ANNUAL CONFERENCE & MEETING
September 12 - 13, 2024!
Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa - Monterey, CA

Venue

The California Poultry Federation (CPF) Annual Conference and Meeting will be held at the Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa Monterey, CA on Thursday, September 12th. Click here to view the elegant ocean front hotel. A buffet lunch on the outdoor patio will be held at 11:30 a.m. prior to the Conference.

The Board Meeting is Friday, September 13th, beginning at 8:00 a.m., with breakfast for attendees before the meeting at 7:15 a.m.

For questions about the conference, please contact the CPF office at (209) 576-6355.

Event Information

Sponsorship Opportunities

CPF has customized sponsorship opportunities for you to consider maximizing your exposure before, during and even after the event.

- Diamond Club Sponsor – $3,500

- Gold Club Sponsor – $2,000

- Silver Club Sponsor – $1,500

Sponsors will be honored at the banquet and during our breakfast.

Registration

All attendees will need to Register, Sponsors and Book hotel accommodations Online!

To view the Online Registration/Sponsorship memo Click here!


Online registration will open Monday, July 13, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. PST!

– Registrant Only: $650 (Starting August 21st $750)

– Guest: $500   (Starting August 21st $650)

– University/College Faculty: $350

Golf Tournament

This year we will feature a golf tournament on Wednesday, September 13th at Pacific Grove Golf Links.

The golf tournament fee is $250 per golfer.

Register / Sponsor Sign-up!

Host Hotel Information

*Attendee is responsible for making all hotel and travel arrangements.
Hotel Registration deadline for conference rate is August 12, 2024. Any rooms booked after August 12, 2024 will be billed at the regular hotel rate. Please check with the hotel for the regular hotel rate.

$329 – Inland View Room
*(Limited Government Rate available for Inland View Room only! When making your reservation, please note Government Room Rate in the “Special Request” box on hotel reservation page)

$524 – Ocean View Room   (Limited Availability)

$554 – Ocean View Room, Balcony (Limited Availability)

MONTEREY PLAZA HOTEL & SPA
400 Cannery Row
Monterey, CA 93940
Phone: (831) 920-6710
Toll Free: (877) 862-7552

*Hotel Registration Deadline for Conference Rate ($329.00/night) is August 12, 2024
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Negotiated Guest Rates for California Poultry Federation are available Wednesday, September 11th – Saturday, September 15th!

Book hotel accommodations

Our Sponsors

DIAMOND CLUB LEVEL - $3,500

GOLD CLUB LEVEL - $2,000

Aviagen Turkeys / Select Genetics
Boehringer Ingelheim
Darling Ingredients Inc.
Compass Foods, Inc. / Campfire Meats
Diversified Agriculture
Elanco Animal Health
Foster Farms
Huvepharma
Marel
Mechanics Bank
Meyn America LLC
Phibro Animal Health
Pitman Family Farms
Provisur Technologies, Inc.
Vaxxinova
Veterinary Service, Inc.
Wells Fargo Bank

 

SILVER CLUB LEVEL - $1,500

Alltech, Inc.
Alpha, Inc. + Chore Time, Inc.
Animal Health International
Big Dutchman USA
DiBuduo & DeFendis Insurance Agency Inc.
Foodmate
Grimaud Farms
J.S. West and Companies
Jones-Hamilton Co.
Merck Animal Health
Motomco
New Stockton Poultry, Inc.
Petaluma Poultry
Rolling F Credit Union
Sealed Air Corp – Cryovac
Shepard Bros. Inc.
Squab Producers of California, Inc.
Strand Ag Supply
The Vincit Group
Volk Enterprises, Inc.
Wing Lee Farms
Ziggity Systems Inc.

Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Jeff Butler is an author and workplace strategist who explores human behavior within the working world. His experience spans over 40 industries in 4 continents on how different cultures and employees interact with each other. He studies common threads of behavior in industries such as IT professionals, underground utility workers, police officers to clothing retail chains. In addition, companies like Google, Amazon, John Deere, and Coldwell Banker. As a researcher and practitioner, he also runs a consulting company and a tech company, TrinityFix where he is able to test his ideas in different workplace environments. His ideas have made it to TEDx twice, appeared in dozens of media outlets including two books on human behavior:- The Authentic Workplace and The Key To The New You . Currently, he lives in Dallas, Texas as an out of place Californian. Read more

Dan Walters

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers. At one point in his career, at age 22, he was the nation’s youngest daily newspaper editor.

He joined The Sacramento Union’s Capitol bureau in 1975, just as Jerry Brown began his governorship, and later became the Union’s Capitol bureau chief. In 1981, Mr. Walters began writing the state’s only daily newspaper column devoted to California political, economic and social events.

In 1984, he and the column moved to The Sacramento Bee and in 2017, Mr. Walters and his column shifted to CALmatters.org, a non-profit organization devoted to California public policy issues. He has written more than 9,000 articles and his column appears in dozens of California newspapers.

Mr. Walters has written about California and its politics for a number of other publications, including The Wall Street Journal, and in 1986, his book, “The New California: Facing the 21st Century,” was published in its first edition. The book later underwent revisions and became a widely used college textbook about socioeconomic and political trends in the state.

He is also the founding editor of the “California Political Almanac” and the co-author of “The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento,” published by the University of California. Mr. Walters frequently appears on CNN, Fox, and other networks, commenting about political developments in California.

Harrison Kircher, Senior Vice President
National Chicken Council

Harrison’s primary focus is advancing NCC’s lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill, educating members of Congress and their staffs on a range of policy issues including agriculture, immigration, labor, energy and trade. Prior to joining NCC, Harrison worked in advertising on the IBM account at Ogilvy & Mather in New York, and aided in Robert Hurt’s 2010 congressional campaign victory. He is a 2009 graduate of the University of Virginia.

Nicholas Callahan

Nicholas Callahan has been with the FBI for nearly two decades and has served as a special agent for nine years. Special Agent Callahan has been assigned to the FBI Sacramento Field Office, Bakersfield Resident Agency, where he has investigated violations of federal law including narcotics trafficking, unlawful weapons possession, fraud, cybercrime, bank robbery, civil rights violations, public corruption, and weapons of mass destruction, also known as WMD. SA Callahan has been serving as  FBI Sacramento’s WMD Coordinator for the past three years and has made an effort to strengthen and expand the FBI’s connection to the agriculture and food industry within the 34 California counties the field office covers.

Aaron Lavallee

Deputy Assistant Administrator

Aaron Lavallee was appointed the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Education (OPACE) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in June 2012.

In this capacity, Lavallee is responsible for planning and executing communication programs that inform and educate a variety of audiences, including Congress, the media, stakeholder organizations, and consumers on FSIS policy and public health responsibilities and activities, foodborne illness prevention, and safe food handling. He is accountable for and oversees the performance management of a team of dedicated employees in four areas: The Congressional and Public Affairs Office, the Food Safety Education Staff, Freedom of Information Act Staff and the Digital Executive Correspondence Staff. Over the last six years, Lavallee has executed FSIS’ annual consumer research program comprised of observational studies, focus groups and nationally-representative web surveys to investigate specific topics of interest to the agency in more detail. 

Before his current post, Lavallee worked in USDA’s Office of Communications as a Communications Coordinator. In this role, he provided strategic communications and public relations support to USDA’s Office of the Secretary and USDA mission areas including the Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services and the Office of Food Safety. He was responsible for planning and implementing more than 35 comprehensive strategic communications efforts with far-reaching impacts on the American public. His communications work is highlighted in initiatives including MyPlateLet’s Move!Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, and Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food. He also served as a departmental and agency spokesperson and agency contact for policy and other matters directly supporting the mission and goals of the Secretary and USDA.

Lisa Picard, Senior Vice President for Trade, Policy and Regulatory Affairs

Lisa is Senior Vice President for Trade, Policy and Regulatory Affairs for the National Turkey Federation.  At NTF, she is responsible for all regulatory matters, both foreign and domestic, that impact the production of turkey products and bird health and welfare.

Previously, Lisa spent a decade at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. As Chief of Staff, she assisted in overseeing the 10,000 person agency that regulates and inspects meat, poultry and egg products for sale in the U.S. and abroad.  Prior to joining FSIS, Lisa served as National Director of Public Relations for Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey.

She earned her master’s in legislative affairs from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., her bachelor’s in communications from Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida and recently began post graduate work in non profit management at Harvard.  An avid hiker and passionate Nationals fan, she and her family live in Northern Virginia.

Entertainment

The Killer Dueling Pianos

The Killer Dueling Pianos are the #1 all request, crowd interactive , sing a long , dueling pianos show around the globe. Owned and operated by international dueling pianos sensation Ryan Bueter, The Killer Dueling Pianos have performed from Anchorage to Barcelona, for sitting dignitaries and major corporations such as Nationwide, Toyota, The NBA, and The PGA just to name a few. Add in countless club dates, weddings, major fundraisers, casinos, and private memberships, and you have over 5,000 shows for Ryan Bueter and The Killer Dueling Pianos since 1997.

In 2019,  The City Of Beverly Hills Shut down Rodeo Drive to have The Killer Dueling Pianos headline the BOLD Summer 2019 Beverly Hills Block Party with over 5,000 people filling the street. Many have tried to copy their style, but none have been able to bring to the stage what Ryan Bueter and The Killer Dueling Pianos do over 300 nights a year. Find them on the web at http://www.duelingpianosforhire.com/ and give their Facebook page a like at http://www.facebook.com/TheKillerDuelingPianos