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Culinary Tourism For Profit, For You, the Industry and for BC

Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver, BC

Your MCs for the day

Chef Bernard Casavant and Chef Rod Butters

8:00am – 8:30am

Registration

8:35am – 8:40am

Bernard Casavant & Rod Butters

9:01am – 9:15am

“What is culinary tourism”
Keynote Speaker – Barbara-Jo McIntosh

9:16am – 9:30am

Bernard Cassavant/Wolfgang Dauke – Create fresh & local

9:30am – 10:30am

Where to Source Local Ingredients & How to make them pay for themselves
A panel of Speakers representing a distributor, the farmer, the supplier-restaurateur relationship, and the large venue.

  • Brandon Owen – Neptune Food Services
  • Lee Murphy – Vista D’oro Farms
  • Meeru Dahliwahl – Vij’s and Rangoli
  • Murray Dreidiger – BC Farms
  • Andrew Pollard – Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

10:31am – 10:45am

Break - Suppliers/exhibits/sponsor - Sample Session

11:01am – 12:00pm

Your Culinary Tourism Team: Increasing Profits Though People

12:01pm – 1:30pm

Lunch
Culinary Tourism on the Global Scale.
Keynote Speaker – Adam Busby

1:30pm – 1:45pm

Break

1:46pm – 3:00pm

Marketing Your Vision: How to get your message out

3:01pm – 3:15pm

Break

3:16pm – 4:15pm

Recognizing the best tastes in BC – meet the Culinary Tourism Society of BC

4:30pm – 6:30 pm

Taste of BC with BC wineries & BC chefs