Speakers (14)
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Chris McCann
ES Country Head
Wal-Mart Global Procurement
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Michael Taylor
Operations Director
Fosters Bakery
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Robotic solutions offer significant advantages over manually operated processes within the food industry and can protect employees from the hazards of extreme temperatures, repetitive strain, and back injuries.
Michael will outline how Europe’s first Centre for Food Robotics and Automation is assisting the food industry in providing a menu of various solutions. The presentation will cover examples of case studies undertaken in the UK and also ...more
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Ramesh Chonath
Head of Product Development and Innovation
Kerry Group, Noon Products
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Ramesh Chonath is Head of NPD & Innovation for Noon Products, part of the Kerry Group. He started his career in the Hotel Industry as a Chef with WG Sheraton and this helped in forging his passion for food and led to enhancing his skills and experience. His present role involves working very closely with Supermarket Chains and launching Own Label Projects and innovative Brands. Noon Products being the Market leader in chilled Ready meal sector an ...more
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Louis Lindenberg
Capability Director Global Sustainability
Unilever
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Dr Graham Cross
Director Innovation Acceleration & Supplier Alliances
Unilever
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Dr Huug de Vries
Head of Food Technology Centre
Wageningen UR, AFSG Food Technology Centre
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Within Wageningen UR, Dr. Huug de Vries is responsible for the Food Technology Centre (FTC) since April 1, 2006. FTC focuses on initiation, research and development of novel processing technologies in the food and life sciences sectors jointly with industry. Previously, Huug de Vries has been director strategy and commercial affairs at A&F B.V. and project manager for the development of a sustainable maritime reefer container for transport of per ...more
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Ann Callens
European Segment Manager, Food & Cryogenics
Air Products
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Investment in freezing equipment is an important decision, especially in today’s economic climate, where high capital outlay might not be possible or desirable. For this reason, in Air Products we work with our customers to design and install the ideal solution which is low risk, will provide a rapid return on investment and will meet their future needs, as well as their current requirements. Continued and reliable technical support is an integra ...more
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Iain Clarke
Director Global Manufacturing Excellence
Miller Coors Brewing Company
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At the beginning of 1989 Iain moved into the brewing industry, and spent the next 12 years working for SAB (now SABMiller), initially in maintenance, engineering management and operations roles, but transitioning to world class manufacturing or operations excellence leadership for the latter part of this period. SABMiller are an industry leader in manufacturing performance, and have used this competence as a competitive advantage in their globali ...more
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Ron W. Judge
VP Food Safety & Quality Assurance,
Maple Leaf Foods Inc
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Ron Judge is Vice President, Food Safety & Quality Assurance for Maple Leaf Consumer Foods. Maple Leaf Consumer Foods (a division of Maple Leaf Foods) now encompasses 24 manufacturing ready to eat, four poultry and three pork slaughter facilities across Canada. Ron joined Maple Leaf in 1996 as the Director - Quality Assurance and was based in Burlington, Ontario. He is a graduate of The University of Western Ontario (B Sc. Organic Chemistry - 198 ...more
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Ron Verweij
Maintenance Engineer
Heineken
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Prof. Peter Hines
Chairman, Lean Enterprise Research Centre
Cardiff University
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Making change work in any organisation is always hard. However, our research has shown that by far the hardest job is leading an organisation towards sustainable change. Evidence shows that 50% of change fails and over 80% ultimately fails to sustain. So why do we keep failing to learn from this. The Lean Sustainable Change approach gives a framework for you to understand how to change and make it sustainable. It helps understand the right balanc ...more
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Angelique Green
Chief Operating Officer,
Boxer,
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Angelique is a skilled global brand strategist with experience in setting winning global brand positioning and category strategies. Her expertise in brand storytelling, brand design systems, ethnographic research, corporate, brand and internal communications and launch programs, have helped her to deliver global brand strategies in over 40 countries throughout Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It’s fair to say that Angelique got he ...more
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Dr. Stephen King
Portfolio Manager, Head of Product Innovation
Nestlé S.A., Switzerland
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Stephen is responsible for Product Innovation and Portfolio Management at the Nestle R&D Centre responsible for worldwide innovation projects in Coffee & Beverages and Cereals, located just outside Lausanne in Switzerland. Following a degree and Ph.D. in Engineering he joined Procter & Gamble where he successfully managed manufacturing and supply operations in the UK and Italy (1990-2000). He joined Nestle in 2000 and worked for the ...more
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Simon Berry
Director
ColaLife
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Distributing commercial products in developing countries fulfils one purpose: a commercial one. Will this be acceptable in the future against a back drop of high child mortality and grinding poverty? Sustainable distribution businesses will need to maximise social and environmental returns as well financial ones. ColaLife is encouraging Coca-Cola to engage in 'sustainable distribution' and use the unused space in Coca-Coca crates to carry 'social ...more
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