The Authentic Food Festival and
Conference 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. 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
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Event Start
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Opening by Ghislain Marechal (EC) and Saskia van Ruth (University College Dublin)
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
Prof. Alan Reilly (Former Chief Executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Lively debate moderated by Prof. 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 moderated by Frank Cederhout (Deloitte), Hans van der Moolen (Eurofins), Saskia van Ruth (UCD)
Exciting escape room by the fraud academy
Hands-on experience and demonstration of latest food authentication devices
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
Film session with panel discussion moderated by Sara Erasmus (WUR)
Exciting escape room by the fraud academy
Hands-on experience and demonstration of latest food authentication devices
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
Hands-on experience and demonstration of latest food authentication devices
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 (University College Dublin)
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Science cafe with music and scientific contributions on olive oil by Gregor Christiaans and on Irish whiskey by an Irish master distiller
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)
A serious game about how not to get involved in bad practices moderated by Joris Boom (UCD) and Bas Altenburg (8D)
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. It also aims at starting collaboration between educators in different universities and support each other.
A serious game about how not to get involved in bad practices moderated by Joris Boom (UCD) and Bas Altenburg (8D)
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Prize for the Best Counter Fraudster and 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
