| SUNDAY 12/4 | EVENT | |
| 5:00 PM | Registration / Evening Reception | |
| MONDAY 12/5 | EVENT | SPEAKER |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome Message | Jeffrey L. Kornacki, Ph.D. and Kevin Lorcheim |
| 8:10 AM | Balancing Food Safety and Operations | Kevin Lorcheim, ClorDiSys Solutions |
| 8:40 AM | How Do We Measure a Food Safety Culture | Dr. Conrad Choiniere, FDA |
| 9:10 AM | Standardization, Collection, Automation, and Analysis of Environmental Monitoring Systems | Joe Heinzelmann, Neogen |
| 10:00 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM | Presumptuous Assumptions in Food Safety Assessments | Jeffrey L. Kornacki, Ph.D., Kornacki Microbiology Solutions, Inc. |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | Novel Approach to Subtyping in Non-Crisis Situations | Greg Siragusa, Scout Microbiology |
| 1:35 PM | To Whole Genome Sequence or not to Whole Genome Sequence? That is the Question | Jeffrey L. Kornacki, Ph.D., Kornacki Microbiology Solutions, Inc. |
| 2:25 PM | Establishing Fit For Purpose Verification Methods | Erin Crowley, Q Laboratories |
| 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM | Approaches to Control the Microbiome with Competitors | Michele Sayles, Diamond Pet Foods |
| 4:15 PM | Panel Discussion: Reviewing and Improving Your Food Safety Plan with New Techniques and New Technology | |
| 4:45 PM | Wrap Up | |
| 5:00 PM | Evening Reception | |
| TUESDAY 12/6 | EVENT | SPEAKER |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome | Kevin Lorcheim, ClorDiSys Solutions, Inc |
| 8:10 AM | FDA CVM Update: New Mycotoxin Sampling and More | Jenny Murphy, FDA CVM |
| 9:00 AM | The Why’s and How’s of a Mycotoxin Management Program | Randall Ford, Hill’s Pet Nutrition |
| 9:45 AM | Break | |
| 10:15 AM | Dry Environment Sanitation | Scott Burnett, Sterilex |
| 11:05 AM | Decontamination of Product Conveyance Lines and Compressed Air Piping | Kevin Lorcheim, ClorDiSys Solutions, Inc |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | How We Survived a Contamination | Michele Sayles, Diamond Pet Food and Leslie Hancock, JM Smuckers |
| 1:40 PM | Verification is Multifactorial | Yale Lary Jr, Deep East Texas Cleaning Products & Food Science Services |
| 2:20 PM | Using Emerging Technology for Predictive Microbiology | John Mills, bioMerieux |
| 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM | Techniques for Controlling Salmonella within a Rendering Plant | Dr. David Meeker, North American Renderers Assoc. and Dr. Ansen Pond, Pilgrim’s Pride |
| 4:15 PM | What Regulators Look For Before Restarting After a Contamination | Brian D. Eyink, Hogan Lovells |
| Closing Remarks and Adjournment | Jeffrey L. Kornacki, Ph.D. and Kevin Lorcheim |