12:15 to 12:20 p.m.

Welcome and Overview of the Afternoon

•      Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Chair for the Afternoon

•      Welcome and Etiquette for those joining via Webcast – Sharon Drumm

12:20 to 2:00 p.m.

Scientific Presentations Part One

•     Big Data Workshop Preview (Slides | Video) – Rosalind James, The Pollinating Insects  Biology, Management and Systematics Research Unit, Logan, Utah

•      Next-Generation Genetic and Genomic Information for World Food Security (Slides | Video) – Jack Okamuro, Office of National Programs, Beltsville, Maryland

•      GRIN Global (Slides | Video) – Gary Kinard, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, and Peter Cyr,  North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station, Ames, Iowa

•     E. coli O 157:H7 DNA  (Slides | Video) – Jim Bono, Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska

2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Discussion with USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan

3:00 to 3:15 p.m.

BREAK

3:15 to 4:00 p.m.

Scientific Presentations Part Two

•     Putting Big Data to Work: Prediction-Enabled Plant Breeding (Slides | Video) – Jean-Luc Jannink, U.S. Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research Unit, Ithaca, New York

•     Agricultural Chapter of the National Climate Assessment (Slides | Video)  – Charlie Walthall, Office of National Programs, Beltsville, Maryland, and Jerry Hatfield, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, Iowa