| ONLINE PROGRAM (GMT+1) EXACT TIMINGS | |
| MORNING SESSION 1 KEYNOTE LECTURES | |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Introduction - Dr. Ignace Debruyne, Health Claims Europe, Belgium |
| 9:05 | Market Trends and Development for Pre- and Probiotics, Drs. Jan Willem van der Kamp, Senior Officer International Projects, TNO Healthy Living, the Netherlands |
| 9:32 | Probiotics Legal Framework Status, the IPA Europe Initiative and the Future Perspective, Mrs. Rosanna Pecere, Executive Director, IPA Europe, Belgium |
| 9:52 | Keynote: Questions & Answers |
MORNING SESSION 2 SCIENCE UPDATE |
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| 10:25 | Newest Science and Applications with Prebiotics, Dr. Frédérique Respondek, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Manager, CP Kelco, France |
| 10:41 | Quantitative Microbiome Profiling in Health and Disease, Dr. Jeroen Raes, Professor, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium |
| 11:08 | Translational Development of Akkermansia to Target Metabolic Disorders, Dr. Céline Druart, Business & Scientific Project Manager, A-Mansia Biotech, Belgium |
| 11:31 | Microbiome, Pre- & Probiotics: Questions & Answers |
| 11:55 | Wrap-up and Closure of morning sessions |
| AFTER NOON SESSION 1 - CLAIMS & REGULATION | |
| 14:00 | Welcome and Introduction - Dr. Ignace Debruyne, Health Claims Europe, Belgium |
| 14:03 | Probiotics - Commercial Aspirations vs. Regulatory Realities in the EU Food Chain, Mr. V. Aravind Chander, Senior Consultant, Giract Consulting, Switzerland |
| 14:37 | Claims for Pre- and Probiotics: How to Play it Right, Dr. Heike Stier, Senior Scientific Consultant, analyze & realize, Germany |
| 15:03 | Opportunities for Bacteria/Probiotics in Health and Nutrition: Experience on Novel Food and Food for Special Medical Purpose, Dr Jérôme Le Bloch, Scientific Expert, Nutraveris, France |
| 15:33 | Claims as Market Hurdles: Questions & Answers |
| AFTER NOON SESSION 2 - ACCESS to MARKETS and CONSUMER COMMUNICATION | |
NOT ON LIVE STREAM - Global Recognition of Probiotics and Ways to Achieve to Create Business Growth, Mrs. Katia Merten-Lentz, Partner, Keller and Heckman, Belgium |
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| 16:00 | Personalised Microbiome Recommendations, Dr. Valeria Agamennone, Junior Scientist Innovator, Microbiology & Systems Biology, TNO Healthy Living, the Netherlands |
| 16:19 | Optimizing Intellectual Property (IP) Strategies Throughout the Probiotics Production Chain, Dr. Leena Contarino and Dr. Lauris Kemp, Partners, HGF Patent & Trademark Attorneys, U.K. |
| 16:39 | Marketing Opportunitie: Questions & Answer |
| 17:10 | Wrap-up and Closure of the Gut Health Summit |