Presentations
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Here you will find speaker presentation slides and videos from our past American Food Manufacturing Summit. We are currently hard at work editing the videos! Please stay tuned as the videos will be added to the website shortly. However, the presentation slides are now available for the 2024 summit below.
To view a presentation, please select the session you would like to view. Please note that speakers reserve the right to omit their sessions from our knowledge center. To view a full list of speakers, visit the Speaker Faculty page.
Beginning 2024, the vast majority of our American Food Manufacturing Summit presentations will now only be available via our new Generis On-Demand platform.

Jeffrey Naegle
Plant Manager
McCain Foods
Phil Gautrin
General Manager, USA
Proaction International

Eric Whitley
Director, Industrial Transformation
L2L

Rodney Duran
Area VP, Manufacturing Practice Head
L&T Technology Services
Brian King
Head, Plant Engineering, Americas
L&T Technology Services

Angelo Stracquatanio
CEO and Co-Founder
Apprentice.io
Increasing Manufacturing Capacity with AI: Deploying Next-Gen Accelerated MES
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Jihan Miller, Ph.D.
VP, Research and Development
Egglife Foods
Larry Homuth
Customer Success Manager
SafetyChain

Michael Phillips
Director, Sales and Business Development
Kanadevia Inova
Joe Szczepkowski
Sales Manager
Kanadevia Inova
Maximizing the Value of Food and Beverage Waste from Manufacturing
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Virag Vora
Technical Sales Engineer
TwinThread

Willemijn Schneyder
Founder, SwipeGuide and Chief Strategy Officer, L2L
SwipeGuide

Nikos Manouselis
Founder and CEO
Agroknow

Ben Toro
Strategic Business Developer, Design and Manufacturing
Autodesk
Putting Your Data to Work: Reducing Project Risk and Go-to-Market Time
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Kurt Spyke
Director, National Accounts and Strategic Products
Big Joe Forklifts
Elevate Your Success: Optimizing Material Handling with Advanced Solutions
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Sam Zheng
CEO and Co-Founder
DeepHow
Accelerating Workforce Operational Excellence with AI-Powered Multimodal SOPs
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Lindsey Cole
Sales Director, Food and Beverage
FuelCell Energy
Decarbonizing Food and Beverage Production with Fuel Cell Technology
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Kyle Jenson
VP, Sales
BIOIONIX

Chester Boyt
Chief Revenue Officer
Amerisan

Phil Gautrin
General Manager, USA
Proaction International
Luis Munoz Estrada
VP, Operations
Yamamotoyama

Helen Davis
SVP and Head, Operations, North America
The Kraft Heinz Company

Adam Armstrong
VP, Customer Success
Specright

Charles Buckley
Senior Director, Sales-Renewables
Vanguard Renewables

Jim Prunesti
SVP, Engineering, EHS and Manufacturing Excellence
Conagra Brands

Andrew Jarrick
Director, Environment and Sustainability
Diageo
Courtney Andersen
VP, Supply Chain
General Mills

Alexandre Eboli
EVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer
Conagra Brands

René Lammers
EVP and Chief Science Officer
PepsiCo

Chris Stanovic
National Account Director
QAD Redzone
Mohamed Azim
Global Solutions Director
QAD Redzone

Chester Boyt
Chief Revenue Officer
Amerisan

Mikael Bengtsson
Director, Industry and Solution Strategy, Food and Beverage
Infor
Justin Honaman
Worldwide Retail and Consumer Goods Go-To-Market, Amazon Web Services
AWS
Nishant Pillai
Managing Director
Apex Systems
Alex Blahus
IT Director
Pompeian

Willemijn Schneyder
Founder, SwipeGuide and Chief Strategy Officer, L2L
SwipeGuide
Chris Luecke
Podcast Host
Manufacturing Happy Hour
Joris Stolk
Brewery Manager
HEINEKEN

Eric Whitley
Director, Industrial Transformation
L2L

Kyle Jenson
VP, Sales
BIOIONIX

Juliana Giraldo
Application Sales Executive
Anaplan
Brian Mehr
Vice President
Vuealta
John O’Brien
VP, FP and A
American Sugar Refining

Mahirwan Bhagia
VP and Chief Food Safety and Quality Assurance Officer
PepsiCo

Jody Bayne
Director, Supply Chain Quality
Ferrara Candy Company

Courtney Andersen
VP, Supply Chain
General Mills
Fernando Hernandez
Senior Director, Supplier Diversity, Global Procurement
The Coca-Cola Company
Jeannette Robles
Director, Global Diversity Equity and Inclusion
ADM

Catherine Davidson
VP, Supply Chain, Food Safety and Quality
Pepsico, Sabra
Courtney Andersen
VP, Supply Chain
General Mills
Tola Alade-Lambo
VP, Food Safety and Quality
McCain Foods
Jennifer Williams
VP, Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Tyson Foods
Liz Palmer, PhD.
Senior Director, Quality
Barry Callebaut Group

Sanjay Barnwal
VP, Plant Engineering, North Americas
L&T Technology Services Limited
Brian King
Head, Plant Engineering, Americas
L&T Technology Services Limited

Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Andrew Jacobs
Senior Director, Quality and Regulatory
McCormick & Company
Kirk Santos
SVP, Global Talent, Constellation Brands
Constellation Brands
Sabina Gebczyk
Global Director, Talent, Organization Development, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, Equity
Griffith Foods
Laura Cespedes
VP, HR, Operations and Procurement, North America
The Kraft Heinz Company

Paul Kiecker
Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service
USDA-FSIS

Josh Chou
Chief Supply Chain Officer
McCormick & Company

Catherine Davidson
VP, Supply Chain, Food Safety and Quality
Pepsico, Sabra

Ted Combs
Industry Principal, Consumer Products
AVEVA Inc

Hugo Gutierrez
Global Chief Quality, Safety, Health and Environment Officer
Kerry Group

Mark Moorman
Director, Office of Food Safety
FDA

Carlos E. Parodi
VP, Brewery Operations
Constellation Brands
Process Optimization Techniques to Improve Your Manufacturing Portfolio
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Mike Mehrwin
Strategic Technical Solutions Executive
Autodesk
How Facility Teams Can Use Software to Accelerate Manufacturing Project Timelines
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Eric Whitley
Director, Smart Manufacturing
L2L

Tola Alade-Lambo
VP, Food Safety and Quality
McCain Foods
RETHINKING, REINVESTING, AND REINVIGORATING OUR QUALITY AND OPERATIONS PROCESSES
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Mark Kalous
Director, Continuous Improvement
McCain Foods
Rodger Ziolkowski
VP, Global Food Safety and Quality Systems
Griffith Foods
Junior Rogers
Director, North America Operations
ADM
Natalie Hadley
SVP, Quality, Food Safety and Regulatory
Flowers Foods

Michelle Vickers
SVP, Global Labor, Employment, Diversity and Compliance
Dawn Foods
Natasha Miller-Williams
VP, Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Ferrara Candy Company
Daphne Banks
Director, Inclusion and Diversity
Campbell Soup Company
Paul Davis
VP, Chief Diversity Officer
Tyson Foods
Henry Ford Jones
Senior Director, Diversity and Inclusion
Conagra Brands
Lorelei Whitney
AVP HR, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leader
Cargill

Erin Augustine
Director, Supply Chain Sustainability
Oatly
The Push for Plant-Based and Sustainable Manufacturing Today: Bettering Operations
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Paul Kiecker
Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service
USDA-FSIS

Eric Austvold
VP, GM, Food and Beverage
Infor
Justin Honaman
Worldwide Retail and Consumer Goods Go-To-Market, Amazon Web Services
AWS

Doug Sutton
EVP, Manufacturing
Smithfield Foods

Vinetta Howard-King
Program Director, Office of Human and Animal Food Operations – East
FDA

Claudia Vilar
Director, Product Safety and Quality
Starbucks Coffee Company
Dawn Pickett
VP, Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Smithfield Foods
Cheryl Burn
VP, Safety, Food Safety and Quality
Kerry Group
Sherry Williamson
VP, Global Quality and Food Safety
Kellogg Company
Kristen Coady
SVP, Corporate Affairs
Dairy Farmers of America

Richard Kilmer
Founder and CEO
CargoSense
Jeff Newman
Chief Strategy Officer
CargoSense
Mike Jones
Head, Technology and Innovation
Pallet Alliance
Tina Cappuzzello-Klejko
GDP Compliance and TC Development Manager
Expeditors Chicago

Michael Lichte
SVP
Dairy Farmers of America
Redefining Innovation in The Dairy Industry: Changing Your Mindset to Change the Landscape
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Leah Caplanis
Founder and CEO
SOCIAL Sparkling Wine

Kevin McClusky
Chief Technology Architect
Inductive Automation
Daniel Stauft
Director, Operational Technology
SugarCreek

Adrian Wood
Director, Strategic Business Development
Dassault Systemes

Willemijn Schneyder
Founder and CEO
SwipeGuide
Joris Stolk
Plant Manager
Lagunitas Brewing Company
The Manufacturing Brain Drain is Real - This is How You Can Solve It
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Craig Wilson
VP, Quality Assurance and Food Safety
Costco

Laura Maxwell
SVP, Supply Chain
PepsiCo
BUILDING THE FOOD MANUFACTURING FACILITY OF THE FUTURE: TOOLS, TECH AND TEAMS
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Emma Clark
Global Head, Marketing and Corporate Affairs
Falcon Group
Duncan Gilsenan
Business Development Manager
Falcon Group
Bob Belshaw
Senior Sales Executive
Falcon Group

Monica Anderson
Director, Operations Excellence and Transformation
Land O' Lakes

Doug Lawson
CEO
ThinkIQ

Adam Jackson
Director, Sales
Prometheus Group
Devin Peters
Functional Consultant
Prometheus Group

Barb Callander
VP, Operations Excellence and Learning
Maple Leaf Foods

Scott MacIntire
Program Director, HAF West, Office of Human and Animal Food Operations
US Food and Drug Administration

Taoufik Arif
VP, Operation Digital Transformation
Olam

John Budin
VP, Product Safety and Quality
FONA International Inc.

Craig Slavtcheff
EVP, Chief R&D and Innovation Officer
Campbell Soup Company

Ben Locwin
Senior Consultant, Public Health Outreach
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Brian Perry
SVP, Food Quality and Safety, Chief Safety Officer
TreeHouse Foods

Lee Perry
VP, Food Quality and Safety
Archer Daniels Midland

Philip Bronstein
Assistant Administrator, Office of Field Operations, Food Safety and Inspection Service
USDA

Denise Lefebvre
SVP, Foods R&D
PepsiCo

Susan Bond
VP, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs
Kerry

Matt Rendall
CEO and Co-Founder
OTTO Motors
Matthew Chang
Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer
Pulse Integration

Jaime Urquidi
Regional VP and Head, CPG Industry
Parsable

Daan Assen
Founder, Chief Product Officer
SwipeGuide

Kim Peterson
Director, Environmental & Sustainability Development
Morton Salt

Anthony Doss
VP, Engineering
Tyson Foods

Jim Bressler
Director, Product Management
Plex Systems
Miriam Melo
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Plex Systems

Darrell Portz
Global VP, Food Safety & Quality,
Griffith Foods

Donzel Leggett
VP, Global Manufacturing Excellence, Global Platforms and Asia, LATAM Supply Chain
General Mills

Sharon Lindan Mayl, J.D.
Senior Advisor for Policy, Office of Food Policy and Response
FDA

Sarah Keller
VP, R&D and QA
Lindt & Sprüngli (USA) Inc.

Carlos E. Parodi
VP, Brewery Operations
Constellation Brands

Arthur P. Liang
Senior Advisor, Food Safety
Center for Disease Control

Michael Leonard
Chief Technology Officer
Motif FoodWorks

Patricia Phan
Director, Manufacturing
Danone

Christie Lagally
Founder and CEO
Rebellyous Foods

Tod Virden
Manufacturing Solution Architect
GrayMatter

Shannon Bennett
Strategic Account Executive
Parsable
David Dietsch
Business Development
Parsable

Gary Nowacki
CEO
TraceGains Inc.
Prateek Bhasin
Project Manager
iRelyThe Future of Food Safety Traceability and Tracking Through Enterprise Software
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Taoufik Arif
VP, Digital Manufacturing and Innovation
Olam International
Enrico Manes
VP, Manufacturing and Engineering, Americas
Campari GroupKey Factors to Integrate Within Your Manufacturing Plants to Ensure World-Class Operations
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Darryl Riley
SVP, Quality, Food Safety and R&D
Hostess Brands, LLCWhere Product Development Opportunities and Manufacturing Realities Intersect
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Erik Heggen
Nutrition Chief Commercial Officer
Archer Daniels Midland Company
David Benzaquen
Co-Founder and CEO
Ocean Hugger Foods
Kevin Mpambou Do Dang
CFO, Away From Home
Kellogg Company
William Watts
Senior Director, Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center
Walmart
Pete Swanson
Director, Regional CPG
ParsableIntegrating Connected Workflows into Your Quality System to Boost Productivity and Safety
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Elhay Farkash
CEO
Zira
Philip Bronstein
Assistant Administrator, FSIS
USDA
Bob Wolpert
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
Golden State Foods
Hugo Gutierrez
Global Chief QHSE Officer
Kerry Group
Al Almanza
Global Head, Food Safety and Quality
JBS
Arthur Liang
Senior Advisor, Food Safety
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Cloeann Durham
VP, Quality
Coca-Cola Bottling Company ConsolidatedEnhancing Food Safety and Quality by Focusing on Training and Culture Development
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Vijay Krishna
VP, Food Safety and Quality
Sargento Foods Inc.
Kirby Childs, Ph.D.
VP, Food Safety and Technical Services
Foundation Food Group
Dave Fusaro
Editor-in-Chief
Food Processing
Kellie Campbell
Director, Quality Assurance
Ingredion Inc.
Natalie Hadley
VP, Quality and Food Safety
Ferrara Candy Company
Steven Hinkle
Director, Contract Manufacturing
Clif Bar & Company
Jason Grooms
VP, Operations Services
Burger Lounge
David Cech
SVP
Slayton Search Partners
Alison Taylor
Chief Sustainability Officer
Archer Daniels Midland
Bruce Wisnefske
Director, Advanced Manufacturing Operations
Sargento Foods Inc.
Anthony Doss
VP, Engineering
Tyson Foods
Dave Watson
Consultant
The Austin Company
Phillip Simulis
CEO
Simtelligent