SYNOPSIS OF BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Program topics or titles
subject to change)
8:30-10:00am Opening Plenary
- How to be Successful in Business: Skills, Habits
and Traits with David Minor (Adapted from: Top Ten
Ways to be Successful in Business)
In this talk, David shares the skills, habits, and traits it takes
to be successful in business. This inspiring presentation is applicable
to managers at all levels.
Moderator/Facilitator: Garrett Webb, Kalaoa Gardens LLC
10:15-11:30am Morning Breakout
Session (Concurrent)
- Best Practices for Emerging Ventures with
David Minor
This very popular nuts and bolts presentation is a compilation
of best practices for emerging ventures.
Moderator/Facilitator: Garrett Webb, Kalaoa Gardens LLC
- Keeping the 'Farm' in 'Farming': Linking Farmland
Protection and Agricultural Viability --- Mahi
Room, 3rd floor
This session will examine how farmland protection initiatives
across the U.S. are resulting in economic development opportunities
for farmers. The speakers will talk about a variety of programs
that have helped farmers with expanding operations, moving into
new markets, stabilizing operations, and passing the farm on to
the next generation. This session is open to Farmers, landowners,
State and county agency representatives, land trust representatives,
and farm advisors
Moderator/Facilitator: Sandra Lee Kunimoto, Chairperson, Board
of Agriculture
Panel Members: Bob Wagner, Assistant Vice President for field
programs, American Farmland Trust, Ellen Dayhoff, farmer and Director,
Adams County (Pennsylvania) Agricultural Land Preserve Program,
Jay Healy, farmer and former Commissioner of Agriculture, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
- Help Wanted: How to Get It: Labor Recruitment and
Retention? --- Papio Room, 3rd floor
Labor for farming and other other related business activities
always seem to fall on the short end of supply. The system complexity
of qualified labor is related to housing, training, cutural background,
and unrealistic expectations on both employer and employee. Perhaps
solutions can be found to address these issues.
Desired audience: All entrepreneurs
Moderator/Facilitator: Ken Kamiya, Kamiya Farms
Panel Members: Wes Nohara, Plantation Manager, Maui Pinapple Co.,
Richard Ha, Founder and Pres.of Kea'au Banana Platation
- Current Issues in Pest and Disease Management
with Arnold Hara, Mark Wright, and Janice Uchida of the University
of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human
Resources --- Moi Room, 3rd floor
This informative session will cover such topics as new invasive
species and pest management tools in Hawaii where the two major
management strategies, chemical and non-chemical will be discussed,
new pathogens and disease management strategies for Hawaii that
will discuss a number of new pathogens that have invaded crops
in Hawaii and disease control methods which consider the fragile
island ecosystem, and Integrated pest management, with an emphasis
on biological control that will provide an overview of biological
control practices, potential new options, and ways to integrate
biocontrol with other pests management options such as insecticides.
- An overview of irrigation control valves with
Martin Miyashiro, ASC certified technician, District Manager for
Diamond Head Sprinkler, Honolulu --- Venus Room,
2nd floor
This session covers recent innovations and basic information on
irrigation control valves. Includes forward and reverse valves,
solenoids, diaphragms and porting. Covers irrigation system characteristics
and applications and uses of effluent water. This session will
appeal to irrigation and landscape contractors, landscape architects,
nurserymen and farmers.
Luncheon Program: 12:15-1:15pm
--- Grand Ballrooms, 7th floor
- Governor Linda Lingle on “Working Landscapes”
and her vision for the future of Agriculture in Hawaii
- Harnessing Market Power to Promote Regional Food
Systems with keynote speaker: David Cole
In this talk, David Cole will share his experiences as an entrepreneur
of his Sunnyside Farms; how they built the organic matter in soil;
the wiring of his farms for information technology; his partnerships
with Earth University in Costa Rica and with the University of
California at Santa Barbara. He will then cover Hawaii’s
situation and discuss the issue of sustainability for the islands,
talking about ways for effecting change in Hawaii policies as
related to current policy issues at the national level and how
revising the next Farm Bill to support sustainable farming in
US will affect how we do agriculture in the near future.
Luncheon convener: Roger Wall, CFO and VP of Foodland, Hawaii,
and Chairman of Enterprise Honolulu
Moderator/Facilitator: Roger Wall, CFO and VP of Foodland, Hawaii,
and Chairman of Enterprise Honolulu
Afternoon Session
I (Concurrent)- 1:30-2:40pm
- Innovative Business Models I --- Ahi
Room, 3rd floor
One criteria of an innovative business model would involve successfully
overcoming a production and/or marketing situation that would
have otherwise been generally recognized as an insurmountable
business obstacle. Panelists in this session have all experienced
the benefits and risks of innovation. They are people who saw
a conventional problem, and by reframing it as a challenge, created
their own niche. Come learn from their experiences.
Moderator/Facilitator: Kent Fleming, Extension Specialist, Kona
Station, CTAHR
- The Financials: Your Foundation for Success with David
Minor --- Mahi Room, 3rd floor
In this session David talks about the financial information you
need to best manage your business and why this information is
so important. This program is geared to emerging business owners
and senior managers.
Moderator/Facilitator: Garrett Webb, Kalaoa Gardens LLC
- Turfgrass Management and Education with Dr. Al Turgeon
and Dr. Don Loch --- Papio Room, 3rd floor
Special guest speakers and renown experts in the field of turfgrass
and education, Dr. Turgeon of Pennsylvania State University and
Dr. Loch of the Turf Research Group within the Queensland Department
of Primary Industries will provide attendees with information
covering topics from Soil and Plant Water Relations, to Limits
of Warm Seasonal Grasses and also Plant Nutrients: Their Role
in Promoting Healthy Turfgrass Growth where there will be a comprehensive
discussion of primary, secondary, and tertiary nutrients, the
concentrations needed to sustain healthy growth, and designing
a fertility program to meet turfgrass nutritional needs.
Moderator/Facilitator: Dave Klawitter or Tom Staton, Quality
Turf
- Linking Farmers to Consumer Markets --- Moi
Room, 3rd floor
Farmers, food processors, and consumers in Minnesota are collaborating
to form more sustainable food systems, using a groundbreaking
economic analysis of their local farm and food economy to advance
their cause. New research in Hawaii identifies the promise for
raising more beef for Hawaiian consumers, and illuminates key
obstacles. What is the potential for building more sustainable
food systems in Hawaii? How do we build community loyalty for
local foods?
Moderator/Facilitator: Linda Cox, Educational Specialist, CTAHR
- Smells Like Money To Me --- Venus
Room, 2nd floor
This session deals with commercial composting (large and small
scale operations) and the benefits of using compost. Hawaii is
a net importer of fertilizer (organic and inorganic sources).
The presentation covers the evaluation of commercially imported
compost, how to make compost and the benefits of compost to plants
and the watershed based on research performed locally. Recycling
and partnerships within Hawaii result in job creation, self-reliance
and a community that is ecologically and economically sustainable.
Moderator/Facilitator: Donna Ching, Educational Specialist in
Agriculture Leadership
Panel Members: Mark Cummings, Hawaiian Earth Products, Glen Fukumoto,
Extension Agent-Kona, CTAHR, CN Lee, Ph.D. from the Univ. of Wisconsin
in Reproductive Endocrinology, Extension Specialist (Dairy), CTAHR,
Matt Lyum, CLP, Owner of MLC International LLC (Environmental
Consulting) and of Performance Landscapes, Doug Baughman, Owner,
The Soil Doc
Afternoon Session
II (Concurrent)- 2:50-4:00pm
- Invasive Species : Improved screening of plant imports
to protect agriculture, the environment, and our economy
Invasive species have a growing impact on Hawaii's economy, environment,
human health and our quality of life. Most of today’s pest
plants were intentionally introduced. Many times, once a plant
has been introduced, it is impossible to eradicate and very costly
to control. Therefore the most cost-effective method of addressing
invasive pests is to keep them from being planted in the first
place. An objective, science-based method has been devised to
assess plants for their invasiveness or potential to become invasive
in Hawaii. The Weed Risk Assessment is a tool that will help identify
which species are likely to be problematic. Christy Martin will
moderate the session beginning with an overview of Hawaii's invasive
species problem followed by a description of the Weed Risk Assessment
tool. Results of applying the assessment tool to a nursery and
landscape business will be presented.
Moderator/Facilitator: Julie S. Denslow, Invasive Species Team
Leader, USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Island Forestry
Panel Members: Curtis C. Daehler, Associate Professor, Department
of Botany, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Christy Martin, Public
Information Officer for the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species
(CGAPS) and the Invasive Species Committees of Hawai'i (ISCs),
Lelan Nishek, President of Kauai Nursery and Landscaping, Inc.
- Innovative Business Models II
One criteria of an innovative business model would involve successfully
overcoming a production and/or marketing situation that would
have otherwise been generally recognized as an insurmountable
business obstacle. Panelists in this session have all experienced
the benefits and risks of innovation. They are people who saw
a conventional problem, and by reframing it as a challenge, created
their own niche. Come learn from their experiences.
Moderator/Facilitator: Kent Fleming, Extension Specialist, Kona
Station, CTAHR
Panel members: Alan Gottlieb, Managing Partner, Hawaiian Earth
Products, Lesley Hill, Owner/Manager Paradise Plants, Derek Kurisu,
Exec. VP of KTA Super Stores, Jim, Reddekopp, Jr., Founder, Hawaiian
Vanilla Company, President & Owner of Fly Away Holidays
- Uses of bamboo in Hawai'i landscapes
Moderator/Facilitator: Judy Ni’i
Panel members: Norm Bezona, former Extension Agent, CTAHR, Ray
Baker, Lyon Arboretum
- Turfgrass Management and Education with Dr. Al Turgeon
and Dr. Don Loch cont.
Special guest speakers and renown experts in the field of turfgrass
and education, Dr. Turgeon of Pennsylvania State University and
Dr. Loch of the Turf Research Group within the Queensland Department
of Primary Industries will provide attendees with information
covering topics from Soil and Plant Water Relations, to Limits
of Warm Seasonal Grasses and also Plant Nutrients: Their Role
in Promoting Healthy Turfgrass Growth where there will be a comprehensive
discussion of primary, secondary, and tertiary nutrients, the
concentrations needed to sustain healthy growth, and designing
a fertility program to meet turfgrass nutritional needs.
Moderator/Facilitator: Dave Klawitter or Tom Staton, Quality Turf
- Best Foot Forward: Selling Your Business
You ARE your business! How are you doing selling your
products or services, your business, yourself? Perception is often
more important than reality. How can you see to it that perception
and reality merge happily to improve your success (call that money)
in merchandising your products and services? Product or service
image, your image, your leadership, your management style, your
sales ability all must come together in one package, so that you
can make lots of money, sell your business, retire comfortably...
and adopt me. It’s fun and it’s not difficult.
Germination to Termination: Selection, Care and Replacement
of City Trees in Honolulu
Moderator/Facilitator: Mark Leon, Arborist and Landscape Contractor,
Sunshine Landscape
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