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InfoAg 2014 Session

Plenary Session Regency ABC
Moderator : Paul Schrimpf
Date/Time : Wednesday, July 30, 2014 | 10:30am - 11:30am
Speaker

Biography :
Christophe Pelletier is one of the worlds experts on the future of food and agriculture. During his studies and his career, he has been active in Beef, Dairy, Animal Feed, Nutrition, Pork, Poultry and Seafood. Christophe Pelletier combines extensive knowledge with practical hands-on business experience. He is a versatile individual who is just as comfortable wearing a suit in a boardroom as he is wearing overalls and wooden shoes in a livestock pen or a hard hat and a white coat in a food plant. He has actually produced and sold food and agricultural products. He has filled a wide diversity of positions in Scientific and Technical support, Planning, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality Control, Traceability, Food Safety, Sales & Marketing, Plant Management and Senior Executive level. He has conducted business internationally, on four continents, and negotiated multimillion deals with farmers, traders, wholesalers, leading retailers and food processors. Thanks to his strategic and leadership abilities, he successfully has turned around lagging operations into profitable and viable activities within very short periods of time. He has lived in three countries and he speaks five languages. He is a citizen of both Canada and the EU.

The Food Futurist

The Food Futurist is all about the future of food and farming. The purpose of this discreet little boutique consulting firm with surprising work capacity is to help its clients anticipate future changes, adapt timely to a new environment and thrive by providing advice and cooperation to the clients.
 
Through strategic foresight and the development of future scenarios, the Food Futurist’s clients will be able to take effective action to be among the winners of the future. The approach is practical, straightforward, pragmatic and hands-on, by using critical thinking and the search for innovative solutions to improve food production and food supply chains in the years and decades to come. The language is plain and clear.
 
As the Food Futurist is independent you can expect candid and objective advice. There is no hidden agenda. Together, we will focus about solutions, not about problems. 
 

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