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1 OCTOBER 23-25, 2018 MARRIOTT MARQUIS ATLANTA ATLANTA, GA Don t Miss Out! Register by Juy 31st at and save $125! is a division of

2 JOIN SQF STAKEHOLDERS AND FOOD SAFETY PROFESSIONALS TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF FOOD SAFETY The SQF Internationa Conference is a unique event that brings together SQF Stakehoders and other food safety professionas to earn, coaborate, network and create new business opportunities. GET SMART GET CONNECTED GET SOCIAL Choose from 25+ Learning Lab topics Ask questions and get answers at the SQFI Town Ha Share ideas and probem sove with SQF Stakehoders at Knowedge Swaps Dance, drink, eat, pay casino games and show off your karaoke skis at Casino Night! Enjoy a compimentary Sunrise Yoga Cass and get a professiona photo in our Headshot Lounge Connect with other newbies by joining the Ambassador Program WHO ATTENDS? Food safety and quaity professionas at a eves of the suppy chain: QA & QC Professionas SQF Practitioners & Consutants Retai Food Safety Personne Compiance and Training Staff Reguatory Advisors Interna and 3rd Party Auditors Product & Soution Providers WHY I ATTEND Hear from SQF Stakehoders why they come back year after year. SQF PROFESSIONALS (AUDITORS, TRAINERS, CONSULTANTS) I ve been attending the conference since This is famiy I fee so comfortabe interacting with other food safety professionas to exchange ideas and hear about new trends and changes in the food safety and quaity industry. SQFI has done an outstanding job of bringing together professionas with a high eve of knowedge about food safety. That s what keeps me coming here. Oscar Camacho Independent SQF Food Safety Consutant/Auditor/Trainer, Superior Food Safety As an SQF Professiona, Oscar wi benefit from: Credits toward the continuing education requirements for SQF Professionas* Vauabe idea exchanges with other SQF consutants, auditors and trainers Important updates from SQFI on the SQF Food Safety and Quaity Codes Career- and business deveopmentenhancing networking opportunities * Fu attendance at the SQF Internationa Conference fufis the 15-hour professiona deveopment requirement for SQF Professionas OUR LEARNING LAB SUGGESTIONS FOR OSCAR: Safe, Quaity Operations? Fipping The Traditiona Business Mode to Impement and Maintain SQF Systems SQF Quaity Code Certification: Best Practices and Better Profits When it Doesn t Sme, Look or Fee Right: Food Fraud Detection, Monitoring and Mitigation in the Raw Materia Suppy Chain Managing Compiance Doesn t Have to be Like Herding Cats: How Having the Right Technoogy Makes A the Difference in Food Safety

3 MANUFACTURERS AND GROWERS Every year that I ve been here, I ve earned something new that keeps me in tune with the industry. The conference heps me stay abreast of industry best practices and changes that are going on. I can t reay imagine going to any other event where so many peope with diverse backgrounds a have a common goa of making sure that food is safe, and where I can earn new perspectives and ways to do things. Michee Ansement Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Night Hawk Frozen Foods As an SQF Suppier, Michee wi benefit from: Vauabe discussions with other suppiers facing simiar chaenges Networking opportunities with retaiers Insight into the top SQF non-conformances and how to avoid them Case studies featuring the new Edition 8 Code requirements The opportunity to ask questions and get answers on interpreting Code requirements OUR LEARNING LAB SUGGESTIONS FOR MICHELLE: Top SQF Non-Conformances and How to Avoid Them Prevention or Reca What s Your Preference? A Crisis Hits Are You Ready? Toos for Pants Organizing Your Programs for an Efficient SQF Audit Aphabet Soup: Digesting FSVP, VQIP, FSMA and SQF to Ensure The Safety of Imported Goods Compressed Air Testing: Is it Necessary and How do I Compy with Edition 8? Unpacking The Facts: Tacking Food Safety Chaenges in the Food Packaging Industry Earned Your SQF Certification? Now Leverage It! PRODUCT AND SOLUTION PROVIDERS SQF is more persona than a ot of the shows we attend. You make a connection with the cient. It s partiay the format, where you have coaborative earning and everyone s here for a common goa. When you mix that with the many networking opportunities, you reay are abe to form a connection with these cients. That carries through the whoe saes process and customer reations we don t get that return anywhere ese. James Scherer Director of Saes, TRI Air Testing When we come to the SQF Conference it gives us an opportunity to have face time with auditors, retaiers and trainers. We can engage in important discussions about what s chaenging them today and be part of an active diaogue to find soutions to both new and od probems. Every time we go to the SQF Conference, we go home with more knowedge and new reationships. Hoy Dance Vice President, Prometric As Food Safety and Food Quaity Industry Service Providers, James and Hoy wi benefit from: Buiding persona connections with current and prospective cients Engaging in constructive diaogue on food safety chaenges facing the industry The opportunity to discuss business soutions to food safety issues A positive, energetic and productive reationship-buiding environment OUR LEARNING LAB SUGGESTIONS FOR JAMES AND HOLLY: Decoding the Mystery of Risk Assessment Food Safety Cuture 2:0: Strategies and Toos to Hep You Measure What You Treasure Bridging the Gap Between Maintenance and Sanitation

4 RETAILERS The SQF Conference is one of the premier goba food safety annua meetings. It s one of the most important paces you can come to find out the key food safety information that you and your organization need to be successfu in deivering safe, high quaity products for your customers. Michae Roberson Director of Corporate Quaity Assurance, Pubix Super Markets, Inc. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE Visit for more detais 8:00 AM 5:00 PM Pre-Conference Training (ADDITIONAL FEE APPLIES) As a Retaier, Michae wi benefit from: A robust education program addressing key issues in food safety and quaity Vauabe conversations with other retaiers facing simiar chaenges A coaborative environment focused on soving food safety issues at the retai eve Networking opportunities with suppiers OUR LEARNING LAB SUGGESTIONS FOR MICHAEL: Break Out of Boredom! Using Escape Room & Other Interactive Techniques to Revitaize Your Training Programs Samonea, Listeria, E. coi, Oh My! Performing a GAP Anaysis of your Environmenta Monitoring program Straight From The Frontines: Combating Contamination with Sound Sanitary Equipment Design MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 8:00 AM 5:00 PM Pre-Conference Training (ADDITIONAL FEE APPLIES) 5:30 PM 6.30 PM Ambassador Program Orientation TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 7:00 AM 8:00 AM Sunrise Yoga (ALL LEVELS) 8:00 AM 5:00 PM Headshot Lounge Sponsored by TRI Air Testing 9:00 AM 10:00 AM Wecome Refreshment Break in the Exhibitor Exchange powered by FSNS C&A Sponsored by Mérieux NutriSciences 10:30 AM 11:30 AM Conference Kick Off With The Water Cooers 11:30 AM 12:30 PM Shaping The Future of Food Safety Together 12:30 PM 2:00 PM Lunch in the Exhibitor Exchange powered by FSNS C&A Sponsored by TraceGains 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Knowedge Swaps 3:00 PM 3:30 PM Networking Break 3:30 PM 4:30 PM Genera Session: Rea Cases Rea Stories 4:30 PM 5:00 PM Ceebrating Our Industry: The 2018 SQFI Achievement Awards Sponsored by Exempar Goba 5:00 PM 7:00 PM Happy Hour in the Exhibitor Exchange powered by FSNS C&A

5 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 7:00 AM 8:00 AM Breakfast in the Exhibitor Exchange powered by FSNS C&A Sponsored by FoodChain ID 8:00 AM 9:00 AM Keynote: Embrace the Shake 8:00 AM 5:00 PM Headshot Lounge Sponsored by TRI Air Testing 9:15 AM 10:15 AM Learning Labs 10:15 AM 10:45 AM Networking Break 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch in the Exhibitor Exchange powered by FSNS C&A Sponsored by SAI Goba 1:00 PM 2:00 PM Learning Labs 2:15 PM 3:15 PM Learning Labs 3:15 PM 3:45 PM Networking Break 3:45 PM 4:45 PM Foreign Suppier Verification Program and Beyond: An FDA Update for SQF Stakehoders 4:45 PM 5:15 PM Coaborative Team Project (Embrace the Shake Part II) 6:30 PM 10:00 PM Casino Night! Sponsored by EAGLE Certification Group SHAPING THE FUTURE OF FOOD SAFETY TOGETHER Our conference theme, Shaping the Future of Food Safety Together focuses on promoting coaboration, paying tribute to your successes as food safety professionas and reinforcing your vita roe in keeping our food suppy safe. In our 25+ Learning Labs, you be encouraged to coaborate with other SQF stakehoders to find soutions to the biggest chaenges faced by food industry professionas today. Our keynotes wi inspire you to transform chaenges into opportunities, demonstrate how even the smaest contribution matters, remind you why you do what you do and give you an opportunity to hep shape the future of the SQF Program. Our SQF Quaity Achievement Awards wi honor the important work of a SQF stakehoders and recognize individuas who have made outstanding contributions to the industry. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 7:00 AM 8:00 AM Breakfast in the Exhibitor Exchange powered by FSNS C&A Sponsored by SGS North America Inc. 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Shaping the Future of Food Safety One Robot at a Time 9:00 AM 1:00 PM Headshot Lounge Sponsored by TRI Air Testing 9:15 AM 10:15 AM Learning Labs 10:15 AM 10:45 AM Networking Break 10:45 AM 11:45 AM Learning Labs 11:45 AM 1:00 PM Lunch in the Exhibitor Exchange powered by FSNS C&A Sponsored by SafetyChain Software 1:00 PM 2:30 PM SQFI 2019 and Beyond: Shaping the Future of Food Safety Together (Part II) 2:30 PM 3:00 PM The Big Revea: Resuts of the Team Project

6 FEATURED KEYNOTES Shaping the Future of Food Safety Together LeAnn Chuboff, Vice President, Technica Affairs, SQFI SQF stakehoders pay a vita roe in keeping the food suppy chain safe. For its part, SQFI works tireessy to deiver gobay recognized and consistent food safety and quaity programs to meet the needs of its stakehoders. Together we can shape the future of food safety by engaging in diaogue to identify our individua chaenges, find common ground and impement common sense soutions. Hear resuts of the 2018 SQF Stakehoder Survey and vote on the top issues you woud ike SQFI to focus on. This is your chance to hep shape future editions of the SQF Code. Embrace the Shake: Transforming Limitations into Opportunities Phi Hansen, Inspirationa Mutimedia Artist The term Embrace the Shake is coined from artist Phi Hansen s persona story of transformation. After deveoping a career-ending tremor in his drawing hand, Phi embraced his shake both physicay and metaphoricay by redefining his imitation as an impetus for creativity. Phi not ony restored his artistic abiities, he became a much more creative and innovative artist than ever before. Phi s powerfu message of finding creativity within imitations wi inspire you to stop ooking on the outside, and start ooking inside yoursef for resources that can transform your chaenges into opportunities for success. Team Coaboration Project with Phi Hansen PLUS The BIG REVEAL Embrace the Shake isn t just a tak, it s an experience! Through jaw-dropping visuas and LIVE interactive art, get ready to break preconceived assumptions, activate your creative capacity, and bring fresh ways of viewing the task at hand that wi cuminate with success. Foreign Suppier Verification Program and Beyond: An FDA Update for SQF Stakehoders Sharon L. May, J.D., Senior Advisor for Poicy, Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) An informative update on the Foreign Suppier Verification Program, Accredited Third-Party Certification Program and Vountary Quaified Importer Program. Get a bird s eye view of how GFSI programs fit into FDA s programs, earn how FDA reguations appy to SQF certified companies, and get an update on FDA s enforcement efforts to date. Rea Cases, Rea Stories: Why Food Safety Matters Dr. Darin Detwier, Assistant Dean and Professor, Northeastern University - Coege of Professiona Studies Bi Marer, Food Safety Attorney, Marer Cark, The Food Safety Law Firm Uness you have personay experienced the suffering and oss associated with foodborne iness, you might not fuy grasp just how critica your roe as a food safety professiona reay is. In this compeing session, you hear rea cases of foodborne iness that wi remind you of the consequences of making a bad food safety decision. You take home important information to incorporate into your training. And you eave with a cearer understanding of the vita roe you pay in preventing human suffering and saving ives. Shaping the Future of Food Safety One Robot at a Time David Hardiman-Evans, Senior Vice President, Ocada Group Pc See the future of food retai NOW. U.K. retai giant, Ocado Group Pc, the word s argest pure-pay onine grocery retaier, has invested in technoogy and automation that aows them to put together a 50-item order in a matter of minutes. But how does the need for speed impact food safety and quaity in an e-commerce environment? Hear how Ocado s technoogy and automation capabiities can process hundreds of thousand orders a week whie preserving the safety and integrity of the cod chain through distribution, whether the products are sourced from sma or arge suppiers. SQFI 2019 and Beyond LeAnn Chuboff, Vice President, Technica Affairs, SQFI Kristie Grzywinski, Senior Technica Manager, SQFI Chris Sincair, Manager, SQF Compiance, SQFI Sarah Maenich, Director, Saes and Marketing, SQFI This is YOUR opportunity to choose the focus of the conversation as SQFI team members revea what s in store for The SQF Program in 2019 and beyond. We give you the opportunity to vote ive on which topics you want us to cover and open up the foor to your questions. We aso showcase the brand new SQFI website that wi be aunched in ate 2018.

7 CONFERENCE DETAILS OCTOBER 23-25, 2018 For fu program detais, pease visit REGISTRATION Eary Registration Unti Juy 31, 2018 Standard Registration August 1- October 16, 2018 Late Registration October 17-25, 2018 $975 - Eary Bird $1,100 - Standard $1,200 - Onsite $925 - Groups of 5+ $1,050 - Groups of 5+ $1,150 - Groups of 5+ $150 - Spouse/Partner $150 - Spouse/Partner $150 - Spouse/Partner HOTEL Atanta Marriott Marquis 265 Peachtree Center Avenue Atanta, GA For onine reservations visit For phone reservations ca , and ask for the SQF Internationa Conference rate, which is $219.00/night pus appicabe taxes. Reservation cut-off date: Monday, October 1, 2018, 5:00 PM (hote oca time). Rooms are ikey to se out prior to this date, so pease book eary. TRAINING CLASSES The foowing pre-conference training casses are offered at an additiona cost. Pease visit for course detais and pricing SQF Professiona Update Advanced SQF Practitioner (2-day) Environmenta Monitoring for Manufacturing Pants Aergen Labeing Pans to Reduce the Risk of Product Recas Overcoming the Top 5 Chaenges in HACCP Pan Deveopment for Packaging: Improving your HACCP Pan Strategies for Food Fraud Prevention Spanish Interna Audit Pan Deveopment Foreign Suppier Verification Programs Training (2-day) Impementing the SQF Quaity Code Impementing the SQF Fundamentas Code GOT QUESTIONS? Contact us at abondthorey@fmi.org

8 SPONSORS Thank you to the generous sponsors* who support our industry and without whom we coud not bring you this outstanding event. PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITERS Certification Group PREMIER SUPPORTERS EXHIBITORS* ACET Goba Consuting LLC Achemy Academy Bia Diagnostics BSI Suppy Chain Services and Soutions TIER 1 PARTNERS BIOMIST DNV GL - Business Assurance Emport LLC TIER 2 PARTNERS Food Safety News Food Safety Tech Invisibe Sentine METTLER TOLEDO Nationa Registry of Food Safety Professionas OurRecords, Inc. Presage Anaytics TIER 3 PARTNERS Prometric QWerks Racepoint Goba Rentoki Steritech MEDIA PARTNERS Repositrak Food Safety News Siika America Trace Anaytics, LLC TUV USA, Inc. *sponsors are aso participating as exhibitors Where Food Comes From, Inc. Vaidus Verification Services *ALL SPONSORS ARE ALSO EXHIBITING

9 OCTOBER 23-25, 2018 MARRIOTT MARQUIS ATLANTA ATLANTA, GA