April 1, 2025 - April 2, 2025
Fort Lauderdale, FL
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
Sponsored By: Denali® Ingredients
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
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