This year’s agenda examines all the latest Product Development, Innovation Strategy and Consumer Insights issues that are driving the Food and Beverage industries.

Program highlights include: Distilling the high potential strategy of open innovation into actionable results: Moving past ideas and concepts to project execution led by Linda Wright, Director Food Research and Discovery, The Hershey Company

The ROI of Innovation: Overcoming the fear of failure to take big risks in innovative product development led by Michael Okoroafor, VP Global Packaging Innovation and Execution, H.J Heinz Company

The rise of private label: A threat or an opportunity – challenges in competing in a world of private label led by Brian Sharoff, President, Private Label Manufacturers Association