Following the success of the Food & Drink Innovation Summit held in Prague 11th-12th of September 2008, BME Global now presents Food & Drink Innovation Forum 2009:


Food & Drink Innovation Forum provides a great opportunity to learn from enduring companies that have clear plans for how they will advance into an uncertain future, how they tackle unsolved problems innovatively and achieve long-term performance excellence. This conference focuses intensively on bottom-line results, cutting costs and saving money while improving and optimising corporate performance.

Key issues examined:

• Future & Innovation: what do we eat and how do we produce tomorrow
• Responding to commodity prices: Staying competitive
• Process & Product Innovation: Efficient production and Value for money
• Innovation in Packaging: Novel ideas for packaging
• Sustainability and CSR: Impact of Sustainability on corporate programme
• Future Food & Drink technologies: Impact on innovation
• Health & wellness – a challenge for regulators and industry
• Consumer of the future: Seeing beyond the surface
• Future of retailer: How best to serve the consumer
• Nutrition Labelling and the European consumer
• Helping customers to make healthier food choices
• Future Marketing & Branding: Maximising the impact
• Launching in new markets: Trends & Challenges
• Major Global Food Issues: Past, Present and Future