2025 Solutions Stage Schedule
5/14/2025
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Theater 1
5/14/2025
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Theater 2
Silvana Susi, Food & Beverage Sales Manager, North America, DNV
Kathleen Wybourn, Director of Food & Beverage, US & Canada, DNV
5/14/2025
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Theater 1
Jeff Hale, Software Sales Manager, PLM Trustlink
5/14/2025
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Theater 2
5/14/2025
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Theater 1
5/14/2025
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Theater 2
Megan Murphy, Manager, Regulatory Team in Product, Trustwell
5/14/2025
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Theater 1
5/15/2025
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Theater 1
Jennifer Lott, Technical Development Director, SGS North America, Inc.
Brett Roberts, Business Development Manager, SGS North America, Inc.
5/15/2025
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Theater 2
5/15/2025
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Theater 1
5/15/2025
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Theater 2
Jorge Hernandez, VP of Quality Assurance, The Wendy's Company
5/15/2025
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Theater 1
5/15/2025
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Theater 2
5/15/2025
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Theater 1
Smart Data Driven Decisions: Microbial Risks in the Production Environment
Wednesday, May 14; 11:00am - 11:30am
As recent events have highlighted once more, managing microbial risks in a food production environment is key to manufacturing safe food. Despite employing best practices, environmental pathogens and spoilers still manage to cause havoc for the goods produced. By leveraging data models that complement traditional tools for supporting root cause analysis, a risk diffusion model allows us to look ahead: given the situation we observe today, what is our situation tomorrow going to be? This allows for proactive adaptation, improved interventions in transmission chains, and more efficient micro-organism detection program, to reduce the microbial risk of the product.
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From AI Concepts to Real-World Use: How AI Helps Improve Food Safety and Quality
Wednesday, May 14; 11:30am - 12:00pm
Join Kathleen Wybourn, Director of Food & Beverage North America for DNV, and Dr. Vera Dickinson, Founder & CEO of Innova-Q, as they share real-world applications of AI-driven food safety solutions. Moderated by Silvana Susi, Food & Beverage Certification and Training Specialist for DNV, this session will provide valuable insights into the practical benefits and challenges of AI implementation.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear from leading experts on how AI is shaping the future of food safety and quality management.
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Winning Buy-In: How to Engage Leadership in Investing in Traceability Technology
Wednesday, May 14; 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Food safety professionals understand the critical role that traceability plays in ensuring compliance with FSMA 204 and protecting public health. However, securing leadership buy-in for technology investments can be challenging when budgets are tight and priorities are divided. This session will provide you with practical strategies to communicate the value of traceability solutions to upper management. Attendees will learn how to align their proposals with business objectives, present compelling data-driven arguments, and navigate internal decision-making processes. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with actionable insights to advocate for the necessary technological advancements that enhance food safety, compliance, and operational efficiency.
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Pathogen Contaminated Gloves: Your Zone 1 Food Safety and Legal Vulnerability
Wednesday, May 14; 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Are your gloves a source of microbial contamination and a potential legal liability?
Recent peer reviewed research found concerning microbial contamination on 26 brands of FDA compliant gloves, including Listeria monocytogenes, Bacillus cereus and B. anthracis. Unlike other Zone 1 Food Contact Surfaces, disposable gloves are not tested for pathogen contamination despite often being the last point of contact with food.
This creates a critical food safety and liability gap—if contaminated gloves introduce pathogens onto food, companies not only compromise food safety programs, but risk legal and regulatory consequences.
It’s time to address this overlooked risk.
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Food Safety Trends and Preparing for Change
Wednesday, May 14; 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Exploring some recent food safety challenges and trends, what’s on the horizon, and how other businesses prepare in this ever-changing regulatory landscape. It will include a brief overview of some statistics about recall, food-borne illness, geopolitical issues, etc., and then dive into macro trends, crisis management, and preparedness.
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Recipe for Success: Digitizing Your Supply Chain to Stay Ahead
Wednesday, May 14; 1:30pm - 2:00pm
Food lifecycles are intricate, with evolving regulations, strict compliance requirements, and growing consumer expectations adding complexity to supply chains.
Trustwell simplifies supply chain digitization, integrating recipe development, nutritional analysis, and supplier compliance with FSMA 204-enhanced traceability and automated recall management.
Digitizing these critical processes streamlines operations, enhances transparency, and strengthens resilience, helping businesses adapt and mitigate risks for long-term success.
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NSF/H1 Food Machinery Lubricants: Understanding the Basics
Wednesday, May 14; 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Using NSF/H1 registered food machinery lubricants is the new standard at food, beverage and pharmaceutical processing and packaging facilities. During this presentation, attendees will be provided with a background on the regulatory history of food machinery lubricants and details about each of the NSF lubricant product category codes as well as ISO 21469 certification for food machinery lubricants. In addition, attendees will learn about the many features and benefits that NSF/H1 food machinery lubricants offer as well as discuss the importance and ease of converting to a 100% NSF/H1 lubrication program.
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Transforming Environmental Sampling: How Smart Sampling Can Elevate Your Operations
Thursday, May 15; 11:00am - 11:30am
This session will cover revolutionary sampling methods that combine cutting-edge technology with precision and reliability. Participants will also learn a real-world success story on how an innovative sampling method helped a client increase confidence in their results while saving time, money and resources. Lastly, attendees will discover what latest technologies are enhancing efficiency and productivity in food production. This session will provide valuable insights and practical solutions to help you optimize your sampling processes for better accuracy and efficiency, ultimately elevating your operations.
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Safeguarding Food Processing Facilities for 25 Years: TuffWrap Installations Proven Solutions to Limit Liability and Ensure Operational Continuity
Thursday, May 15; 11:30am - 12:00pm
For 25 years, TuffWrap Installations has led the way in providing specialized protection for food processing facilities during construction and renovation. With a focus on safety and code compliance, TuffWrap innovative solutions minimize liability for facility owners and contractors. Explore their groundbreaking product line tailored to meet industry regulations and learn how TuffWrap Installations’ quarter-century of experience in the food processing industry ensures your facility remains operational while safeguarding your investment. Learn how TuffWrap Installations’ history of unparalleled commitment to reliability and customer satisfaction can benefit capital projects.
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FSMA 204: Roadmap for the Next 3 Years
Thursday, May 15; 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Trace-ify™ Framework: A Practical Roadmap for FSMA 204 Compliance by July 2028 With the extension now in place, Share-ify offers the following phased approach to help organizations plan, implement, and test their traceability systems effectively.
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Food Safety and Quality Maturity Model - An Impactful Solution
Thursday, May 15; 12:30pm - 1:00pm
This session will share an impactful practical solution for food service, food retailer, food distributor, and food manufacturers as they advance food safety and quality management. A newly developed Food Safety and Quality Maturity Model and Scorecard will be presented. Speakers will share perspectives on how to leverage the Model and Scorecard to assess the status along the food safety and quality journey and develop plans to elevate the practices. Attendees will take home the tool that will empower them to make a positive impact on food safety and quality practices.
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How to Maintain a Low Moisture Thermal Process Between Validations
Thursday, May 15; 1:00pm - 1:30pm
The importance of a rigorous, science-based thermal lethality validation is widely recognized and understood in the food industry. Among a wide variety of product types and thermal processes, low moisture foods are among the most difficult to validate. If you’re a low moisture food processor who’s done their due diligence, found a good validation team, and has a report in-hand demonstrating a validated 5-log pathogen kill, congratulations! That’s no small task. So that’s it. You’re done now…right? Not so much, maintaining a validated thermal process is just as important as getting it validated in the first place. In this presentation, we’ll answer important questions on how to keep your thermal process in fighting shape. What kind of calibrations should we do? What’s temperature mapping? When should we revalidate?
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Beyond PCR: Discover the Simplest Path to Food Safety with Alden's SSSA Technology
Thursday, May 15; 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Ready for a food safety testing revolution? Alden's SSSA technology leaves PCR complexities behind. This session reveals how our innovative approach simplifies workflows, targets only live pathogens to slash false positives, enables efficient multi-target detection through its modular design, and eliminates cumbersome controls and lysis steps. With intuitive operation, automated calibration, and streamlined confirmation from the cuvette, Alden offers unparalleled ease-of-use and reliability. Discover the simplest, most efficient path to confident food safety results.
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The Traceability Flywheel – Guide to Traceability Excellence from one of America's Largest Quick Service Chains
Thursday, May 15; 2:00pm - 2:30pm
enVista works with large and prominent quick service and retail chains, supporting their implementations of advanced traceability programs. With an overall mission to prioritize the quality of its food and the health and wellness of its customers, our clients partnered with enVista to overhaul its traceability program and improve its speed to act in the case of a food safety incident.
In this speaking session, enVista will share how we partner with our clients to reduce the time it takes to identify and track an impacted product in the supply chain network from multiple days to just one hour or less while being FMSA204 compliant. Attendees will hear about the strategies and best practices that are implemented across people, processes, and technology to bring clients toward traceability excellence.