MCCHE Convergent Innovation Webinar Series with Bobby Krishna
Food Safety Management: From Digits to Decision Making for Commercial and Social Progress
Bobby Krishna
Bobby Krishna works as the Senior Food Safety Specialist at the Food Safety Department of Dubai Municipality. Bobby completed his bachelor degree in Agriculture Sciences and started his career as a manager in the tea industry in India. He received his Master鈥檚 Degree in Food Science and Technology from the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 2004 and has been working with Dubai Municipality since 2005. At Dubai Municipality, he was instrumental in the development of some of the key food projects that include the design and development of Foodwatch - Dubai鈥檚 digital food safety management platform; risk based food inspection program; two editions of the Food Code, foodborne illness surveillance and investigation system, and the food manager鈥檚 certification program popularly known as the PIC Program. Bobby has also organized and managed several food safety conferences, workshops, scientific meetings, exhibitions and trainings in Dubai, the most popular and significant of them are the fifteen editions of the annual Dubai International Food Safety Conference. He is a member of ICMSF and an advocate of data driven decision making in public health systems. Bobby is a recipient of the NSF International Food Safety Leader-ship Award as a Trendsetter ( 2013) and the Food Chain Leadership Award (2017). He has also received the President鈥檚 award from the International Association for Food Protection (2012).
Abstract
Digital transformation goes beyond the use of new technologies and requires an overhaul of organizational structures, governance, work processes, culture and mindset. Because of the huge effort it takes and the lack or shortage of resources required to bring the change, many organizations slow down their digitalization process. An impact of that is what we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic with many public health agencies struggling to access and utilize quality data essential for decision making. There aren鈥檛 many success stories in digital transformation in the food safety domain. But, Dubai has a story to tell you. Let us look at how the city uses digital technologies to manage food safety and to capture wider benefits of digital transformation to address public health challenges.
Chair:听笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤 Laurette Dub茅 (Scientific Director of MCCHE)
Co-Chair & Moderator: John G. Keogh (Professor of Practice, MCCHE; Founder, Shantalla Inc.)
Panel Discussion: A panel of scientists and action leaders will build upon this in-depth economy-level analysis of Canada Net Zero strategy to explore challenges and possibilities for the agri-food sector in Canada and around the world, linking to the UN SDGs. They will discuss strategies to cascade down and up national policies into sector- and enterprise-level investments, innovation pipelines, operations and logistics, laying out key foundation for the integrative digital and institutional architecture needed to reach societal scale (e.g., standards, metrics, monitoring, adaptive learning). They will also discuss show effort deployed for Net Zero could be linked to other aspects of development, e.g, Zero Hunger, Affordable Health for All, or Inclusive-ness, as suggested in current calls for a world reset on convergence economy, acknowledging that developed and developing worlds share the same planet and harnessing the full power of entrepreneurship and innovation around the globe.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Convergent Innovation Webinar Series features cutting edge science, technology and innovation in agriculture, food, environment, education, medicine and other domains of everyday life where grand challenges lie at the convergence of health and economics. Powered by data science, artificial intelligence, and other digital technologies, this disciplinary knowledge bridges with behavioural, social, humanities, business, economics, social, engineering, and complexity sciences to accelerate real-world solution at scale, be it in digital or physical contexts. Initiated in the agri-food domain, the series is now encompassing other grand challenges facing modern and traditional economies and societies, such as ensuring lifelong wellness and resilience at both the individual and population levels.
