Executive Business Summit - Northwest Food Processors Association

Executive Business Summit
“The Pride of Processing”
May 12-14, 2011
Coeur d’Alene Resort • Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Draft Agenda
Revised 3-29-2011
Thursday, May 12
8:30 am – 10:00 am NWFPA and ERI Board of Directors Training Boardroom 2
10:00 am – 10:45 am ERI Board of Directors Annual Meeting Boardroom 3-4
10:00 am – 5:30 pm REGISTRATION East CC Lobby
11:00 am – 2:15 pm NWFPA Board of Directors Meeting and Luncheon Boat
2:30 pm – 5:00 pm OPENING GENERAL SESSION Casco Bay/Kidd Isle
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm Introductions & Review of Summit Objectives
Craig Urness, Pacific Seafood Group and Dave Zepponi, NWFPA
Issues Managers Briefings/Industry Hot Topics:
2:40 pm – 2:45 pm • Communications - Aaron Johnson
2:45 pm – 3:05 pm • Government Affairs Legislative Update -Craig Smith
3:05 pm – 3:20 pm • Environmental Affairs -Craig Smith
3:20 pm – 3:35 pm • Sustainability -David McGiverin
3:35 pm – 3:55 pm • Energy Management - Pam Barrow
3:55 pm – 4:10 pm • Operations & Technical Affairs - Connie Kirby
4:10 pm – 4:30 pm • Innovation Clusters - Jon Marshall
4:30 pm – 4:50 pm • Rural Competitiveness Initiative & RFID Updates - Dave Klick
4:50 pm – 5:00 pm Wrap Up - Dave Zepponi
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm RECEPTION at Hagadone’s Stanley Hill Estate Buses depart at
5:30; Return at 7:00
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Dessert bar, sponsor presentations, and “FIRESIDE CHAT”
Sponsor/Facilitators: International Paper, Power Engineers,
Barrett Business Services, Produce Careers, Inc., Moss Adams,
Bank of the West, Siemens
Casco Bay/Kidd Isle
Friday, May 13
6:30 am – 11:45 am REGISTRATION Ongoing demos:
East CC Lobby
1) Prototype for a new Web-Based service being proposed by the
Association to provide an "Angie's List" equivalent for bringing
together suppliers and buyers across the industry, providing
recommendations and informative white papers.
2) NWFPA Website Tour – Aaron Johnson
6:45 am – 7:45 am BREAKFAST BUFFET Bay 4
7:45 am – 8:00 am Break
8:00 am – 9:00 am NWFPA ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Bay 5-6
9:00 am – 11:30 am GENERAL SESSION ADDRESSING KEY STRATEGIC ISSUES Bay 5-6
9:00 am – 9:45 am Regional Innovation Clusters: Key to Economic Development
Speaker: Christina Lomasney, Co-Founder, President, CEO of Modumetal (invited)
Modumetal is a nanotech and advanced materials company; winner of Louis Villalobos
Award for”most ingenious and innovative idea”
9:45 am – 10:00 am Break

10:00 am – 11:10 am Executive Risk Management in a Changing Food Safety Climate
Panelists: Kenneth Odza, Stoel Rives LLP; Gale Prince, retired food safety officer from The
Kroger Co.; Kurt Buckman of Pinnacle Foods Group (invited)
Description: Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act which grants sweeping
new powers to the FDA. In a limited resource environment, clear direction from FDA in the
form of guidance and regulatory documents may leave a gap in the information that food
companies need to assure compliance. This panel will discuss the implications of 3-5 key
regulatory/customer food safety initiatives (such as import supplier food safety program
requirements, mandatory recall/RFR implications, records access changes, and food
defense implications). These initiatives should be ones that are expected to change
significantly in character and importance over the next year or so, and which may have a
profound effect on the way these executives prioritize their business activities in food
safety as well as other sectors of the company.
11:10 am – 11:30 am High Performing Companies & Innovation; Update on Hitachi Grant
Speaker: Rosi Marshall, NWFPA
Proposed Description: ERI's Innovation survey of the industry provided data on our
innovation capacity, the correlation to business growth and the business results needed to
add jobs to the economy. ERI's grant awarded by Hitachi Foundation will select Pioneer
Employers and generate Case Studies to disseminate across the industry. Pioneer
Employers are those who build business results through authentically engaging their front
line workers.
11:30 am – 11:45 am Organizational Meeting for NWFPA BOD Kidd Island
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm RECEPTION Bay 3-4
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm INSTALLATION & AWARDS DINNER – “Venetian Masquerade” Bay 3-4
Saturday, May 14
7:00 am – 12:00 pm REGISTRATION East CC Lobby
7:15 am – 8:15 am BREAKFAST BUFFET Bay 4
8:15 am – 8:30 am Break
8:30 am – 12:00 pm CONCLUDING GENERAL SESSION Bay 5-6
8:30 am – 9:45 am Government Affairs Program
Presenters: Elizabeth Criner, Veritas Advisors; Dan Coyne, Coyne Jessernig LLC (invited);
Mark Nelson, Public Affairs Counsel (invited), Erica Hagedorn, Public Affairs Counsel
(invited)
9:45 am – 10:15 am Energy Intensity Benchmarking
10:15 am – 10:30 am Break
Food Manufacturing Plants of the Future
Panelists: Siemens Controls Representative; Food Processor and University or National
Laboratory Representatives (invited)
Notes: Panel will help explore opportunities and challenges of food plants in the future
including key issue drivers; plant operations systems and controls; skilled workers needed
to operate plants.
Making Sustainability Work
Speaker: George Carpenter, Fraser River Strategies
12:00 pm Summit Adjourns and Resort Check Out

Friday, May 13 Planned Networking Activities
8:00 Spouse/Partner Tour - Gather in the Lobby
8:15 am – 9:00 am Luxury motor coach to Spokane
9:00 am – 10:00 am Breakfast at the Davenport Hotel*
10:00 am – 11:30 am Behind the Scenes tour of the Davenport*
11:30 am – 12:15 pm Transportation back to the Resort
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Transportation to Golf Course golf
1:00 pm Shotgun start – Scramble Tournament*
All Afternoon Spa Coeur d’Alene Experience*
On Your Own
Downtown Coeur d’Alene, art galleries, hiking, biking, water sports, mask making to
prepare for the masquerade party!
Saturday, May 14 Post-Event Networking
12:30 am – 2:30 pm Networking BBQ* Pool Deck
Schedule subject to change
* Additional fee