2025 Agenda
April 14, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
This opening night Welcome Reception is the perfect opportunity for all event participants to meet and greet one another in the expo hall! Pick up your name badge, grab a beverage and enjoy some casual face-to-face conversations.
April 15, 2025
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
4/15/2025
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
Publisher, FOOD ENGINEERING
4/15/2025
8:40 AM - 9:40 AM
Keynote Presentation:
Mass Customization Driving Innovation in the Food and Beverage Industry
CEO, Automation Alley
4/15/2025
9:40 AM - 10:25 AM
4/15/2025
10:25 AM - 11:10 AM
4/15/2025
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Presented by Food Safe Drains
4/15/2025
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
4/15/2025
11:15 AM - 12:00 AM
Spotlight on Women in the Food Engineering Industry
Head of Downstream Processing, Cellibre
4/15/2025
12:00 - 12:45 PM
Refrigerated & Frozen Foods’ 2024 Processor of the Year Award Presentation How Cafe Spice Uses Automation to Propel Private Label
Co-Founder and CEO, Cafe Spice
Virgilio Felix
COO, Clemson, Cafe Spice
Giovanni Gomez
VP FSQA, Cafe Spice
4/15/2025
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
4/15/2025
1:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4/15/2025
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
4/15/2025
4:30 PM - 5:40 PM
4/16/2025
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
4/16/2025
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
Publisher, FOOD ENGINEERING
4/16/2025
8:40 AM - 9:40 AM
Keynote Presentation
Professor, Clemson University
4/16/2025
9:40 AM - 10:25 AM
4/16/2025
10:25 AM - 11:10 AM
4/16/2025
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
4/16/2025
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
4/16/2025
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2025 Plant of the Year Award Presentation
4/16/2025
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Registraion & Welcome Reception
This opening night Welcome Reception is the perfect opportunity for all event participants to meet and greet one another in the exhibit hall. Pick up your name badge, grab a beverage and enjoy some casual face-to-face conversations.
Speakers
Speakers
Spotlight on Women in the Food Engineering Industry
This panel discussion will feature women engineers doing important work in the food and beverage industry, specifically highlighting the speakers’ background and experience, recent projects, their thoughts on diversity in the engineering space, and what they would like to see in the future.
Speakers
Keynote Presentation:
Mass Customization driving Innovation in the Food and Beverage Industry
The food and beverage industry is at the nexus of transformative global manufacturing trends, driving a shift toward personalized, customer-centric solutions. At the heart of this evolution is mass customization—a model that redefines production to deliver personalized products at scale. From customized snack blends to individualized beverage formulations, rapid delivery systems powered by AI and advanced manufacturing technologies are reshaping consumer expectations. Learn to navigate this new reality with case studies and examples from the manufacturing industry in digital transformation.
Keynote Presenter
Keynote Presentation
Keynote Presenter
Refrigerated & Frozen Foods’ 2024 Processor of the Year Award Presentation:
How Cafe Spice Uses Automation to Propel Private Label
Learn about Cafe Spice’s new, state-of-the-art, highly automated manufacturing facility in Beacon, New York. Named Refrigerated & Frozen Foods 2024 Processor of the Year, this family-owned food manufacturer is a private-label powerhouse, supplying Indian, Asian and other cuisines for hot bars and foodservice operations nationwide, including Whole Foods and Kroger. With a presence in all 50 states, Cafe Spice also has a branded line of RTE meals, found in the refrigerated/deli/grab and go depts. The Cafe Spice team will share their story of transitioning from a smaller, more manual legacy manufacturing site to a new facility that features the latest in automation and robotics. More information can be found in R&FF’s November cover story.
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