From 08.30

Registration and Information Desk
The Edinburgh International Conference Centre

08.30 - 09.30

Breakfast Meeting (Pentland Auditorium)
Eating our way to an early death
Salt, fat, sugar and double portions in two-for-one offers, all potentially threaten our lives with heart attacks, diabetes, obesity and osteoporosis, to name just a few possible killers.

How can trading standards protect and advise the consumer?  We will discuss issues around achieving the outcomes that meet councils, communities and citizens' targets and central government ambitions.

Facilitator: Andy Foster, Operations Director, Trading Standards Institute

Professor Charles Milne, Food Standards Agency Scotland

Dr Ailsa Welch, Senior Lecturer in Nutritional Epidemiology, Medical School, University of East Anglia
Ross Kerr, Scottish Grocers Federation
Wendy Martin, Director of Policy, LACORS

09.00 - 13.00

Exhibition Viewing and cash catering (Cromdale and Strathblane Halls) 

09.30 - 10.50

Mini Theatre Session 1 (Carrick 2 & 3)

Mini Theatre Session 2 (Harris 1 & 2)

09.30 - 12.00

Business Training
Primary Authority - the simple way to providing business support - Local Better Regulation Office

Sarah Smith, Director of Delivery, Local Better Regulation Office

Helen Buckingham, Policy Manager, Local Better Regulation Office

Duncan Johnson, Policy Manager, Local Better Regulation Office

Karen Ford, Trading Standards Manager, Milton Keynes Council

James Armitage, Assistant Service Manager - Food Safety, Westminster City Council

Peter  Stonely, Trading Standards Manager, TJX Europe

10.30

Presentations in Exhibtion Hall (Cromdale Hall)

Best exhibition stands
The Jeanne Bisgood golf trophy
Football trophy

12.15-13.00

College of Fellows and Graduates Lunch - by invitation only (Kilsyth)

11.00 - 12.30

The E-Challenge; Inclusion; Safety; Confidence (Pentland Auditorium)
Trading standards relishes new challenges but the world of e-commerce is not only changing and evolving with extraordinary speed, it also poses huge problems of access, regulation and control.

The conference panel plans to be the launch pad for securing the type of e-commerce worlds that trading standards and our policy and political partners want to see.

John Peerless, Scambusters Regional Fraud Unit Manager
Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive, Nominet
Professor Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University
John Carr, Secretary, UK Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety

13.15 - 15.00

The Institute Celebrates Success (Pentland Auditorium)
Orator and Master of Ceremonies - Jim Humble OBE, Vice President, Trading Standards Institute
Honorary Awards
- TSI Vice Presidency
- TSI Life Members
- Admission to Fellows

College of Fellows Annual Lecture
Dave Thompson MSP, Highlands & Islands Region

TSI Prizewinners and Graduation Ceremony

Hero Awards

13.00

Exhibition Closes

15.30

Scottish Branch Farewell
Lebowskis, 18 Morrison Street