Tuesday, April 6

10:00–3:00 P.M. CDT
Visit Virtual Exhibits, Video Chat with Colleagues
This is your chance to visit virtual exhibits, chat or request a live video with exhibitors, network with attendees and much more!
10:00–Noon CDT
CDR Experts on Call: Private
Consultations with Center for Dairy Research Staff (By Appointment)
These limited time slots must be scheduled in advance. Attendees signing up for Full Registration will see a pop-up box offering CDR Experts on Call sessions.

Keynote Opener
Noon-12:55 p.m. CDT
The RELCO ® Opening Keynote:
Cheese Industry CEOs Look to the

Future
This online panel will feature David Ahlem, CEO and President of Hilmar Cheese Company; Emile Cordeau, CEO of Agropur and Carl Colizza, President and COO of Saputo Dairy USA. Phil Plourd, President of Blimling and Associates, will moderate and guide this discussion.

Concurrent Ideas Showcases
1:00–1:15 P.M. CDT

DSM Food Specialties USA, Inc.
Differentiate Your Cheese with the Flavor Wheel FT System North America LLC Preserve Map Packaged Cheese Shelf-Life with In-Line 100% Sealing
Inspection
1:15–1:30 P.M. CDT
MULTIPOND America Inc Challenges and Solutions for Accurate Cheese Weighing Amcor Flexibles North America Elevated Consumer Experiences Begin with Packaging That Stands Out On Shelf

Concurrent Seminars
1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Optimizing Cheese Yield & Mass
Balance

Are you trying to find the sweet spot between optimal efficiency and optimal quality? Learn how to develop a formula to help you identify where you may be having issues and then the techniques for overcoming those yield stealers.
Moderator: Dean Sommer, Cheese & Food Technologist, CDR
Speakers:
• Developing the Right Formula to Optimize Cheese Yield Dr. Mark Johnson, PhD, Distinguished Scientist, CDR
• Maximizing Cheese Yield Efficiency at the Vat John Jaeggi, Cheese Industry & Applications Coordinator, CDR
1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Negative PPDs and Positive Change for Federal Milk Orders A job that’s never finished – imposing a regulated milk pricing structure on a free market system – will begin anew in 2021 as unprecedented market disruptions in the last year revealed the complexity, the inflexibility, and possibly even the irrelevance of classified milk pricing.
Speakers:
• Mark Stephenson, Professor, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Mike McCully, President, The McCully Group
• John Newton, PhD, Chief Economist, American Farm Bureau Federation
1:30 –2:20 P.M. CDT
Data Debut: Cheese Usage in Foodservice Channels 2020
Join us for the debut of new Technomic research on cheese usage in the foodservice channel in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers:
• Jen Walsh, Chief Operating Officer, Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin
• David Henkes, Senior Principal, Technomic
1:30 –2:20 P.M. CDT
Crisis Preparedness and Crisis Management: National FARM
Program Solutions
No one likes to think about an animal care crisis. The National Dairy FARM Program’s resources can help ensure that you and your teams are prepared in the event that a crisis does hit. This session will not only give attendees the tools needed to prepare for a crisis but will also outline the steps taken by all stakeholders during a crisis, to illustrate the most positive pathway forward for all involved.
Speakers:
• Emily Yeiser Stepp, VP, National Dairy FARM Program
• Angela Anderson, VP, Food Chain Outreach, Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy

Concurrent Ideas Showcases
2:30–2:45 P.M. CDT

TC Transcontinental Packaging Films and Resins Made Sustainable Quadbeam Technologies Ltd. Identify & Monitor Efficiency Opportunities with Multibeam NIR Sensors
2:45–3:00 P.M. CDT
Foss
The Power of In-Line for Cheese JLS Automation
Robotic Packaging That Helps
Close the Labor Gap

Spotlight Event
3:00–3:45 P.M. CDT

Tetra Pak Spotlight Event
Network with colleagues as Tetra Pak brings fun and games to you and your colleagues to the end of a successful first day.

Wednesday, April 7

10:00–3:00 P.M. CDT
Visit Virtual Exhibits, Video Chat with Colleagues This is your chance to visit virtual exhibits, chat or request a live video with exhibitors, network with attendees and much more!
10:00–Noon CDT
CDR Experts on Call: Private
Consultations with Center for Dairy Research Staff (By Appointment)
These limited time slots must be scheduled in advance. Attendees signing up for Full Registration will see a pop-up box offering CDR Experts on Call sessions.

Keynote Opener
Noon–12:55 P.M. CDT
The DSM Keynote Event: WCMA
Recognition Awards

A host of industry leaders earned our thanks and recognition in 2020 and 2021, and we’ll highlight our Cheese Industry Champions, Distinguished Service Award winners, Vanguard Award cheesemakers and Babcock Award educators. Join the ceremony and applaud these greats as they acknowledge their awards in video presentations.

Concurrent Ideas Showcases
1:00–1:15 P.M. CDT

Hydrite Chemical Company Leveraging Technology into Creative Solutions LETICO Inc. Letico LT3: Portion Control That Will Transform Your Workplace
1:15–1:30 P.M. CDT
Multivac, Inc.
MULTIVAC L 310 labeler: Maximum
Speed, Efficiency, and Quality
RELCO, A Koch Separation
Solutions Company
Innovative Reverse Osmosis
Membranes for Concentration of Caustic Solutions

Concurrent Seminars
1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Practical Application of Process
Data in Dairy Plants

Data automation, linking every phase of your operation from raw milk intake and testing through packaging and distribution, holds the promise of paperless reporting, shared data, and analysis to improve safety, traceability and productivity at dairy plants.
Moderator: Dean Sommer, Cheese & Food Technologist, Center for Dairy Research Speakers:
• Steve Ejnik, VP Cheese Equipment RELCO, a Koch Separation Solutions Company
• Larry Harris, Director of Operations, Meister Cheese Company
• Joe Gardner, Practice Lead for Data Analytics, Wonderware
1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Export Market Outlook in a Recovering Global Economy A disruptive 2020 surprised with strong international interest in U.S. dairy foods and dairy ingredients.

U.S. Dairy Export Council is forecasting how a new normal will impact your export opportunities.
Speakers:
• Shawna Morris, VP Trade Policy, U.S. Dairy Export Council
• Jaime Castaneda, SVP Trade Policy, U.S. Dairy Export Council
• William Loux, Director, Global Trade Analysis, U.S. Dairy Export Council 1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Artisan Focus: Surface Microflora in Cave-Aged Cheeses & CDR’s New Affinage Capabilities Learn about different rind microflora and their impact on cave-aged cheeses, plus catch a glimpse of CDR’s nine specialty cheese caves in the new Center for Dairy Research building.
Speakers:
• Understanding Surface Microbial Communities in Cave-Aged Cheeses Dr. Ben Wolfe, Associate Professor, Biology, Tufts University
• Explore CDR’s new cheese caves and its enhanced affinage capabilities Andy Johnson, Assistant Coordinator, Cheese & Industry Applications, Center for Dairy Research 1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT Dairy 2050 Environmental Goals and the Net Zero Initiative for Carbon Emissions
Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy will share how the dairy industry’s Net Zero Initiative is collaborating on sustainability projects to expand research, data, and on-farm projects to close knowledge gaps, improve analysis and demonstrate progress.
Speaker:
• Karen Scanlon, SVP, Environmental Stewardship, Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy
• Brian Fiscalini, General Manager, Fiscalini Farms
• Greg Siegenthaler, VP, Milk Marketing & Supply Chain

Concurrent Ideas Showcases
2:30–2:45 P.M. CDT
Snackification: Harpak-Ulma
Packaging, LLC.

Snackification: The Art of Turning
Smaller Portions Into Larger
Diversey F&B
Diversey’s Accelerated Cleaning
Protocol for Dairy Processing
Membranes
2:45–3:00 P.M. CDT
bioMerieux, Inc.
Support a Healthy Factory Model
with Trusted Microbiology Solutions
POWER Engineers
Artisan Shapes in a Uniform
World: How to Solve Your Unique
Packaging Challenges

Spotlight Event
3:00–3:45 P.M. CDT
Chr. Hansen Spotlight Event:
Championship Cheese Auction

Celebrate craftsmanship and bid high as Chr. Hansen hosts an auction of past Championship Cheese Contest Winners all designated for charitable causes.

Thursday, April 8

10:00–3:00 P.M. CDT
Visit Virtual Exhibits, Video Chat with Colleagues
This is your chance to visit virtual exhibits, chat or request a live video with exhibitors, network with attendees and much more!
10:00–Noon CDT
CDR Experts on Call: Private Consultations with Center for Dairy Research Staff (By Appointment)
These limited time slots must be scheduled in advance. Attendees signing up for Full Registration will see a pop-up box offering CDR Experts on Call sessions.

Keynote Opener
Noon-12:55 p.m. CDT
The Amcor Flexibles North America
Keynote Address: Moving On – Trends that will Change the Way You Do Dairy

An energetic keynote address from Paul Ziemnisky, Executive Vice President of Global Innovation Partnerships with Dairy Management Inc. and Laurie Demeritt, CEO of The Hartman Group, will explore the consumer and sales channel environment in a marketplace emerging from
COVID-19.

Concurrent Ideas Showcases
1:00–1:15 P.M. CDT

Tetra Pak Inc.
Tetra Pak ® Cooker Stretcher DDA – Delivering Maximum Control for your Pasta Filata Process Wonderware Midwest Operations and Performance Management in the Cloud

1:15–1:30 P.M. CDT
Deville Technologies Inc.
Full Cheese-Block Reduction on the Deville FS40 Shredder
Chr. Hansen
Cultures and Enzymes
manufacturing: An Inside Look of Chr. Hansen

Concurrent Seminars
1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Microbes that Negatively Impact
Cheese Quality and Advances in their Identification
There are more culprits out there than just lactose fermentation which are causing gas formers in cheese. Learn what they are and how to identify them.
Moderator: Dean Sommer, Cheese & Food Technologist, Center for Dairy Research
Speaker:
• Identifying New Sources of Gas Formation in Cheese Dr. Rodrigo Ibáñez, Scientist, Center for Dairy Research
1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Peer Learning: Strategies to Recruit and Motivate Your Workforce How are your peer companies innovating in building and motivating their workforce – especially with the challenges of COVID-19? Join a panel of our industry’s human resources leaders as they discuss solutions to
workforce challenges of COVID-19, as well as their best strategies to find and develop great talent and build employee loyalty.

Moderator: Rebekah Sweeney, Director, Communications, Education and Policy, Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
Speakers:
• Mara Kamat, VP Human Resources, Great Lakes Cheese
• Brian Sandvig, VP Operations & Human Resources, Valley Queen Cheese
• Denise Lofquist, VP Human Resources, Emmi Roth USA
1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Succeeding with Online Dairy
Product Sales
Sales of natural cheese online increased $743 million in 2020, a 104% increase over the previous year. Our expert panel will explore the future for dairy in e-commerce, with an emphasis on three market channels.
Moderator: Paul Ziemnisky, EVP Global Innovation Partnerships, Dairy Management Inc.
Speakers:
• Claudia Knowlton-Chike, Lead, Google Food Supply Chain Coalition, Google Global Logistics
• Andy Hatch, Owner, Uplands Cheese A Retail Grocery Representative
1:30–2:20 P.M. CDT
Whey and Dairy Powder Pathogen Control Best Practices Whey and other dairy powders have grown to become a significant portion of dairy production but they also pose a unique set of food safety challenges. Controls and mitigation programs need to be tailored for dry dairy operations to minimize the risk of pathogen contamination.

Moderator: Chad Galer, VP Food
Safety, Innovation Center for U.S.
Dairy
Speakers:
• Dan Belina, Senior Scientist, Land O Lakes
• Dave Cook, President, Commercial Quality & Food Safety Solutions
• David Kedzierski, Executive Leader of Food Safety, QA and Regulatory Affairs, Agri-Mark Inc.

• Ron Thompson, Director of Food Safety, Continental Dairy Facilities, LLC

Ideas Showcases
2:30–2:45 P.M. CDT

Krohne Inc.
KROHNE Optimass: Coriolis Meters for the Cheese Industry
2:45–3:00 P.M. CDT
FoodSafe Drains
FoodSafe Facility Drainage Design

Spotlight Event
3:00–3:45 P.M. CDT

WCMA Awards Banquet Highlights Shorter and sweeter, with fewer calories, this virtual banquet with Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association and Center for Dairy Research will celebrate 2020 World Championship Cheese Contest Top Winners, WCMA Life Member Honorees, Wisconsin Master Cheesemakers for 2020 and 2021 and salute our Contest Volunteers and Winners.

Exhibitors

Advanced Detection Systems
Air Quality Process
Alce North America, Inc.
ALLIEDFLEX Technologies, Inc.
ALPMA USA
Amcor Flexibles North America
Anderson Chemical Company/Sanitation Technologies/Water Management
Axiflow Technologies, Inc.
Baumer Ltd.
Biomerieux, Inc.
Burkert Fluid Control Systems
Center for Dairy Research
Cheese Reporter
Chem-Aqua, Inc.
Chr. Hansen, Inc.
Christakis Agathangelou
COPRODEV PLUS
Custom Stainless Enclosures, Inc.
Cybertrol Engineering
Dairy Connection Inc.
Delkor Systems, Inc.
Deville Technologies Inc.
Diversey F&B
DSM Food Specialties USA, Inc.
DualTemp Clauger
Ecolab, Inc.
Enerquip, LLC
ePac Flexible Packaging
Evaporator Dryer Technologies, Inc.
Excel Engineering, Inc.
Extrutech Plastics Inc.
FBF North America, LLC
FLAIR Flexible Packaging Corporation
FlexLink Systems, Inc.
Food Safety Net Services
FoodSafe Drains
Fortress Technology, Inc.
Foss
FT System North America LLC
Great Northern Corporation
Harpak-Ulma Packaging, LLC.
Heat and Control, Inc.
Hydrite Chemical Co.
ID Technology
IFF
Inficon
International Dairy Foods Association
JLS Automation
Karl Schnell Inc.
Kelley Supply, Inc
Koss Industrial, Inc.
Krohne Inc.
Kurita America Inc.
Kusel Equipment Co.
Lallemand
LETICO Inc.
Liftvrac
Loos Machine & Automation
Masters Gallery Foods, Inc.
Matrix Packaging Machinery
McMahon Associates, Inc.
Membrane System Specialists, Inc.
Multi-Conveyor LLC
MULTIPOND America Inc
Multivac, Inc.
Munters Corporation
Natec USA LLC
Nelson-Jameson, Inc.
Pentair
PerkinElmer, Inc.
POWER Engineers, Inc.
ProActive Solutions USA, LLC
The Probst Group, LLC
Quadbeam Technologies Ltd.
Reiser
RELCO, A Koch Separation Solutions
Company
Rieger Flow Products, LLC
Sani-Matic, Inc.
Schenck Process
Sheffield Machine Knife
Shuttleworth
Spancrete - Wells
Staubli Corporation
SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions
Symbiont Science, Engineering and Construction Inc
TC Transcontinental Packaging
Technology Group International
Tetra Pak Inc.
Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
Weber, Inc.
Witt Gas Controls
Whitehall Specialties, Inc.
Wonderware Midwest

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