Food safety professionals from leading companies including The Cheesecake Factory, Costco, US Foods, Wegman's, McDonald's and academic and government agencies have joined The Food Safety Summit Educational Advisory Board (EAB) who will set the direction for the content of the education program for the 2017 event scheduled for May 9-11 in Rosemont, IL. The EAB will select and identify the high profile keynote presenters, hands on workshops, specialized training/education and detailed informational sessions. The EAB is comprised of industry leaders representing the entire food industry including, processors, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, foodservice operators, regulators and academia.

"Following an extremely successful 2016 Food Safety Summit, we are very excited to work with this talented and highly respected Educational Advisory Board to produce another stellar program for 2017," says Scott Wolters, Director of The Food Safety Summit. "Our goal is to offer a solutions oriented program where real issues can be discussed and solutions discovered and with a good mix of returning EAB members as well as new members, we will be able to accomplish this goal."

The New EAB members include:

  • Sharon Beals - Vice President, FSQA Supplier, US Foods
  • Sharon Birkett - Vice President North American Quality and Food Protection, OSI Group, LLC
  • Ben Chapman, PhD -Associate Professor,North Carolina State
  • Will Daniels - Senior Vice President of Operations & Supply Chain, WTRMLNWTR™
  • Tammi Frederick - Director, Retail Food Safety, H-E-B
  • Craig Henry, PhD - Vice President, Global Business Development, Decernis
  • Glenda Lewis - Director, Retail Food Protection Staff, FDA
  • Shawn Stevens - National Food Industry Lawyer,Food Industry Council
  • Craig Wilson -Vice President, GMM, Costco

Returning EAB members include:

  • Gary Ades, PhD -President, G&L Consulting Group
  • Al Baroudi, PhD - Vice President, Quality Assurance & Food Safety, The Cheesecake Factory
  • Robert Brackett, PhD - Vice President and Director Institute for Food Safety and Health, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Joe Corby - Executive Director, Association of Food & Drug Officials
  • Faye Feldstein - DC Senior Advisor, FED TS&A FHS, Deloitte Consulting LLP
  • Jorge Hernandez -Chief Food Safety Officer, Wholesome International
  • Gillian Kelleher - Vice President of Food Safety and Quality Assurance, Wegmans
  • Hal King, PhD - Founder/CEO, Public Health Innovations
  • Arthur P. Liang, MD, MPH - Senior Advisor for Food Safety, CDC
  • Joan Menke-Schaenzer -Vice President, Safety & Compliance, Global Supply Chain & Sustainability, McDonald's
  • Donna Schaffner, MS -Associate Director, Food Safety, Quality Assurance & Training, Rutgers University
  • John Spink, PhD - Associate Director & Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
  • Patricia Wester - President, PA Wester Consulting

The Food Safety Summit invites industry leaders to submit a speaker application to participate on a panel for the 2017 program. All speaker bios will be reviewed by the 2017 Food Safety Summit Executive Advisory Board (EAB) who is responsible for selecting and organizing the educational program. The deadline is September 16, 2016 for consideration by the EAB. All speaker topics must be educational and non-commercial in nature. Vendors of food safety-related products or services who are exhibiting at the Food Safety Summit, are welcome to speak in the Solution Stage Theater. Contact Chuck Wilson at wilsoncm@bnpmedia.com for more information.

Speakers must address one of the following Food Safety Solutions:

  • Allergens
  • Auditing
  • Crisis Planning
  • Effective Risk Communications
  • Emerging Issues Retail/ Foodservice and Grocery Operations
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • FDA and USDA Regulations and Guidelines
  • Food Fraud / Defense / Security
  • Food Safety Modernization Act
  • Global Food Supply
  • GMPs and Prerequisite Programs
  • HACCP
  • Imports / Exports
  • Interaction of Public and Private Sectors
  • Interventions
  • Listeria
  • Market Trends and Landscape for the Future
  • Packaging
  • Pathogens
  • Pest Control
  • Predictive Microbiology and Testing
  • Preventive Controls
  • Produce
  • Protecting Products
  • Quantitative Risk Assessment
  • Sanitary Design of Equipment
  • Sanitation
  • Software Solutions
  • Traceability
  • Training
  • Transportation / Distribution

To submit an abstract visit, http://www.foodsafetysummit.com/call-for-speakers.

Source: Food Safety Summit