CONFERENCE RECAP 24 Presentations Available to View
IFMA was pleased to be a sponsor/collaborator of Faegre & Benson’s first annual Food, Agriculture and Biofuels National Conference, which was held on July 28 for 260+ top-level professionals. Attendees enjoyed a unique opportunity to engage with panelists from international agribusiness and food companies, academic institutions, government officials and trade association.
The event featured twenty-two panel sessions and an opening plenary session on a range of topics under the theme of Agricultural Production to Food Consumption: Meeting the Challenges for Sustainable Success. Strategic panel sessions addressed topics within such issues as: food production and safety, production agriculture and the environment, brand sustainability and your intellectual property, and doing business in the world market.
Darius Gilanfar, Chief Operating Officer, Granite City Food & Brewery
Phil Keiser, President & COO, Culver's Restaurants
Ron Rech, Director, Food & Nutrition, Resurrection Medical Center
Frank Reda, Owner, Topo Gigio Ristorante
Richard Tracy, Vice President, Customer Development, Dot Foods
Pamela Yee, District Marketing Manager, Northwestern University and University Illinois Chicago, Sodexo
Arjun Chakravarti, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business,exploring how the economy is expected to evolve over the next 18-24 months and what this means to foodservice.
2010 Presidents Conference Sponsorship
