From 1 to a few August, leaders from each phase of the contemporary produce provide chain will meet at Cape The city’s Century Town Convention Centre for the World Recent Produce Affiliation’s (IFPA) Southern Africa Convention, the most important contemporary produce convention and business display in Southern Africa.
“The Southern Africa Convention is a in reality colourful and tasty tournament the place growers, exporters, shops, wholesalers, marketplace brokers, and lots of extra all over the availability chain convene to make strategic connections and change new concepts,” stated Stephanie van der Walt, regional supervisor for the World Recent Produce Affiliation (IFPA) Southern Africa.
“This yr, we’re overjoyed that attendees gets to revel in plenty of new networking and training alternatives as they acquire first-hand insights into world developments and trade alternatives within the produce trade.”
Convention classes will come with the state of the trade, views at the trade’s long term, world developments and African methods for optimising contemporary produce logistics, world provide chain disruptions and the way they’re being addressed by means of the International Produce Coalition, and Best 10 world client developments for 2023.
On 1 August, the convention will kick off with the chief management summit, adopted by means of a members-only VIP reception that night.
IFPA’s CEO, Cathy Burns, will give a state of the trade cope with on 2 August. Burns will provide the newest world data and analysis and what it approach to the availability chain in Southern Africa.
Bruce Whitfield, multi-award-winning journalist and bestselling writer, will lead a panel of trade idea leaders in a dialogue, ‘Shaping the way forward for our trade: Business views on present problems’.
Panelists come with:
- Tommie van Zyl, leader govt director of ZZ2;
- Paulina Criticos, leader govt director of Westfalia Fruit for the EMEA Area;
- Charl du Bois, industrial head for the citrus, pome fruit and desk grape groups accountable for world procurement and gross sales for Capespan;
- Tamara Muruetagoiena, director of sustainability of IFPA.
Later that day, attendees will listen from mavens at Imperial Clearing and Forwarding South Africa about world developments and African methods for optimising contemporary produce logistics, and what’s being executed to struggle one of the infrastructure demanding situations.
The 3rd and ultimate day of the convention will kick off with the ‘Ladies’s Recent Views Breakfast’. All over the seated breakfast, a mixture of trade newbies and seasoned veterans will benefit from the alternative to switch concepts and studies. Burns will reasonable a panel with idea leaders discussing how they overcame demanding situations, constructed give a boost to techniques, and proceed to try to be higher.
Panellists come with:
- Paulina Criticos, leader govt director of Westfalia Fruit for the EMEA Area;
- Mbali Nwoko, leader govt director of Inexperienced Terrace;
- Marianna du Plessis, director at AgriNetwork-Seek the advice of.
After the breakfast consultation, Robert Guenther, leader public coverage officer, and the IFPA consultant at the International Recent Produce Coalition steerage committee, will lead a dialogue at the demanding situations the International Produce Coalition addresses and the way corporations can paintings in combination to regulate this complicated surroundings.
The International Produce Coalition was once shaped to handle world provide chain disruptions for contemporary produce manufacturing and business (specifically expanding prices), that have ended in considerations in regards to the financial type of the field and its capability to offer cost-effective contemporary fruit and greens to give a boost to meals safety and well being.
The convention’s ultimate consultation will focal point at the Best 10 world client developments for 2023. Rubab Abdoolla, a Euromonitor guide, will give an explanation for the way to use client developments research to stick aggressive and develop gross sales within the yr forward and past.
Through exploring those developments, it is possible for you to to decide which explicit developments affect your classes, perceive what is going on and get impressed by means of seeing how companies/manufacturers reply.
For more info and to sign up, discuss with our web site at freshproduce.com. For questions in regards to the tournament, touch Stephanie van der Walt at e mail: [email protected].