Agenda

Times and presenters are subject to change

Sunday, April 3, 2022

 

  • 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Welcome Reception – Conference Break Area (Second Floor of Georgia Tech Hotel)

Monday, April 4, 2022

Conference Room A

  • 7:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Break Area Outside Conference Room A
     
  • 8:00 a.m.-8:15 a.m. Conference Welcome
     
  • 8:15 a.m.- 9:15 a.m. Morning Keynote Address: Automation at Tyson Foods, Marty Linn, Director, Tyson Manufacturing Automation Center, USA
     
  • 9:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Gold Sponsors Highlight
     
  • 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Presentation Series: Meeting the COVID-19 Recovery Challenges
     
    • 9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Effective Innovations and Practices Applied Against COVID-19 for the Long-Term Security of the Meat Processing Sector, Brian McFarlane, JBS Foods, USA
       
    • 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Spatiotemporal Modeling and Simulation of Processing Facilities to Understand the Impact of Built Environment on COVID-19 Transmission Risks, Olga Kemenova and Paula Gomez, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA
       
    • 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. The Age of Contact-less Food Manufacturing Is Here, Enabled by Autonomous Cobotics, Matthew Chang, Chang Industrial, USA
       
    • 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Bactiscan: Making the Invisible-Visible, Brent Lloyd & Willis Triplett, EIT International, United Kingdom
       
  • 11:30 a.m.- 12:45 p.m. Networking and Lunch - GT Hotel Dining Room
     
  • 12:45 p.m.- 1:45 p.m. Afternoon Keynote Address: Achieving Robotics for Fruit Plant Husbandry: A World First Commercial Solution for the Farming Industry, Peter Judge, Group Managing Director, S&A Fresh Produce, United Kingdom
     
  • 1:45 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Resource Optimization with Deep Graph Neural Networks for Logistics, Manufacturing, and Maintenance, Matthew Gombolay, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
     
  • 2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Presentation Series: Advanced Robotics and Automation
     
    • 2:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. RoBUTCHER: Robust, Flexible, and Scalable Meat Factory Automation, Lars Erik Gangsei presenting on behalf of Alex Mason, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
       
    • 2:45 p.m.- 3:15 p.m. Carcass Grading: Interactions Between Carcass Monetary Value and Classification Effort, Bias, and Precision, Lars Erik Gangsei , Animalia AS, Norway
       
  • 3:15 p.m.-3:30 p.m. BREAK
     
  • 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Presentation Series: Advanced Robotics and Automation (continued)
     
    • 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Hygienic Robots Designed for Protein Processing, Mathias Konne, Staubli Robotics, USA
       
    • 4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Human Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing, Cale Harbour, Advanced Control Solutions & Automation Inc., USA
       
  • 4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Q&A, Discussion, and Wrap-Up
     
  • 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Conference Dinner and Feature Presentation: Interrogating Public Perceptions of Food Production Innovations, Julia McQuillan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Conference Room A

  • 7:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Break Area Outside Conference Room A
     
  • 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Morning Keynote Address: AMPC R&D Initiatives, Stuart Shaw, Program Manager, Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC), Australia
     
  • 9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. BREAK
     
  • 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Presentation Series: Collaborative Operations and AI
     
    • 9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Machine Learning Applications & Challenges in Food Processing, Benjamin Joffe, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA
       
    • 9:45 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Robot to Robot Collaboration, Konrad Ahlin, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA
       
    • 10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Virtual Reality Interface for Man Machine Collaboration, Colin Usher, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA
       
  • 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Networking and Lunch - Georgia Tech Hotel Dining Room
     
  • 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Afternoon Keynote Address: Trends in Hygienic Applications in Industrial Automation, Mark Joppru, Vice President of Consumer Segment & Service Robotics, ABB, USA
     
  • 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Managing Change: Special Networking and Discussion Session, facilitated by Prof. Koorosh Khodabandehloo, IFAN Co-Chair
     
    • 1:30- 2:00 p.m. Opportunities in Food Packaging Automation, Ian Dunn, United Kingdom
       
    • 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Social Aspects of the Pig Meat Processing Sector: The Way Towards Automation, Clara Valente, Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Research (NORSUS), Norway
       
    • 2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Adopting Robotics in the Factories for the Future, Koorosh Khodabandehloo, CT&C Ltd. and University of Southern Queensland, Europe and Australia
       
    • 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Discussion: Creating Resilience in Food Production-Challenges and Opportunities. Facilitated by Koorosh Khodabandehloo, CT&C Ltd. and University of Southern Queensland, Europe and Australia
       
  • 3:30 p.m. Conference Wrap-Up & Networking