Meet the LPN 2023 technical directors

Meet the LPN 2023 technical directors

The Latin event of the year, LPN Congress 2023, will provide all attendees with an excellent and comprehensive program, bringing the vision of all disciplines of the wide world of poultry farming. As it could not be otherwise, the LPN brings together the most important specialists and professionals from all over Latin America. Below, meet the technical directors of LPN 2023.

Eduardo Cervantes - Technical Director of the Processing Workshop

Cervantes is an industrial engineer from Universidad del Norte in Colombia, with more than 44 years of experience in poultry processing and related areas. For the past 23 years, he has focused his career on consulting to improve productivity in terms of quality, yield and costs. To a large extent, the expert focuses on micro-management to reduce integral waste with innovation.

In addition, Cervantes has authored numerous industry-leading scientific publications on poultry processing.

"The novel business approaches with a vision that transcends time and their practical application described above support my work as Technical Director of processing," he says.

Edgar Orlando Oviedo-Rondon - Technical Director of the Poultry Room

Dr. Edgar O. Oviedo Rondón is a veterinarian from the University of Tolima in Colombia and obtained his Master's degree in Nutrition and Animal Production at the State University of Maringá in Brazil, and PhD. in Poultry Science at the University of Arkansas. In addition, in 2018 he earned a Master in Business Administration at North Carolina State University, specializing in Supply Chain Management and Decision Making.

For this reason, Oviedo has extensive experience in the poultry industry as a veterinarian, nutritionist, extension agent and international consultant.

In fact, the expert has been invited to more than 30 countries as a speaker and is the author of more than 100 scientific articles published in different important industry media.

For all these reasons, Dr. Oviedo is an ideal candidate to provide an excellent broiler technical program to the 2023 attendees.

José Eduardo Dos Santos - Technical Director of the Laying Room

Dos Santos is a graduate in management and development of UniFtec projects. The expert is a technician in Administration and Information Technology, especially focused on the production and laying market, and Technical Director of Egg Production, rearing/layer rearing.

Currently, Dos Santos is involved in different organizations focused on the Brazilian and international laying market:

Board Member of the Brazilian Animal Protein Association.

Member of the Board of Directors of Agroindústria Fiergs

Board Member of Fundesa RS

Coordinator of the Egg Production Altrnative Systems Certification Program.

Official delegate of the International Egg Commission and World Egg Industry and Production Organisation.

Thus, Dos Santos is the ideal candidate to expose the new challenges and innovations that are currently accompanying the laying market.