Archives: Agenda

• End-to-end packaging solutions engineered for speed, flexibility, and efficiency
• Line performance tools to improve uptime, changeovers, and total cost of ownership
• Focus on lightweighting and sustainable packaging innovation

Senior representative, Sidel

• Invest in renewable energy sources and technologies
• Optimize production processes to reduce emissions
• Collaborate with suppliers to minimize carbon footprint

• Adopt real-time analytics for quality assurance
• Implement automated systems for faster decision-making
• Enhance product development with advanced data insights

• Analyse current consumer trends and preferences
• Develop flexible product lines to meet diverse tastes
• Implement feedback loops to continuously refine offerings

• Research consumer motivations for low/no alcohol choices
• Innovate with flavors and formats to attract new consumers
• Educate consumers on the benefits of low/no alcohol options

• Implement energy-saving technologies and practices
• Optimize water usage through innovative processe
• Develop waste reduction and recycling programs

• Trend detection: combining shopper, on-premise, social, and loyalty data to spot demand early
• What’s growing now: NA/low-alc, premiumization, fresh flavor mashups, and moderation occasions
• From insight to shelf: translating findings into positioning, pack formats, and launch plans that convert

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: Taste, Function & Innovation: Elevating Beer and Beyond

• Ingredient solutions for flavor, mouthfeel, and stability
• Responding to consumer trends (NA/low-alc, better-for-you, new taste profiles)
• Collaborative development: how to move from concept to scalable production

Roundtable hosted by KERRY

ROUNDTABLE 2: Hygienic Transfer Done Right: Tubing Choices That Protect Quality

• Selecting the right hose/tubing for each process step (temperature, pressure, CIP, compatibility)
• Reducing contamination risk and product loss through proper spec, handling, and changeout
• Best practices: installation, cleaning, inspection, and traceability

Roundtable hosted by TUBING FOOD

ROUNDTABLE 3: Data-Driven Brewing: From Production Planning to the Warehouse

• Connecting planning, production, quality, and inventory in one operational view
• Improving scheduling, traceability, and compliance with real-time insights
• Roadmap discussion: quick wins vs. long-term digital transformation in the brewery

Roundtable hosted by INFOR

• How data and consumer insights shaped the NPD pipeline, from concept screening to pilot validation
• Rapid prototyping in the brewhouse: tools, automation, and lab tech that shortened iteration cycles
• Scaling with confidence: managing quality, specifications, and repeatability from pilot to full production launch