Professor, Robinson Chair
Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
2016 Workshop Schedule
April 19 - 21, 2016
Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley
3 day workshop
$3,900
*2017 schedule will be finalized shortly
Day 1: April 19, 2016
Session 1: Introduction
8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Welcome and Overview
9:00 AM-9:30 AM
Overview of trends and cases of the rapid transformation of agrifood supply chains in Emerging Markets.
9:30 AM-9:45 AM
Discussion
10:30 AM-10:45 AM
Coffee
10:45 AM-11:15 AM
The urgent policy agenda for supporting the development of agribusiness supply chain development.
11:15 AM-11:30 AM
Discussion
Session 2: Downstream Segments of the Supply Chain: Innovating Toward the Consumer
11:30 AM-12:00 PM
Costco’s International Operations and Innovations in Supply Chains
12:00 PM-12:15 PM
Discussion
12:30 PM-1:50 PM
Lunch Panel: The US food industry's structural transformation and its implications for strategic positioning and value chain innovation by agribusiness firms.
2:00 PM-2:30 PM
German Retail and Food Manufacturer's Product Design and Supply Chain Innovations for National and International Markets.
2:30 PM-2:45 PM
Discussion
2:45 PM-3:30 PM
Great Waves and Rushing Currents: Seafood and Aquaculture Markets and Innovative Supply Chain Strategies to market to them.
3:30 PM-3:45 PM
Discussion
3:45 PM-4:00 PM
Coffee Break
4:00 PM-4:30 PM
Fresh Express's Innovation in packaged salads
4:30 PM-4:45 PM
Discussion
4:45 PM-5:15 PM
Capturing competitive market advantage by treating animals well.
5:15 PM-5:30 PM
Discussion
5:30 PM-6 PM
Scharffen Berger's artisanal chocolate path of innovation and market development.
6:00 PM-6:15 PM
Discussion
6:30 PM
Bar Opens
6:45 PM
Dinner starts
7:00 PM-7:45 PM
Innovation in beer and wine value chains in the global retail market.
Day 2: April 20, 2016
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Summary of first day, welcome/plan second day
Session 3: Midstream Segments of the Supply Chain: Innovating Toward Retailer & Consumer
8:45 AM-9:15 AM
Rural E-Commerce and Innovating the Last Mile to China's Villages
9:15 AM-9:30 AM
Discussion
9:30 AM-10:00 AM
Designing the logistics of supply chains to deliver innovative products competitively to emerging and developed markets
10:00 AM-10:15 AM
Discussion
10:15 AM-10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Session 4:Midstream segments of the Supply Chain: Innovating Design of Procurement Supply Chains from Farmers in the context of evolving global markets and regulations
10:30 AM-11:00 AM
Bunge's innovations in building supply chains in a context of rapidly changing global markets
11:00 AM-11:15 AM
Discussion
11:15 AM-11:45 AM
Mars' innovations for sustainability and consumer acceptability of its African sourced cocoa to its chocolate supply chains
11:45 AM-12:00 PM
Discussion
12:00 PM-12:30 PM
Harnessing science to develop the upstream of the supply chain with new products and enhanced productivity, as the foundation for sustainable supply chains
12:30 PM-12:45 PM
Discussion
12:45 PM-2:00 PM
Lunch at the Faculty Club Dining Hall
2:00 PM-2:30 PM
Woolf Farming and Processing's innovaions in water and energy efficiency to allow shift to specialty crops to export to Asia
2:30 PM-2:45 PM
Discussion
2:45 Pm-3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Financing the development of value chains
3:30 PM-3:45 PM
Discussion
3:45 PM-4:30 PM
Panel: Agribusiness strategic positioning leveraging their responses to evolving US regulation of food and agriculture
4:30 PM-4:45 PM
Discussion
Session 5: Innovations in Finance and other Support Services to Supply Chains
4:45 PM-5:15 PM
Value chain finance internationally by Rabobank in Latin America
5:15 PM-5:30 PM
Discussion
5:30 PM-6:00 PM
Financing supply chains in agriculture: What have we learned?
6:00 PM-6:15 PM
DIscussion
6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Wine Reception and Dinner with Chris Somerville
Day 3: April 21, 2016
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Summary of first and second days, welcome/plan third day
8:45 AM-9:15 AM
Innovations promoting value chain development
9:15 AM-9:30 AM
Discussion
Session 6: Upstream segments of the Supply Chain: Innovating Design of Supply Chains from Farmers
9:30 AM-10:00AM
Cooperative services to support farmers and midstream marketing into supply chains
10:00 AM-10:15 AM
Discussion
10:15 AM-10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 AM-11:15 AM
Strategic positioning for US agribusiness firms in the evolving bio-energy
11:15 AM-11:30 AM
Discussion
11:30 AM-12:00 PM
Supply chain design to improve animal health and environmental quality: cases from Asia
12:00 PM-12:15 PM
Discussion
12:15 PM-1:45 PM
Lunch Panel: How busineses can avail of partnerships with universities to enhance their capacity to innovate in products, technologies, and supply chains
1:45 PM-2:15 PM
Netafim Company’s Path to Innovation Success in Designing and Adapting Drip and Micro-Irrigation Technologies and Service Delivery Supply Chains Globally.
2:15 PM-2:30 PM
Discussion
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
The opportunities and challenges of developing agrifood supply chains to meet the needs of growing middle class in India
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Discussion
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Rapidly changing public regulation and private standards conditioning innovations in European supply chains
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Discussion
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Climate smart agriculture and value chain, energy, and market risk and resilience challenges and solutions for agrifood supply chains in an era of climate change, energy cost and food safety shocks in some emerging market areas
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Conclusions of the Workshop, David Zilberman and Tom Reardon
5:30 PM
Reception and Dinner with Dean J. Keith Gilless at the Faculty Club at UC Berkeley