Agenda

Enter Networking Lounge, Connect with your Industry Colleagues

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

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

In July 2020, the FDA announced its blueprint for the NEW ERA OF SMARTER FOOD SAFETY. The initiative discussed leveraging technology and other tools to create a safer, more digital and traceable food system. Delve into the reasoning behind the blueprint as well as the latest pilot test learnings used to increase traceability throughout the chain. Take back fresh ideas to help your organization:

• Exceed the FDA’s expectations
• Determine what this means for your local (Canadian) operations
• Investigate technology solutions that can truly make a difference in regulatory safety adherence for organizations on both sides of the border

Hear exclusive insights straight from the horse’s mouth (so to speak) to ensure your competitors aren’t leaving you in the dust.

‘Food Safety’ may be the name of a department, but the whole organization plays a part. Lead your company in developing a safety-oriented culture and cement senior management’s support. Establish a culture of food safety by:

• Understanding the approaches of successful companies that achieve high grades for safety
• Recognizing the signs and symptoms of a failed Food Safety Management System (FSMS)
• Learning from real examples of a true food safety culture

Master the success factor of the most safety-oriented companies and establish your own culture of food safety.

Traceability throughout the food chain is crucial in reducing the frequency of recalls. Improve your organization’s profitability by staying out of the headlines! Utilize real-time data to optimize operations, streamline quality and food safety processes, stay compliant, decrease risk and cut costs. Create a technology-based strategy to:

• Pinpoint exactly where your raw materials are at any point in time
• Minimize risks and improve compliance overall by enhancing traceability
• Reduce dangerous and costly recordkeeping errors that could result in exorbitant fines

Cut costs and improve safety by speeding up your digital transformation.

The FDA last updated the Nutrition Facts label in June 2020. Discover how to transform these changes (and future ones to come) into benefits for your brand. Use labelling requirements to highlight the taste profile and lack of preservatives that consumers want.  Gain practical insight into:

• Understanding complex labelling requirements
• Navigating strict regulations to provide consumers with the information they seek
• Implementing labelling best practices to ensure authenticity

Turn labelling regulations into your brand’s competitive advantage.

It’s important to consumers that what they THINK they are eating, matches what they ARE eating. Collaborate with an industry thought leader who can help build consumer trust while boosting profitability. Improve your organization’s food defense/food fraud program. Equip yourself with the latest information on:

• Increasing retailer, supplier and legal requirements for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans
• Supply chain verification and supplier management program development
• Regulatory updates regarding labelling requirements

Increase visibility throughout your supply chain to build  unwavering consumer trust.

Build Relationships & Network, Visit Sponsor Booths and Experience Unparalleled Peer-To-Peer Learning

Expand your network and engage in specialized learning with your peers. Take advantage of our cutting-edge 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

Packaging is essential for preserving food quality, minimizing food waste and reducing preservatives used in food. But COVID-19 has definitely raised alarm to the quantity used and its effect on the environment. Review your company’s packaging materials and processes in light of changing consumer value equations. Dialogue with thought leaders researching new, innovative ways to ensure food safety and share tips with senior management to:

• Improve quality/safety of your products while saving money
• Better understand the demographics of today’s consumers that are willing to pay extra to help save the planet
• Use technological advancements to minimize packaging waste

Harness the impact of new packaging technology to improve consumer perception of your brands’ food safety and value.

The food and beverage vertical has been notoriously slow in adopting technology to better manage their quality and safety systems. Not to mention the employee training these advanced tools require. Reflect on how your organization fits into this new revolution of alternative training methods. Source cloud-based technology to train your employees more collaboratively with:

• The Safe-Food Training Hub, a transformative platform that helps companies source and take training
• eLearning, Virtual Classrooms and Augmented Reality
• The Next Frontier: Verifying Training Through Blockchain

Explore quality training modules ranging from courses and webinars to modern training platforms.

Who doesn’t want to cut down the time lag between listeria being detected and holding the product back from retail. Expand your knowledge as to how blockchain is helping various companies achieve better transparency in their supply chains. Take back concrete answers to:

• Help determine future technology planning
• Reassess your technological requirements post-COVID
• Understand if/how implementing blockchain in your organization makes sense

Determine if blockchain is for you or just a passing fad.

Walmart has embraced emerging digital technologies while not losing sight of the foundational elements of sound food safety management. Gain insight into how the retail giant is adapting to an increasingly complex global supply chain as well as changing consumer demands with an innovative mindset centered around food safety.  Integrate learnings from a world-class innovator to:

• Ensure your food safety systems are modernized for future crises
• Energize your employees to take part in an innovation-driven company
• Position your organization as a global industry leader

Capitalize on the experience of an industry pioneer to successfully implement blockchain in your company.

The food and beverage sector is notorious for lagging in technological transformation. Explore opportunities to get ahead of the competition using AI, IoT and other innovative solutions. Exchange ideas on which technology best addresses your challenges. Share proven strategies on how to:

• Jim has a accountObjectively assess the state of your ‘digital transformation’ in order to enhance food & beverage safety systems
• Upgrade your current digital systems/partners
• Bolster your business case to secure senior management buy-in

Rise above the competition through investment in supply chain digitization.

Review the top solutions and takeaways from today’s sessions. Source a summary of action points that you can immediately implement at work. Hear the highlights for tomorrow’s sessions.

Virtual Happy Hour!

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