 The purpose of our conference was really to put together a community of people who are working on an issue or a set of issues around food law and policy. The interesting part about our conference is that it's a relatively new field, at least from a legal perspective. And so the major impact, I think, that our conference is going to have is on creating the linkages to put that community together, particularly in the Canadian context, and then to draw those links out internationally. The central product of our conference on food law and policy is to really start defining the domain of what this field might look like. So that's a sort of foundational contribution, I think, to building up expertise, building up institutional capacity, building up resources for student learning in that area, all part of the proposal of getting people together just to give out big questions. Conference chair for the upcoming second international conference on end-of-life law, policy, ethics and practice for students who are pursuing the legal profession. They're going to see the difference that interdisciplinarity makes in action at this conference. I think they're going to be blown away by the richness of the dialogue that you get when you explicitly plan to bring together your legal, ethical, clinical and empirical experience on a topic with the administrators and the regulators who actually need to work through implementation and enforcement. There's so much about attending law conferences that is beneficial for our students, but also for legal academics and for lawyers as well. For students it can be a great experience to meet people from all walks of legal life, lawyers, academics, judges, government and policy people and it really broadens out their legal education to interact with people like this. Attending conferences also helps me to become a better teacher. The more engaged I am in my field, the greater depth and breadth my research has, then the more I've got to bring to the table in the classroom and the better I'm able to serve the students. It's easy to sometimes underestimate the impact and significance and importance of conferences, in part because you think of them as events, they're sort of one-time things and people come. That's not been my experience of conferences at all. They wind up being really important moments of gathering, catalysts for people's thinking about issues, but more than that in terms of the outputs and the impacts of conferences, there's certainly the people that you meet, the opportunities you have to make connections, the ways it inspires your work, but there's also real and significant opportunities to be capturing what happens when we bring people together and ask for them to think deliberately and to share intentionally about a particular problem or piece of work, where we can capture that and we can use that and share that as a continuing source of education and knowledge so that it has a broader footprint and a broader impact.