Agenda

#RootsEmpower2016
September 19 - 20th, 2016

DAY 1	Monday, September 19th, 2016
7:00 AM	Registration Check-In
7:00 AM	Breakfast
8:00 AM	The Curious Mind: What’s New On the Research & Development Front and How It Fortifies Our Work
8:50 AM	Trending: The Influences of Today Shaping the Future of Food
9:35 AM	Break
9:45 AM	Healthy Living: Finding a Work-Life Balance in the Culinary Industry
10:35 AM	Networked: New Ways That Chefs Are Connecting to Empower Themselves
11:35 AM	Gullah Cuisine Lunch
1:00 PM	Waste Not, Want Not: Rethinking the Definition of Perfect
1:50 PM	And Justice For All: The Chef Advocate
2:40 PM	An Introduction to the CVI
2:50 PM	Food Safety: Innovating to Avoid Disaster
3:40 PM	Going Big: How to Affect Change on a Grand Scale
4:20 PM	Break
4:30 PM	Innovate Demo: What's New in R&D
4:50 PM	John Folse, Keynote
5:40 PM	Cocktails
6:30 PM	Waste Not, Want Not Dinner

DAY 2	Tuesday, September 20th, 2016
8:00 AM	Farmers Market Breakfast
9:00 AM	Say Cheese: How a Former United Nations Employee Turned Cheesemonger in Mexico is Saving Endangered Cheese
9:50 AM	Stirred: Cocktails of Change
10:35 AM	Break
10:45 AM	Innovate Demo: Agricultural Technology
11:05 AM	Elizabeth Falkner, Keynote
11:55 AM	Veg-Centric Lunch
1:00 PM	Cooking Authentically: How Do You Translate a Cuisine Once It's Removed From Its Origin
1:50 PM	Innovate Demo: Cocktails and Food Pairings
2:10 PM	African American Cuisine: Reclaiming Tradition
2:55 PM	Closing Remarks

Subject to change.