Food industry experts Darryl Riley and Arlin Wasserman share their insights and expert tips on how to create and build resilient and adaptive supply chains to help overcome the operational and economic challenges of today’s volatile business environment. Futurist Tony Hunter forecasts the transformative potential for generative AI to supercharge food product development.
Plus: This episode of Omnivore is brought to you by IFT’s Science and Policy Initiatives, your food science advocate elevating the central role of food science in food and nutrition security, food safety, and sustainable food systems, and championing the adoption of science-based regulations in policies and legislation. Learn more at Policy & Advocacy.
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GUESTS
Darryl Riley, who most recently served as the senior vice president, chief sustainability officer and on the executive leadership team at Hostess Brands, is a member of IFT’s Board of Directors. Darryl’s industry leadership also includes roles as senior vice president of quality, food safety, R&D, and consumer affairs with Hostess, as vice president, R&D, quality and innovation (twice!) at Kraft Foods, and earlier his career, was vice president, research, quality and technology at the Kellogg Company. Darryl also was president of Total Food Safety Management, a quality and food safety consulting firm assisting small- to medium-sized food companies build their quality and food safety culture.
Arlin Wasserman, MS, is the founder and managing director of Changing Tastes. Over the past two decades, he has helped create and catalyze some of the most significant shifts in the way business and consumers think about food. Arlin’s accomplishments include working with General Mills to develop the first sustainability strategy for a major U.S. food company, building a strategy to drive growth in the once nascent U.S. organic food industry, including raising awareness of antibiotic use in livestock production, and creating the Plant-Forward culinary strategy which is now is a major focus of culinary innovation in the western world.
Tony Hunter is a food futurist, consultant and speaker, based in Brisbane, Australia, who specializes in food industry trends, technology and innovation. With previous roles as General Manager at National Food Service Australia and Foodpartners, Tony holds an MSc in Food Technology/Microbiology from the University of New South Wales.
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