2018 Round Table meetings

January 10-12, 2018……………………………………………….
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, Tarrytown, NY

The Future of Supermarkets
Opening keynote: James Keyes, Wild Oats Consulting

Session 1: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Grocery Retailing
David Donnan, A.T. Kearney
Mary Shelman, Mary Shelman Group
John Stanton, Saint Joseph’s University

Session 2: Designing the Store of the Future
David Fikes, Food Marketing Institute
Mike Lee, The Future Market
Jane Andrews, Wegman’s Food Markets

Session 3: Giving the Consumer What They Want
Cheryl Queen, Compass Group
Jared Simon, Hain Celestial
Thomas Stenzell, United Fresh Produce Association

Session 4: Supply Chain Stresses and Opportunities
Ken Goldman, J.P. Morgan
Kraig Kayser, Seneca Foods

Closing Keynote: Sarah Frey, Frey Farms

June 6-8, 2018 ..……………….……………………………………………
Isle Hotel, Bettendorf, IA

Infrastructure and Agriculture
Opening keynote: Infrastructure Policy for Rural America
Anne Hazlett, U.S. Department of Agriculture

A New Approach to Infrastructure
Andy Hecker and Eric Olafson, Port Miami

Global Infrastructure Impacts at Home
Tamara Nelsen, Illinois Farm Bureau
Scott Sigman, Farmer Lumpe + McClelland
Maximo Torero, The World Bank

Broadband & Data Infrastructure
RTJune2018 Whitacre, Oklahoma State University
Brian Hamacher, South Slope Cooperative Communications
John Stone, Deere & Company

Transportation Infrastructure
Mark Burton, University of Tennessee
Gregory Beck Consolidated Grain and Barge
Juan Acosta, BNSF Railway

Public and Private Investment in Infrastructure
Thomas Halverson, CoBank
John Tanyeri, MetLife
Jim Shultz, Open Prairie

Farmland as Infrastructure
John Piott, American Farmland Trust
Howard Halderman, Halderman Real Estate & Farm Management

Closing Keynote: Economic Outlook on the Importance of Infrastructure
Luke Chandler, Deere & Company