Conference Chair

• Prof. James Lyng, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Prof. Dolores O'Riordan, University College Dublin, Ireland

Local Organising Committee

• Dr Catherine Barry-Ryan, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
• Prof. Paula Bourke, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Prof. Mark Fenelon, Teagasc, Ireland
• Prof. Maeve Henchion, Teagasc, Ireland
• Prof. Mary MacCarthy, University College Cork, Ireland
• Dr Anne Nugent, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland 
• Dr Geraldine Quinn, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Prof. Brijesh Tiwari, Teagasc, Ireland
• Alva O'Loughlin Kennedy, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Steven Mulrooney, University College Dublin, Ireland

Scientific Committee

• Lilia Ahrne, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Wayne Anderson, Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Ireland
• Serafim Balkakis, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Diana Banati, International Life Science Institute Europe, Belgium
• Remko Boom, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands
• Gail Bornhurst, University of California Davis, USA
• Kaye Burgess, Teagasc, Ireland
• Sylvie Chevallier, ONIRIS-GEPEA, France
• Milena Corredig, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Marco Dalla Rossa, University of Bologna, Italy
• Kees de Gooijer, TKI Agri&Food, Netherlands
• Hugo de Vries, INRA-UMR IATE, France
• Ferruh Erdogdu, Ankara University, Turkey
• Giovanna Ferrari, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
• Vincenzo Fogliano, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands
• Richard Frazier, IFST, United Kingdom
• Jesús Frías, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
• Eimear Gallagher, Teagasc, Ireland
• Kata Gallic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Eleni Gogou, NTUA-National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Tara Grauwet, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Christoph Hartmann, Nestle, Switzerland
• Delphine Huc-Mathis, AgroParisTech, France 
• Henry Jaeger, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
• Anja Janssen, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands
• Alain Le Bail, ONIRIS, France
• Uri Lesmes, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Ioanna Mantala, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
• Olga Martin-Beloso, University of Lleida, Spain
• Alexander Mathys, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Viktor Nedovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Lisa O’Connor, Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Ireland
• Laura Piazza, University of Milan, Italy
• Paola Pittia, University of Teramo, Italy
• Cornelia Rauh, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
• Catherine Renard, INRAE , France
• Anet Rezek Jambrak, University of Zagreb, Croatia         
• Anwesha Sarkar, University of Leeds, United Kingdom   
• Oliver Schlüter, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Germany
• Felix Schottroff, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
• Cristina Silva, Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal
• Petros Taoukis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Declan Troy, Teagasc, Ireland
• Vasilis Valdramidis, University of Malta, Malta
• Antonio Vicente, University of Minho, Portugal