Opening Ceremony
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 2:00 AM NZDT
1 Hour 11 Minutes 7 Seconds

Featuring:
World Potato Congress Opening Ceremony
Hon. David Carter - Minister of Agriculture and Forestry,and Biosecurity
Allan Parker - President World Potato Congress
Terry Olsen - Chairman 7th World Potato Congress Committee
Plenary One - Nourishing our Future
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
, 3:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 36 Minutes 22 Seconds

Featuring:
Larry Zuckerman - Random Caretakers of an Orphan; or How Not to Repeat History
Rht Hon Jim Bolger - The Food Challenge - Feeding Nine Billion
Concurrent 2 - Understanding Value Chains
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 46 Minutes 53 Seconds

Featuring:
Dr Andrew Fearne - Co-innovation for sustainable competitive advantage in the potato
Martin Kneebone - Understanding Value Chain Dynamics
Sigrid Wertheim-Heck - Vietnam: Creating value chains in Asia
Concurrent 1 - Crop Management
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 11 Minutes 9 Seconds

Featuring:
Dr Marc Cubeta - Fungal virus based management of rhizoctonia disease of potato
Dr Hamish Brown - Nitrogen/nitrate management for potato production
Dr Stuart Wale - Crop Management: Reducing risks and variabilityto increase profit in potato production - the 6 Ps
Concurrent 4 - The Product 2
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 8:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 37 Minutes 27 Seconds

Featuring:
Brettt Ashley - Meeting Consumer Needs
Dr Johan van Deventer - The changes of marketing potatoesin Africato the formal and Imformal markets - a real experience
Frank Muir- Retail processed Potato products - a future perspective
Concurrent 3 - The Plant
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 8:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 34 Minutes 24 Seconds

Featuring:
Prof. Dr Richard Visser - Significance of the internatrional potato sequencing project for the world potato industry
Dr Meredith Bonierbale - Tapping and sustaining diversity for potato improvement
Dr Jim Salinger - Climate change: Impacts on potato growing
Plenary Two - Environment and Energy
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 1:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 25 Minutes 10 Seconds

Featuring:
Professor Ralph Sims - Cropping, climate change and energy - the risks and the opportunities
Rod Oram - Selling into a new world: how the global economic crisis is changing the behaviour of consumers and growers
Concurrent 6 - Processing Non-Food
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 3:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 31 Minutes 24 Seconds

Featuring:
Dr Kare L Nielson - Developing potato into a high-efficent, low-maintenance, multipurpose crop
Dr Go Goossens - The Global Starch Industry - its importance for Potatoes
Professor William Bailey - Food or fuel - who should make the decision
Concurrent 5 - Processing Food
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 3:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 22 Minutes 53 Seconds
Featuring:

Prof. Gareth Edwards-Jones - Three reasons to carbon footprint: marketing, efficiency and understanding
Dr Joe Sowokinos - fine-tuning the colour quality of potato products
Dr Julian Heyes - Oppurtunities from potato processing waste
Plenary Three - Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 6:00 AM NZDT
1 Hour 38 Minutes 59 Seconds

Featuring:
Dr Kirtian Moeller - GLOBALGAP
Nadene Smith - Woolworths Quality Assurance Program
Concurrent 8 - Customer Assurance
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 8:00 AM NZDT
1 Hour 26 Minutes 18 Seconds

Featuring:
Johan Burger - The South African Sandveld Potato and Biodiversity Best Practice Project
Dr Mike Storey - Consumerassurance - responding to the acrylamide challenge
Kate Porter - Responding to a customer-centric world: the McDonald's Story
Concurrent 7 - Tools and Technologies
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 8:00 AM NZDT
1 Hour 37 Minutes 50 Seconds

Featuring:
Rod Herbet - Next generation technologies - people vs power?
Peter Roborgh - Practical IT solutions for the optimisation of potato production
Dr Michael Lewis - Sprout control and storage technologies
Congress Breakfast
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 12:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 47 Minutes 51 Seconds

Featuring:
Dr Pamela Anderson - Director General, Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Peru
Immaculate Zinde - Marketing Assistant, Potatoes South Africa
Glenda Gourley - Food & Education Consultant, Potatoes of New Zealand
Sustaining Partners Acknowledgement
Plenary Four - Nutritious and Delicious
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 3:00 AM NZDT
1 Hour 7 Minutes 44 Seconds

Featuring:
Prof. Jeya Henry - The role of potato in health and well-being: opportunities and challenges
Lauraine Jacobs - The Delicious Potato
Plenary Five - Nourishing Our Future
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 4:45 AM NZDT
58 Minutes 53 Seconds

Featuring:
Dr Robyn Williams - Nourishing our Future
7th world Potato Congress Closing Ceremony
Soil Borne Diseases Workshop - Part 1
Friday, March 27, 2009, 2:00 AM NZDT
1 Hour 5 Minutes 37 Seconds

Soilborne diseases: An industry perspective
Mike Storey - The Impact of soilborne diseaseson the UK potato industry
Monty Spencer - Downunder, downunder
Ben Pieterse: The Impact of soilborne diseaseson the SA potato industry
Mark Heap: The Impact of soilborne diseaseson the SA potato industry
Soil Borne Diseases Workshop - Part 2
Friday, March 27, 2009, 4:00 AM NZDT
1 Hour 16 Minutes 15 Seconds

Biology of soilbourne pathogens:
Richard Falloon: Effects of Spongospora on host plant productivity.
Tonya Weichel: Common scab in Australia - whatdo we do?
Jacquie van der Waals: Recent research highlights from South Africa
Marc Cubeta: The role of the phenylacetic acid metabolic complex in the parasitic and saprobic activity of Rhizoctonia solani
Soil Borne Diseases Workshop - Part 3
Friday, March 27, 2009, 6:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 23 Minutes 41 Seconds

Diagnostics for detection of soilbourne pathogens:
Kathy Ophel-Keller: DNA monitoring tools for soilborne pathogens
Sandy Keenan: Synthetic DNA constructs for evaluating DNA extraction from soil and plant tissue.
Andrew Pitman & Parhat Shah: Evaluating Rhizoctonia & Spongospora diagnostics in NZ
Alison Lees: Diagnostics and epidemiology of soilbourne pathogens
Soil Borne Diseases Workshop - Part 4
Friday, March 27, 2009, 8:30 AM NZDT
1 Hour 23 Minutes 25 Seconds

Intergrated management of soilborne diseases:
Calum Wilson: Enhancing resistance to comman scab
Nigel Crump: Soilborne disease management research in Australia - what have we achieved and were are we going?
Mark Stalham: Common scab populations on tubers during the susceptible phase in relation to irrigation management.
Stuart Wale: Intergrated control of black dot (Colletotrichum coccodes)