The Institute of Food Technologists’ IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo drew 18,231 individuals who registered for this year’s event. More than 900 companies exhibited in five categories and hundreds of subcategories. There was a robust education platform with more than 100 sessions and more than 1,200 poster presentations and IFT’s Taste the Expo program, is a perennial favorite that enables visitors to taste and obtain product samples.
Show attendees were able to reconnect with friends and colleagues on June 25 during a networking reception at the Las Vegas Convention Center and return to the venue the following morning to hear Starbucks CEO, president and chairman Howard Schultz deliver this year’s keynote session on the importance of scientific innovation in creating thriving companies and communities.