Waitrose Innovation Forums 2011
Crop Quality
Thursday 9th June 2011, Waitrose Aylesford RDC Conference Facility
Soils and Substrates and Resource Use in Agriculture
Friday 10th June 2011, Waitrose Aylesford RDC Conference Facility
If you have any queries or require more information please contact Becky Gordon on 01524 510 214
Aims & Objectives
The Waitrose Innovations Forums will be led by The Waitrose Centre at Lancaster University.
Each of the forums will:
- Share best practice currently operating within the supply chain
- Keep a specific focus on Waitrose specific values
- Focus on pre-competitive topics
- Provide in-depth coverage of benchmark training programme topics
- Draw on Lancaster expertise
- Align and complement the Waitrose LEAF commitment
- Showcase expertise from other UK and overseas R&D organisations
- Provide significant opportunity for discussion
- Emphasis on new solutions and innovations – not problems
- Consider technical, policy and societal issues
- Act as the basis to consider and develop new collaborative research
- Focus on new, emerging technologies and innovation, not just current practice
In addition to formal presentations there will be significant opportunities for discussion. Discussions will be facilitated by a dedicated facilitator with experience of translating science into practice for the benefit of UK and overseas horticulture. This aims to ensure that while the days focus on cutting edge and emerging innovations there will be ample opportunity to consider how such innovation can and will translate into real commercial benefit.
The fee for attendance on the day will be £50 for the full day. Where possible, overnight accommodation for the prior evening and dinner for all attendees will also be available (at an additional cost).
Building on feedback from previous events, workshops and discussions with the Waitrose agronomy group, the days have been designed so that they are useful to suppliers and growers of fresh produce both from the UK, Europe and overseas. The expert facilitator will ensure that there is good opportunity for discussion at the end of each formal session to fully consider how unfamiliar or new concepts can translate from the science labatory into the fresh produce supply chain.