4:30 - 6:00 
Networking social with:
- a Student Collaborative Organic Plant Breeding Education (SCOPE) TOMATO TASTING, and
- the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Syngenta.

6:00 - 7:00 
Featured speaker Allen Van Deynze
Director of the Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis
Associate Director of the Plant Breeding Center at UC Davis
Scientific Director of the African Orphan Crops Consortium

Location: ARC Ballrooms, UC Davis (J)

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER.\

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with GreenVenus.

6:00 - 7:00  Featured guest

• Daniel Potter
  Professor and Chair
  Department of Plant Sciences
  UC Davis
  
  This event will bring together Seed Central members and the new
  Chair of the Department of Plant Sciences so they can learn about each other
  and engage in a beneficial dialog.
  
  Roundtable with representatives from Bayer, Syngenta, etc.
   

Location: Buehler Alumni Center, UC Davis (J)

Open to all

Seed Central hosts
the California Seed Association's
Fall Student Tour
for lunch and a n

With students from UC Davis, Cal-Poly, California State University Chico / Fresno / Monterey Bay, Woodland Community College, and Woodland high schools.

• 11:30 - 12:30
  Lunch + Industry Panelists Testimonials: transitioning after graduation, the decision to work in industry, experiences in the first job, career path, advice to new talents.
   
• 12:30 - 1:30
  Networking Career Fair

Location: : Woodland Community College, Woodland, California (J)

Featuring:

	and many more...

with panelists:

Sriram Vidyarthi Food Process Engineer The Morning Star Company	Robert Blundell Plant Pathologist Pro Farm Group	Owen Canestrino Research Assistant I, Melon HM.Clause	TBA Sakata Seed America	TBA US Agriseeds
		and many more...

The "Job Panorama" in a seed company
An opportunity for students to discover the wide range of interesting and rewarding jobs that make up a seed company.
You will hear from a wide range of employees about their respective jobs, you
will understand what sort of teams it takes in each functional area of the company to go from research through production, supply chain, operations, sales and marketing, all the way to the market.

4:30 - 6:00  Job Panorama : Sakata Seed America

6:00 - 7:00  Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Sakata Seed America.

Location: Buehler Alumni Center, UC Davis (W)

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

Richard Michelmore	Blake Meyers

6:00 - 7:00  Featured speakers

• Richard Michelmore, Founding Director, The Genome Center
  Blake Meyers, Director, The Genome Center
  
  Changing of the guard at the UC Davis Genome Center
  See: UC Davis Genome Center appoints new Director - Plant scientist Blake Meyers to lead 'the next generation of genomics'
  
  This event will bring together Seed Central members and the new
  Director of the Genome Center so they can learn about each other and engage in a beneficial dialog.
  
  Roundtable with representatives from Bayer, Syngenta, etc.

Location: ARC Ballrooms, UC Davis (W)

12:00 to 12:45 PM
Exhibits set up at the Conference Center, UC Davis (J/W)

1:00 to 3:00 PM
Pitch session at the Conference Center, UC Davis

3:30 to 6:00 PM
Networking exhibits at the Conference Center, UC Davis
with the TALENTS CORNER

Students, postdocs, win a meal for 3 with

TBA

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

> If you wish to present & exhibit, please contact François Korn @ fkorn@seedcentral.org.

> If you wish to register to attend the presentations and exhibits, click HERE to register.

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

6:00 - 7:00  Featured postdoctoral researchers present their research.

Location: Buehler Alumni Center, UC Davis

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

6:00 - 7:00  Featured speaker

• Xiaofei Zhang
  Assistant Professor
  Genetics and Breeding of Small Grains Crops
  Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
  
  Dr. Zhang's research program aims to address the needs of small grains crop growers and consumers both nationally and internationally. It will be focusing
  on 1) Yield Increase beyond the Green Revolution; 2) Nutrient Use and Environmental Footprint; 3) Nutrition and Health; 4) Breeding Technology and Genetic Gains.

Location: ARC Ballrooms, UC Davis

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

6:00 - 7:00  Featured speaker

• The featured speaker will be
  the new Dean
  of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES)
  UC Davis
  
  This event will bring together Seed Central members and the new
  Dean of CA&ES so they can learn about each other and engage in a beneficial dialog.
  
  Roundtable with representatives from Bayer, Syngenta, etc.

Location: Buehler Alumni Center, UC Davis

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

6:00 - 7:00  Featured speakers

• Barbara Blanco-Ulate, Associate Professor,
  and Irwin Donis-Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension
  Co-Directors of the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center
  
  Topic: The UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center

Location: ARC Ballrooms, UC Davis

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

6:00 - 7:00  Featured speaker

Location: , UC Davis

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

6:00 - 7:00  Featured speaker

Location: , UC Davis

Focus on artificial intelligence and recent research at the AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) @ UC Davis

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

6:00 - 7:00  Featured speakers

• (TBA)

Location: , UC Davis

4:30 - 6:00 Networking social with the TALENTS CORNER

RAFFLE: 3 students or postdocs will win a Meal with Industry (TBA).

6:00 - 7:00  Featured speaker

• (TBA)

Location: , UC Davis