Strategic Perspectives on Innovation in Agrifood Supply Chains: Profitability, Sustainability, and Global Change

April 18 - April 20, 2017

David Brower Center

Berkeley, California

3-day workshop
Discounts available for Public/Academic and Groups; Early Bird discounts available until February 10, 2017
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The workshop provides strategic perspectives on innovation in agrifood supply chains. The essence of the event is to consider together in-depth the ways in which agrifood businesses create innovations in products, systems, and technologies, and then as entrepreneurs design supply chains in creative ways to implement those innovations in the market. To learn more about this program, visit Program Description page

The event is in collaboration with Germany's Food Industry Association (Die Lebensmittelwirtschaft), Giannini Foundation, the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley, Mars, Inc., and Solidaridad.

See the Schedule

Your Takeaways

The participants will get three key takeaways with deeper insight and rich, practical case study information on: 

  1. how leading firms innovate in products, systems, and technologies;
  2. how the firms then design supply chains to procure inputs and services for or to market products arising from their innovations; and
  3. how the opportunities and challenges for innovation in supply chains are conditioned by being in the mature markets of US and Europe versus the extremely rapidly changing market situations of Emerging Market regions, and by changes in policies and regulations that are now happening blindingly fast.
David Zilberman
Professor, Robinson Chair
Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Thomas Reardon
Professor
Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
John Scharffenberger
Co-Founder
Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker
Daniel Hartwig
Resources Manager
Woolf Farming & Processing
Ching Guo
Senior Vice President
CEVA Logistics
Justus Wesseler
Professor
Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy, Wageningen University
Chad Sokol
Buyer
Costco Wholesale
Sebastian Teunissen
Managing Director
Solidaridad North America
Jörg Hartung
Professor
University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover
Alison Van Eenennaam
Cooperative Extension Specialist
UC Davis
John Pandol
Director of Special Projects
Pandol Bros., Inc.
Jim Prevor
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
The Perishable Pundit
Carl Hausmann
Former CEO
Bunge Europe and Bunge North America
Ken Shwedel
Principal
KSADVISE
John Vikupitz
President and CEO
NetafimUSA
Michael Binder
Director for Sustainability Development
EVONIK
Gordon Rausser
Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor
Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
What's Included:

Instruction, instruction materials, meals, refreshments, and two networking receptions.

Please visit Accommodations page for a list of lodging options in Berkeley.

Global Food Summit

This program is part of the Global Food Summit. In collaboration with Germany's Die Lebensmittelwirtschaft, the Global Food Summit provides high-level conferences and workshops with global business leaders, academics, and policymakers to explore challenges and opportunities in international agrifood supply chains.

Sponsors

 EVONIK Industries

Mars Inc.

 Giannini Foundation 

 

Collaborators

  Die Lebensmittelwirtschaft

  Solidaridad 
Who should attend

Leaders from local and global business, academia, multilateral organizations, and NGOs.

Agenda

List of Speakers and Sessions

Also, see Agrifood 2016

"As a seasoned business executive working on a food startup, this program gave us a framework to create an effective approach for our value proposition. We turned our ideas into a business that stood out to investors thanks to the experts and industry leaders I met during the program."
Participant of the 2016 workshop
"As an academic, the conference confirmed and reinforced for me the value of working/networking with industry stakeholders to understand issues and learn from them."
Participant of the 2016 workshop