| Monday, September 8 2014 | ||
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| 5:00 – 9:00 pm | Set up for exhibitors and sponsors | |
| Tuesday, September 9 2014 | ||
| 7:00 am | Registration and breakfast | |
| 8:00 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Paul Singh, Professor Emeritus, School of Packaging, Michigan State University |
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| 8:15 am | Keynote Presentation Fresh Produce Packaging and Food Safety Challenges: An Insider’s Perspective Steve Gill, CEO, Gills Onions, Oxnard, CA |
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| 9:00 am | Be Prepared: How the FSMA Will Impact Grower / Shippers Michael McCartney, COO, Sun World LLC |
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| 9:30 am | Break with exhibitors | |
| 10:15 am | Packaging for Quality and Sustainability at Ready Pac Brian Zomorodi, Executive VP R&D, Ready Pac |
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| 10:45 am | Merchandising Challenges with RPC’s and DRC’s for Retail Sales of Fresh Produce Dr. Paul Singh, Professor Emeritus, School of Packaging, Michigan State University |
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| 11:15 am | Engaging Consumers: Package Design and Marketing Strategy Dr. Javier de la Fuente, Assistant Professor, Packaging Program, California Polytechnic State University |
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| 11:45 am | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | Keynote Presentation Global Trends Driving Packaging and Maturity Control Systems (2020 & Beyond) Ronnie De La Cruz, De La Cruz Consulting & Training, Salinas, CA |
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| 1:30 pm | Pallet Unitizing: Reducing Damage from Vibration in Shipments of Fresh Produce Dr. Malkeet Padda, Postharvest Research Manager, Driscoll’s |
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| 2:00 pm | The Business Environment Today Requires You to Control Your Specifications Matthew Wright, President, specright |
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| 2:30 pm | Fresh Approach: A New Technology for Post-Harvest Cooling of Produce Robert Bright, Director of Strategic Sales, DeltaTrak, Inc. |
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| 3:00 pm | Break with exhibitors | |
| 4:00 pm | Fresh Pack: An Innovative Take on Cost Management, Logistics and Sustainable Solutions Michael Michelucci, Sales Manager, Northern California Cheryl Wilson, Director, Perishable Products Golden State Container |
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| 4:30 pm | A Look to the Future: How Do We Standardize to Optimize? Josh Kling, Strategic Market Development Manager, IFCO |
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| 6:00 – 7:00 pm | Reception in Ferrantes Bay Room | |
| Wednesday, September 10 2014 | ||
| 7:15 – 7:30 am | Lobby breakfast to go Bus departs for tours from front entrance of hotel. Please remember to dress warm as the cooling rooms and morning air is cold |
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| 8:00 – 10:00 am | Field Tour 1: Driscoll’s Berries, Watsonville, CA Field Packing and Pre-Cooling of Strawberries and Raspberries Strawberries and raspberries in adjacent fields, then finish up with a tour of their QA and cooling facilities. Driscoll’s Berries, 1750 San Juan Rd., Watsonville, CA 95076 |
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| 10:30 – 11:30 am | Field Tour 2: Tanimura & Antle, Salinas, CA Artisan lettuce: field harvesting, packing into clamshells, and palletizing of product for transport. |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch Tanimura & Antles’s Wharf Marketplace, Monterey, CA |
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| 1:15 – 2:00 pm | Exhibitor/Sponsor Panel Discussions on specific questions and challenges shared by seminar attendees |
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