Name: Opening Plenary
Start: 2016-09-16T08:00:00-0400
End: 2016-09-16T10:00:00-0400

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Opening Plenary

Welcome by Andre Laperriere, Executive Director, GODAN Secretariat
Welcome by Amir Dossal, GODAN Summit Master of Ceremonies
Remarks by Catherine Brown, Chief Executive, UK Food Standards Agency
Remarks by Ian Boyd, Chief Scientific Adviser, UK DEFRA
Panel: Universities and the Open Data Revolution
*Moderated by Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair & PUSH Steering Committee
*Lightning Presentation by University of Illinois
-- Amy Marshall-Colon, Assistant Professor
-- AJ Christensen, Visualization Programmer
* Glenda Humiston, Vice President, University of California
* Robert Jones, incoming Chancellor Univeristy of Illinois
* Sumantra Ray, NNEdPro Founding Chair, University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor
* Ignacio Pena, Founder, Surfing Tsunamis
Remarks by Tom Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Panel: Leveraging Agriculture and Nutrition Open Data to Improve Investment
Moderated by: Steve Dauphin, Director, Kirchner Impact Foundation
*Dexter Paine, CEO, Paine + Partners
*Stephan Tanda, Executive Managing Board Director, DSM Royal
*Ann Aerts, Head, Novartis Foundation
*Rebecca Middleton, Executive Director, Alliance to End Hunger

Session Speaker

Ann Aerts

Head, Novartis Foundation

Ian Boyd

Chief Scientific Adviser, Defra

Professor Ian Boyd is Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He is currently Professor in Biology at the University of St Andrews. Career highlights include: Physiological Ecologist with the Natural Environment Research Council Institute... Read More →

Catherine Brown

Chief Executive, Food Standards Agency

Catherine Brown took up post as Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency on 16 October 2012. Catherine was previously Chief Executive of the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA), which is an executive Agency of Defra. She joined Animal Health, one of the AHVLA’s... Read More →

AJ Christensen

Visualization Programmer, NCSA

AJ is a visualization programmer for the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of the AVL, AJ creates data-driven imagery for a variety of scientific domains including astrophysics... Read More →

Steve Dauphin

Director, Kirchner Impact Foundation

Steve has over 20 years of venture capital, and fund management experience with particularly focus on the agriculture sector. Steve has worked with funds totaling in excess of $200M. Steve presented a market-based technology commercialization strategy for advanced fertilizer technologies... Read More →

Brady Deaton

Chancellor Emeritus and Executive Director, Deaton, University of Missouri

Brady J. Deaton was Chancellor of the University of Missouri from 2004–2013 and now serves in emeritus status and as Director of the Deaton Institute for University Leadership in International Development at Missouri. He was appointed Chair of the Board for International Food and... Read More →

Glenda Humiston

Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California

Dr. Glenda Humiston became Vice President of UC’s Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources in August 2015. Humiston brings over 25 years of experience working on public policy development and program implementation supporting sustainability; prior experience includes service... Read More →

Robert Jones

President, University at Albany

André Laperrière

Executive Director, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition

André Laperrière is an expert in international development, joined the GODAN initiative as its first Executive Director in September 2015. During his career, he has led numerous projects on behalf of large private corporations and international organisations, including the UN and... Read More →

Amy Marshall-Colon

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois

Amy Marshall-Colon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Marshall-Colon leads a research program at UIUC that uses plant systems biology approaches to integrate genomic and metabolomic information into network... Read More →

Rebecca Middleton

Chief Operating Officer, Alliance to End Hunger

Rebecca Middleton is the Executive Director of the Alliance to End Hunger. She is responsible for implementing the Alliance’s vision of bringing together diverse organizations to build the public and political will to end hunger. This role brings together Rebecca’s many years... Read More →

Dexter Paine

Chairman and CEO, Paine & Partners

Mr. Paine is Chairman and CEO and a founding Partner of Paine & Partners. Mr. Paine has over 20 years of investment experience in the food and agribusiness sectors. Prior to co-founding Paine & Partners in 2006, Mr. Paine co-founded the Predecessor Firm, Fox Paine & Company, in 1997... Read More →

Ignacio Peña

Founder, Surfing Tsunamis

Es especialista en innovación y estrategia, asesor y speaker internacional. Es fundador de Surfing Tsunamis, una catalizadora de iniciativas orientadas a la innovación transformadora. Es Faculty de Singularity University, Lecturer del Wharton School y fue seleccionado Bold Innovator... Read More →

Sumantra Ray

NNEdPro Founding Chair, University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor, NNEdPro

Sumantra (Shumone) Ray is a Medical Doctor and Registered Nutritionist, with interests in Nutrition, Cardiovascular Disease and Medical Education. He works at the MRC Elsie Widdowson Laboratory in Cambridge as a Senior Clinician Scientist and UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey... Read More →

Stephan Tanda

Member Managing Board of Directors, DSM NV

Thomas Vilsack

Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Friday September 16, 2016 8:00am - 10:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom

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