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Keynote Speakers:
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- Cathrine Stange
- Cathrine Stange is the CEO of the Devold of Norway Group.
Devold of Norway is a vertically integrated wool specialist with a proud heritage dating back to 1853. Today, the Devold Group comprises several companies focused on production, sales and marketing as well as retail.
Cathrine joined Devold in 2014 and has been leading the company through a turn-around with focus on quality, innovation and brand management.
Prior to joining Devold, Cathrine has worked for ExxonMobil in Norway, UK and in Belgium within various leadership roles in retail marketing, marketing communications and business development. She has also worked for the Reitan Group in Norway, heading up Sales and Marketing for Norway’s biggest grocery chain as well as for the convenience retailing part of the group.
Cathrine holds several board positions as well as serving on the board of the Norwegian Sports Industry Association.
Cathrine believes that enthusiasm is the greatest driver to generate results, and she believes in wool, passion and people.
- Dr Dave Baldwin
- Dr Dave, The Flying Dr, is an aviation medical expert, pilot and author of several publications and books on health and the spiritual wellbeing necessary for good health.
A keen outdoors and avid hunter he has many adventures to recall. Dr Dave fly’s into the remotest areas of NZ giving pilots annual medicals necessary for licence renewals. He has a never ending supply of funny stories and anecdotes that will entertain for hours.
- Dr Mark Ferguson
- At neXtgen Agri we are committed to enabling the extensive animal industries to make optimum rates of genetic gain by making timely and well-informed decisions. We know that efficient and transparent gene flow will unlock the potential of the extensive animal industries the world over. We are committed to converting the complicated language and systems of genetic science into intuitive decisions. We are committed to bringing genes to life.
Production Science Manager
The New Zealand Merino Company
Nov 2012 – Jan 2018 5 years 3 months
Christchurch
Managing a passionate team making a difference to New Zealand agriculture through enabling farmers to be more profitable, sustainable and transparent. Current work streams include genetic resistance to footrot, on-sheep sensors to monitor welfare and development of a range of training materials.
- Jamie Whiting
- Jamie Whiting is the Group CEO for Barkers and Max, both brands are iconic in New Zealand and have ridden the highs and lows of the retail trade. He has been involved in retail for the past 27 years, having progressed through a variety of roles as he has learnt the ins and outs of the industry. He is now facing the challenge of the environmental impact created by clothing industry and has been pivotal in changing the brands production and business model to be part of the solution.
- Jon Hickford
- Jon Hickford is Professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics at Lincoln University, and has lectured at Lincoln since 1989.
Jon’s research has focused on the molecular genetics of cattle and sheep, with emphasis on genes that a) underpin milk, meat and wool production, and b) that make livestock more resilient to disease and environmental challenges. A key aim of his research is to develop gene-markers for livestock breeding, and he has been responsible for the delivery of ten commercial gene-marker tests to market.
Jon leads a research group that includes two permanent staff, collaborators and foreign visitors, and students. He has authored over 200 refereed articles in international journals. He maintains a high level of postgraduate supervision with eleven current PhD students and an AgMardt Post-Doctoral Fellow. He supervises up to five honours students annually.
Jon teaches into or examines 17 courses at the sub-degree, undergraduate, diploma and postgraduate levels in the areas of livestock production, wool science, molecular biology, genetics and breeding, and sustainability. He was the inaugural examiner of LINC201 Sustainable Futures, a compulsory course for all degree students at Lincoln, and a course where he focussed on sustainability in farming and the wicked problem of global climate change.
Jon has regularly been asked to talk to farming groups in New Zealand and Australia. He maintains a high level of activity in the rural and general media, with over 400 news, commentary and opinion pieces in total. These range from specific items about wool, and breeding and genetics, to more general commentary around sustainability, rural matters, farming and agriculture.
Jon is a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Fellow and current President of the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Science.
- Steve Rochester
- Head of Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health NZ Ltd.
A Graduate of Lincoln University in Agriculture & Nutritional Bio Chemistry, Steve Rochester is a well recognised and respected leader with notable achievements in the animal health industry.
Steve has had significant notable international experience and extensive leadership spanning his career in the animal health industry for the past 35 years including some of his career highlights.
Integration of Boehringer Ingelheim & Merial Animal Health businesses & teams due to Boehringer Ingelheim’s acquisition of the Merial business – January 2017
In 2007, as Head of Merial Oceania, Steve facilitated the Ancare acquisition that stabilised the Australian and New Zealand businesses. Steve lead the business to become veterinary only whilst integrating the Ancare business into Merial, the successful integration saw the combined business grown in revenue and market share.
In 2000 as Head of Merial Global Ruminant Enterprise based in Lyon France and later Duluth, USA, Steve identified and delivered ruminant business strategies.
As MSDAgvet NZ Country Manager, Steve Identified the opportunity and negotiated for MSDAgvet to acquire Nufarm’s Animal Health business by which saw Nufarm manufacture a range of IVOMEC products for MSDAgvet globally in return for MSDAgvet gaining control of the sheep capsule market in Australia and New Zealand.
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