Program

FEB walking lunch and General Assembly (FEB Members – by invitation only)

Free arrival and registration Congress and Hotel

AIBI General Assembly (AIBI Members – by invitation only)

Market tour (optional)

Visit/overview of bakery positioning in retail and chain distribution in the Nice area.

Break out sessions by Sponsors

Session 1 – Welcome

Session 2 – A thriving Bakery business: getting acquainted with latest economic and consumers trends

This session intends to review developments in the bakery business, including firsthand figures and statistics about the sector, as well as insights into the latest consumer trends. It will seek to identify the drivers of the market changes affecting the bakery business.

Networking break (Thursday)

Session 3 – Sustainability at the core of bakery strategic agenda: the SWIE coalition of action

Sustainability is one of the identified drivers of business evolution. Together with its chain partners, the bakery sector embarked on an ambitious sustainability roadmap under the common banner of Sustainable Wheat Initiative. One year after the the SWIE symposium in Utrecht, which launched the coalition of action around this joined project, this session will review achievements and bring the audience up to the latest progresses and plan.

Session 4 – Navigating Bakery into a new digital revolution era

For the bakery industry, the integration of digital and AI capabilities into our operations and processes is becoming increasingly important. This integration can improve quality output, reduce waste and energy consumption, help us achieve better sustainability goals, and automate customer service routines. This session will provide strategic and expert-level insights and good practices from various unrelated sectors and seeks to bridge them to bakey rerality. It aims to provide an inspiring and interactive sessions, supporting participants’ strategic reflection, touching to opportunities, urgencies and mistake to avoid for integrating AI.

Networking break (Thursday afternoon)

Session 5 – International consumers and business trends

Adapting to consumers expectations, their behavioural and purchase evolution is a shared challenge for bakery business throughout the world. What can we mutually learn from bakery associations throughout the world?

Break out sessions by Sponsors

Session 6 – Nutrition and Health: a matter of corporate social responsibility and existential strategy

Consumer and public policy megatrends are heading towards a more plant-based diet and health-conscious nutrition. As a cereal-based food, bread should be a natural choice, yet its consumption is declining by about 2% per year. Bread matters, and it needs to seize this opportunity. This session will address why and how to do so.

Networking break

Session 7 – Adressing the drivers of the bakery business future; how will we re-invent bakery?

Which drivers for bakery business can we identify from the insights gathered over the congress? This session will bring the audience through an insightfull take-home strategic basket filling.