Breakout Session Descriptions
Wednesday, October 8
2:00 P.M.-2:45 P.M.
Food Safety and Defense Issues Roundtable
This roundtable will discuss food safety and defense issues as they relate to product counterfeiting both from
the industry and government perspective.
Darrell Donahue, John Dowd
B113/121
Approaches to Risk Assessment Roundtable
This roundtable will discuss risk assessment strategies, comparison of strengths/weaknesses of alternative
strategies, and suggestions of practical ways brand owners can increase the effectiveness of counterfeiting risk
assessments.
Jay Kennedy, David Vargas
B106/107
Legal Issues in Brand Protection
This roundtable will discuss current legal issues in brand protection.
Barbara Toop
B120
Developments in Engineering and Technology
This roundtable will discuss product identification technologies, tracking technologies, new developments:
pattern recognition, data science; new engineering departments: Computational Mathematics, Science, and
Engineering; Biomedical Engineering.
John Verboncoeur
B119
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