Schedule
6:00 AM - NOON
Tradeshow booth set up
12:30 PM
2nd Floor, Rooms 2F-H
2nd Floor, Rooms 2F-H
Tradeshow area open
Conference delegate packages and passes available for pickup. Lanyards/passes are required to enter conference and all related events.
1:00 PM
2nd Floor
2nd Floor
Presentation theatre doors open
1:50 PM
Opening remarks
2:00 PM – 2:35 PM
The Big Picture
Details coming soon.
3:00 PM – 3:40 PM
Weather – Fake, Factual or Fatal
Bruce Burnett and Karen Braun.
Details coming soon.
3:00 PM – 3:40 PM
The Surging Barley Industry
3:45 PM – 4:10 PM
Country feature
Details coming soon.
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Tradeshow networking
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Microbrewery sample stations
Network with the various industry exhibitors, learn about their business, products, and services.
5:15 PM – 7:30 PM
York Ballroom
York Ballroom
Welcome dinner
Sponsored by FWS
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
2nd Floor, Rooms 2F-H
2nd Floor, Rooms 2F-H
Breakfast
Sponsored by Intertek
7:30 AM – 8:00 AM
Economic Outlook for 2019
Paul Ferley, Chief Economist Royal Bank of Canada
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM
2nd Floor, Rooms 2F-H
2nd Floor, Rooms 2F-H
Tradeshow networking
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM
2nd Floor, Presentation Theatre
2nd Floor, Presentation Theatre
Opening messages
Guest Dignitary
9:00 AM – 9:40 AM
Cereals outlook and panel
Panel to be confirmed.
9:40 AM – 10:20 AM
Why Does Grain Flow This Way
Thomas Hansmann and/or Richard Helm from Navico, CN Rail
10:20 AM – 10:45 AM
2nd Floor, Rooms 2F-H
2nd Floor, Rooms 2F-H
Morning break and tradeshow networking
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Oilseed outlook and panel
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Lunch
Sponsored by Canadian Canola Growers Association and Manitoba Canola Growers Association
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
Lunch speaker
Details coming soon.
1:30 PM – 2:10 PM
Reinventing Agriculture Investment & Technology
Scott Day, Fall Line Capital
2:10 PM – 2:45 PM
Pulse outlook and panel
Details coming soon.
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Break (tradeshow area open)
3:15 PM – 3:55 PM
You Are What You Eat, or Are You?
3:55 PM – 4:40 PM
Speakers round table
What did we learn here?
4:40 PM