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16th Global Dairy Congress
The premier industry event devoted to marketing and brands, consumers and innovation, designed for industry leaders, innovators, suppliers, customers and advisers worldwide. The 16th annual Global Dairy Congress will feature two days of conference sessions focusing on the latest market developments, trends and opportunities, a gala industry dinner featuring the FoodBev World Dairy Innovation Awards, and extensive time for informal networking and discussion.
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About the event
Zenith Global's annual Global Dairy Congress is designed for manufacturers, suppliers, customers and advisers, with a focus on the latest industry trends, challenges and opportunities.
Industry leaders worldwide will connect at the 16th annual event, which offers access to two days of insight-packed conference sessions, extensive networking and a gala awards dinner where the FoodBev Media World Dairy Innovation Awards will be presented.
Top international and regional manufacturers, innovators and industry experts will share their valuable insights and perspectives through a series of presentations and interactive panel discussions, where attendees can participate in polling and put forward their questions.
Dedicated networking breaks will enable delegates to build meaningful connections with their industry peers, with an expected audience of up to 200 leading industry manufacturers, suppliers, customers and advisers in attendance.
Speakers include
Wednesday 21 June
Benjamin Cawthray, Global Shopper Director for Kantar, Worldpanel
Ananda Roy, International Senior Vice President – Strategic Growth Insights for Circana
Richard Scheper, Dairy Analyst for Rabobank
Questions and discussion
Alma Nauta, Senior Director Global Research and Innovation - Life Science and Digital health for Danone
Dr Richard Walton, General Manager – Research & Development of Meiji Holdings, Japan
Timo Pajari, Senior Vice President of Valio, Finland
Questions and discussion
Networking refreshments around exhibitor stands
Piercristiano Brazzale, President of International Dairy Federation
Christophe Jouin, General Manager – Marketing and Sales for Lactalis Group, France
Mayank Trivedi, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Dairy for Nestlé, Switzerland
Dr Zhanyou Yun, Vice President of Yili Group, China
Networking lunch around exhibitor stands
Dr Judith Bryans, Chief Executive of Dairy UK
Questions and discussion
Dr. Gerrit Smit, Managing Director – Innovation Center Europe for Yili Group, China
Panel discussion with Yili and other industry experts
• Round One – Technology innovation and global health
• Round Two – Embracing innovation for a healthier future
Networking refreshments around exhibitor stands
Anna Ranki, Sales Manager for ColloidTek
Will Loux, Senior Vice President - Global Economic Affairs for U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC)
Nguyen Quang Tri, Executive Marketing Director for Vinamilk, Vietnam
Jacqueline Van Schaik, Lead Nutritionist for Fonterra, New Zealand
Questions and discussion
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Cocktails drinks reception
Gala Industry Dinner
Presentation of 2023 World Dairy Innovation Awards by FoodBev Media
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Thursday 22 June
Aletta Schnitzler, Chief Scientific Officer for Turtle Tree, United States
Frédéric Pâques, Chief Executive Officer of Standing Ovation, France
Irina Miller, Founder of Daisy Labs, New Zealand
Questions and discussion
Networking refreshments around exhibitor stands
Laura Katz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Helaina, United States
Irina Gerry, Chief Marketing Officer of Change Foods, United States
Eyal Afergan, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Imagindairy, Israel
Jevan Nagarajah, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Better Dairy, United Kingdom
Questions and discussion
Networking lunch around exhibitor stands
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Speakers
Jevan Nagarajah
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Better Dairy, United Kingdom
Jevan is the Co-Founder & CEO at Better Dairy. He has over 10 years experience across banking, technology and food at companies including HSBC, Rocket Internet, SumUp, Ritual.co and his own previous startup ShareDining.
Irina Gerry
Chief Marketing Officer of Change Foods, United States
Irina Gerry is a CMO at Change Foods, a precision fermentation food tech company creating animal-free dairy products, starting with cheese.
Prior to joining Change Foods, Irina spent 5 years working on two of the largest plant-based food and beverage brands, Silk and So Delicious. Irina holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ananda Roy
SVP Thought Leadership & Growth Insights for Circana
Ananda supports top corporate executives in FTSE-100 organisations identify & capitalise on growth opportunities, sharpen marketing effectiveness & optimisation, & use the power of analytics and data-driven inputs to make smart commercial decisions.
Anna Ranki
Sales Manager for ColloidTek, Finland
Anna works as a Sales Manager responsible for the Dairy segment at Finnish Deep Tech company ColloidTek.
ColloidTek (Collo) has developed a novel technology for liquid analysis that has enormous potential in the dairy industry. Firstly, Collo offers an innovative IoT-solution to reduce product losses. We combine AI and machine learning to help you to stay on track of any losses, optimize product push outs, minimize environmental stress, and reduce costs. With the real-time data of what is in your pipe we can help you to optimize your plant. Secondly, we can offer a fast and simple analysis tool for quality control that provides instantly a holistic view of the liquid quality.
Dr Judith Bryans
Chief Executive of Dairy UK
Dr Judith Bryans is the Chief Executive of Dairy UK. She took over the running of the organisation in October 2013.
Irina Miller
Founder of Daisy Labs, New Zealand
Irina Miller is a business consultant turned deep-tech startup founder.
Alma Nauta
Senior Director Global Research and Innovation - Life Science and Digital health for Danone
Dr. Alma Nauta is the Senior Director Global Research and Innovation - Life Science and Digital Health at Danone from October 2021 to date.
Alma graduated in bioprocess engineering at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands and obtained her PhD in Immunology at the department of Nephrology, followed by a postdoc position in Immunology at the Leiden University Medical Centre.
Alma started her career in Danone in 2007 at Numico Research, as Immunologist. As scientist in Immunology, she worked in various research fields including the role of early life nutrition on the development of the immune system and in the management of allergy. In 2010, Alma moved to the new Research centre of Danone in Singapore to become head of the Immunology team. In 2013, she was appointed a role as Science Program leader at the research centre in Utrecht, followed by a position as Director Science Communication and Strategy. In 2018, she was responsible, in her role as Global Research and Innovation Director Specialized Nutrition, for the Scientific Innovation Strategy as well as the scientific expertise platform of Human Milk Research with the focus to provide meaningful, health solutions using the power of nutrition in early life inspired by human milk.
Alma Nauta is specialist in Immunology and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in the field of (paediatric) immunology, allergy and gut microbiology and has received different presentation awards.
Jacqueline Van Schaik
Lead Nutritionist for Fonterra
Laura Katz
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Helaina, United States
Laura Katz, food scientist, is Founder and CEO of Helaina, a New York City-based biotech company pushing the boundaries of what food can do for health.
Disrupting the stagnant infant formula category, and meeting booming consumer demand for food with immunity power, Helaina has raised more than $25 million from leading investors. Helaina’s new category of infant formula will support parents who, in the U.S., often have insufficient parental leave policies.
Laura became NYU’s youngest ever adjunct professor in Food Science & Technology in 2017 and was featured in Forbes’ 30 under 30 list in 2022. She has presented at Collision, Food Hack, Fortune Most Powerful Women NextGen, Future Food Tech, Harvard Business School and Web Summit.
Prior to Helaina, Laura developed food products for NUGGS, Plated, and Dylan’s Candy Bar. Laura has reached viral success as a food scientist, generating $60M+ views via an 11-episode stint as the expert food scientist for Epicurious’ 4-Levels video series. She earned a Master’s in Food Studies from NYU, and a Bachelor of Sciences in Food Science and Technology from Western University. In her free time, she can be found hanging out with her husband, son Leo, and their Italian Water Dog, Fontina Prosciutto, and writing recipes in hopes of one day publishing a cookbook.
Dr. Eyal Afergan
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Imagindairy, Israel
Dr. Eyal Afergan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Imagindairy Ltd.
Prior to Algatech, Eyal worked for 7 years at Enzymotec, the largest food supplement manufacturing company in Israel, where he created and implemented the global marketing strategy and was responsible for all global sale activities of dietary supplements.
Eyal holds a B.Sc. in biochemical engineering from the Technion and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Piercristiano Brazzale
President of International Dairy Federation
Piercristiano is President and Chair of the Board of Directors of IDF since November 2020. Prior to this position, Mr Brazzale was Chair of the IDF Science and Programme Coordination Committee (SPCC), of which he was an active member since 2015.
Benjamin Cawthray
Global Shopper Director for Kantar Worldpanel
With over fifteen years’ experience, Benjamin has worked in a variety of roles, helping both multi-national manufacturers and smaller, local players. He is an expert in shopper behaviour and retailer understanding.
Christophe Jouin
General Manager – Marketing and Sales for Lactalis Group, France
Dr Richard Walton
General Manager – Research & Development of Meiji Holdings, Japan
Mayank Trivedi
Senior Vice President and Global Head of Dairy SBU for Nestlé, Switzerland
Mayank Trivedi has been with Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, for more than 25 years in commercial management roles across diverse geographies.
Richard Scheper
Dairy Analyst for Rabobank
Richard works for RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness in Utrecht with a focus on the dairy sector in Europe. He translates developments in the global dairy sector to the European context.
Frédéric Pâques
Chief Executive Officer of Standing Ovation, France
Frédéric Pâques is co-founder and CEO of STANDING OVATION, a French Food Tech focusing on the production of animal-free dairy proteins by precision fermentation and their use in tasty and healthy nutritive food products.
Aletta Schnitzler
Chief Scientific Officer for Turtle Tree, United States
Aletta joined TurtleTree as Chief Scientific Officer in 2021 to lead the R&D and manufacturing teams, spearheading an innovation roadmap to bring nutritious cell-based dairy and milk bioactives to market.
Will Loux
Senior Vice President - Global Economic Affairs for U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC)
Will serves as the Vice President of Global Economic Affairs for the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF).
Timo Pajari
Senior Vice President of Valio, Finland
Timo Pajari has been working with global and local B2B companies for 20 years. He has an extensive experience in plant-based and dairy ingredient applications and market.
Nguyen Quang Tri
Executive Marketing Director for Vinamilk, Vietnam
Nguyen has been the Executive Marketing Director for Vinamilk since July 2021, having previously worked within the organisation between 2009 and 2014 as Category Marketing Director.
Dr Zhanyou Yun
Vice President of Yili Group, China
Dr. Yun Zhanyou got his PhD from Osaka University and has rich experience in food and dairy R&D.
Dr. Gerrit Smit
Managing Director of the Yili Innovation Center Europe
Gerrit Smit (PhD) is the Managing Director of Yili Innovation Center Europe, which is based in The Netherlands.
Further speakers to be announced
Further speakers to be announced
Further speakers to be announced
Location and accommodation
Location
The 16th Global Dairy Congress will be hosted at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City, located in the heart of London, just a stone's throw from the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
The 4-star venue offers panoramic views of the city, a smart, modern interior and unbeatable transport connections, along with two contemporary-style bars, two restaurants, a fully equipped gym and spa facilities, a 25m swimming pool, and a virtual golf simulator.
If you would like to book accommodation, you can do so here, or by calling +44 (0)207 863 3700.
Leonardo Royal Hotel London City, 8-14 Cooper's Row, London EC3N 2BQ
Visas may be required from source countries. Zenith will be happy to help with visa support documentation where possible.
| Pay by 31 Mar Super saver rate | Pay by 12 May Early booking rate | Pay by 21 Jun Standard booking rate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Congress | Per delegate | £840.00 | £890.00 | £990.00 | |
| Concession | £440.00 | £490.00 | £540.00 | ||
| Separate elements | 21 June conference | £590.00 | £690.00 | ||
| 21 June awards dinner | £200.00 | £200.00 | |||
| 22 June conference | £490.00 | £590.00 |
*A concession rate is offered to start-ups and early-stage entrepreneurs. To be eligible, you must have annual sales below £1 million. For more information and to book at this rate, please contact events@zenithglobal.com
Substitutions will be accepted at any time. Cancellations will be subject to £150 + VAT administration charge per delegate and cannot be made after 12 May. Bookings are subject to Zenith Global Event Terms and Conditions, available here.
All delegates must pay VAT at the prevailing rate in the UK, currently 20%. The rate may be subject to change.
Visas may be required from some countries. Zenith Global will be happy to help with visa support and document where possible.
Awards
The World Dairy Innovation Awards, in association with Zenith Global, are a celebration of innovation and excellence across every category of the international dairy industry.
Now in their 16th year, these awards are a fantastic way for you to enhance the promotion of your dairy brand and to ensure it gains global recognition.
Being successfully shortlisted provides a hallmark of success that will prevail long after the awards ceremony and can highlight the contribution your company’s products and team are making to the dairy industry.
The winners will be announced during the Global Dairy Congress, in a special awards ceremony hosted by FoodBev Media.
Visit www.foodbevawards.com or contact awards@foodbev.com for further details.
2023 Categories
Best Product 2023
- Artisan dairy
- Butter/dairy spread
- Cheese
- Children’s dairy product
- Dairy alternative
- Dairy dessert/confectionery
- Dairy drink
- Dairy protein product
- Dairy snack
- Ice cream/frozen yogurt
- Yogurt
- Functional dairy
Best Innovation 2023
- Dairy alternative Innovation
- Intolerance-friendly Innovation
- Manufacturing/technology innovation
- Cell-based innovation
Best of Business 2023
- Marketing campaign
- New/start-up business
- Packaging design
- CSR/sustainability initiative
Sponsorship
Our event and awards sponsorship packages offer a unique and effective opportunity to showcase your brand and services to a highly relevant audience.
You can choose from our Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorship packages, or we can create a custom sponsorship package to suit your specific needs and budgetary requirements.
Sponsorship opportunities include:
- Presentation within the main event programme
- Opportunity to host a workshop, roundtable or drinks reception
- Exhibit display in the networking area
- Distribution of marketing material / product samples
- Delegate passes
- Discounted delegate access for your clients
- Branding across event collateral, including stage backdrop, lectern and programme
- Logo on event webpage hyperlinked to your website
- Sponsored email communication to all attendees
- Sponsored social media posts
- Regular mentions in Zenith Global's event marketing and press releases
For information and pricing, please contact Francesca Hall, Events Director
e fhall@zenithglobal.com t +44 (0)1225 327900
