The Global Food+ event aims to help us make unexpected new connections, among people and ideas we don’t yet know. To spur that kind of intellectual encounter, the sequence of presentation was random — at the live event there were periodic breaks for attendees to meet each other during the afternoon then a reception after the talks, and the conversation continues on twitter as #GlobalFoodPlus, and through the archive videos below:

 

Start	End	Speaker	Topic (click for video)	Affilliation
12:30	12:40	Will Masters Ed Saltzman Bill Clark	Opening remarks	Masters: Professor, Tufts Friedman School Saltzman: Dean for Academic Affairs, Tufts Friedman School Clark: Harvey Brooks Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
12:41	12:48	Y. Karen Zheng	A data-driven approach to managing food safety in global supply chains	Assoc. Professor of Operations Management, MIT
12:49	12:56	Sai K. Das	Energy metabolism, calorie restriction and health	Asst. Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University
12:57	13:04	Forest Reinhardt	Changing institutions for water management	John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
13:05	13:12	Jenny Aker	How technology is (not?) transforming rural Africa	Assoc. Professor of Development Economics, Tufts University
13:13	13:20	Ken Strzepek	People, water and food in the Nile basin and the Zambezi valley	Research Scientist, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT
13:21	13:28	Angela Rigden	Climate and crop production	Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
BREAK
13:45	13:52	Benjamin E. Wolfe	Microbial domestication in fermented food microbiomes	Asst. Professor of Biology, Tufts University
13:53	14:00	Erin Hennessy	Digital imaging for nutritional analysis of restaurant meals	Rsch. Asst. Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University
14:01	14:08	Mahesh Karra	Long-term consequences of early life nutrition	Asst. Professor of Global Development Policy, Boston University
14:09	14:16	Karthish Manthiram	Using solar electricity to make nitrogen fertilizer	Asst. Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
14:17	14:24	Mark Brennan	Innovations in food aid packaging	PhD Candidate, Dept of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
14:25	14:32	John P. Connors	Diversity across scales and the sustainability of food systems	Adj Rsch Asst Professor, Dept of Earth and Environment, Boston University
14:33	14:40	Missy Holbrook	Plants that use less water	Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, Harvard University
14:41	14:48	Alicia Harley	Innovation and access to technology for the poorest farmers	Giorgio Ruffolo Fellow and PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
14:49	14:56	Rachael Garrett	Scaling up sustainable intensification in South America	Asst. Professor, Dept of Earth and Environment, Boston University
BREAK
15:15	15:22	Colette Heald	Air pollution and global crop yields	Assoc. Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT
15:23	15:30	Rama Bansil	Physics of gels in cooking & digestion	Professor of Physics, Boston University
15:31	15:38	Sarah Fletcher	Flexible water supply planning under uncertainty	PhD Candidate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
15:39	15:46	Radost Stanimirova	Modeling and monitoring global rangeland dynamics	NASA Fellow and PhD candidate in geography, Boston University
15:47	15:54	Alison Brown	Diet and disease among U.S.-born and foreign-born non-Hispanic Blacks	Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts Medical Center
15:55	16:02	Dan McKanan	The spiritual roots of modern environmentalism	Senior Lecturer in Divinity, Harvard University
16:03	16:10	Deborah Frank	Why a pediatrician  cares about food security	Prof of Child Health and Well-Being, Boston University
16:11	16:18	William A. Masters	The weird global market for baby foods	Professor, School of Nutrition & Dept of Economics, Tufts University
16:19	16:30	Kelsey Jack	Closing remarks	J.L. Paddock Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
RECEPTION