All sessions will be held at the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
| Monday, September 12 | |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. | Opening and Welcome Melissa Cragin, Midwest Big Data Hub, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lav Varshney, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 9:10 – 9:50 a.m. | Talk 1: The Flavor Network Sebastian Ahnert, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge |
| 9:50 – 10:30 a.m. | Talk 2: Structuring Recipe Data using Machine Learning, Knowledge Bases, and User Interaction Data Gregory Druck, Head of Research, Yummly |
| 10:30 – 10:50 a.m. | Break |
| 10:50 – 11:30 a.m. | Talk 3: Deep Learning and Connected Data that Drive Food Recommendations at Whisk.com Nick Holzherr, CEO, Whisk.com |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. | Talk 4: Drought Impacts to Water Footprints and Virtual Water Transfers of the Central Valley of California Megan Konar, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 12:15 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Submitted Talks • N. Spirin, Low-Power Wide-Area Networks for Food Production Optimization • N. Kshetry and L. R. Varshney, Foodsheds in Virtual Water Flow Networks: A Spectral Graph Theory Approach • R. Gehlhar and A. Thomas, Analyzing Truffle Aroma Quickly • J. Pagnutti, What Makes this Sweet: Preliminary Flavor Perception Models • F. Calmon, A. Vempaty, A. Jagmohan, R. Goodwin, and K. Ratakonda, Computational Creativity: Using Data to Innovate in Cooking • L. Chang and L. R. Varshney, World Culture of Food Texture Networks |
| 3:00 – 3:40 p.m. | Talk 5: Computational Gastronomy at Telefonica: From elBulliFoundation to FoodBridging Pere Obrador, Open Innovation Program Manager, Telefónica R&D |
| 3:40 – 4:20 p.m. | Talk 6: Reimagining agri-food systems at IBM Research Robin Lougee, Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| 4:20 - 5 p.m. | Talk 7: Agricultural Analytics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Joshua Woodard, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Business and Finance, Cornell University |
| 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| Tuesday, September 13 | |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 9:40 a.m. | Talk 8: Mapping a Global Food Nutrient Landscape Stefan. M. Furrer and Michael Peters, Givaudan Flavors Corp.; and Cristian Bologa, Oleg Ursu, and Tudor Oprea, Translational Informatics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico |
| 9:40 – 10:20 a.m. | Talk 9: Trusted Food Supply Chain Enabled by Blockchain Krishna Ratakonda, IBM Fellow and CTO for Blockchain Solutions, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| 10:20 – 10:40 a.m. | Break |
| 10:40 – 11:20 a.m. | Talk 10: Food Waste: Sights, smells and numbers from the trenches Rajesh Karmani, Founder and Chief Impact Officer, Zero Percent |
| 11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Talk 11: Sustainable Food Management: EPA goals, tools, and strategies for food waste measurement Susan Vescovi, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| 12:00 – 12:20 p.m. | Wrap-Up |
| 12:20 p.m. | Lunch |