Wednesday, October 27 to Thursday, October 28, 2010
Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Alan Maxwell and I are co-chairing this year’s conference – again. This time, in addition to our two man show:
There is a star-studded group of speakers:
David Goldman, MD, MPH
Assistant Administrator
Office of Public Health Science
Food Safety Inspection Service, USDA (Washington, DC)
Jack Guzewich, RS, MPH
Senior Advisor, Environmental Health
Office of Food Defense, Communication and Emergency Response
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food and Drug Administration (College Park, MD)
Arthur P. Liang, MD, MPH
Director, Food Safety Office
National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Center for Disease Control (Atlanta, GA)
William E. Keene, PhD, MPH
Senior Epidemiologist Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention
Oregon Public Health Division (Portland, OR)
Benjamin Miller, MPH, RS
Operations and Response Section Manager
Dairy & Food Inspection Division
Minnesota Department of Agriculture (St. Paul, MN)
Robert E. Brackett, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director
National Center for Food Safety and Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology (Summit-Argo, IL)
David Acheson MD
Managing Director – Food and Import Safety
Leavitt Partners, LLC (Salt Lake City, UT)
Leo Knowles
Senior Vice President & Chief Counsel
ConAgra Foods Inc. (Omaha, NE)
Paul L. Kassirer, Esq.
Partner
Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP (New York, NY)
Gene Grabowski
Senior Vice President and Chair, Crisis & Litigation Practice
Levick Strategic Communications (Washington, DC)
Joseph J. Bottiglieri
Partner
Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata LLP (Washington, DC)
Cindy K. Andrews Ph.D.
Senior Director
DecisionQuest (Chicago, IL)
Ronald B. Lee
Partner
Roetzel & Andress (Cleveland, OH)
Fred Pritzker
Attorney
Pritzker Olsen, P.A. (Minneapolis, MN)
Dave Theno
CEO/CBIO
Gray Dog Partners, Inc. (Del Mar, CA)
Former SVP & Chief Food Safety Officer Jack in the Box
Dr. Melvin N. Kramer
President
EHA Consulting Group, Inc. (Baltimore, MD)
Joseph F. Bermudez
Partner
Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst (Denver, CO)
Edward Mitchell
Senior Underwriter Product Recall
XL Insurance (London, UK)
Christopher de Wolfe
Corporate Risk Manager
Mars Incorporated (McLean, CA)
Douglas Besman
Senior Litigation Counsel
Nestle USA, Inc. (Solon, OH)
Jeffrey Conner
Vice President Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
Dole Food Company, Inc(Westlake Village, CA)
David Herman
Senior Counsel
Grocery Manufacturers Association (Washington, DC)
Dean N. Panos
Partner
Jenner & Block LLP (Chicago, IL)
Will Daniels
Senior Vice President for Food Safety
Earthbound Farm (San Juan Bautista, CA)
Alan Maxwell
Partner
Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC (Atlanta, GA)
William Marler
Managing Partner
Marler Clark L.L.P., P.S. (Seattle, WA)
Sarah Brew
Shareholder
Nilan Johnson Lewis, P.A (Minneapolis, MN)
Thomas J. Bondurant Jr.
Partner
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore LLP (Roanoke, VA)
Counsel to Stewart Parnell, President & CEO
Peanut Corporation of America
Brad Sullivan
Managing Attorney
Lombardo & Gilles (Salinas, CA)