New York agricultural leaders learn about the short- and long-term outlook for agriculture and agricultural products. Breakout sessions concentrate on dairy and horticultural products.

The conference builds on the growing global interest in enterprise-based strategies for serving the four billion poor at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP). We expect to bring together 300 of the leading BoP business managers, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, academics, and non-profit...

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * Diffusion of new products * Managing Brand equity * Emerging patterns of consumer behavior * Market segmentation issues * Country selection issues * Product positioning and line-extension * Viral marketing * Social marketing and Web 2.0 issues *...

Topics: all areas of derivatives pricing, market and credit risk measurement, computational methods, and advances in financial engineering

Dairy market economists and dairy foods scientists from Cornell and other universities discuss their applied research pertaining to the dairy industry. New processing technologies, dairy food quality and safety, market development, federal dairy policy, trade, and other topics of current...