Presentation Slides

Please use the links below to review presentation slides from each session.

Keynote Address

Click here to view a recording of the keynote address from Jenny Lester Moffitt, Undersecretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

Session 1: Food Recovery and Donation of Food

• Benjamin Chapman, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Agricultural & Human Sciences, North Carolina State University

• Rick Nahmias, Founder & Executive Director, Food Forward

• Julia Van Soelen Kim, North Bay Food Systems Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension

• Lester Schonberger, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Food Science and Technology, Virginia Tech

Session 2: Food "Upcycling"

• Tara McHugh, Center Director, Western Regional Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service

• Carole Widmayer, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales, The Coffee Cherry Co.

• Nina Parkinson and Linda Harris, Director, UC Laboratory for Research in Food Preservation (UCLRFP) and Department Chair & Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Department of Food Science & Technology, UC Davis 

Session 3: Composting and Anaerobic Digestion for Nutrient Recycling

• Jenny Stephenson, Environmental Protection Specialist, US Environmental Protection Agency

• Steve Zicari, Director of Engineering and R&D, California Safe Soil, LLC

• Christian Nansen, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology & Nematology, UC Davis

• Robert Horowitz, Supervisor, Organic Materials and Construction & Demolition Unit, CalRecycle