6 years National Development Manager Bakery, Reiser & Co. Inc. Canton, MA
28 years Pilot Plant Manager, American Institute of Baking International Manhattan, KS
3 years Supervisor & Purchasing Agent, Woodmans Bakery Madison, WI
3 years Baker, Oakwood Nursing Home Madison, WI.
Susana Socolovsky, Ph.D., CFS is a Doctor in Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires. Susana has devoted 20 years to full time to scientific research and teaching at the University of Buenos Aires. She was awarded the Argentine National Biannual Prize on Organic Chemistry in 1985. In 2018, she was honored as an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology. Dr. Socolovsky is a Certified Food Scientist by the Certification Institute of the Institute of Food Technologists.
Susana has lectured in more than 200 Conferences in 20 countries, and dictated courses in 14 Latin American countries. She has authored multiple scientific papers, reviews, book chapters and magazine articles.
Dr. Socolovsky is the immediate past President of the Argentine Association of Food Technologists as well the President of the 2019 Latin American and the Caribbean Congress of Food Science and Technology.
She is a member of the Argentine Nutrition Society and has served as a member of the International Scientific Committee of the 21st International Congress of Nutrition 2017. She is a member of the Editorial Council of the Journal Actualización en Nutrición, published by SAN.
Professional Member of the Institute of Food Technologists, an IFT Food Science Communicator , active collaborator of ALACCTA and IUFoST. She has served on the IFT Jury for the Food Innovation Awards for Latinamerican FS&T associations.
Dr. Socolovsky has worked as an International Technical Consultant in Regulatory and Scientific Affairs and Food Innovation for the last 30 years.
Since 1992, she acts as a non-governmental representative at Mercosur regulatory meetings and is member of the expert panel of the Argentine National Program for Healthy Eating and Prevention of Obesity since 2016.
Alan has been providing workshops and economic analysis seminars for thousands of business owners and executives in various countries for the last 30 years. He is one of the country’s most sought-after economists.
As the chief economist for numerous US and international trade associations, it has been remarked that Alan’s “insight into our business, a track record of accurate forecasting, and unparalleled knowledge of global markets has earned him the respect and appreciation of key business leaders in our industry.”
Alan and ITR Economics™ have shared their insights through various media outlets, including: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Knight Ridder News Services, Business Week, the Associated Press, The Washington Times, CBS Radio, CNN Radio, Sirius talk radio, and numerous other outlets.
Keynote Presentation
Wednesday, February 17
10:10 am – 11:10 am CT
Tom Rees is an Industry Manager at Euromonitor International with a focus on food and nutrition. Based in London, he has more than 15 years of experience in the industry. Tom is responsible for the direction and quality of Euromonitor’s content covering Fresh Food and Staple Foods and provides global expertise, forward-thinking insights, and identifies key market trends. Tom advises clients across Fresh Foods and Staple Foods and is an in-demand speaker at high-profile events. He provides wide-scope analysis and is the author of reports, including The Future of Meat and The Impact of COVID-19 on Fresh and Packaged Food.
Presentation
Strategic Themes in Food and Nutrition: Coronavirus Update
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
1:00 pm – 1:35 pm CT
Julie McGill is the Vice President of Supply Chain and Insights at FoodLogiQ, a leading SaaS provider of food safety compliance, traceability, and supply chain transparency solutions. Their solutions help foodservice and grocery trading partners achieve end-to-end traceability while supporting safe and high quality food products across the supply chain.
In her role, Julie works with FoodLogiQ leadership to advise on industry, customer, and product insights to improve market adoption and penetration, customer satisfaction and value generation. She supports FoodLogiQ teams on evolving industry activity including regulatory, standards, traceability and food safety.
Before joining the FoodLogiQ team in May of 2017, Julie spent over 16 years at GS1 US. She led the Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative, and on the PCATS initiative with NACS, working with industry stakeholders in the convenience retail space. Julie also worked for Transora, which was one of the first GDSN data pools.
She also worked for Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado, supporting their Store Level Data program, engaging their distributor network to implement EDI with convenience and grocery retailers.
Julie serves as co-chair of the PTI Technology Workgroup, and sits on other various industry workgroups covering topics from AIDC, food safety, traceability, transparency, and supply chain efficiencies.
Presentation
Technology/Food Safety: Food Safety, Traceability Record-keeping and Digitized Supply Chains: Preparing for a New Era in Baking
Wednesday, February 17
1:40 pm – 2:15 pm CT
Richard S. Gates is Director of the Egg Industry Center, and a Professor at Iowa State University with appointments in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and Animal Sciences. As Director, he manages a portfolio of highly competitive applied research projects with collaborators in the US and Canada, and works to promote a science-based information delivery to egg industry stakeholders and consumers. Previously, he held academic appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Kentucky. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research and extension work involve agricultural air quality baseline measurement and assessment of mitigation techniques, and bioinstrumentation for measuring animal welfare. His past extension activities include leadership for the Illinois Certified Livestock Managers Training program, environment control and design of greenhouse, livestock and poultry facilities, and manure management and agricultural air quality issues. He was lead investigator on national projects to quantify ammonia emissions from US broiler and layer operations, a co-PI on the first completed US Air Consent Agreement work for measuring gaseous and particulate emissions from US broiler housing. He is author or co-author of 173 refereed journal articles and more than 330 other publications and presentations. He has taught instrumentation, environment control, structures and environment design, data acquisition and control, probability and statistics, and nonlinear optimization. He is co-founder of the Kentucky Rural Energy Consortium, and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ASABE), as chair of the Research Subcommittee of the United Egg Producer’s Environmental Scientific panel, is a Fellow of ASABE and recipient of the ASABE Henry L. Giese Structures and Environment Award. He is a registered professional engineer and holds one patent.
Presentation
How Did We Get Here? Industry Historical Trends on Cage-Free and the Pledges that are Changing the Industry Landscape
Wednesday, February 17
2:20 pm – 2:55 pm
Kimberly Becker is a Senior Research Director in Gartner’s Supply Chain organization focused on Consumer Products. Ms. Becker focuses her research on key trends and innovations as well as best practices, specific strategies and capabilities needed for supply chains to succeed in the consumer products industry. She also helps clients build their overall supply chain maturity through Gartner’s DDVN maturity assessment process as well as identify areas of performance improvement through metric and cost benchmarking. Prior to joining Gartner in 2018, Ms. Becker was the Director of Global Customer Service and Collaboration for Colgate Palmolive and led their center of expertise in the areas of order-to-cash, customer engagement, cost-to-service, on-shelf availability and e-commerce. During her 25 year career at Colgate Palmolive, Ms. Becker had numerous roles across the supply chain including: supply chain system integration; customer supply chain engagement; continuous improvement; replenishment management and demand planning.
Sally Lyons Wyatt is a recognized food and beverage thought leader in the CPG and retail industries and is a frequent keynote speaker and an authority on consumer eating and shopping trends. She is regularly quoted in national business and trade media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Supermarket News and Candy and Snack Today. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Sally partners with clients to leverage big data, technology, omnichannel media and cutting-edge ideas to help achieve better results and drive growth. She is an executive and practice leader for IRI’s Client Insights division and is responsible for driving integrated initiatives as well as measuring their success within consumer strategy, consumer/customer insights, media and personalization practice areas. Sally’s vast experience includes managing and developing global account teams that service Fortune 500 companies.
Harrison Helmick is a PhD student at Purdue University who studies structure function relationships of protein in food. Harrison has worked in bakeries since his first job at Wheat Fields bakery in Lawrence Kansas. After graduating from Kansas State University’s Bakery Science program, he worked for Bimbo Bakeries where he received his black belt in lean six sigma, developing interests in big data and process improvement. Since returning to school, he has published on how fermentation impacts gluten, and he maintains a website about lean six sigma and bakery science, BakeSci.com. His PhD work is funded by the USDA and aims to connect the big data of bioinformatics with how gels and emulsions are formed from pea protein.
Presentation
Pulse Power: Understanding Pulses through Bioinformatics for Egg Replacement
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm CT