Food Safety Exchange: Everyone Talks About Food Safety Culture.  How Do You Know You Have It?


Sept 30 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT

 

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Food Safety Exchange: Everyone Talks About Food Safety Culture. How Do You Know You Have It?

Less presentation. More conversation.

Wednesday, September 30 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Everyone talks about food safety culture - but what does it actually look like in practice? More importantly, how do you know if you're building it?

Unlike a traditional webinar, the Food Safety Exchange is participant-driven. The discussion begins with a brief industry perspective before quickly shifting to the questions, challenges, and experiences submitted by participants before the event and through the live chat during the discussion. Rather than listening to a series of presentations, you'll join an open conversation with industry leaders and peers focused on one timely topic.

Bring your questions. Share your perspective. Learn how others are approaching the same challenges.

Possible discussion topics include:

    • How do you know your food safety culture is improving?
    • What leading indicators or behaviors are you measuring today?
    • Which metrics actually drive change—and which simply look good on a dashboard?
    • How do leadership, operations, sanitation, maintenance, engineering, and quality all contribute to a strong food safety culture?
    • What role do equipment design, technology, and employee engagement play?
    • What questions are keeping food safety leaders up at night?

No two Food Safety Exchanges will be the same. Every discussion is shaped by the audience, making each session a unique opportunity to hear fresh perspectives, compare approaches, and walk away with practical ideas you can apply in your own organization.

Have a question you'd like the panel to discuss? Submit it when you register or ask it live using the chat. We'll use audience questions throughout the discussion, allowing the conversation to evolve around the topics that matter most to participants.
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Brian Shoop

Director of Process Engineering - Food & Beverage, ARCO Design/Build

Brian Shoop is the Director of Process Engineering at ARCO Design/Build, bringingmore than 15 years of experience across the food & beverage, pet food, andconsumer packaged goods industries. With a strong background in processengineering and project leadership, Brian specializes in delivering innovative, efficientsolutions from process design through startup and commissioning.Throughout his career, Brian has led process engineering efforts on some of thenation’s largest and most complex manufacturing projects for clients includingNestlé Purina, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Diageo, Beam Suntory, and Keurig Dr Pepper. He isrecognized for building collaborative, high-performing teams and driving operationalexcellence across every phase of a project.

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Nghia Tran

Senior Director of Project Development, Industrial Food & Beverage, Ryan Companies US, Inc.

Over 30 years of experience at senior level management as Senior Project Manager, Program Manager, Director of Engineering, and Operations Manager managing large staff of multi-discipline architects and engineers, subconsultants and contractors for projects up to $600M in construction cost. Over 22 years of experience in Food & Beverage facilities design and construction (USDA, FDA, and GMP), process and packaging equipment, CIP/COP processes, dairy processing (pasteurization) and utilities (ammonia refrigeration, high pressure compressor, and boiler) systems, storage silos, etc.Project/Program management experience including responsibilities for providing technical directions and quality assurance for completion of large, multi-discipline CAPEX projects to meet Corporate's requirements and performance objectives, including Sustainable Design and Development goals. Experience in capital projects planning, budgeting and execution of large capital projects or program.

Kara Scherer

Kara Scherer

Head of the Food Safety Division, Dennis Group

Kara Scherer is the Head of the Food Safety Division at Dennis Group, one of the largest global Food and Beverage engineering firms. Kara is responsible for regulatory and hygienic design compliance for all design-build projects. In addition to supporting Dennis Group’s expert engineers, she offers an array of food safety consulting services including FSPCA certificate courses. Throughout her career, she has gained the unique ability to deliver manageable, innovative, and cost-effective programs that balance food safety and quality in manufacturing environments.

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Cari Rasmussen

Food Safety Director, North America, Commercial Food Sanitation

Cari is the Food Safety Director - Americas at Commercial Food Sanitation (CFS). Since joining CFS in 2016 she has supported the strategic consulting and training programs that CFS offers to the food industry and leads initiatives in collaboration with key partners. While at CFS Cari has focused on developing and executing services globally across multiple industries including fruit, vegetable, potato, bakery and snacks. Cari has been a speaker on several sanitation and hygienic design topics at various conferences and has contributed to food safety magazine articles and webinars. Prior to joining CFS, Cari worked at Kraft Foods for 11+ years in Research and Development and Quality Management roles. In her time at Kraft she commercialized several new products including new line installations and helped facilities develop and implement food safety/quality programs in FDA regulated facilities. Cari has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Food Science. With her passion for food safety and quality, Cari enables food manufacturers to achieve their food safety improvement goals.