Welcome to the 8th Annual World Food Technology and Innovation Forum, 2009. This leading global forum now brings the R&D, innovation and marketing community together with manufacturing and processing practitioners in an integrated event dedicated to excellence in new product development and production.
Hot topics for Food Innovation
- Substantiating health claims - implementing effective scientific studies and clinical trials
- Understanding global consumer buying behaviours driving world wide NPD
- Maintaining and stimulating innovation vs. rising commodity prices and tightening budgets
- Determining the effects of sustainability on NPD and packaging innovation
- Developing “Eco System mapping” networks to stimulate fresh innovation- case study General Mills
- Successfully developing into Asian markets - understanding Asia as a lucrative and attractive market for development
- Global ingredient trends - determining the opportunities for new product development
- Personalised nutrition of the future - opportunities to target increasingly segmented markets
Hot topics for Food Manufacturing
- Creating the food manufacturing plant of the future – ensuring fluidity and flexibility
- Implementing advanced customisation procedures throughout operations
- Energy efficiency planning and cost reduction strategies in food manufacturing
- Creating a world class lean manufacturing plant – implementing lean manufacturing principals and cost reduction throughout the process
- Lean six sigma tools to develop a food safety and security programme - failure mode effective analysis to calculate risk & prioritise areas for improvement
- Creating a successful factory audit programme – continuous improvement as the key for success