Mario Guadalupe
Mario Guadalupe-Daqui, is a Food Science PhD candidate at the University of Florida (UF) studying about yeast fermentation and working under Dr. Andrew MacIntosh supervision. Mario is from Ecuador, where got his bachelor’s degree in Food Engineering. His career had been defined by a constant work in the food industry and academia. He is researching on the barometric modification of yeast fermentation and currently, he is advocated to explain the mechanism of vacuum fermentation while fulfilling his duties as the lead Teaching Assistant of food processing and engineering. Mario the team captain of UF at the American Society of Baking Product Development competition 2020 along with other graduate students, getting the second place. He also serves as a student representative of the IFT Education, Extension and Outreach division and the IFT Florida section. Mario will join General Mills as a R&D Scientist II in the Summer of 2021.
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Enrique Andaluz is Director of Digital Innovation Strategy at Microsoft. He partners with client’s C-Suite and Senior Executives to improve margins and bring to life new business models.
Richard S. Gates is Director of the Egg Industry Center, and a Professor at Iowa State University with appointments in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Animal Sciences. As Director, he manages a portfolio of highly competitive applied research projects with collaborators in the US and Canada, and works to promote a science-based information delivery to egg industry stakeholders and consumers. Previously, he held academic appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Kentucky. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research and extension work involve agricultural air quality baseline measurement and assessment of mitigation techniques, and bioinstrumentation for measuring animal welfare. His past extension activities include leadership for the Illinois Certified Livestock Managers Training program, environment control and design of greenhouse, livestock and poultry facilities, and manure management and agricultural air quality issues. He was lead investigator on national projects to quantify ammonia emissions from US broiler and layer operations, a co-PI on the first completed US Air Consent Agreement work for measuring gaseous and particulate emissions from US broiler housing. He is author or co-author of 173 refereed journal articles and more than 330 other publications and presentations. He has taught instrumentation, environment control, structures and environment design, data acquisition and control, probability and statistics, and nonlinear optimization. He is co-founder of the Kentucky Rural Energy Consortium, and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ASABE), as chair of the Research Subcommittee of the United Egg Producer’s Environmental Scientific panel, is a Fellow of ASABE and recipient of the ASABE Henry L. Giese Structures and Environment Award. He is a registered professional engineer and holds one patent.
Kimberly Becker is a Senior Research Director in Gartner’s Supply Chain organization focused on Consumer Products. Ms. Becker focuses her research on key trends and innovations as well as best practices, specific strategies and capabilities needed for supply chains to succeed in the consumer products industry. She also helps clients build their overall supply chain maturity through Gartner’s DDVN maturity assessment process as well as identify areas of performance improvement through metric and cost benchmarking. Prior to joining Gartner in 2018, Ms. Becker was the Director of Global Customer Service and Collaboration for Colgate Palmolive and led their center of expertise in the areas of order-to-cash, customer engagement, cost-to-service, on-shelf availability and e-commerce. During her 25 year career at Colgate Palmolive, Ms. Becker had numerous roles across the supply chain including: supply chain system integration; customer supply chain engagement; continuous improvement; replenishment management and demand planning.
Sally Lyons Wyatt is a recognized food and beverage thought leader in the CPG and retail industries and is a frequent keynote speaker and an authority on consumer eating and shopping trends. She is regularly quoted in national business and trade media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Supermarket News and Candy and Snack Today. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Sally partners with clients to leverage big data, technology, omnichannel media and cutting-edge ideas to help achieve better results and drive growth. She is an executive and practice leader for IRI’s Client Insights division and is responsible for driving integrated initiatives as well as measuring their success within consumer strategy, consumer/customer insights, media and personalization practice areas. Sally’s vast experience includes managing and developing global account teams that service Fortune 500 companies.