American Food Manufacturing Summit

Silver Partner

Chicago, IL
Nov 02-03, 2026

Food manufacturers must balance service, cost, labor, and transportation challenges while maintaining operational agility. Connect with ORTEC to explore what's next for the supply chain. Stop by our booth and join us at our fireside chat to discuss how food manufacturers can improve planning, transportation, and operational performance while balancing the demands of service, cost, and efficiency.

Clarity for your manufacturing logistics 

Visit ORTEC in Booth 35

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Fireside Chat

Tues, November 3rd, 11:50am

George Ninikas, SVP Sales & Accounts Americas at ORTEC, hosts a discussion on how manufacturers can make continuous improvement part of daily operations.

Scaling continuous improvement across global food manufacturing operations

George will be joined by Mohamad Sadek, Global Head, Continuous Improvement, Natural Ingredients, at Givaudan to take a high-level look at how global food manufacturers can make continuous improvement part of daily operations, support teams across facilities, and sustain progress over time.

  • Building a continuous improvement framework that can be applied consistently across different manufacturing environments

  • Using Lean and Six Sigma principles to identify opportunities for greater productivity, efficiency and operational performance

  • Creating daily management systems that give manufacturing teams greater visibility into performance and improvement opportunities

  • Engaging frontline employees and plant leaders in identifying and implementing improvements

  • Using standardization and best practice sharing to extend successful improvements across multiple operations

  • Building the capabilities and leadership needed to make continuous improvement part of everyday manufacturing

About the American Food Manufacturing Summit

The American Food Manufacturing Summit (FMS) is one of the fastest growing food manufacturing events, built for a high-level audience of food and beverage manufacturing executives and leading solution providers to connect, benchmark, and explore what’s next across the industry. If you’re looking for a top food manufacturing conference focused on real-world takeaways and solution exploration, FMS is where decision-makers come together to drive performance and growth.

Now in its 8th year, the summit brings together 300+ senior executives, 50+ speakers, and 70+ solution providers for two days of executive-level insight and networking. Topics include process optimization and scalable operations, food safety management systems and regulatory readiness, traceability and audit preparedness, R&D and innovation partnerships, end-to-end supply chain and logistics resilience, and digital manufacturing with connectivity, AI, and automation.

Real-world results

Highlights

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