10:00 Executive Meeting (Board Members only)

Akademieraum III Room

13:00 Registration opens

Hotel Lobby

13:30 CSR Meeting (Committee Members only)

Akademieraum III Room

15:30 Membership Meeting (Committee Members & Ambassadors)

Akademieraum III Room

18:00 Chairman's Welcome Reception

Ballsaal Ballroom. Hotel Adlon Kempinski
Dress Code: Business Casual

07:30 Registration opens

Ballsaal Foyer

08:00 Marketing Workshop (All welcome)

“Bridging the gap between R&D and egg marketing”
Dr. Tia M. Rains, Senior Director of Nutrition Research & Communications, Egg Nutrition Center, USA

Akademieraum I Room

09:15 Conference Opening

• Chairman’s Welcome by Cesar de Anda
• Dr. Maria Flachsbarth, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, Germany
• Host Welcome by Caspar von der Crone
Ballsaal Ballroom

10:00 Conference Session: Customer Focus

Ballsaal Ballroom

10:00 “Leadership and the impact of food production on the planet”

Carlos Saviani, VP Food Sustainability, World Wildlife Fund, USA

10:20 "IEF Update"

Steve Manton, IEF Chairman

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Conference Session: Customer Focus

Ballsaal Ballroom

11:00 “Dunkin’ Brands: leading through innovation”

Jeff Miller, Executive Chef & VP Product Innovation, Dunkin’ Brands, USA

11:30 “Creating value through marketing, research and development”

Ivan Noes Jorgensen, Group CEO, Hedegaard Foods, Denmark

12:00 Lunch

Galerie Bel Etage

14:00 Conference Session: Avian Influenza Summit

• “Understanding AI”
Dr. Arjan Stegeman, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• “US outbreak overview and role of bird migration and transmission”
Chad Gregory, United Egg Producers, USA
• “US producer perspective and looking to the future”
Jim Dean, Center Fresh Group, USA
• “AI control measures”
Prof. Hongwei Xin, Egg Industry Center, Iowa State University, USA
Ballsaal Ballroom

15:10 Q & A

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Conference Session: Avian Influenza Summit

• “The role of the OIE in relation to avian influenza. Responsibilities of public and private sector in disease control at national level”
Dr. Brian Evans, OIE, France
• “International trade. Provisions of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code with regards to avian influenza to mitigate impacts on international trade”
Dr. Alejandro Thiermann, OIE, France
• “Compartmentalisation”
Kevin Lovell, SAPA, South Africa
• “AI monitoring”
Dr. Klaus-Peter Behr, AniCon Labor, Germany
Ballsaal Ballroom

17:00 Q & A

19:00 Gala Dinner at the German Historical Museum

Dress Code: Formal (Black Tie or National Dress preferred)

08:30 Conference Session: International Reviews

Ballsaal Ballroom

10:00 Coffee

10:40 Conference Session: Showcase for Marketing Eggsellence

Presentations for the Golden Egg Marketing Award

Ballsaal Ballroom

11:45 Lunch

Galerie Bel Etage

13:45 Conference Session: Biosecurity - Keys to our future

• Introduction
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Preisinger, Lohmann Tierzucht, Germany
• “Farm business analysis”
Richard Geiselhart, Spreenhagener Vermehrungsbetriebe,
Germany
• “The role of biosecurity in prevention and control of avian influenza”
Dr. Brian Evans, OIE, France
• “The concepts of zoning and compartmentalisation”
Dr. Alejandro Thiermann, OIE, France
• “The importance of biosecurity to egg businesses”
Andrew Joret, Noble Foods, UK
• “The role of biosecurity in prevention and control of poultry diseases”
Dr. H.M.Hafez, Institute of Poultry Diseases, Free University
Berlin, Germany
• “De-population biosecurity”
Dr. Klaus-Peter Behr, AniCon Labor, Germany

14:55 Discussion Panel

Led by Prof Dr Rudolf Preisinger

15:40 Coffee

08:00 International Egg Nutrition Consortium Scientific Symposium

“Egg Nutrition Research Update: exploring the impact of egg consumption on various aspects of human health and disease”

• “The effects of dietary protein on human health”
Dr. Nina Geiker, Copenhagen University, Denmark
• “Eggs and diabetes”
Dr. Bruce Griffin, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
• “Egg yolk fractioning: creating a lower cholesterol egg”
Dr. Mario Diaz, University of Oviedo, Spain
Ballsaal Ballroom

12:00 All Delegates’ Networking Afternoon at Fischerhütte

Dress code: Casual

08:30 EPI Workshop (All welcome)

“Yolk processing: technology and functional products”
Prof. Tong Wang, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, USA
Akademieraum I Room

08:30 Economics Workshop (All welcome)

“The European egg industry in transition”
Prof. Hans-Wilhelm Windhorst, IEC Statistical Analyst
Akademieraum II Room

09:45 Conference Session: Egg Processing

Ballsaal Ballroom

09:45 “Shaping the future of the egg products industry: the industry perspective”

Jim Dwyer, President and CEO, Michael Foods, USA

10:15 “Industry market report”

Rick Brown, Senior Vice President, Urner Barry, USA

11:00 Coffee

11:40 Conference Session: Egg Processing Regional Reviews

A present-day analysis of the egg processing industry region by region

Ballsaal Ballroom

12:20 IEC Global Leadership Conference Kuala Lumpur 2016 Promotion

12:30 Lunch

Palaissaal Room

14:30 Conference Session: Business Analysis

IEC Visionaries Panel
A panel discussion of the egg industry’s key leaders and innovators including; Jim Dwyer, Frank Pace, Thor Stadil and Cesar de Anda

Ballsaal Ballroom

15:30 Closing Ceremony

Including the presentation of the Golden and Crystal Egg Awards

15:50 General Assembly (All welcome)

Including the handover of Chairmanship
Ballsaal Ballroom

16:15 Coffee

19:30 Informal Oktoberfest Evening at the Hofbräuhaus

Dress code: Casual