11:45am  

GrowCanada® Roundtable
(By invitation only. Contact us for more information.)

6:00pm

GrowCanada® Icebreaker

Join us between 7am and 8:45am and explore how agriculture and conservation are working together for sustainability

9:10am

The Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food& Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board

Keynote speaker –Peter Mansbridge Anchor of CBC's The National
Canada and Canadians in a Changing World

10:20am

Break

10:50am

11:10am

Key Agricultural influencers
Consumer perspective – Dr. Jay Lehr

Industry perspective – David Morgan, Syngenta Seeds Inc.

11:30am

Fireside Chat – Future influences

12:00pm

Lunch

Conference sessions resume at 1:00pm

1:10pm
1:35pm
2:00pm

Agriculture: Knowledge is power
Stuart Smyth, University of Saskatchewan
Gale A. Buchanan, University of Georgia
David Skole, Michigan State University

Moderator: John Ibbitson, The Globe and Mail

2:30pm

Break

3:00pm

The skills challenge: lessons from the field
Judith MacBride-King, Human resources specialist and author

4:00pm

Day 1 closes

5:00pm

Fresh ideas need fresh air!
Join fellow walkers and runners for a 5km race along the Rideau

Rejoin conference delegates at 6pm for our evening banquet and reception!

6:00pm

Cocktail reception

7:00pm

Dinner & banquet
Banquet wine compliments of N.M. Bartlett Inc

8:00pm

Banquet speaker
Joel Cohen, Writer and Co-Executive Producer on The Simpsons

9:30pm

Post-banquet reception

9:05am

Day 2 Keynote speaker - Michael Specter, New Yorker Staff Writer & Author
Fear spreads as rapidly as any virus

9:50am

Making the connection
Avrim Lazar, Forest Products Association of Canada

10:30am

Break

11:00am

Engaging your Canadians
John Furlong, Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

12:00pm

Lunch

See you next year in Winnipeg – November 29 – December 1, 2011