Agenda

April 1, 2025

Breakfast

8:00am - 8:30am    

Welcome Remarks
8:30am - 8:45am 

General Session - Gaining Inspiration from Here and Abroad: Keep Ice Cream and Cultured Dairy Part of the Conversation with Today’s Evolving Consumers with Donna Berry 8:45am - 9:30am    

General Session Fireside Chat - Training the Next Generation of Innovators with Loren Ward, Samuel Alcaine, PhD  
9:30am - 10:15am    

Networking Break
10:15am - 10:45am    
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Ice Cream Concurrent Session - Innovative Colors as Solutions to Regulatory Pressure
10:45am - 11:30am    

Yogurt & Cultured Concurrent Session - Transforming Yogurt: Improving Nutritional Quality for an Enhanced Snacking Experience
10:45am - 11:30am

Ice Cream Concurrent Session - Crafting the Guilt Free Indulgence Through Ingredient and Product Innovation in Frozen Desserts with Kaavya Rathnakumar, PhD, Biqing (Jasmine) Wu, PhD, Aditya Sharma    
11:30am - 12:15pm    

Yogurt & Cultured Concurrent Session - The Future of Cottage Cheese Production with Byron Ba, PhD    
11:30am - 12:15pm   

Lunch 
12:15pm - 1:30pm 

General Session - Making it Lactose Free: Opportunities and Challenges for Ice Cream and Cultured Dairy with Eric Hallstead    
1:30pm - 2:15pm    

Innovative Ice Cream Flavor Contest, Part I: Most Innovative Prototype Flavor
2:15pm - 3:30pm    

 Ice Cream Concurrent Session - Listeria: Why It’s a Persistent Challenge Requiring Persistent Solutions with Samantha Bolten, PhD    
3:30pm - 4:15pm   

Yogurt & Cultured Concurrent Session - Prebiotic & Probiotics: Health & Wellness Opportunities for Cultured Dairy with Junrui Cheng, PhD    
3:30pm - 4:15pm    

Innovative Cultured Dairy Product Contest
4:15pm - 5:00pm    

Networking Reception
5:30pm - 7:00pm    

April 2, 2025

Breakfast

8:00am - 8:30am    

General Session - Unlocking the Potential of the GLP1Landscape with Stephen Cobbe, Sarah Miller
8:30am - 9:15am      

 General Session - Flavor Innovation in Dairy: Drive Consumer Appeal Through Flavors for Mood, Season or Moment
9:15am - 10:00am    

Innovative Ice Cream Flavor Contest, Part II: Most Innovative Flavor and Most Innovative Novelty
10:00am - 10:30am    

Networking Break
10:30am - 11:00am    

General Session - Vanilla: There’s Nothing Plain About It with Darian Rottman
11:00am - 11:45am        

Ice Cream Concurrent Session - Packaging Prototypes
11:45am - 12:30pm    

Yogurt & Cultured Concurrent Session - Trends in High Protein Yogurt with Olivia Finer  
11:45am - 12:30pm      

Lunch
12:30pm - 1:30pm    

Ice Cream Concurrent Session
1:30pm - 2:15pm

Yogurt & Cultured Concurrent Session
1:30pm - 2:15pm    

General Session - Research to Reality: Translating Innovative Concepts into Real World Value with Samuel Alcaine, PhD, John Renye Jr., PhD, Omid McDonald, Emily Darchuk
2:15pm - 3:00pm    

Dairy