15th American Food Innovative Summit 2023 | Food Innovate Summit | 30 March 2023 | The Westin Chicago River North , 20 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60654, USA

Subjects covered at this year's summit include:

- Bridging the Gap Between R&D and Quality
- Embracing Collaborative Innovation – The Impact of Start-Ups on the Food Industry
- We Are Eating the Planet to Death - Here is How We Can Solve It
- Innovating for the Future of Food
- The Fuzzy Front-End of Innovation

2023 Speakers

CHAIRPERSONS:

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

Simon Carr
VP Head of Practice, Evalueserve UK Ltd

SPEAKERS:

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

Alex Eapen
Director – R&D Scientific & Regulatory Affairs – North America, Cargill

Ana Plasencia
Innovation Explorer Associate Director, Mars Wrigley

Andrew Opp
COO, Wilder Fields

Andria Long
Chairman of the Board, Chicagoland Food & Beverage

Angela Liliana Latorre Velásquez
R&D Director, Team Foods

Anne Babirak
Senior Insights, Strategy and Innovation Leader, Kraft Heinz Company

Arne Saupe
Vice President of Technology, Farmer's Fridge

Caroline Cotto
Co-Founder, Renewal Mill

Chris Hellmann
Former VP and GM, Coca-Cola Freestyle and Dispensed Innovation, The Coca-Cola Company

Dan Grazaitis
Director of R&D, Fuchs

Debbie Yaver
Chief Science Officer, Nature's Fynd

Ding Wang
Director of Research and Development, BrightPet

Eric Krums
Sr. Solution Consultant, Food & Beverage, Infor

Frederic Van Roie
Regional Sales Executive, Food & Beverage, Centric Software Inc.

Ian O’Neil
Senior Account Executive, Tastewise

Jana McGuire
Communications Director, The Center For Food Integrity

Jeff Tezak
CEO, Tiiga

Joaquin Tirado Escobosa
Director of Product Development and Technological Platforms, Sigma

John Sweeney
NA R&D Shared Capabilities Team Global R&D PLM project lead, Cargill

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

Kara McConnell
Regional Sales Manager , MS, RD, Fuchs

Katie H. Hotze
Founder and CEO, Grocery Shopii

Liu Yanchun
Senior Global Marketing Manager, Mars Wrigley

Lori Taylor
Founder and CEO, The Produce Moms

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

Michael Frankel
Vice President of Sales, North America, Selerant Corporation

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

Natalie Taake
Senior Innovation Manager, The Kroger Co.

Olaf Gruess
Director of Partner Development, Cargill

Patrick Pilz
Pre-sales Consultant, Centric Software Inc.

Paul Bradley
Senior Director of Product Marketing, TraceGains

Rachel Calomeni
Senior Vice President, Growth & Innovation, HowGood

Rich Dillon
CEO, Ivy Farm

Sara Roashan
Associate Director, Agile Disruptive Innovation, Kraft Heinz Company

Sergio Pollak
Vice President R&D Foods Potato for North America and Latin America, McCain Foods

William JH Grand
President, NutriFusion LLC

2023 Partners

COMMERCIAL PARTNERS:
• Centric Software
• Evalueserve
• Fuchs North America
• HowGood
• Infor
• Lantern
• NutriFusion
• Selerant
• Tastewise
• TraceGains