Congreso Australiano de la Industria del Banano. Mayo 2019
Congreso en la costa de Australia
ADAPTAR – CRECER – PROSPERAR
El principal evento de la industria bananera australiana llegará a Gold Coast en 2019.
Celebrado cada dos años, el Congreso es una oportunidad única para todos aquellos involucrados en la producción de la fruta más querida de la nación para reunirse bajo un mismo techo y compartir ideas.
El 13º Congreso se perfila como uno de los más emocionantes hasta la fecha, con un nuevo formato, un lugar destacado y una amplia gama de oradores y expositores.
El Congreso contará con dos días repletos de presentaciones centradas en los productores. Desde lo último en I+D y proyecciones de la industria y un vistazo al futuro, lo encontrará todo en el Congreso de 2019.
Todo lo que falta es usted.
DATOS
Fecha: 22–24 May 2019
Lugar: RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast QLD
Pais: Australia
Organiza: Australian Banana Growers’ Council
Email: bananacongress@mci-group.com – sonia@abgc.org.au
Web: https://bananacongress.org.au/
PROGRAMA
WEDNESDAY 22 MAY
1000 – 1500 Site visits – optional extra
Tour 1: Duranbah trial site, Tropical Food World, Husk Gin Distillery
Tour 2: VISY pack house, Riviera boat building factory, Rocky Point Mulching
1700 – 1900 Welcome Reception
THURSDAY 23 MAY
0830 – 0845 Official opening ceremony – Paul Inderbitzin
0845 – 0915 Opening keynote address – Shane Webcke
0915 – 1015 Global Banana Trade Trends
0915 – 0945 Marc Jackson, Special Project Manager, Fyffes Bananas International
0945 – 1015 Wayne Prowse, Principal and Senior Analyst, Fresh Intelligence Consulting
1030 – 1100 Morning Tea
1100 – 1130 Banana Marketing – Tate Connolly, Hort Innovation
1130 – 1200 Bernard Salt AM, leading media commentator, demographer and global trends expert
1230 – 1330 Lunch
1330 – 1400 Dr Bruce Campbell, former Chief Operating Officer, NZ Plant and Food Research
1400 – 1500 Science Speed Talks
1500 – 1545 Afternoon Tea
1545 – 1715 Future of bananas and R&D
1545 – 1615 Professor James Dale, Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Queensland University of Technology
1615 – 1630 Stewart Lindsay, DAF Team Leader, Banana Production Systems
1630 – 1700 Eli Khayat, Haifa Australia
1700 – 1715 Dr Paul Dennis, ecology, microbiology, plan and soil science, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland
1715 – 1730 Panel Discussion
1730 – 1930 Tradeshow Evening with Pakall Happy Hour
FRIDAY 24 MAY
0830 – 0910 Exporting Success in Australian Horticulture
0830 – 0850 Michael Coote, National Export Development Manager, AusVeg
0850 – 0910 David Daniels, Citrus Australia
0920 – 1000 Growing your business and dealing with change
Dealing with change – Trent De Paoli, Nuffield Scholar
Bouncing back from devastation and change – Andrew Dewar, Nuffield Scholar
1000 – 1030 Morning Tea
1030 – 1050 Farming with TR4 – Mark Smith, Farm Manager, Darwin Fruit Farm
1050 – 1110 Discussion panel – Living with TR4
Mark Smith, Farm Manager, Darwin Fruit Farm
Gavin and Stephen Mackay, Mackays, Tully
1110 – 1150 Grower Innovation Panel – Learn from four banana growers trialling innovative farming practices
Peter Inderbitzin (Lakeland) Bunch cableway/composting
Rob Zahra (Innisfail) High efficiency sediment basin
Mark Nucifora (Innisfail) Track bagging machine
Matt Abbott (Innisfail) Slashing machine
1150 – 1220 Grower Innovation discussion
1220 – 1400 Lunch
1400 – 1420 Value Adding – Pam Brook, Brook Farms
1420 – 1440 Speaker to be announced
1440 – 1530 Closing speaker – Rachael Robertson – led Australian expedition to Antartica, the second female to lead a team at Davis Station and the youngest ever leader to Antartica
1530 – 1545 Q&A with Rachel Robertson
1545 – 1555 Closing ceremony
1900 – late Banana Industry Ball and Awards of Honour
MC – Paul Inderbitzin
Awards presenter – Georgina Lewis
Comedian to be announced. Stay tuned!