Information Systems for Assessing the Context, Challenges, and Targets of Crop Improvement for the Poor  

8:30am

The Roundtable challenge

Mark Rosegrant

Chuck Muscoplat

Roundtable rules

Edie Paul

9:00am

Crop system improvement in a development context

Emmy Simmons

Tsedeke Abate

10:00am

Coffee

10:30am

Cropping systems, performance, and monitoring

Richard Jones

Haluk Kasnakoglu

V. Balaji

12:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm

Assessing the distribution & variability of production environments & biotic production constraints

Ken Giller

Serge Savary

Erich C. Oerke

3:00pm

Coffee

3:15pm

Integrating demand realities into crop improvement

Cobus Le Roux

J.V. Meenakshi

4:30pm

Assessment of potential impacts for the poor

Phil Pardey & Stanley Wood

5:15-6:30pm

PANEL 1: Key opportunities for transforming information systems for targeting crop improvement for the poor

John Dixon

John Lynam

Gary Toenniessen

6:45-7:30pm

Pre-dinner drinks (followed by Roundtable Dinner at the Weisman Museum)

Information Systems Supporting the Process of Crop Improvement

8:00am

Designing more effective breeding programs

Luis Sanint

Alfred Dixon

Wolfgang Pfeiffer

9:30am

Coffee

9:45am

Improving the search for useful genes/traits

Andrzej Kilian

Ron Phillips

Jonathan Crouch

11:00am

Tapping the full potential of bioinformatics

Graham McClaren

Edie Paul

Ernie Retzel

12:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm

Enhancing the role of spatial and production system modeling

Brian Keating

Jeff White

2:15pm

PANEL 2: Key opportunities for transforming information systems underpinning crop breeding

Rebecca Nelson

TBD

TBD

3:45-4:30pm

SYNTHESIS: Saving time, saving money, saving lives:  From ideas to action on transforming information systems supporting crop improvement for the poor  (nearer and longer term).