Speakers (16)
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Sam Waterfall
Lead Advisor
Health Focus
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Better, lower cost, quicker New Product Development, and the need to accelerate innovation are even more desirable in times of crisis. But short term, ‘downturn survival’ strategies can jeopardize innovation and Leaders fear reduced control over resources and outcomes.
New innovation processes mean accelerated NPD can be achieved without losing control of resources or outcomes - but in most companies they simply aren’t being applied.
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Andy Dawe
Heads of Retail Innovation Team
WRAP, Waste & Resources Action Programme
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WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) helps businesses and local authorities to reduce waste and recycle more, making better use of resources and helping to tackle climate change.
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Lee Linthicum
Head of Packaged Food Research
Euromonitor
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As the global economy faces continued uncertainty, consumers around the world are altering their food purchasing behaviour. Those living paycheque-to-paycheque and even those with steady incomes have begun to look for ways to stretch their money as far as they can as they are faced with persistently high prices. Many are making fewer shopping trips and are migrating towards value-minded retailers such as Aldi, Lidl, Iceland, Wal-Mart/Asda, and ev ...more
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Dr Tim Finnigan
Head of Innovations
Premier Foods
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Nicole Russell
External Networks and Open Innovation
GSK
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Dr Graham Cross
Director Innovation Acceleration & Supplier Alliances
Unilever
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David Baker
Managing Director
Styles Farmhouse Ice Cream Ltd
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Dr J. Andre de Barros Teixeira
Vice President International R&D
Campbell Soup Company
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Dr. Teixeira is Vice President, International R&D, with Campbell Soup Company, based in Belgium. Formerly, he was President and Founding Partner of eemPOK, an Innovation Management consulting business based in Belgium, Chairman and Senior Partner of BBL Partners LLC, a trading and consulting firm in Moscow, Vice President of Global Innovation and Development with Interbrew (InBev) in Leuven, Belgium, President and General Manager of Coca-Cola Rus ...more
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Stephen Moorhouse
General Manager European Supply Chain
Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd
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Elin Kubberød Kubberod
Marketing Manager/PhD Marketing
Denomega Nutritional Oils
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As an answer to the latest trend in Omega-3 fortification, Denomega has recently developed a stable, taste and odour free Omega-3 solution called Omega-360TM Pure Mix with unique qualities for bakery and cereal fortification.
Denomega launched the first ever taste and odour free Omega-3 ingredients on the market and have specialized in fresh and premium Omega-3 solutions. Denomega’s goal is to keep the processing to an absolute minimum, as it ...more
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Hamish Renton
Marketing Director
Milk Link
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Dr. Stephen King
Portfolio Manager, Head of Product Innovation
Nestlé S.A.
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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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Dr. Robert Brummer
Professor of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition and Senior Consultant
Örebro University and University Hospital
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Robert Brummer (1957) studied medicine at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. During the last part of his study, he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Sahlgrenska University Hospital Göteborg, Sweden. After having received his MD in 1983, he was appointed junior staff member at the same Department and obtained a degree as a clinical nutritionist. Subsequently, he continued his clinical training ...more
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Prof. Riitta Korpela
Vice President Research
Valio
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Richard Cox
Assistant Director Customer Brands Sales
Baxters Food Group
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Jonathan Banks
Business Insight Director
The Nielsen Company
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Jonathan is Nielsen’s European Business Insight Director, based in Oxford, UK. During his 30+ years in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry, Jonathan has held senior sales and marketing positions in multinational manufacturers and a retailer. As Nielsen’s European consumer analyst, Jonathan specialises in tracking and predicting consumer behaviour and trends, to help manufacturers and retailers formulate winning strategies. Jonatha ...more
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