Speakers at the Membrane Technology Forum (membraneforum.com) in June presented important concepts and ideas in processing, from fundamentals of membrane technology to fouling and cleaning.

Fairlife CEO Steve Jones is the keynote speaker at the International Dairy Foods Association’s Milk and Cultured Dairy Products Conference, May 19 to 20. He will speak on “New Frontiers in the Dairy Case.”

The Food Safety Summit, taking place April 28-30 at the Baltimore Convention Center, is a conference where dairy processors can learn about the latest information and situations in food safety.

CEO Robert Coallier’s keynote address will open the Wisconsin Cheese Industry Conference, April 22 to 23 in Madison, Wis.

The International Dairy Foods Association, producer of the International Dairy Show, is adding a Co-Packer Pavilion on the show floor.

Move over kale. Cheese – as a food and as a flavoring – was named one of five food trends at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco in January.

Pack Expo International takes place Nov. 2-5, in Chicago at McCormick Place. The event, hosted by PMMI, Reston, Va., is expecting approximately 50,000 attendees and 2,000 exhibitors, with 1.15 million net square feet of exhibit space (combined) for Pack Expo and Pharma Expo, which it is co-locating this year for the first time.

Michael Haddad (CEO, Schreiber Foods), Dave Fuhrmann (CEO, Foremost Farms USA), Dermot Carey (Senior VP, Darigold Inc.), Bruce Pronschinske (Director, Kwik Trip) and Keith Gomes (COO, Dairy Farmers of America) are among the confirmed speakers at the Wisconsin Dairy Products Association’s 2014 Dairy Symposium.