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The Westin Chicago River North
The Westin Chicago River North , 320 N Dearborn St Chicago, IL 60654 USA

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Event Date Thu Mar 30 CST - Fri Mar 31 CST (over 1 year ago)
In your timezone (EST): Thu Mar 30 2:00am - Fri Mar 31 2:00am
Location The Westin Chicago River North
320 N Dearborn St Chicago, IL 60654 USA
Region Americas
Details

Learn from the latest industry-leading case studies!
Covering food safety, quality & manufacturing, you can expect subjects such as:
• Crisis management and product recalls
• Role of social media in communicating food safety news
• Food safety culture and leadership
• Regulatory updates
• Plastic packaging, food safety and the environment
• Food defense and crime
• Foreign body detection, x-ray, microbial testing and quality assurance

Speakers

2023 Speakers

CHAIRPERSONS:

Adam Brock
Vice President of Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory Compliance, Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin

Fabien Robert
Head of Zone AMS for Nestlé Quality Assurance Centres, Nestle

SPEAKERS:

Adeniyi Odugbemi
PhD, Global Director of food safety & food defense, ADM

Ana C. Morales Cardenas
Global Director Food Safety, Grupo Bimbo

Arnie Sair
Head of Global Quality & Food Safety, Bunge

Behzad Imanian, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor; Leader IFSH HTS Initiative, Illinois Institute of Technology

Brendan Niemira
Research Leader of the Food Safety and Intervention Technologies Unit, USDA

Brian Perry
Chief Safety Officer, TreeHouse Foods

Christopher Young
Intelligence Analyst, FBI Chicago

Daniel Zelenka
Vice President Food Safety and Quality Assurance, Laboratory Network Services, Tyson Foods

Debby L. Core
Vice President QA/QC, Food Safety, and Compliance, Munger Farms

Erin Garcia
Food Safety Scientist, Taco Bell

Geert van Kempen
Head of Food & Beverage Strategy, Veeva Systems

Heath Parvis
Special Agent, FBI Chicago

Hugo Gutierrez
Global Chief Quality & Food Safety Officer, Kerry

Jeannie Kim
PhD. Senior Manager, North America Quality and Food Safety, Pepsico

Jean-Pierre Punsola
Head of Quality, North America, Ferrero

Jennifer Connell
Director, Product Safety & Quality, Starbucks

Jonathan Deutsch
Ph.D, CHE, CRC Professor in the Department of Food and Hospitality Management, Drexel University

Josh Santo
Director of Product Strategy, Parsable

Julie McGill
Vice President, Supply Chain Strategy and Insights, Trustwell

Katie Burell
Senior Director – North American Quality, ASR Group

Kim Snyder
Food Safety Consultant, Independent

Luis Carlos Chacon
Op-Ed Columnist | Global Consultant, Forbes Latin America | BusinessCase

Matthew Jon Stasiewicz
Associate Professor of Applied Food Safety, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Melanie Braam​
Director of Quality Assurance, Palermo's Pizza

Miri Eliyahu
Senior Research Analyst for Food and Beverages, Euromonitor International

Miriam Maxwell
Research Fellow, Global Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, Ocean Spray Cranberries

Neil Coole
Director – Food & Retail Sector, BSI Americas

Patricia A. Frempong,
Senior Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager, Stella and Chewys

Randy Kohal
VP Food Safety and Reliability, KLEANZ Food Safety Technologies

Renmao Tian
Research Scientist, Illinois Institute of Technology

Richard Milnes
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Zaptic

Sandra Johnson, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Operations, SGS North America, Inc.

Sara Jane Bellocchi
Networked Ingredients Functional Consultant, TraceGains

Selma van ‘t Hul
Global Human Intelligence Lead – Chocolate Portfolio, Mars Wrigley

Sonny Brar
Global VP of Food Safety, Quality Assurance and Occupational Health & Safety, Fiera Foods

Sponsors & Partners

2023 Partners

COMMERCIAL PARTNERS:
• BSI
• KLEANZ Food Safety Technologies
• LabWare
• Lantern
• Magnattack
• Parsable
• Safefood 360°
• Safetychain
• SGS
• TAAG Genetics
• Thermo Fisher Scientific
• TraceGains
• Trustwell
• Veeva Systems
• Zaptic