The event, open to both members and nonmembers, aims to provide culinary inspiration, business education and personal motivation.

Rogue Creamery is an organic artisan cheesemaker from Central Point, Ore., that specializes in producing blue cheese, cheddars and more. Websterville, Vt.-based Vermont Creamery is an artisan cheese company that specializes in fresh and aged goat cheeses, and fresh cow cheeses.

Arla Foods Ingredients, Basking Ridge, N.J., has developed a range of next-generation “recombining” solutions that will enable dairy companies to produce high-quality specialty cheeses without fresh milk.

Jarlsberg cheese, a Norseland Inc. brand, Darien, Conn., introduced Jarlsberg Minis at this year’s IDDBA show.

The Snowdonia Cheese Co.’s Welsh cheeses are now available in the United States through an exclusive partnership with Atalanta Corp.