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PROGRAMS UPDATE
Pre-Congress Workshops Update
IAFI Pre-Congress Workshops (11-12 September)
WINSC Workshops (11-12 September)
Seafood Week at a Glance
The 6th World Congress on Seafood Safety Quality and Trade is scheduled in one of the most exciting seafood weeks ever held in Australia, providing you with unique opportunities to network with industry leaders, government officials and eminent researchers from over 50 economies trading in seafood.
Detailed Congress Program
The detailed Congress program is also available as a PDF download ![PDF]() .
Congress and Related Events
IAFI Pre-Congress Workshops (11-12 September)
IAFI Seafood Industry Tour (13 September)
IAFI 6th World Congress for Seafood Safety Quality and Trade (14-16 September)
Australian Seafood on Display Reception incorporating the IAFI Awards and Poster Display (15 September)The Great Breakfast Debate (16 September) (sponsored by Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry)
Other Seafood Week Events
WINSC Workshops (11-12 September)
Seafood Directions 2005 (12-14 September)
Australian Seafood Industry Awards (14 September)
Fine Food Australia (12-15 September)
IAFI Pre Congress Workshops
Cost: $65 (IAFI members) $75 (non members)
Includes: morning or afternoon tea; comprehensive package of information and materials; certificate of participation
Lunch is not included. Numbers are limited. Register separately.
Sunday 11 September (8:30am ¡V 12:30pm) |
Quality Index Method (sponsored by WorkPlace Learning Initiatives)
Convenors: Dr Allan Bremner and Mark Boulter, Sydney Fish Market
- QIM theory and process and adapting QIM to new species
- training participants trading seafood to use QIM to support e-trade and other marketing strategies
Risk Communication in cultural contexts
Convenor: Melanie Fisher, Food Standards Australia New Zealand
- developing credible information sources, identifying who needs the information and how to deliver it
- social and behavioural responses to messages
Keep Me Cool
- temperature control technologies and systems for maintaining safe product from producer to consumers
- current and future developments from the technology developers and suppliers present
Consistent Residue Standards
Convenor: Dr David Padula, South Australian Research and Development Institute
- the diversity of international residue standards and testing requirements
- what standards are required for the international markets you are servicing or trading in
Labelling Seafood - what can you say and what do you have to say?
- what claims can and should be made about the health benefits of seafood
- how COOL impact seafood businesses world wide
Sunday 11 September (1:30pm - 5:30pm) |
Vibrios in Seafood (sponsored by Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence)
Convenor: Dr Tom Lewis, Australian Food Safety Centre of Excellence
- serological and genetic diversity in Vibrio cholerae from aquatic environments and their relevance to seafood safety.
- methods for detection and quantitation of pathogenic Vibrio spp from seafood.
Traceability Technologies and Systems
Convenor: Alan Snow, Seafood Services Australia
- current and proposed regulatory requirements for traceability
- the latest traceability systems and technologies.
Tuna
Convenor: Professor John Sumner; M&S Food Consultants
- food safety risks and the management options for managing these risks
- safety of new processing and packaging technologies and systems
DNA and fingerprinting technology for seafood
Convenor: Gus Yearsley, CSIRO
- achieving standardised fish names to maximise consumer confidence
- developments in testing including DNA and fingerprinting technology
Trading seafood products into the EU
- key commercial drivers in the expanding European market and how to take advantage of them
- recent changes to the EU requirements and how to get your products accepted
Monday 12 September (8:30am ¡V 12:00pm) |
Seafood Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
Convenor: Adam Knapp, Seafood Services Australia
- EMS impacts on seafood trade
- developing and implementing an EMS ¡V fishing communities who are currently developing and implementing EMS
Seafood Industry Tour
Tuesday 13 September 2005
7:00am ¡V 5:30pm
The IAFI Seafood Industry Tour will leave Star City at 7am and travel north by bus to Port Stephens. En route, participants will view some of the spectacular waterways of the New South Wales central coast before arriving at the Port Stephens Fisheries Centre for morning tea. After a presentation and a tour of the facilities, participants will visit a commercial barramundi farm which is based on the polyculture of barramundi and vegetables. Participants will then travel to the award winning Nelson Bay marina where they will have lunch at Sinclairs and be able to enjoy the famous Sydney rock oyster and farmed barramundi. After lunch participants will travel to Newcastle, Australia¡¦s sixth largest city, where they will tour the fish processing facilities of the Commercial Fishermen¡¦s Co-operative and see a display of some of Australia¡¦s finest fresh and frozen seafood. After an afternoon tea, participants will board the bus to return to Sydney. Cost is not incl!
uded in your Congress Registration.
Tickets can be purchased for $150.00
Australian Seafood on Display Reception including the IAFI Biennial Awards and the Student Poster Competition
Thursday 15 September 2005
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Star City Hotel
Join Australia's top producers and learn about the Australian Seafood Industry while enjoying samples of clean green Australian seafood - meet and talk to the people who have produced the product you will be tasting. This event will be held in conjunction with the presentation of IAFI Awards winners and the student poster competition entries. This event is included in your Congress Registration.
Extra tickets may be purchased for: $65.00 each.
The Great Breakfast Debate - Who has the Power? Regulators or Supermarkets?
Proudly sponsored by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry
16 September 2005
7:00am ¡V 8:30am
On the global scene Supermarkets are getting bigger and they are using food safety and quality initiatives to create a market differential between them and their competitors. Regulators are continually caught up in red tape with their legislation and regulations and find it difficult to keep up with change. Today¡¦s breakfast speakers will debate who has the power to influence world trade in seafood.
Free to Congress Delegates ¡V Space is limited, bookings essential.
Extra tickets for day delegates, partners and guests may be purchased for $45 each.
Women's Industry Network Seafood Community (WINSC Workshops)
WINSC is the only national organisation in Australia that represents women within the seafood industry. WINSC offers capacity building opportunities to all women in the fishing and seafood industry and this will be enhanced by the two workshops being offered. There will also be extensive networking opportunities available, especially at WINSC Conference Dinner.
Sunday 11 September (8:30am ¡V 5:30pm) |
Getting the media to work for you
- training, tools and resources to help achieve positive media profiles for seafood communities.
Cost: $135 (WINSC members) $195 (non members- note this includes 12 months WINSC membership)
Sunday 11 September (7:00pm until late) |
WINSC Conference Dinner at Darling Harbour
Cost: $50
Monday 12 September (8:00am ¡V 12:00pm) |
Social Impact Assessment for Seafood Communities
- Social Impact Assessment tools and techniques particularly applied to seafood communities in Australia will be discussed. Some first hand stories of family and community impacts of government policy and regulatory decisions will be presented.
Cost: Free (WINSC members) $60 (non members- note this includes 12 months WINSC membership)
NOTE: If a non WINSC member attends BOTH of the WINSC workshops the total cost will be $195 (The 2 WINSC Workshops are Getting the Media to Work for You and the Social Impact Assessment)
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