Archives: Agenda

AI-Driven Personalisation & NPD

  • Using AI to identify occasions driving consumer preference and loyalty
  • Exploring how major brands use AI and big data to predict flavour trends
  • Accelerating NPD timelines from years to months

   Senior representative, Ai Palette 

Navigating the Regulatory Roadmap

  • Sugar Tax Reform: Managing the shift as the Soft Drinks Industry Levy expands thresholds and includes milk-based alternatives by 2028
  • DRS Readiness: Aligning operations for the October 2027 Deposit Return Scheme launch
  • Digital Standards: Implementing new 2D barcode and data matrix requirements critical for container identification and circularity tracking

AI-Driven Consumer Personalisation

  • Turn complex sensory data into simple, intuitive taste characters that shoppers understand
  • Match consumers to their perfect drink in seconds with quick digital taste profiles
  • Use 2.5 million global taste profiles to spot market gaps and de-risk new product launches

  Senior representative, Vinhood (to be Introduce to speaker)

Beyond Alcohol-Free: The Shift to Functional Benefits in Flavored Non-Alcoholic Beer

  • Explore how evolving consumer expectations are reshaping the future of flavoured non-alcoholic beer.
  • Take a closer look at how brands are redefining innovation in flavoured non-alcoholic beer by blending taste and functionality.
  • Discover a case study that pushes beyond traditional beer boundaries, revealing how brands can unlock new relevance by tapping into adjacent categories.

Keynote: Trends Facing the Industry

  • Future-Proofing Trends: Identifying the key shifts shaping the next era of non-alcoholic beverages
  • The New Hydration: Decoding the evolving needs and lifestyle demands of the modern consumer
  • Category Winners: Pinpointing which beverage segments are dominating market share and consumer preference

Mastering Taste & Nutrition

  • Functional drinks with advanced masking and sweetness-modulation tech
  • Probiotics and botanicals to meet the food as medicine demand
  • Using global consumer insights to accelerate your NPD

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Case Study: Brand Story Launch & Scaling Up

  • Out-pacing the crowd with bold flavors and first-to-market functionality
  • Identifying areas that large competitors are too slow to fill
  • Winning the category by proving our product moves faster than legacy brands