Agenda

26 May 2009

6:30-9:30 pm GAIN Business Alliance Members’ Dinner - By invitation only

 

27 May 2009

07:30 – 08:30 Forum Registration

07:30 – 08:30 GAIN Business Alliance Members’ Lounge Participants can visit the GAIN Business Alliance ‘Members Lounge’ to begin a dialog with member companies, share project updates, and discuss partnership opportunities.

08:30 – 08:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks Welcome and Introduction by Forum Moderator, John Defterios, entrepreneur and award-winning anchor, correspondent and special series producer Opening Remarks: Marc Van Ameringen, GAIN Executive Director

08:45 – 09:45 Launch of the Amsterdam Initiative on Malnutrition (AIM)

Panel: Representatives from the founding members of the AIM

  • Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Netherlands
  • Jay Naidoo, Chair of the GAIN Board and Chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa
  • Mauricio Adade, President Human Nutrition and Health, DSM
  • Doug Baillie, President Western Europe, Unilever
  • Rob Frohn, Board of Management, AkzoNobel
  • Frans Kok, Head of the Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University

09:45 – 10:15 Break/Press Conference

10:15 – 10:45 Key Note Address

  • David Nabarro, Coordinator of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis

10:45 – 11:45 Accelerating Improved Nutrition at the Base of the Pyramid

Panel:

  • Belete Beyene, Managing Director, Hilina Enriched Foods Processing Center, Ethiopia
  • Syed S. Kaiser Kabir, CEO and Managing Director, Renata Limited, Bangladesh
  • Prabhu Kandachar, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Hardin Tibbs, Future's Researcher and Strategy Consultant, United Kingdom

11:45 – 13:15 Live Think Tank I

 

Defining a Joint Agenda to Accelerate Action in Malnutrition In a series of cutting-edge interactive sessions, participants will share their knowledge, experience, and views with others in small roundtable discussions. Feedback will be synthesized on the spot and used to generate a blue print for the acceleration of the nutrition agenda.

13:15 – 14:15 Networking Lunch/BA Members' Lounge

14:15 – 14:45 GAIN Business Award for Innovation in Nutrition GAIN, in association with IBLF, has created the GAIN Business Award for Innovation in Nutrition.

  • Introduction: Adam Leach, CEO, International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
  • Presentation: Will Oulton, Director, Responsible Investments, FTSE and member of Award Judges Panel

14:45– 15:45 Accelerating Improved Nutrition Through Innovative Financing Mechanisms

Panel:

15:45 – 16:45 Live Think Tank II

Defining a Joint Agenda to Accelerate Investment in Malnutrition

16:45 – 17:15 Break

17:15 – 17:30 Live Think Thank - Debrief Speakers:

  • Jane Nelson, Senior Fellow and Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Djordjija Petkoski, Program Leader, Business, Competitiveness & Development, World Bank Institute
  • Bérangère Magarinos, GAIN Senior Manager, Investments and Partnerships Program

17:30 – 18:00 Closing Remarks Speakers:

  • Jay Naidoo, Chair of the GAIN Board and Chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa
  • Paulus Verschuren, GAIN Business Alliance Chair

18:45 Forum participants are requested to meet in the Moevenpick Hotel foyer for the two minute walk to the dinner venue, Restaurant Fifteen

 

19:00 – 22:00 Forum Dinner Venue: Jamie Oliver’s restaurant ‘Fifteen' Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Foundation exists to inspire disadvantaged young people to believe that they can create a great career in the restaurant industry. His ‘Fifteen’ restaurants serve the highest quality food made from the finest ingredients and provide an opportunity for young apprentices to practice their trade. The profits from the restaurant help to fund the Foundation.

 

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