Breakout Sessions - Your Choice
Tuesday, November 12
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Costa de la Luna 1, 2, 3 & 5
The Summit offers an opportunity for smaller discussion sessions on the topic of your choice on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 12. Summit guests pick two from the menu of four simultaneous Breakout Sessions.
What Influences the Cotton Market?
Learn more about the different factors that can influence cotton price movements - what metrics to watch and how to interpret market data to manage risk.
Speakers:
Jerry Marshall, President, The Yiyang Company
Location: Costa de Luna 1
U.S. Cotton Delivers - Cotton Movement & Logistics
Discuss the movement of U.S. cotton from warehouse to mill and the factors influencing timely deliveries of U.S. cotton.
Location: Costa de Luna 2
The COTTON USA Mill Performance Index® - How to get Better Performance from U.S. Cotton
Discuss with the COTTON USA SOLUTIONS® textile engineers the metrics of machine and labor productivity, energy consumption, and waste factors in order to optimize costs for U.S. cotton in the first global productivity ranking of global textile manufacturers.
Speakers:
Joerg Bauersachs, Head of Technical Services, Cotton Council International
Juergen Plessing, SOLUTIONS Program Manager, Cotton Council International
Location: Costa de Luna 3
U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol® Consumption Management Solutions
Explore the details of the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol’s Consumption Management Solution and how this platform can be used to meet customer’s sustainable fiber and traceability commitments for U.S. cotton.
Speakers:
Garry Bell, President, Chasing Better Consultants, Inc.
Location: Costa de Luna 5
The biennial COTTON USA™ Summit is hosted by Cotton Council International and the U.S. cotton industry in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Services (FAS).