The Authentic Food Festival and Conference (#AFFC) is a new, in-person cross-sector event exploring food authenticity, integrity, and fraud in an immersive, highly interactive festival-style combining cutting-edge research, workshops, clinics, debates, films, games, and food with lots of opportunites to network and learn. If you have not registered yet, note that registration is still open until the 20th of May here: www.eff-cop.eu/festival. Please find the festival program below.
Conference Programme
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Event Start
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM
Opening by Ghislain Marechal (EC) and Saskia van Ruth (University College Dublin)
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Alan Reilly (Former Chief Executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Lively debate moderated by Chris Elliott (Queen's University Belfast)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Round table discussion with leaders from industry, retail, and regulatory agencies moderated by Quincy Lissaur (SSAFE)
Interactive clinic on how you would handle under pressure in a food fraud situation moderated by Frank Cederhout (Deloitte), Hans van der Moolen (Eurofins), Saskia van Ruth (UCD) (max 20 participants)
Exciting escape room by the fraud academy by Joris Boom (UCD) and Petter Olsen (NOFIMA) 2 rounds (2x max 4 participants)
Hands-on experience and demonstration of latest food authentication devices organised by LGC, BARDS.ie, Bia Analytical and OptiGene (max 20 participants)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Views on fraud from adjacent fields: Neuroscience, forensic accountancy, trade flow assessments, and anti-corruption in humanitarian aid organisations moderated by Aiqing Ling (UCD)
Film session with panel discussion moderated by Judith Mueller-Maatsch (Technical University Munich)
Exciting escape room by the fraud academy by Joris Boom (UCD) 2 rounds (2x max 4 participants)
Hands-on experience and demonstration of latest food authentication devices organised by LGC, BARDS.ie, Bia Analytical and OptiGene (max 20 participants)
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Conference session on latest developments in food authentication moderated by Selvarani Elahi (LGC, Food Authenticity Network)
Film session with panel discussion moderated by Petter Olsen (NOFIMA)
Exciting escape room by the fraud academy by Joris Boom (UCD) 2 rounds (2x max 4 participants)
Hands-on experience and demonstration of latest food authentication devices organised by LGC, BARDS.ie, Bia Analytical and OptiGene (max 20 participants)
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Session on Data Sonification and Hands-on Transformation of Data into Sounds moderated by Joris Boom (UCD) (max 40 participants)
Exciting escape room by the fraud academy by UCD 2 rounds (2x max 4 participants)
Hands-on experience and demonstration of latest food authentication devices organised by LGC, BARDS.ie, Bia Analytical and OptiGene (max 20 participants)
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Contributions on olive oil by Gregor Christiaans of Foundation Olive Oil Netherlands and on Irish whiskey by Siobhan Magennis of Sliabh Liag Distillers with musical performance of Mollie Lalor (Voice), Cara Kennedy (Voice), and Winifred Massey (Keyboard)
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Stories about food fraud, moderated by Alba Tres (University of Barcelona)
Workshop for early career scientists to learn about career trajectories moderated by Tara Hughes, Sherif Shaheen and Matta Ebaid (UCD) (max 20 participants)
A serious game about how not to get involved in bad practices moderated by Joris Boom (UCD) and Bas Altenburg (8D) (max 20 participants)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Conference session on latest developments in food authentication moderated by Di Wu (Queen's University Belfast)
A workshop dedicated to identify and filling gaps in food fraud prevention and detection education in universities across Europe moderated by Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner (Social Learning Lab) (max 20 participants)
A serious game about how not to get involved in bad practices moderated by Joris Boom (UCD) and Bas Altenburg (8D) (max 20 participants)
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Prize for the Best Counter Fraudster, and the Best Poster, as well as a Performance of the Food Fraud Orchestra
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Event End
