Speakers
Japan
Dr. Kouichirou Shin
Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Senior Research Scientist,Biological Function Research Department
Dr. Takuya Takahashi
Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research
China
Mr. Xie Hong
President of Hangzhou Beingmate Group Co., Ltd.
Mr. Liebing Zhang
China Agriculture University, Associated Professor, College of Food Science and Nutrition Engineering
Prof. Dr. Lijun Chen
V.G.M., Beijing Sanyuan Food Co., Ltd.
New Zealand / Australia
Dr Palatasa Havea
Fonterra Innovation Centre, Senior Research Technologist, Ingredient Functionality
Prof. Dr. René Koopman
Maastricht University / The University of Melbourne, Assistant Professor, research into the anabolic response to exercise, nutrition and pharmacological interventions
USA
Mr. Sam Adapa
Safeway, Inc, Product Development Manager, Innovations in Consumer Brands in Safeway, Inc. Has been with Safeway for ten years
Dr. David Baer
United States Department of Agriculture, Chief Scientist of the Functional Foods and Health Promotion Group within the Food Components and Health Laboratory of the US Department of Agriculture’s Human Nutrition Research Center
Prof. Wayne Campbell
Purdue University, Foods and Nutrition
Mr. Mitch Davis
Davisco Foods
Mr. Ray Dyke
Agri-Mark/Cabot, Inc, V.P. Technology
Mr. Rick Flaget
Morning foods Research and Technology, Sr. Food technologist
Prof. E. Allen Foegeding
North Carolina State University, Professor of Food Science
Prof. Bruce German
University of California, Davis, Department of Food Science and Technology
Prof. Dr. Ted Labuza
Univ. Minnesota, Morse Alumni Distinguished Professor of Food Science and Engineering
Mrs. Veronique Lagrange
US Dairy Export Council, VP Strategic Research & Business Development
Prof. Donald K. Layman
University of Illinois, Research and teaching in nutrition and metabolic regulation
Canada
Prof. Harvey Anderson
University of Toronto, Teaching and research
Mr. Renaud Beauchesne
President and CEO of Advitech Inc.
Prof. Dr. Stuart Phillips
McMaster University, Research into the interaction between dietary proteins, exercise, and skeletal muscle in humans
Eric Simard
Biolactis Inc., R and D Health/Technology
UK
Mr. Richard Field
Director of iRIS Consulting
Dr. Gemma Walton
University of Reading, School of Food Biosciences, Postdoctoral researcher of gut microbiology
Finland
Dr. Matti Harju
Valio Ltd, VP Product Development
Denmark
Mr. Tage Affertsholt
3A Business Consulting, Managing Partner
Mr. Anders Steen Jørgensen
Arla Foods Ingredients, Business Area Manager, Specialty Ingredients for Infant and Clinical Nutriton, Sports Nutrition and Functional Foods
Prof. Kim Fleischer Michaelsen
University of Copenhagen, Head of the research group on pediatric and international nutririon. Senior consultant at the Pediatric Nutrition Unit at Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen
Switzerland
Prof. Jean-Philippe Bonjour
Service of Bone Diseases University Hospital, Former Head Division of Bone Diseases
Prof. Dr. Ernst H. Reimerdes
Director of FoodInfoTec (FIT) and Chairman of the German Institute for Food Technology (DIL)
Dr. Peter van Bladeren
Director of Nestlé Research Center
Germany
Mr. Ingo Barlovic
Iconkids & Youth International Research GmbH
Prof. Dr. Lutz Fischer
University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, Head of the Department of Biotechnology
Dr. Georg Herbertz
Director of IMQ - Kempten (Institute for Dairy Innovation and Marketing)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Kulozik
Technical University Munich, Chair Holder for Food Process Engineering and Dairy Technology and Department Manager Technology of Food Research Institute ZIEL
Mrs. Andréa Pernot-Barry
Technical Director of ZDS Solingen, Central College of the German Confectionery Trade
Dr. Guenther Sawatzki
SciNuTec GmbH, Research director with special focus on bio-process-engineering for new ingredients used in functional food
Netherlands
Dr. Jacques Bindels
Danone Research, R&D Director Nutrition, Infant and Toddler Nutrition R&D with special focus on Asia-Pacific countries
Mr. René Floris
NIZO food research B.V., Division Manager Health & Safety
Prof. Dr. Gertjan Schaafsma
HAN University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Professor Sports, Nutrition and Life Style
Dr. Corinne Sprong
NIZO food research, Managing and performing projects on nutrition and health, with special focus on dairy products/ingredients in relation to gut health
Dr. ir. Frans M.W. Visser
DMV International, Managing Director Industrial Products Campina
Dr. Margriet Westerterp-Plantenga
Maastricht University, Researcher at the department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences
Mr. Patrick Mannion
Innova Market Insights
France
Mr. Jean-Jacques Maugas
LACTALIS INGREDIENTS, Unit Nutritionals Manager
Dr Pierre Schuck
INRA, Director of the Joint Research Unit on Science and Technology of Milk and Egg at the French National Institute of Agronomic Research in France. Before this academic position, he was in charge of a spray drying equipment in one of the main dairy industrial
Mr. Daniel Tomé
INRA AgroParisTech, President of Department of Life Sciences and Health