairobi, Kenya

2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Adam Ballroom

Nitrogen Fixation Gary Stacey MSMC Endowed Professor of Soybean Biotechnology Curators’ Professor of Plant Sciences Joint Curators’ Professor of Biochemistry, University of Missouri

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Convention Foyer Refreshment break Sponsored by Saskatchewan Pulse Growers

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Battleford Ballroom

IQ2 Debate Introductory remarks

Sponsored by Innovation Saskatchewan

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Saskatoon, SK Canada, Delta Bessborough HotelJune 14-16, 2016

Mobilization to the Developing World

3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Battleford Ballroom

IQ2 Debate Moderator: Rex Murphy

Mark Lynas, Cornell Alliance for Science, Oxford, UK Jennifer Thomson, University of Cape Town, South Africa Barbara Burlingame, Massey University, New Zealand Peter Langridge, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Sponsored by Innovation Saskatchewan

5:30 pm - 9:00 pm Convention Foyer Welcome reception (Cocktails and appetizers)

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Crop Performance and Nutritional Quality Adam Ballroom

Soil Health & Sustainability Battleford Ballroom William Pascoe

1:15 pm – 1:45 pm Resistance genes introduced into bananas for Xanthomonas wilt and nematodes in Uganda

Leena Tripathi Plant Biotechnologist, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya

Nutrient stewardship: Its role in soil health, sustainability and crop production.

Terry L. Roberts President International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), Peachtree Corners, GA, USA

Aflasafe: Development to Delivery of an Aflatoxin Mitigation Technology to Improve Food Safety in Africa

Ranajit Bandyopadhyay Senior Plant Pathologist International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

1:45 pm – 2:15 pm High-value genes for crop improvement – why still so few make it into breeding programs

Sigrid Heuer Science Coordinator and Program Leader Nutrient Efficient Crops Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Sustainable Intensification of smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: new science to tackle a persistent problems

Bernard Vanlauwe R4D Director International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya

African Orphan Crops – Solutions through Nutrition

Sheleme Beyene International Development Research Centre Hawassa University, Ethiopia

Wednesday - 15th, June 2016

7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration opens

8:30 am – 9:15 am Adam Ballroom

Soils and World Food Security

Rattan Lal Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science; Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center; President Elect, International Union of Soil Sciences; Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

9:15 am – 10:00 am Adam Ballroom

New approaches to exploiting plant secondary metabolism: Induction of defence and production

John Pickett Michael Elliott Distinguished Research Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and National Academy of Sciences (US) Foreign Associate Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

10:00 am – 10:30 am Convention Foyer Refreshment break sponsored by Saskatchewan Pulse Growers

10:30 am – 11:15 am Adam BallroomGene Editing Neal Gutterson, Dupont Pioneer, Iowa, USA

11:15 am – noon Adam Ballroom

Impact of European Regulation & Attitude Lesley Anne Glover, Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission Vice-Principal External Affairs & Dean for Europe University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Noon – 1:00 pm Adam Ballroom Lunch Guest speaker invited Sponsored by Nestlé

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2:15 pm – 2:45 pm Push-Pull: A pro-poor innovation for enhancing food security and environmental sustainability in Africa

Zeyaur Khan Thomas Risley Odhiambo Distinguished Fellow, Principal Scientist ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya

Soil Sustainability: Roots and performance

Soil health and sustainability

Michael Frodyma Senior Manager, Novozymes North America Inc. Durham, NC, USA

Bt cowpeas are resistant to podborer

T. J. Higgins Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Agriculture, Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Australia

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Apomixis: a potential revolution for seed production

Tim Sharbel Research Chair in Seed Biology, Global Institute for Food Security, Saskatoon, SK

Nitrogen fixation

Speaker invited

International Development Research Centre

Gene editing

Speaker invited

International Development Research Centre

3:15 pm – 3:45 pm Convention Foyer Refreshment break sponsored by Alberta Wheat Commission

Crop Performance and Nutritional Quality

Adam Ballroom

Sponsored by Genome Enterprise

3:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Soil Health & Sustainability

Battleford Ballroom

3:45 pm – 5:30 pm

Abiotic Plant Stresses that threaten Plant Security

William Pascoe

Sponsored by Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission

3:45 pm – 5:30 pm

3:45 pm –4:15 pm

Biofortification

Erick Boy Head of Nutrition HarvestPlus

Rattan Lal Speaker/moderator Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science; Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center; President Elect, International Union of Soil Sciences; Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland

The Ohio State University, Columbus,OH

speaker 2 TBA

speaker 3 TBA

speaker 4 TBA

Salt Tolerance

Mark Tester Associate Director of the Center for Desert Agriculture Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

4:15 pm – 4:45 pm

4:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Bert Vandenberg Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

Next generation genomics technologies for enhancing genetic gains in chickpea for ensuring nutritional and food security in developing countries

Rajeev Kumar Varshney Research Program Director – Genetic Gains, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) & Winthrop Research Professor University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

Crop mineral nutrition

Leon Kochian Director Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, USDA-ARS Professor, Department of Plant Biology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Acid soil tolerance in Africa

Jurandir Magalhaes Research Scientist, Embrapa, Sete Lagoas, Brazil

Drought Tolerance Speaker

Peter McCourt, Professor, Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto

6:15 pm – 7:00 pm Convention Foyer Pre-dinner reception / networking

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Adam Ballroom Gala dinner Guest speaker: Rob Saik, AgriTrend

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Thursday - 16th, June 2016

7:30 am – 3:00 pm Registration opens

8:30 am – 9:15 am Adam Ballroom

Biodiversity and Food Security

Susan R. McCouch Rice Genetics lab, Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

9:15 am – 10:00 am Adam BallroomPhotosynthesis

Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor, Departments of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

10:00 am - 10:30 am Convention Foyer Refreshment break sponsored by Canadian Canola Growers Association

Sustainable Development Goals Panel

Adam Ballroom Sponsored by National Research Council

10:30 am - noon

Policy & Regulation Panel

Battleford Room

Sponsored by CropLife Canada

10:30 am - noon

Novel Technologies in Developing Countries

William Pascoe

10:30 am - noon

10:30 am - noon Role of the private sector and food security

Anne Roulin VP Nutrition, Health & Wellness and Sustainability Nestle SA, Vevey, Switzerland

Mark Matlock Senior VP Food Research Archer Daniels Midland, Decatur, Illinois, USA

Juan Gonzalez-Valero Head Public Policy and Sustainability, Syngenta, Switzerland

Pierre Herben Chief Technology Officer, Yara International, Oslo, Norway

Lesley Anne Glover Moderator

CFIA to talk about Canadian regulatory system

Why it’s important to regulate the product, not the process

Phil MacDonald Kenya experience

Ruth Oniang’o

Greg Giokas Canadian Consul General Bangalore, India

Low Level Presence Stephen Yarrow Vice President, Plant Biotechnology CropLife Canada

Kiran Sharma Principal Scientist (Cell & Molecular Biology); Director-Platform for Translational Research on Transgenic Crops (PTTC); CEO AgriBusiness & Innovation Platform International Crops Institute Andhra Pradesh, India

11:00 am – 11:30 am Peter Kulakow Leader Cassava Improvement Program, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA), Nigeria

11:30 am - noon CABI’s innovative use of technology to address problems in food security and plant health

Andrea Powell Chief Information Officer, CABI, Oxfordshire, UK

Noon – 1:00 pm Adam Ballroom Lunch speaker TBA

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Adam Ballroom Fresh air break

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Adam BallroomMajor threats to world agriculture

Sarah Gurr Chair in Food Security, Head of Biosciences, Exeter University, UK

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Adam Ballroom Plenary speaker TBA

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Convention Foyer Refreshment break

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Adam Ballroom Stephen McGurk Vice-President, Programs, International Development Research Centre

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Adam Ballrooom Plenary speaker TBA

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Closing networking