Archives: Agenda

EU Food Policy Trends Shaping the Future of Dairy

  • EDA: who we are, and what we do

Overview of the European Dairy Association, its role in EU policymaking, and its engagement with science- and evidence-based food policy.

  • Ultra-processed foods & cardiovascular health

Recent EU discussions on ultra-processed foods in the context of the recent EU Cardiovascular Health Plan, and implications for dairy products.

  • Sugar taxes

EU discussions on sugar taxes and other fiscal tools across the EU, and EDA’s advocacy approach.

  • Sustainable nutrition and the role of dairy

EDA’s recent work on positioning dairy within sustainable diets that are nutritionally adequate, affordable for consumers, and aligned with environmental objectives.

Roundtable Discussions

Interactive roundtable sessions offer a unique opportunity to come together with your peers to share best practice and develop solutions to critical challenges facing the industry as a whole. Hosted by industry experts and each focused on a single issue, roundtables are an exciting, interactive way to build your personal network and learn from the experience and expertise of others. 

Each roundtable session lasts for 40 minutes and delegates may attend up to 2 roundtables.

Roundtable 1: NPD: From Consumer Insight to Successful Launch

  • Consumer-driven innovation: turning insights into real opportunities
  • Smarter segmentation: identifying high-value targets
  • Maximizing product launch success rate: what makes the difference

Fosca Vezzulli, Sensory scientist, Vinhood

Veronica Martinelli, Key Account Manager, Vinhood

 

Roundtable 2: Hybrid dairy

  • A changing industry – precision fermentation and hybrid dairy
  • Fast scope 3 reduction potential
  • Commercialising hybrid dairy – challenges and opportunities

Jakob Skovgaard, Co-Founder & CEO, PlanetDairy

 

Opening Keynote – Case Study: Health claims – how consumers perceive these

  • How are consumers connected to brands and fast-moving consumer goods?
  • How do consumers choose products – consumer shopping behaviours and brand recognition
  • Growing scepticism around vague or overstated claims
  • Preference for simple, science-backed messaging
  • Trust built through transparency and recognizable ingredients

Infant Nutrition in a One Health Context

In this presentation infant nutrition will be placed in the context of One Health. It will be shown how infant nutrition plays a critical role in shaping the infant’s microbiome, having consequences for long-term health. Both current status as well as future perspectives will be presented.

  • One Health
  • Microbiome
  • Immune
  • Exposome
  • Infant nutrition