Food Industry Executive

The Next Growth Frontier: Aligning Brand, Packaging, and Supply Chain at Scale
2026-02-24 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Detroit)
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As beverage brands scale, challenges rarely emerge because demand disappears. More often, they surface when the operating model that supported early success is asked to stretch into the next phase of growth. Join The Outlier Initiative and G3 Logistics for an insight-driven webinar exploring how brand strategy, packaging decisions, and supply chain design can work together more intentionally as complexity increases. Designed for growth-stage beverage companies, this session brings together Courtney O’Brien, Founder & Managing Director of The Outlier Initiative, and Brad Busam, VP and GM of Global Logistics at G3 Logistics, to share where misalignment can quietly take shape, and how many leading brands adapt their approach as they scale. Drawing from real-world experience and operator perspective, this webinar reframes logistics as an upstream design consideration, not simply a downstream function, helping marketing, operations, and supply chain leaders align around smarter, more resilient growth.
Learning Objectives:

How brand positioning and consumer clarity influence packaging, channel strategy, and execution decisions
Why some operational challenges take shape early through packaging formats, SKU strategy, and service expectations
Common growth-stage trade offers that make sense at one moment, but can introduce risk as volume, geography, and channels expand
What tends to feel most strained at scale across warehouses, transportation, and inventory
Three practical questions growth brands can use to scale with greater confidence and fewer surprises

How feed manufacturers improve efficiency with connected workflows
2026-03-24 09:00 - 10:00
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Feed production is no longer a linear process. Teams rely on each other at every step, but many feed producers still work in disconnected systems with manual handoffs. That creates delays, errors, compliance risk, hidden costs, and weaker traceability. In this exclusive webinar, Karel Vervaet, Sr. Product Manager Nutrition, BESTMIX Software, will discuss how structured collaboration across the full recipe lifecycle helps feed manufacturers work faster and with greater control. Learn how to break down silos, improve data accuracy, strengthen traceability, and make better decisions across sites. Walk away with best practices feed producers can use to simplify formulation and labeling, reduce manual work, and improve profitability across the business. If your teams are managing multiple systems, manual updates, or inconsistent data, this session will help you build a better process.
This webinar will broadcast at 8:00 AM CDT (Chicago) / 1:00 PM GMT (London) / 9:00 PM CST (Beijing).
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

Why siloed processes create hidden costs and operational risk in feed production
How a single source of truth improves data accuracy, alignment and control across departments
How stronger traceability and labeling consistency reduce compliance risk
How to speed up formulation with less manual work and fewer errors
How cloud-based collaboration improves decision-making across sites and teams while supporting stronger customer coordination

This webinar is sponsored by BESTMIX Software and presented by WATTPoultry and Feed Strategy.

Collaboration: the key to efficiency in petfood production
2026-04-02 10:00 - 11:00
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In pet food manufacturing, even a small formulation change can impact nutrient compliance, labeling accuracy, raw material costs, and overall financial performance. At the same time, pet manufacturers face growing pressure to bring products to market faster. Yet many companies still rely on disconnected systems that limit transparency, slow decision-making, and reduce control across departments. This exclusive webinar explores how structured collaboration across the entire product lifecycle — from concept through commercialization — can strengthen data integrity, improve governance, and accelerate time to market without compromising quality or compliance. Through practical examples, Carmen Sook, Director of Customer Solutions, BESTMIX Software, explains how aligned workflows enhance traceability, improve cost and raw material management, and enable faster, more informed decisions while supporting structured approvals across teams and production sites.
This webinar will broadcast at 9:00 AM CDT (Chicago) / 3:00 PM BST (London) / 10:00 PM CST (Beijing).
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

How siloed processes impact formulation accuracy, cost control, compliance risk and operational efficiency.
How to create a reliable single source of truth across formulation, quality and labeling teams.
How structured change management improves traceability and reduces costly inconsistencies.
How connected workflows enable faster, more accurate data-driven decision-making.
How cloud-based possibility improves visibility and coordination across multiple sites in real time.

This webinar is sponsored by BESTMIX Software and presented by Petfood Industry.

VITAL 4.0 in Practice: How two manufacturers applied allergen risk assessment - and what they learned along the way
2026-06-18 09:00 - 09:45
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Thursday, 18 June 2026

Session 1: 9:00 AM CEST (Berlin) / 3:00 PM SGT (Singapore)
Session 2: 9:00 AM ET (New York) / 3:00 PM CEST (Berlin)

Language: English
Live captions available in German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Greek

What VITAL 4.0 implementation actually looks like
The VITAL 4.0 framework is well documented. What is harder to find is an account of what it looks like inside an actual facility – with real recipe complexity, real data collection demands, and real decisions about portion size, cleaning validation, and testing method selection.
This webinar provides exactly that. Cristina Romero, Senior Product Manager for Food Allergens at Romer Labs, presents two real VITAL 4.0 implementations: Altes Gewürzamt – a premium German spice manufacturer with 100+ recipes and six controlled allergens – and a global FMCG manufacturer managing allergen risk across a diverse food and nutrition portfolio. Both cases are presented with operational detail, and key learnings.
What you’ll take away

Where VITAL 4.0 implementation proved more demanding than expected – and what each team did about it
Why data collection consistently requires more effort than the calculation itself
How portion-size assumptions can change a PAL decision – and why this variable deserves more scrutiny
Where testing supports cleaning validation, product verification, and ongoing monitoring
What to consider before starting your own VITAL implementation

Who should attend

QA and QC managers in food manufacturing, food ingredients, and food service supply
Food safety and regulatory professionals navigating PAL decisions and VITAL adoption
Laboratory managers responsible for allergen testing method selection and validation
Production managers involved in allergen management programme design
Technical decision-makers in procurement and retail specifying allergen management requirements

Step-Change Solutions: What’s Next for Automation in Food & Beverage Manufacturing?
2026-06-18 14:00 - 15:00
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With food safety regulations tightening and operational costs continuing to rise, food and beverage manufacturers are under increasing pressure to improve efficiency, maintain compliance, and stay competitive. In this webinar, industry experts will explore how manufacturers can successfully automate for both today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. Attendees will gain insight into common barriers to automation adoption and practical strategies for overcoming them, while also learning how to evaluate automation suppliers and develop effective integration plans.
The session will also examine emerging applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in food manufacturing, including how agentic AI could reshape operations, decision-making, and production workflows in the years ahead. Additionally, experts will discuss best practices for successful robot and cobot implementation, helping manufacturers identify scalable automation solutions that support long-term operational goals.
Learning Objectives:

Identify common barriers to automation adoption in food and beverage manufacturing and strategies to overcome them
Explain key considerations when evaluating automation suppliers and planning system integration
Explore current and emerging applications of AI in food manufacturing, including agentic AI
Understand best practices for successful robot and cobot implementation in manufacturing environments
