Food World Summit

• Breaking down data silos to create greater visibility across suppliers, ingredients, and compliance workflows
• Leveraging connected data to streamline supplier documentation, approvals, and risk management at scale
• Improving speed and accuracy in food safety and quality decision-making through real-time insights
• Building more resilient, collaborative supply networks to proactively identify and mitigate risk

In this session, you’ll hear from one of the industry’s top QSR brands, Little Caesars, on how they manage suppliers and product quality across their global footprint.You will learn:

• The strategies and processes the Little Caesars’ FSQA team employs to meet their goals and create a food safety culture.
• How technology is employed to achieve the product quality and consistency customers can trust.
• How an FSQA team can build the data management foundation needed to ensure traceability and regulatory alignment.

• Creating a Compelling Need for Change
• • Align teams around business needs such as safety, quality, productivity, labor challenges, and operational performance.
• Building Employee Ownership
  • Move from compliance-driven change to engagement-driven change where associates actively participate in the solution.
• Addressing Resistance Before It Becomes a Barrier
  • Understand why people resist change and how leaders can proactively build trust, credibility, and buy-in.
• Equipping Leaders to Drive Adoption
  • Practical leadership behaviors that accelerate acceptance, reinforce new ways of working, and sustain momentum.
• Sustaining Results Through Accountability and Feedback
  • Use communication, coaching, recognition, and performance measures to ensure improvements become standard practice

• From concept to daily practice. What a genuine “reset” actually requires inside a specification and audit management system, not just around it
• Turning FSMA-era intent into operational reality. How standardised specifications and automated audit trails close the gap between policy and the plant floor
• Built for change, not another reset. How a connected specification system flexes as hazards, ingredients and regulations shift
• What this looks like at scale. By unifying specification management and food safety on a single platform, a global QSR reduced its risk window by 83% and strengthened its compliance posture in the process

• Scale traceability alongside business growth: Understand how food safety and traceability programs must evolve as organizations add locations, markets, products, suppliers, channels, and acquired operations
• Turn foundational traceability into resilience: Explore how the CTE/KDE, data-quality, supplier-collaboration, and visibility work discussed in 2025 can support faster decisions and stronger risk management as complexity increases
• Evaluate emerging technology through an FSQ lens: Consider the food safety, quality, data, and traceability implications of AI, automation, autonomous delivery, drones, and other rapidly developing technologies
• Navigate acquisitions and major organizational change: Learn how FSQ leaders can approach data, systems, standards, supplier networks, and traceability when previously separate operations must come together
• Balance innovation with control: Identify practical ways FSQ teams can enable business innovation without compromising visibility, accountability, regulatory readiness, or the ability to respond quickly when something goes wrong

• Real-time visibility meets predictive intelligence — Learn how integrating MES with AI transforms raw production data into actionable insights, enabling teams to anticipate bottlenecks before they impact throughput
• Reducing variability in high-mix, high-speed environments — Explore how AI-driven analytics help F&B manufacturers manage recipe changeovers, batch consistency, and quality control at the speed modern production demands
• From reactive to predictive maintenance — Discover how combining industrial data with machine learning models can shift maintenance strategies from “fix when broken” to “fix before it breaks,” minimizing unplanned downtime
• Turning data silos into a unified production backbone — See how connecting MES, IIoT sensors, and AI models creates a single source of truth that supports faster decision-making across plant floor and leadership teams

Ruiz Foods once supply planned plant by plant: four sites, four sets of Excel files, four versions of dissected national forecast, and only a casual collaboration across planners. Today the business runs a weekly optimization cycle that produces one network master plan — by plant, line, item and week. Geoff Fisher shares the recipe: where the company started, the software and process chosen to close the gap and what the transformation delivered. Learn about the stumbles along the way as well as the resilience the new approach provided through COVID and other unforeseen events. Uncover the critical ingredients of a planning transformation built to last.