New to PROCESS EXPO, Food for Thought sessions offer emerging leaders an opportunity to hear inspirational talks from leading food and beverage professionals.

In this video, President of Deli Brands of America Jeff SavalSearch discusses changes his company has made in the search for efficiency, trends pushing toward efficiency, and side benefits of efficiency like food safety.

In this video, Butterball’s Corporate Project Manager Matt Giroux discusses line efficiency, technological advancements of line design, automation of lines and robotics on packaging lines.

Watch this video to learn how Tree Top, an agricultural cooperative with eight processing facilities, installed robotics to its packaging line.

In this video, Gerald Lessard of West Liberty Foods discusses repurposing of space within an existing plant and what trends are driving this as well as the pros and cons of repurposing existing space versus new construction.

In this video, Robert Brackett of Illinois Tech discusses the Food Safety Modernization Act, the Preventive Controls for Human Food rule and the ABCs of Food Safety.

In this video, Gerald Lessard, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of West Liberty Foods, discusses the major challenges of retaining technicians and how the FIT Program can help enhance plant productivity as well as keep technicians in the food and beverage industry throughout his or her career.

Watch this video to learn how Tyson Foods has been on the board of directors for the Food Processing Education Consortium for more than a year and played a crucial role in the creation and implementation of the curriculum of the Food Industry Technician (FIT) Certification program.