AGENDA

• From Legacy to Agility: How heritage dairy brands are evolving into fast-moving innovators
• Health, Wellness C Trust: Meeting rising consumer demand for functional, clean-label, and gut friendly products
• Data-Driven NPD: Leveraging real-time insights to design products consumers don’t even know they need yet
• Purpose Meets Profit: Balancing sustainability goals with business growth in a challenging regulatory landscape
  

• Aseptic Excellence: Maximise product freshness and nutrients without refrigeration using cutting-edge barrier technology
• Decarbonising the Pack: Reduce your carbon footprint with high-speed, low-waste filling systems and circular materials
• Consumer Connection: Use on-pack digital solutions to provide instant transparency and traceability for every carton

Senior representative, SIG

• Shift from traditional liquid milk to A2, organic and higher-protein products
• Rapid growth of Lactose‐free Market
• Functional Dairy and Impact of GLP1 Ashley Ellixson, VP, Milk Marketing & Oper
  

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• Functional Boosts: Target "total wellness" by adding immunity and mood-boosting ingredients to standard dairy
• Taste vs. Health: Perfect the "guilt-free" experience—maintain premium, creamy textures in high-protein recipes
• Convenience First: Win the snacking market with sippable, portable formats for on-the-go lifestyles
  

• Transitioning to 100% rPET bottles to slash carbon footprints while maintaining premium brand aesthetics
• Ensuring total product safety and long shelf-life with market-leading dry preform decontamination technology
• Optimising high-speed lines with AI-driven diagnostics to reduce energy use and product giveaway

Senior representative, SIDEL

• New demand drivers: Back-to-cooking momentum, GLP‐1 reshaping household eating habits, and evolving US dietary guidelines.
• AI changes the cart: Shift in consumers shopping with increasing use of AI- generated lists
• Adopting and leading this major transformation in the food market
  

• Using potato-based starches and proteins to create perfect creaminess and "melt" in dairy alternatives
• Replacing modified starches and additives with natural, functional ingredients for a shorter, friendlier label.
• Fortifying high-protein formulations without compromising on taste or stable shelf-life.

Senior representative, Avebe

• Great-tasting functional nutrition: enhance taste, texture, and stability while adding protein, probiotics/prebiotics, and key micronutrients
• GLP-1–aligned formulation: higher protein, targeted fibers, and lower added sugar to support satiety and healthy weight management 
• Immune- supporting ingredients: incorporate vitamin D, minerals, probiotics/postbiotics, lactoferrin, and other bioactives with process compatibility
• Smart fortification & claims: focus on bioavailability, shelf life, clean-label expectations, and compliant health/benefit communication
  

• Consumer priorities: Insights from 11K+ U.S. consumers on their top health and wellness concerns, current solutions, and unmet needs.
• Dairy opportunity spaces: The health and wellness conditions where dairy is best positioned to deliver meaningful consumer benefits.
• Innovation in action: Examples of dairy products and concepts addressing priority consumer wellness needs. Silvia Robles , SVP Partnerships and Growth Platforms ,
  

• Delivering 40% elemental calcium with Omya Calcipur
• Utilising advanced particle engineering to ensure slower sedimentation and easy re-dispersion in dairy and non-dairy beverages
• Reduce product carbon footprints by up to 90% compared to precipitated calcium carbonate by using Omya's natural mineral solutions

Senior representative, Omya

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