10:00 Executive Meeting (Board Members only)

Zephyr Room, Conference Centre, 4th floor

13:00 Registration opens in Hotel Lobby

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14:00 GRSE Meeting (By invitation)

Mistral Room, Conference Centre, 4th floor

16:00 Membership Meeting (Board Members and Ambassadors)

Zephyr Room, Conference Centre, 4th floor

18:00 Chairman's Welcome Reception

Being held at La Rascasse. Coaches depart at 17:50.

07:30 Registration opens

Atlantique Foyer, Conference Centre, 2nd floor

08:00 Marketing Workshop (All welcome)

Zephyr Room, Conference Centre, 4th floor

Speaker: Désirée Heijne, WING: University of Vechta, Germany
'Public trust - The WING Transparency Initiative'

Speaker: Tim Lambert, Egg Farmers of Canada
'International Egg Nutrition Consortium - Moving forward'

Speaker: Anina Kjaer, Danish Egg Association, Denmark
'International Egg Nutrition Consortium- Report from Banff Nutrition Conference'

09:30 Official Conference Opening

Atlantique Room, Conference Centre, 2nd floor

10:00 Keynote Speaker: Prof David Hughes, Imperial College London, UK

'Consumers and the plant protein mega-trend: Implications for the global egg industry'

10:30 Coffee

11:10 Economics Session: Driving efficiencies in egg production - Advances in layer nutrition

Speaker: Prof Leo den Hartog, Wageningen University & Trouw Nutrition, Netherlands
'Innovation in layer nutrition'

Speaker: Steve Pritchard, Premier Nutrition, UK
'The impact of nutrition on bird behaviour'

Speaker: Paulien Rutten, Hendrix Genetics, Netherlands
'How to feed and manage layers for long production cycles'

Question & Answer Session

Speaker : Steve Manton, IEF Chairman
'IEF update'

Speaker: Cesar de Anda
'Latin American Poultry Congress Promotion'

12:40 Lunch

Mediterranee Room, Conference Centre, Ground floor

14:15 Egg Production Session: Avian Influenza: Situation, prevention and sanitation. Presented by the IEC AI Expert Group

Speaker: Dr Alejandro Thiermann, OIE, France
'Avian Disease: Global situation report'

Speaker: Prof Ian Brown, Animal and Plant Health Agency, UK
'Current threats from Avian Influenza and future perspectives for protection and control’

Speaker: Chad Gregory, UEP, USA
'USA Avian Influenza situation update'

Speaker: Dr Travis Schaal, Hy-Line International, USA
'A Culture of Biosecurity'

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Customer Focus Session: Egg sales - Increasing volume and value

Speaker: Prof Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK
'Multi-sensory food packaging at the point of sale & beyond'

17:00 Networking Reception

Delegates are invited to a networking drinks reception following the end of the conference sessions

Atlantique Foyer, Conference Centre, 2nd floor

08:30 EPI Workshop (All welcome)

Zephyr Room, Conference Centre, 4th floor

Speaker: Prof Toni Wang, Iowa State University, USA
'Creating high protein liquid drinks - Improving the heat stability of egg white'

08:30 Economics Workshop (All welcome)

Sirocco 1&2 Room, Conference Centre, 4th floor

Speaker: Prof Hans-Wilhelm Windhorst, WING/IEC, Germany
'The EU egg industry in transition'

10:00 Egg Processing Trade Session

Atlantique Room, Conference Centre, 2nd floor

Speaker: Randy Green, Watson Green, USA
'Impact of the Trump presidency on global trade'

Speaker: Wilbert Hilkens, formerly ABN Amro, Netherlands
'The EU in transition - The impact of Brexit on trade'

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Egg Processing Session: Supporting egg consumption

Speaker: Anne Alonzo, American Egg Board, USA
'The promotion of eggs and egg products in the USA'

Speaker: Prof Toni Wang, Iowa State University, USA
'Innovating egg products - Opportunities for infant formula'

Speaker: Tim Lambert, Egg Farmers of Canada
'International Egg Nutrition Consortium – Working for you'

12:30 Lunch

Mediterranee Room, Conference Centre, Ground floor

14:00 Egg Production Session: Layer housing - A global issue

Speaker: Kevin Lovell, SAPA, South Africa
'OIE global hen housing standards: Process and timelines'

Speaker: Prof Joy Mench, University of California-Davis, USA
'Dealing with outcomes-based global standards'

Speaker: Chad Gregory, UEP, USA
'Non cage egg production in the USA'

Q&A session

15:20 IEC Global Leadership Conference Brugge 2017 Promotion

15:30 Chairman's closing remarks

Ben Dellaert

19:00 Informal dinner and band

Being held at the Le Meridien Hotel