ATLANTA, USA
GFSI Conference
Programme
In this session, delegates will hear from Dirk Van de Put, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mondelēz International, who will share his insights and vision on the current state of play in the food safety landscape.
Join this session to learn more about the operational and regional realities of food safety from the perspective of a select group of GFSI’s strategic leaders. Insights will be provided on how companies are working together globally to tackle operational challenges and collaborating to achieve successful outcomes together.
Do You Know Your Hidden Risks? Learn From Your Peers About the Pitfalls and Mitigating Actions
In a world where nothing seems normal anymore, urgent issues compete for space on the corporate agenda. Companies are constantly challenged to manage many complex emerging and existing risks. From food safety and quality to energy management and cyber security. Then there is ESG performance, diversity, equity and inclusion and anti-bribery. While companies must prioritize, it could mean relinquishing control of what is viewed as less urgent at the time.
It is not possible to be everywhere. But are there effective ways to understand key risks and what mitigating actions may be most effective?
Join Stefano Crea, Global Market & Industries Director in DNV for a session where we dive into critical risks facing food & beverage companies today. From food safety to diversity, equity & inclusion and information security, he will share insight from DNV’s ViewPoint surveys and Lumina™ benchmarking tool on what companies see as top concerns, pinpoint where the corresponding management systems most often fail and which actions best-performers implement to close the gaps. While you cannot predict what may go wrong, you can learn from others and put their practices to good use.
You will learn more about:
• what are main risks and barriers challenging food & beverage companies today.
• where management systems most often fail in addressing them.
• how best-performers work to close gaps and gain control.
Presentation Theatre
By now, we assume you have heard about GFSI’s Race to the Top (RTTT), but do you really understand what the framework is designed to achieve, and why this is the here, now and future of GFSI? The RTTT proposes a collaborative enhancement of the oversight of the GFSI ecosystem with the aim of improving trust, transparency and confidence in GFSI-recognised certification and audit outcomes. Additionally, GFSI is seeking to stay true to its core purpose as a benchmarking and harmonisation organisation responsible for the ‘what’ – not the ‘how’ – of food safety. So, join this “Ask GFSI” session to explore the RTTT in more detail and get your questions answered directly by the GFSI team.
Presentation Theatre
Food System Resilience – Establishing and Maintaining Sustainable and Safe Food Systems
Crises and shocks to our food systems challenge all of us. At the most severe end of the spectrum, shocks to our food system can result in malnutrition and food insecurity. Closer to the other end of the spectrum, food system crises have resulted in relentless supply chain disruptions, galloping inflation and continued labor challenges. Food system shocks have both known and unknown consequences. For example, the primary known impact of a shock to a food system may be on the quantity and quality of food produced, while outcomes can be as serious as food insecurity and adverse food safety events impacting human health.
Join us for this panel discussion as we explore food safety risks linked to challenging levels of resilience. Delegates will hear first-hand from front-line industry experts on what their companies are doing to proactively manage resilience and to establish their new normal. Specifically, attendees will learn how manufacturers and retailers are:
• Absorbing and recovering from supply chain disruptions,
• Anticipating and preventing food safety events,
• Finding the balance between “just-in-time” and “just-in-case,”
• Becoming more agile in the last 24 – 36 months to tackle today’s challenges,
• Establishing their new normal for future success.
Laying the Foundation for Trust: # Keys to Transform Food Safety & Quality
Leveraging GS1 Standards to Meet Key Food Safety Challenges: Fulfilling FSMA Traceability Final Rule Requirements, Augmenting Supply Chain Visibility, Agility and Resilience
This session will focus on the crucial need to build more agile, resilient supply chain operations to maintain safe, sustainable food delivery even when disruptions occur, or new challenges arise. Learn how the adoption and implementation of GS1 standards enables automated information exchange between supply chain partners to support increased transparency and faster, more efficient planning and response to unexpected impacts.
Moderated by Siobhan O’Bara, SVP Community Engagement, GS1 US, panelists will discuss new measures that would help bring resilience to supply chains, minimize disruptions and help address heightened requirements for food safety, distribution efficiency, traceability and sustainability. Hear from industry leaders on how digital technologies enhance current processes and how, when these technologies are combined with GS1 standards, they can bring future-proof transformations to international trade that will survive normal times and crises alike.
Supply chain sustainability is a growing concern, revolving around issues like ingredient sourcing, environmental impacts, and consumer demand for information addressing their concerns about health, safety and social and environmental impacts. In addition, the global food industry is focused on the need for increased traceability to ensure food safety. Find out how GS1 standards can be leveraged to meet both of these critical, future-focused requirements.
In this session, we will discuss:
• Why GS1 Standards are needed to harmonize supply chain data, support traceability and sustainability requirements.
• How the new Traceability Rule implements FSMA Section 204(d) and supports FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Traceability Blueprint, as well as other traceability initiatives.
• How trading partners are collaborating in their supply chains to drive visibility, agility and resilience.
• How GS1 standards can be leveraged to meet these key challenges.
In this first session of Track 1, you will get to meet members of the GFSI Steering Committee who are leading the delivery of the benchmarking and harmonisation strategy and those responsible for GFSI Governance. Since the creation of GFSI as a Coalition of Action within the CGF in 2021, driving improvements in every aspect of the work that GFSI does has been front and centre of their work.
Attendees will learn:
• Valuable insights into what is behind the drive for change.
• Progress made so far and what is going to come next.
In this first session of Track 2, you will get to meet those members of the GFSI Steering Committee who are leading the delivery of the capability building strategy for FBOs. The outcome of this work is to enable improvements in the FSMS of non GFSI certified FBOs such that they are able to achieve GFSI certification and /or regulatory compliance resulting in safer food for consumers everywhere. The pivotal role that GFSI intends to play in delivering food safety outcomes with a new ambition for capability building around the world will be explained and the outcomes from the past 12 months of work from the Sub Committee will be presented in detail from protecting the GFSI brand to updating the current Global Markets Programme toolkits to preparing the future capability building blueprint and engaging with key stakeholders to design and deliver it.
Attendees will learn:
• What is behind the work of the Sub Committee.
• What inputs have gone into the work on the proposed new capability building approach.
• What this work means for improving food safety capability globally.
In this first session of Track 3, you will meet members of the GFSI Steering Committee who are leading the delivery of the Public Private Partnership strategy and outcome that food safety regulators trust that GFSI certification can be used for risk-based resource allocation. The vital role that regulators play in delivering food safety outcomes around the world is not always well understood. The distinction between regulatory policy and the delivery of regulatory interventions is an area of huge importance for GFSI. During this session, the GFSI steering committee will present its vision and strategy to deliver GFSI strategic outcomes on public-private partnerships.
Attendees will learn:
• About the complementary work GFSI is doing to support the successful delivery of national food control systems.
• How global harmonisation through CODEX is key and how by working together with regulators GFSI aims to deliver its mission of safe food for people everywhere.
Change: The New Threat to Food Safety – Joining the dots to stay ahead of dynamic risk
Presentation Theatre
Every aspect of the work that GFSI does to improve food safety is informed by science and evidence. Changes to the benchmarking requirements, enhancements to our capability building programme and horizon scanning for new food safety hazards all require a science and evidence base. It has never been more vital that GFSI has routine access to the best scientific minds working in the food safety space as well as related disciplines. Bringing rigour and independence to our work, the members of the Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) are drawn from academia all over the world supporting GFSI strategy and informing our decision-making. The STAG members represent a group of highly experienced and forward-thinking academic minds in food safety.
Attendees will learn:
• During this session the STAG members will share their thoughts on what is hot and what is not in the world of food safety research, by reflecting on the work they have done to support GFSI so far and what more there is to do.
Come and find out what GFSI’s Local Groups are doing to support food safety public-private partnerships.