Agenda

• Start your day off right and connect with food safety regulators and industry leaders.
• Interact with your peers, discuss best practices, and share innovative strategies.
• Source practical tips and get exclusive offers at exhibit booths.

Take away specific solutions so you can get the most out of your conference experience and implement tips for your business.

The current fragmented approach to education and training within the food industry can result in learning gaps, inconsistent skill development and wasted learning dollars. Apply new approaches to improve training outcomes for your staff and business. Source practical tips to:

• Identify accessible food safety courses and possible academic partnerships
• Pinpoint the difference between food safety knowledge vs. food regulatory knowledge
• Create excellence in in-house training and support your recruitment and retention strategies

Master practical techniques to better educate and retain your workforce.

• Enjoy a quick icebreaker, and make some new contacts
• Build business friendships you can go back to in the breaks and after the event
• Join a community of food safety experts and uncover invaluable support

• Engage with conference speakers and fellow attendees.
• Secure new business contacts and discuss crucial developments in food safety.
• Experience live demos and test drive new technology.

While there are several internationally recognized standards to choose from, they are not all appropriate for every business type. Bolster your knowledge of which one best suits your company’s operations. Take away specific solutions to:

• Assess the strengths and weaknesses of each standard compared against your company’s scope of activities and those of your peers
• Determine whether your current certification still meets your needs
• How the GFSI standards encompass regulations including SFC Regulations

Take back to your office actionable strategies that differentiate between global standards and SFC Regulations to improve productivity.

The management and control of suspected foodborne illness involves multi-disciplinary tasks requiring a wide variety of skills.  What are the steps you should take across these disciplines to get control quickly and efficiently? In order to answer this tough question, we shall be:

• Reviewing the results of an investigation of a food a foodborne illness outbreak incident done by a regulatory authority: reactive measure
• Overview of a Shewhart or PDCA cycle approach to ensure a sound Food Safety Management system in order to prevent an outbreak: preventive measure

Keep on top of the science to quickly resolve food borne illness outbreaks

• Expand your network and make connections that last beyond these two days.
• Visit the exhibitor hall and pose your toughest questions to leading solution providers.
• Enjoy great food and service while engaging with your food safety colleagues.

• Take a moment to explore the latest food safety technology with our industry leading, expert sponsors.
• Engage in live, exclusive demonstrations and share your challenges with the biggest and best innovators in the business.
• Enjoy a leisurely browse through your sponsor swag section and be sure to get your passport stamped during your visit to the exhibition booths, to be in for a chance to win our summit competition.

One small mistake has the potential to shatter a well-earned reputation for excellent food and customer service overnight, and the road to being audit-ready takes time and effort. Perfect your food safety protocol to ensure you are always audit-ready. Develop a blueprint to:

• Identify the most common issues to come out of an inspection
• Avoid the common pitfalls where most organizations fail
• Implement an iron-clad HACCP plan, with consistent food safety training programs for staff

Improve your audit practices to stay ahead of the competition and strengthen your customer experience.

Plant-based products, cultivated meat and other non-traditional foods are rapidly gaining popularity with both consumers and retailers. Implement practical techniques to ensure you stay on track with the newest regulations. Take away specific solutions to:

• Learn about cutting-edge developments in engineering biology and food production
• Review the impact regulations will have on new plant-based alternatives and emerging food technologies
• Determine how Canada’s regulatory approach compares with the approaches taken by the US
• Adapt to the current regulatory challenges

Source practical tips to integrate new food technology regulations that boost compliance and protect your brand.

• Engage with conference speakers and fellow attendees.
• Secure new business contacts and discuss crucial developments in food safety.
• Experience live demos and test drive new technology.

Legal and regulatory changes have made recalls and recall preparedness a higher stakes game than it was for food businesses in Canada. Glenford will provide strategies to be used before, during, and after a recall that can help build relationships and encourage compliance while protecting your brand and customers.  Concepts that will be discussed include:

• What to know and do to manage the constellation of stakeholders in a recall
• How to engage with the CFIA in a constructive and manageable way
• How to manage potential civil liabilities that can arise in the wake of a recall

Ensure you have an understanding of your legal and regulatory rights and obligations to improve your recall readiness and response

• Whole Genome Sequencing has revolutionized CDC and FDA disease attribution capabilities.  With better detection comes more outbreaks. 
• The FDA is developing prevention strategies for food categories with recurrent attribution to disease.  These prevention strategies are an opportunity for all stakeholders to focus on prevention in that category.  
• The FDA is ramping up to conduct Root Cause Analysis following foodborne illness outbreaks.  Our reports will communicate what we learn to help firms prevent a recurrence. 

Review the key solutions and takeaways from today’s sessions. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work. Discuss tomorrow’s highlights!

Don’t miss this chance to connect with speakers, attendees, and sponsors! Unwind, mingle and build relationships that will benefit you in the years to come.