Program - Confirmed Speakers

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Pre-Conferences (separate registration required) (AM)

The Terrible 2.0's?? Web 2.0 and Its Impact on Agriculture and Information Professionals [description]

Mapping Data 'Till the Cows Come Home! :
Geographic Information Systems Applications in Agriculture [description]

Welcome Reception (Evening)

Monday, April 28, 2008

Plenary Session : Adding Value to Agriculture: Biofuels

 

Corn-based Ethanol: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Dennis Keeney: senior fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

 

 

Why Cellulosic Ethanol Is Nearer Than You Think: Creating the Biofuels Future

Bruce Dale: editor of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining and head of the Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory at Michigan State University

 

 

Plenary Session : Adding Value to Agriculture: Bioenergy/Bioproducts

Bioenergy from Agricultural Waste

Ann Christy: professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University (OSU)

 

 

Transforming Agriculture to Meet Advanced Energy and Material Needs

Stephen Myers: Director of the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center

 

 

Contributed Papers/Interest Groups/Posters/Vendor Exhibits (abstracts)

Barbeque (Shisler Courtyard)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Plenary Session : Farming Sustainably: Lessons from the Soil

The Importance of Soil Ecology in Sustainable Agriculture

Clive Edwards: OSU Professor of Entomology and director of the soil ecology program

 

Plenary Session : Farming Sustainably: Lessons from the Amish (Panel)

Deborah Stinner: coordinator of OSU's Organic Food and Farming Education and Research program

 

 

 

 

Randy James: Geauga County Extension Educator and author of "Why Cows Learn Dutch"

 

 

 

David Kline: Amish farmer, author of several books, and editor of Farming Magazine

 

 

 

 

Contributed Papers/Interest Groups/Posters/Vendor Exhibits (abstracts)

20th Anniversary and Awards Banquet (Shisler Ballroom)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Contributed Papers/Interest Group Sessions (abstracts)

Closing Session

Recent Developments in the Control of Information: Can Traditional Access & Use of Protected Content Survive the Transition?

Tomas Lipinski: Associate Professor, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee