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09.30 Networking Refreshments
10.00 Welcome – Martin Collison
Why Digital Data is Important to Food Chain.
10.10 Simon Pearson
Development of Automation Enabled by Digital Technology
10.30 Mark Swainson & Dr Duncan Rowland
Digital Potential for Food Traceability
The manufacture and supply of food to the consumer involved a series of often complex, multifaceted process steps from “farm to fork”. “Traceability” in the food manufacturing sector can be defined as a clear and swiftly accessible documented record of each raw material, its location, and associated process, measurements/ data covering every point in its journey up to consumption. Ensuring “traceability” at each stage is a legal requirement underpinning food safety and quality assurance an dis also vital to the related commercial and operational control systems utilised across the food supply chain. This presentation will provide an overview of the traceability challenge and consider how digital technologies may be of significant benefit in meeting current expectations and future sector requirements.
10.50 Refreshment break
11.05 Prof Andrew Fearne
Understanding Markets through Digital Data
Using data is becoming an increasingly important component of sustainable business planning for all food businesses, large and small, regardless of where they are in the foodchain. This session will explore the use of big data to improve our understanding of buyer behaviour, without which it is impossible to determine where value is added in the food chain and what opportunities exist to increase efficiency and improve effectiveness of resource allocation.
11.25 Q&A panel
12.25 Next steps
12.35 Networking Lunch
13.00 Optional Tour of NCFM
