Programme

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

 

Towards a Sustainable Dairy Sector

Wednesday

5th September

19:00 – 20:00

Meet and Greet

Venue: Staff Common Room, UCC

 

Introduction:                   

Mr. Patrick O’Connell
Chair, Southern Ireland Section, Society of Dairy Technology

 

 

Welcoming Address:

Professor Pat Fitzpatrick
Head, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science, UCC

 

Response:                         

Dr. Liz Whitley
President, Society of Dairy Technology

 

Thursday

6th September

08:30

Venue: Boole 1, Boole Building,  UCC

Official Opening:  Mr. Simon Coveney T.D.

Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

An tAire Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara

 

SESSION 1

08:50 – 10:45

Sustainable Technologies and Ecology    

 

 

08:50

 

 

09:00

 

 

 

09:45

 

 

 

 

10:15

CHAIR:      

Mr. Jim Woulfe

Chief Executive, Dairygold Co-Operative Society Ltd

 

Dairy Markets and Supply Security

 Ms. Anne Randles,

Secretary and Director of Administration, Irish Dairy Board

 

An overview of International Developments
 
Ms. Sophie Bertrand

Chair of IDF Standing Committee on Environment

Environment Program Manager, Institut de l'Elevage/CNIEL, Paris.

 

A Marginal Abatement Cost Curve for Irish Agriculture

Dr. Rogier Schulte

Head of Environmental Research Department, Teagasc,

Johnstown Castle

 

10:45

 

HEALTH BREAK

·         Viewing trade exhibition

·         Viewing student posters

 

 


 

SESSION 2

11:05 – 13:15

 

 

11:05

 

 

 

11:15



11:45

 

 

12:15

 

 

 

12:45

 

 

Venue: Boole 1, Boole Building,  UCC

Economics : A Scale to Sustain

 

 CHAIR:

Professor Gerry Boyle

Director, Teagasc

 

A World Class Dairy

Mr. Jakob Nielsen

Project Director, Arla UK,  Aylesbury

 

Dairy Ingredients Manufacture
 Mr. Sean Molloy

Director of Strategy, Glanbia Ingredients Ireland

 

Kerry Dairy Retail – Operation and Approach

Mr. Colm O’Connor

Operations Director, Kerry Dairy Retail, Ireland

 

Milk powder Drier scale  - the New Zealand perspective
Mr. Barry Cole

Business Development Manager, GEA Group, New Zealand

 

13:15 – 13:45

BUFFET LUNCH

Venue: Mini Rest

·         viewing trade exhibition

·         viewing student posters

 

 

13:45 – 15:00

 

 

OPEN FORUM:

Optimising plant scale for expansion in milk production

 

 

13:45

 

 

13:50

 

 

14:00

 

 

 

14:10

CHAIR:                

Mr. Michael Barry

Director, Irish Dairy Industries Association, Dublin

 

Economic Aspects
 Mr. Trevor Donnellan

Principal Research Officer, Teagasc Rural Economy Research Centre

 

Engineering Aspects

Dr. Donal O’Callaghan

Principal Research Officer, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark

General Discussion

 

15:00

 

Tour of Food Science Facilities, University College Cork

 

17:00

 

ADJUDICATION:

Student Poster Exhibition

 

19:00

GALA CONFERENCE DINNER Venue: Aula Maxima, UCC

 

After Dinner Speaker:   Professor Paul Ross

Head of Teagasc Food Programme


 

 

Friday

7th September

SESSION 3

08:00 – 10:15

Venue: Boole 1, Boole Building,  UCC

Sustainable Nutrition

 

 

08:00

 

08:10

 

 

 

 

08:45

 

 

 

 

09:15

 

 

09:45

 

 

CHAIR:             

Professor Paul McSweeney

School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, UCC

 

Leadership in Sustainable Nutrition

Dr. Gregory Miller

Executive Vice President of Research, Regulatory, and Scientific Affairs,
Dairy Management Inc., Rosemont, IL

 

Dairy Foods as a Vehicle for Vitamin D delivery

Dr. Mairead Kiely

Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition, Vitamin D Research Group,
School of Food & Nutritional Sciences, UCC

 

Cows' Milk Protein Allergy and implications for infant nutrition

Professor Jonathan Hourihane

Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, UCC

 

Dairy Nutrition in later life

 Professor Philip Jakeman

Director, Human Science Research Unit, University of Limerick

 

10:15 - 10:40

HEALTH BREAK

·         viewing trade exhibition

·         viewing student posters

SESSION 4

10:40 – 12:30

Venue: Boole 1, Boole Building,  UCC
Practicing and Communicating Sustainability

 

 

10:40

 

10:45

 

 

 

 

11:15

 

 

 

11:45

 

 

 

 

12:15

CHAIR:             

Mr. Dan MacSweeney

CEO, Carbery Group

 

Making and Justifying  Health Claims
Dr. Fiona Lalor

Food for Health Ireland, School of Public Health
Physiotherapy  and Population Science, UCD

 

Dairy 2020

Mr. James Neville

Managing Director, Volac International

 

Sustainable Energy

Mr. Bartley Bonsall

Director, Technology Leader,  
Technology Centre for Biorefining & Bioenergy, NUI Galway

Sustainable Use of Water

Mr. Bent Oestergaard
Director, Global Marketing, Food & Beverage,
SPX Flow Technology, Denmark

 

 

12:45

 

 

BUFFET LUNCH

Venue: Mini Rest

·         viewing trade exhibition

·         viewing student posters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13:30 – 17:00

TECHNICIAL TOUR:

via coach to Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy

and

Dairygold Biogas Plant, Castlefarm, Mitchelstown

 

 

 

17:00

Depart for Cork