Conference "Perspectives for FOOD 2030"
On 17 & 18 April 2007 Charlemagne Conference Centre, Room S4, Brussels
> DAY 1: Tuesday 17 April 2007
9:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:30
Welcome [
153KB]
by Mr José Manuel Silva Rodríguez
Director General, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research
Keynote Session A: Trends and Outlook in World Economics, Culture and Food
Chair: Dr Christian Patermann
Director for Biotechnologies, Agriculture and Food, European Commission,
Directorate-General for Researchs
11:00 "The
Asymmetric Benefits of Globalization: Perspectives for food in the
post-Ricardian modalities of international trade" [33KB]
Prof. Pan Yotopoulos
Professor at the Universitŕ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, and Professor
of Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University, United States
11:30 Food, Venture
capital and Innovation
[35KB]
Mr Esko Aho
President, Finnish Innovation Fund,
Finland, Former Finnish Prime Minister
12:00 Sociological
and cultural predictions - "A history of the future
of Food"
[1.8MB]
Preface
[
16KB]
Prof. Warren Belasco
Professor at Department of American Studies
University of Maryland, United States
12:30 Discussion
13:00 LUNCH
14:45 A taste of the future: research's role in tomorrow's food development [127KB]
Mr Janez Potočnik
Commissioner for Science and Research
15:05 Perspectives from the European Parliament
Ms Dagmar Roth-Behrendt
Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety &
Substitute Member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Session B: Drivers of Food Demand and Market Today and Tomorrow
Chair: Mrs Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle
Executive Director European Food Safety Authority
15:25
Agriculture and farmers' situation in 2030 [228KB]
Manuscript [65KB]
Prof. Andrzej Babuchowski
Minister-Counsellor, Head of Agricultural Section, Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU
Former Secretary and Undersecretary of State and Deputy Minister
of Agriculture and Rural Development, Poland
15:45 Retailer vision in 2030
Mr Xavier Durieu
Secretary General, EuroCommerce, Belgium
16:05 The Food
Industry of 2030: From Food to Well-being
[282KB]
Mr Jean Martin
President, CIAA Confederation of Food and Drink Industries, Belgium
16:25 Impact
of food legislation and lead markets
[50KB]
Mr Robert Madelin
Director General, European Commission, Directorate-General Health and Consumer Protection, Belgium
16:45 Retail
vision, logistics and supplies in 2030
[1.2MB]
Dr Gerd Wolfram
Managing Director, Metro Group Information Technology, Future Store
Initiative, Germany
17:05 The food
consumer in 2030 [38KB]
Prof. Edda Müller
Executive Director of the Federation of German Consumer Organisations
(vzbv), Germany
17:25 Discussion
18:00 COCKTAIL
> DAY 2: Wednesday 18 April 2007
Session C: New Technologies for Food Production
Chair: Mr Michel Coomans
Head of Unit of Food Industry, European Commission, Directorate-General
for Enterprise and Industry
9:00 Food,
Pleasure, Health and Wellbeing [636KB]
Prof. Charles Daly
Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and College of Science, Engineering
and Food Science, University College Cork, Ireland
9:20 Research,
New Technologies and Sustainable Production [640KB]
Mr Luigi Pio Scordamaglia
Vice-President of the Italian Food Industries Federations, Vice- President of INALCA, Italy
9:40 Future
Food Processing [50KB]
Dr András Sebők
General Manager, Campden&Chorleywood, Hungary
European Technology Platform Food for Life Board member
10:00 Concepts
for the Food factory of the future [380KB]
Prof. Thomas Ohlsson
Professor, SIK Swedish Institute for Food & Biotechnology, Sweden
10:20 World
perspective: Food Futures Flagship in Australia [490KB]
Dr Bruce Lee
Director Food Futures Flagship Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
10:40 Discussion
11:10 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
Session D: Future Perceptions of Food
Chair: Dr Christian Patermann
Director for Biotechnologies, Agriculture and Food, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research
11:30 Fairtrade:
Perception and Economic Reality [340KB]
Mr Ian Bretman
Deputy Director of the Fairtrade labelling Organisations (FLO) International,
United Kingdom
11:50 Risk communication and risk perception
Prof. Ragnar Löfstedt
Director of King's College London, United Kingdom
12:10 Future
Perceptions of Food - European Beverage Industry 2030 [610KB]
Dr Mike Knowles
Director Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, Coca-Cola European Union
Group, Belgium
12:30 LUNCH
14:20 Multidisciplinary
Approach to Food Research Potential for New Technologies [610KB]
Prof. Remko Boom
Head of Process Engineering Section, Wageningen University, The
Netherlands
14:40 Future
fish- full chain fish farm concepts and coming reality
[1.3MB]
Dr Karl Almås
President, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Norway
15:00 Discussion
15:30 Final Remarks
Introduced by Mr José
Manuel Silva Rodríguez
Director General,
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research
Basic
needs, complex requirements: agriculture and food markets in the
future [29KB]
Ms Mariann Fischer Boel
Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
15:50
Way Forward by Mr José Manuel Silva Rodríguez, Director General
[130KB]
Director General, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research
