Topics for Technical Sessions

• Optimization of traditional and emerging processing technologies 
• Continuing challenges and trends in food analysis and food chemistry
• Current issues in food microbiology
• Current issues in food biochemistry and biotechnology
• Trends in food engineering
• Occurrence and control of food-borne diseases, food toxins and allergens
• Advances in sensory and consumer science
• Bioactive compounds and functional foods
• Food and Nutrition
  

Topics for Symposia

• International perspectives on food safety and regulations – a need for harmonized regulations
• Achieving global food and nutritional security. Strategies for Food Science and Technology 
• Diet, nutrition and health. Global perspectives
• Hot topics  in food production and food technology
• Postharvest technologies. Strategies to minimize postharvest losses
• Food component reactions and their impact on food quality and human health
• New processing technologies. From concept to applications
• Innovations and trends in food packaging
• ISNFF Symposium: Recent developments in functional foods
• Focus on educational capacity building. Are we preparing Food Science and Technology professionals adequately for present and future challenges?
• Trends in food flavor, texture and color
• Current and emerging issues in assuring microbiological safety of foods
• Food Science and Technology in Canada (next host of the World Congress)
• IUFoST/ICSU Symposium
• ISEKI Symposium: Bridging academia, government and industry
• Students’ Session: What makes a leader?
• Publication Session: How do you get your paper published?
• Young Scientists’ Session

Topics for Panel Discussions

• Innovation – how do we take a good idea and make it a reality?
• Food Science and Technology’s role in sustainable development
• The future: Food Science and Technology in 2030 and beyond
• Interaction between agriculture, nutrition and food science/technology: A necessity
• Ensuring food safety in developing and developed countries
• Women in Food Science and Technology

Sponsored Session

• Nuts: Production, processing, quality and health effects

CEO SUMMIT

NANOTECHNOLOGY SESSIONS

Topics for ALACCTA Sessions

• Milk and Dairy Products
• Coffee and Chocolate
• Traditional Products and Processes
• Food Security and Safety in Latin America

Sessions on Recent Innovations in the Food Industry

• Ingredients and additives
• Processing technologies
• Products

A Technical Session will start with one or two 20 min overviews by the session chairs, followed by eight or seven 15 min (+ 5 min discussion) oral presentations.

A Symposium will consist of six 25 min (+5 min discussion) lectures.

A Panel Discussion will consist of a 15 min introductory exposition by the panel chair, 15 min expositions of 3 panelists, followed by a 30 min open discussion.

Each session on Innovations in the Food Industry will consist of nine 20 min presentations.

There will also be an Opening Plenary Session and a Closing Plenary Session.