Tech Tent Schedule
5/8/2024
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Tech Tent 1
Joe Lloyd, Product Manager, Intertek Alchemy
5/8/2024
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Tech Tent 2
5/8/2024
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Tech Tent 1
5/8/2024
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Tech Tent 2
5/8/2024
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Tech Tent 1
5/8/2024
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Tech Tent 2
5/8/2024
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Tech Tent 1
5/9/2024
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Tech Tent 1
5/9/2024
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Tech Tent 2
5/9/2024
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Tech Tent 1
5/9/2024
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Tech Tent 2
5/9/2024
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Tech Tent 1
Steve Romero, IFC
5/9/2024
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Tech Tent 2
Levi Harris, IoT/RFID Technical Solution Consultant, PLM TrustLink
5/9/2024
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Tech Tent 1
Engaging & Retaining Employees with On-the-Job Training Technology
Many regard on-the-job training (OJT) as a best practice for a reason: employees learn better by doing a job, rather than being told how to do a job. And studies show employees believe training directly influences whether they stay or look for new employment. However, OJT also has its pitfalls. It can be dangerous if an unqualified person is teaching others and spreading inaccurate information.
So, how can you create an engaging OJT training program that consistently provides accurate job skills training and retains your workforce? You’ll have come to the right place if you join Intertek Alchemy in this session as we share how our On-the-Job training technology can help you:
• Easily create, deliver, & document on-the-job training
• Establish criteria to qualify employees for a specific job, machine, or line
• Build career paths to grow and retain your workforce
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AI – How it Can be Used to Transform Food Safety
Join this tech talk to learn more about artificial intelligence and food safety. Participants will better understand where it came from, where it is going, and how it can be used to prevent/mitigate food safety issues.
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Using Data Collection and Analytics to Improve Processes Across Multiple Departments
Our customers consistently tell us we're the best option on the market for in-field and/or in-plant mobile data collection and analytics. We excel in Food Safety, Quality, Training, Traceability, Operations, Maintenance, and any other niche area your teams can think up! With RFID, barcode printing, 3rd party lab integration, indoor mapping, offline functionality, the ability to integrate with other systems, and robust user configurability, our users have implemented literally thousands of mission critical workflows. Come see what KipTraq has built recently, and hear stories of how we use our platform to solve difficult problems for some of the biggest names in the market.
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How Traceability Technology is Transforming the Food Industry
Traceability requirements originating in the life sciences sector have ignited “A new generation of solutions...” (Gartner). Join this session to learn how Food & Beverage companies are using this technology to connect with their consumers, identify supply chain issues, measure sustainability goals, and improve recall management capabilities.
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Driving Real-Time Visibility into Quality, Production, and Other Critical Processes Through Digital Plant Management
For this discussion, we’ll be talking about how to best eliminate paper and avoid limited solutions that create inefficiencies and drive a wedge between your teams. We will show that a unified platform like SafetyChain can consolidate disparate information and provide real-time visibility into your quality, production, and other critical processes.
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Dry Footwear Sanitation in Food Processing
Meritech will explore key components necessary when implementing an effective dry footwear sanitation solution at your facility including identifying the right location, validating the process, and maintaining consistency. Using real-world examples in food processing facilities, we’ll share how FSQA managers prevent pathogens from entering production areas using smart hygiene zone design and footwear hygiene equipment. Additionally, we will elaborate on techniques to validate the efficacy of a footwear safety program and how to maintain consistency across individuals, shifts, and locations using training resources, visual cues, and automation to streamline the hygiene process.
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Pairing Food Traceability with Inventory Visibility
Inventory management and food traceability are two different goals for different internal divisions, but they actually intertwine a great deal. The technologies that unlock food traceability can also be leveraged to enhance end-to-end inventory visibility. Sharing the goals and scope can help in funding and internal prioritization. In this speaking session, we will discuss how to link your food traceability goals with your inventory visibility goals, and the technologies and processes that can be used to achieve them.
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CompuClean Sanitation Management System
Overwhelmed by your third-party audits and the associated paperwork? Learn how CompuClean, Spartan Chemical Company Inc.’s proprietary sanitation management system can leverage mobile technology and cloud-based management to streamline sanitation reporting. Explore strategies for managing the Master Sanitation Schedule electronically and see our mobile-based inspection and corrective action systems in action.
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Case Study: Leveraging Existing Microsoft® Software to Develop a Robust FSMS
KTL will present a case study demonstrating how Italian Frozen Foods (IFF) USA is leveraging the company’s existing software—Microsoft Power Platform with SharePoint®—to elevate its food safety management system (FSMS) and effectively manage food safety compliance documentation, data, and certification requirements.
• Learn how you can use the software you already have to develop a robust FSMS.
• Understand the approach and process required to ensure successful development and implementation.
• Observe in practice how an integrated system can help organize, control, analyze, and visualize information so you remain in compliance and operate more efficiently.
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How to Achieve Visibility in a Connected Supply Chain
Suppliers are no longer third-party peripherals to operations. Rather, they’re integral extensions of risk management strategies and food safety cultures alike. Managing these supplier networks has long been limited to quarterly or annual certificate checks. But more companies are moving to continuous monitoring, with daily risk insight. This shift has been dubbed the “Connected Supply Chain” — and it’s gaining momentum. In this session, join Provision Analytics and learn how to centralize all food safety records in shared digital hubs, how to analyze and benchmark daily compliance across sites, and what results to expect for efficiency and food safety culture.
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How Data and Technology are Revolutionizing Food Safety
Join Christine Schindler at this innovative session to learn more about leveraging actionable, specific, measurable data and technology for real time insights and broader trends — from hygiene management, temperature monitoring, AI driven audits, expiration/ waste management and more. In a world where data driven decisions are crucial, this session will cover how data driven technologies are generating food safety insights driving food safety culture, and impacting operations and strategy through a proactive and predictive approach.
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Leveraging Data-Driven Analysis for Integrated Pest Management and Pathogen Remediation
In today’s food processing environment, the use of data analysis is as important as it has ever been to prevent and solve pest and microorganism issues in food processing environments. In this two-part presentation, you will learn from two experts at IFC, Steve Romero and Steve Flieder, how you can utilize data analysis to solve stubborn food safety concerns and prevent risks before they become serious issues.
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FSMA 204 Preparedness: How to be a Proactive Leader
The FDA has set new standards for traceability. If you are responsible for shaping food safety practices and protocols at your company, are you ready for January 20, 2026? PLM TrustLink™ will present an enlightening session focused on leveraging innovative technologies and their practical applications to enhance food safety and meet upcoming FDA FSMA 204 Rule requirements. There are severe consequences of non-compliance, and not being able to quickly manage potential food safety crises effectively. Learn how to highlight the tangible benefits and efficiency gains achieved by adopting new technologies to take back to your company’s stakeholders for implementation buy-in.
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Managing Risk with Data
Defining and managing risk is critically important part of food safety that relies on accurate and available data. The utilization of the appropriate metrics and the data that supplies those metrics become a foundation of a food safety program…and of the culture of a more preventative organization.
Effectively managing risk data can not only protect an organization and brand, but it can also contribute to the strength of organizational culture around food safety. In order to continue to advance, food safety must not become complacent. Striving to become more preventative in our approach to food safety empowers an organization to look beyond biases and assumptions and to go look for needles in the haystacks. The digitization of food safety testing data improves the ability of the organization to be collaborative and proactive food safety champions.
A food safety management system is simply not enough. Developing a strong organizational culture around food safety starts with how data is viewed, collected, and utilized. Determining risk accurately is only possible when assumptions are compared with data. The data then becomes the foundation for an inclusive and preventative food safety culture.