7th Annual World Food Technology & Innovation 2008

Summary

Welcome to the 7th Annual World Food Technology and Innovation Forum, 2008. 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

• Substantiating health claims - implementing effective scientific studies and clinical trials
• Understanding global consumer buying behaviours driving world wide NPD
• Maintaining and stimulating innovation vs. rising commodity prices and tightening budgets
• Determining the effects of sustainability on NPD and packaging innovation
• Developing “Eco System mapping” networks to stimulate fresh innovation- case study General Mills
• Successfully developing into Asian markets - understanding Asia as a lucrative and attractive market for development
• Global ingredient trends - determining the opportunities for new product development
• Personalised nutrition of the future - opportunities to target increasingly segmented markets

Hot topics for Food Manufacturing

• Creating the food manufacturing plant of the future – ensuring fluidity and flexibility
• Implementing advanced customisation procedures throughout operations
• 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
• Lean six sigma tools to develop a food safety and security programme - failure mode effective analysis to calculate risk & prioritise areas for improvement
• Creating a successful factory audit programme – continuous improvement as the key for success