Agenda

Each attendee must check in by showing a Certification ID Card (if they are certified) and signing the roster.

Food Processing Session

Start Time Duration Topic Speaker
7:15 Course Registration, Pastries, Coffee
7:50 10 Welcome and Introductions Regina Clinton, Cornell IPM
8:00 60 Today’s Commercial Kitchen Forecast: Unsanitary with a Chance of Fruit Flies Dr. Nancy Troyano, Rentokil Terminix
9:00 30 Food Pest Management Products Update Multiple Exhibitors
9:30 60 Disinfection, Sanitation and Bio-Sanitation in the Pest Management Industry Dr. Jamel Sandidge, Nisus Corporation
10:30 30 Break and Visit Exhibits
11:00 60 Stored Product Pests Andrew Fisher, Neogen Corporation
12:00 60 Lunch and Visit Exhibits
1:00 60 Communication Skills for Connecting with Customers Dr. Amelia Greiner Safi, Cornell University
2:00 15 Break and Visit Exhibits
2:15 45 Pesticide Regulation Update Justin Schoff, DEC
3:00 15 Break and Visit Exhibits
3:15 60 Exclusion Tactics: the Front Line for IPM Jon Cischke, Exclusion Masters
4:15 Adjourn!
NYSDEC Recertification Credits:
Core: 0.75
7a: 5
7f: 5.50
8: 3.25

Structural Session

Start Time Duration Topic Speaker
7:15 Course Registration, Pastries, Coffee
7:50 10 Welcome and Introductions Regina Clinton, Cornell IPM
8:00 60 Hands-on Identification and Management of Common Cockroaches Dr. Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann & Dr. Matt Frye, Cornell IPM
9:00 60 Hands-on Identification and Management of Common Filth Flies Dr. Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann & Dr. Matt Frye, Cornell IPM
10:00 30 Break and Visit Exhibits
10:30 60 Hands-on Identification and Management of Common Structure-Invading Ants Dr. Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann & Dr. Matt Frye, Cornell IPM
11:30 Adjourn!
NYSDEC Recertification Credits:
7a: 3.00
7f: 3.00
8: 2.00

Fumigation Session

Start Time Duration Topic Speaker
7:15 Course Registration, Pastries, Coffee
7:50 10 Welcome and Introductions Mike Helms, Pesticide Safety Education Program, Cornell IPM
8:00 90 Update on Sulfuryl Fluoride Ken Kendall, Ensystex, Inc.
9:30 30 Break and Visit Exhibits
10:00 90 Structural Fumigation + Commodity Fumigation Robert Verrico, Western Fumigation
11:30 60 Adjourn!
NYSDEC Recertification Credits:
1d: 2.50
7b: 3.00
7f: 3.00