Agenda

• Start your day off right and make connections with industry leadership
• Join “drop-in” roundtables discussing current issues
• Schedule 1-2-1 video meetings with peers
• Gather essential content and get exclusive offers at virtual exhibit booths

Plan your day to maximize your learning and takeaways. This will help ensure that you don’t miss any of the key highlights of the event.

It is predicted that there will be more changes to food production systems in the next 10 years than there have been in the last 50. And the FDA is spearheading a lot of these changes. Learn more about FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety and how your organization can benefit. Gain valuable insight to help you:

• Objectively assess the state of your digital transformation to enhance your food safety systems
• Upgrade your current digital systems and forge new partnerships to ensure compliance
• Bolster your business case to secure senior management buy-in for future improvements

Make sure your organization is proactive instead of reactive — plan for the future of food safety now.

Foodborne illnesses can cost a company millions of dollars in recalled products, cause serious damage to brand reputation and have a lasting impact on consumer trust. Ensure that you are compliant with the latest rules and regulations, learn how to optimize digital technology to eliminate human error and create efficiencies from water and energy conservation. Take away actionable insights to:

• Determine the health of your processes across the supply chain
• Gain senior management buy-in for urgent technological investments
• Discover how and why a traditionally staid industry is now adopting digital transformation

Act now to prevent the next product recall and maintain consumer trust in your brand.

Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, drones and internet of things are already being used to protect our food supply. Evaluate these new technologies and their appropriateness for your organization. Gain critical insight into:

• The benefits of each technology,
• How they work together, and
• How they can be used to identify supply chain issues and prevent contamination in your company

Partner with true innovators to decrease the chance of a recall on your brand(s)

Expand your network and engage in specialized learning with your peers. Take advantage of our intuitive platform to deepen your knowledge and connect with industry leaders:

• Visit sponsor booths and view live demos
• Join “drop-in” roundtable chats in the networking lounge
• Engage in 1:1 video conversation with peers or vendors

The pandemic has placed an even greater emphasis on accurate demand planning. This has forced companies to shift the way they manufacture product while still trying to remain profitable. Embrace the latest technological innovations to digitally transform your supply chain management for increased safety flexibility. Gain insights from early adopters of technology on:

• Implementing strategies to achieve success in a post-pandemic market
• The role of software in adapting to industry changes
• Applying AI to ensure food and beverage safety andsupport social distancing practices

Discover how a smart investment can deliver a big payoff for your organization.

Even before COVID-19, there were multiple factors shaping the indoor agriculture marketplace. Agriculture is safer today because of technological innovation and understanding. This session will detail how to successfully leverage big data and it will enable you to:

• Utilize big data to increase the safety and quality of produce
• Provide uncontaminated, safe and consistent produce all year round while increasing yields and environmental benefits
• Fix the cracks in our global food supply chain and delivery logistics to help optimize the quality and quantity of food that is available to all

Will robots handle all of our future deliveries? Who – or what – is flipping the burger you just ordered? Optimize your food safety systems based on recent advances in mapping consumer trends. Improve your understanding of how technology is developing to specifically address customer concerns and spark creative thinking. Benchmark best practices to:

• Enhance and prioritize innovative thinking across the supply chain
• Acknowledge the correlation between consumer trends and food & beverage safety
• Navigate organizational roadblocks when adopting this approach to innovation

Uncover how consumer feedback can help you overcome food safety challenges.

Discussions about virtual auditing have taken on a new life since the beginning of the pandemic and they’ve left the industry wondering: Are remote audits the new normal? Gain insights into the expectations and requirements involved in remote audits. Explore the overlooked challenges that could affect your products and food safety management system(s). Leverage advice from a diverse group of industry experts to help you:

• Navigate a virtual food safety audit: A real perspective from management
• Identify overlooked safety challenges in the food industry today
• Take note of which remote audits are industry recognized

Reveal newfound opportunities for improvement that you may be missing.

Since the turn of the millennium, consumers have slowly but surely become pickier about the products they consume. The safety and quality of what we put in our bodies remains paramount to a company’s reputation and bottom line. Evaluate your opportunities within these new wave approaches:

• Data is the new currency
• Health is wealth
• There is a right way and a wrong way to dissect previous purchase habits

Review key takeaways and solutions from today’s sessions.

• Get to know fellow delegates in “drop-in” virtual roundtable chats
• Engage in 1:1 video conversations with peers or vendors
• Connect with other delegates based on similar interests and business objectives using our “recommend matches” tool