Hormel Foods Corporation has grown dramatically through both acquisition and innovation—and transformed itself from a meat company into consumer packaged goods leader with a balanced, broad portfolio.

That’s exactly the case at noosa yoghurt, a Bellevue, Colo., company that’s grown to more than $100 million in sales with strong national distribution in just six years.

Named by Forbes one of “America’s Most Promising Companies” (No. 2), Suja has introduced more than 80 new products in three years. It also continues to grow, thanks to a 2015 minority investment from The Coca-Cola Company. Learn how Suja maintains its disruptive edge with more new products (including probiotic waters, nutrition shots) while it expands both physically and geographically!

Webster is a regular speaker at top industry events, has contributed to major media outlets, and is a collegiate guest instructor on the topic of market research.

Lenny will take a look at winning in-market examples of innovation and discuss how presidents and VPs of R&D/Innovation can differentiate themselves and lead change in new directions.

Born to a lauded Sonoma wine family, Jon Sebastiani grew up working in—and surrounded by—the aura of wine, food and hospitality.

Say hello to Craig Dubitsky, an award-winning innovator and founder of Hello Products, a Montclair, N.J., oral care company taking on this $30B daily-use category.

She’s ranked among the nation’s top 50 futurists. However, Nancy Giordano, founder of Play Big Inc., Austin, Texas, brings so much more to the table! Nancy also is a veteran strategist who strives to better leverage the powerful possibilities that exist at the intersection of business trends, societal needs and authentic brand stories.

Annual New Products Conference will name, honor retail, foodservice winners in 12th annual “Spirit of Innovation” contest, sponsored by Prepared Foods and Ventura Foods.