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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.

RT1: Driving Efficieny and Sustianbility in Packaging- SIG
RT2: Packaging for Emerging Consumption Models- SIDEL
RT3: Harnessing Data and AI for NPD

• From Legacy to Agility: How heritage dairy brands are evolving into fast-moving innovators
• Health, Wellness C Trust: Meeting rising consumer demand for functional, clean-label, and gut friendly products
• Data-Driven NPD: Leveraging real-time insights to design products consumers don’t even know they need yet
• Purpose Meets Profit: Balancing sustainability goals with business growth in a challenging regulatory landscape

• Immune-supporting dairy components: spotlight on key ingredients and bioactives
• Fermented dairy & probiotics: building a stronger, more resilient microbiome
• Complete immune “shield” formulations: pairing high-quality dairy protein with zinc and vitamin D

• Traceability Deadlines: Finalise FSMA 204 compliance by July 2028; maintain 24-month electronic records for all high-risk dairy
• Labeling Modernisation: Adopt new “Healthy” claim definitions by 2028 and distinguish non-cow sources (e.g., goat milk) in allergen statements
• Standard Revocations: Review the 18 dairy “Standards of Identity” the FDA is revoking to allow more flexible product formulations

• Collaborating on climate goals and nutrition science to strengthen dairy’s global reputation
• Aligning on simple, science-backed communication to combat misinformation and plant-based myths
• Driving industry-wide growth by pooling data on consumer shifts and emerging tech

• Transitioning to 100% rPET bottles to slash carbon footprints while maintaining premium brand aesthetics
• Ensuring total product safety and long shelf-life with market-leading dry preform decontamination technology
• Optimising high-speed lines with AI-driven diagnostics to reduce energy use and product giveaway

Senior representative, SIDEL