| 9.00am - 10.00am | Opening Address |
| Current health, food and nutrition trends Julian Mellentin, Executive Director New Nutrition Business | |
| Green tea R & D facilitated by regional university-industry collaboration Prof Tsutomu Nakayama, Dean School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan | |
| 10.00am - 10.30am | Morning Tea |
| 10.30am - 12.30pm | Session 1 |
| Health Science supporting functional foods development | |
| Validation and application of biomarkers for clinical studies towards personalised nutrition and food selection Prof Toshinao Goda, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan | |
| Plant & Food Research, Food and Health platforms - Lifestyle Foods Dr Kevin Sutton, Senior Scientist in Food Innovation, Plant & Food Research | |
| Plant & Food Research, Food and Health platforms - Health benefits of fruits: current research in our targeted health areas Dr Roger Hurst, Senior Scientist, Food Innovation, Plant & Food Research | |
| Food and drug Interactions - the good and the bad Associate Prof James Paxton, Head, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland | |
| 12.30pm - 1.30pm | Lunch |
| Poster viewing | |
| 1.30pm - 3.00pm | Session 2 |
| Taking Science to the Market | |
| Validating health effects in clinical trials- examples from foods for the brain Dr Crystal Haskell, Associate Director, Brain Performance and Nutrition Research Centre Northumbria University, UK | |
| How do we take personalised nutrition and nutrigenomic foods to consumers and the market? Professor Lynnette Ferguson, HOD, Discipline of Nutrition, University of Auckland and Program Leader, Nutrigenomics NZ | |
| What does a beverage company want and require from science? Kevin Taffs, Marketing Manager, Juice and Milk Category, Frucor | |
| 3.00pm - 3.30pm | Afternoon tea break |
| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | Session 3 |
| Young Investigators presentations | |
| Top 4 submitted abstracts from students/ young investigators invited to speak | |
| Prize giving: | |
| Best presentation Best poster | |
| 5.00pm - 6.00pm | Session 4 |
| Panel Discussion: Marketing Food with Health Benefits | |
| Panellists will include: Julian Mellentin New Nutrition Business Kevin Taffs Frucor Karl Crawford Business Leader, Plant & Food Research Margot Skinner Principle Scientist, Plant & Food Research Keith Owen - Keith Owen International Marketing | |
| 6.00pm – 6:30pm | Networking / Poster Viewing |
| Drinks and finger food |