Your front row seat to the agentic future of F&B

Hear Tastewise CEO Alon Chen on why bolting on tools delivers marginal gains while reorganizing around agentic systems compounds them, and how training agents on the food supply chain’s real context keeps them from leading teams to the wrong answers.

Trace, with Kerry’s Soumya Nair, the path from the “Netflix era” of trend noise to conversational recommendation systems, and learn how Kerry wired always-live signals into its internal answer engine to generate launch-ready concepts with evidence you can click back to.

Go inside Tastewise’s own go-to-market with CRO Jacques Botbol, where a supervised agentic funnel runs press, content, prospecting, and follow-ups end to end. See how the team put agents on every stage of the pipeline, kept humans in the loop on the decisions that matter, and created a working model for selling in an agentic world.

Hear Taco John’s CEO Heather Neary and former Wendy’s U.S. President Abigail Pringle, moderated by IFMA’s Mike Schwartz, separate signal from noise, including why Taco John’s stepped back from drive-thru voice AI and how Wendy’s nearly halved its innovation timeline by improving its core menu.

Follow Renee Howarth, Director of Culinary R&D at Acxion Foodservice, from brief to plated concept, using behavioral clusters and white-space checks to prove a chocolate cake idea will actually sell before anyone touches the kitchen.

Learn how Nikki Sendlak, Senior Product Manager at TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods, fuses purchasing data with live menu signals into ranked, menu-relevant targets, so sellers spend their time closing white-space opportunities instead of combing through spreadsheets.

See how Kim Setter, Director of Sensory & Consumer Science at Post Consumer Brands, relaunched a product that failed the first time around, using flavor-lifecycle and velocity signals to move from gut instinct to evidence and give a skeptical sales team real conviction.

See how Paul Kinter, Associate Director of Sales Operations at Unilever, moves from mass messaging to a “segment of one,” building operator-level pitches around each location’s menu, guests, and gaps, with campaigns hitting click-through rates north of 30%.

Walk through how Nidal Barake, Founder and Managing Director of Gluttonomy, turns consumer signals into brands and activations, across real cases spanning a frozen yogurt launch, multi-city beverage activations, and content built on cultural context.

Discover, with Esrock Partners CEO Kevin Wilson and Tastewise’s Ilana Ryder, how agent-powered consumer panels replace six-week research cycles with answers in hours, letting you ask follow-up questions on the spot and revisit the same panel as your brief shifts.

Get the supply-chain side of agentic AI from Jeff Barry, Head of Innovation at Dot Foods, North America’s largest food redistributor: automating returns and supplier onboarding, why to go vertical before horizontal, and how faking a systems integration got a live experiment running in weeks.

Hear DoorDash’s Seye Carrena, with Tastewise Growth Director Eduardo Guenun, on pairing internal behavioral data with external market signals to meet diners at the point of need, compress a six-month idea cycle into weeks, and keep personalization exciting rather than reducing food to refueling.