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
- Health claims - successfully communicating healthy messages to consumers
- Achieving sustainability in product and packaging
- The optimally nourished consumer as a co-producer of his own health
- Accelerating NPD – better, quicker, cheaper
- Successfully reformulating and re-engineering existing products for new market conditions
- Brand protection strategies
- Understanding global consumer buying behaviours driving world wide NPD
- Short term results vs. long term strategies – Generating quick returns and ROI
- Commiting to NPD during tough economic times – creating bottom line benefits
- Developing new food products for a changing market place
- Planning for the recovery – achieving success after the crisis
Hot topics for Food Manufacturing
- Factory of the future - creating a highly productive factory utilising the most advanced technologies, strategies and manufacturing leadership
- Sustainable manufacturing strategies - improving operational effectiveness and eco-efficiency in factory operations, sourcing, transportation and new product development
- Implementing a quality control programme
- Reworking the innovation strategy in current crisis - achieving outstanding productivity improvements and cost reduction
- Eradicating non value activities and achieving reducing costs - achieving, short, medium and long term improvement and innovative processes
- 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
- TPM, lean six sigma tools and failure mode analysis – calculating risk & prioritising areas for improvement