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March 24 to 25, 2026

Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo, MI

2026 Speakers and partners

Julie Auflick

Julie Auflick

Vice President of Merchandising at Kroger Michigan

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Brad Bogolea

Brad Bogolea

CEO and Co-founder at Simbe Robotics

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Tina Browen

Tina Browen

Senior Marketing Director at Jewel-Osco

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Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown

Chief Customer Officer at WK Kellogg Co

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Deb Conklin

Deb Conklin

President and CEO at KeHE

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Kevin Coupe

Kevin Coupe

"Content Guy" at MorningNewsBeat.com

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Kristin Crouse

Kristin Crouse

Senior Vice President of Client Insights at Circana

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Greg Ferrara

Greg Ferrara

President and CEO at NGA

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Sreten Gajic

Senior Vice President National Grocery at Keurig Dr Pepper

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Stephanie Gallo

Stephanie A. Gallo

Chief Marketing Officer at Gallo

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Clare Galvao

Clare Galvão

Vice President of Sales Growth and Capabilities at Kellanova

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Tricia Greyshock

Tricia Greyshock

President and CEO at NFRA

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Jim Griffin

Jim Griffin

President at Daymon North America

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Justin Honaman

Justin Honaman

Head of Worldwide Retail, Restaurants and Consumer Goods at Amazon

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Carrie Jones-Barber

Carrie Jones-Barber

CEO at Dawn Foods

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Deepak Jose

Head of Data and Decision Intelligence at Niagara Bottling

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Shayna Krawczyk

Customer Executive at Hormel Foods

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Anthony Kyles

Industry Expert

Tyler Lowell

Tyler Lowell

Managing Partner and CEO at C.A. Fortune

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Jenn Martin

Jenn Martin

Vice President of Merchandising for Fresh at Meijer

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Joey Matos

Senior Director of Sales at Danone

Orr Orenstein

Orr Orenstein

Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Inmar Intelligence

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Maddie Paciorek

Maddie Paciorek

Associate Manager of Category Management at Kellanova

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Dave Peacock

Dave Peacock

CEO at Advantage Solutions

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Lynn Petrak

Senior Editor at Progressive Grocer

Ashley Roehm

Ashley Roehm

President at Acosta Sales Agency

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Keith Rothstein

Group Vice President Strategy and Analytics at Meijer

Leslie G. Sarasin

Leslie G. Sarasin

President and CEO, FMI | The Food Industry Association

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Tyler Schutz

Tyler Schutz

Vice President of Retail at DunnHumby

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Gary Seagraves

Gary Seagraves

Region Vice President at Mondelēz International

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Mike Stigers

Mike Stigers

President at Wakefern Food Corp.

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Doug VanDeVelde

Doug VanDeVelde

Chief Growth Officer at WK Kellogg Co

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Katelyn Wandel

Senior Category Development Analyst at Mark Anthony Group

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Pat Witte

Chief Customer Officer at Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling

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Liz Zolcak

Liz Zolcak

President at Fresh Thyme Market

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Lily Zwanka

Brand Marketing Analyst at Danone

Russell Zwanka

Russell Zwanka

Director of the Food Marketing Program at WMU

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2026 Sponsorship opportunities

Thank you to our many sponsors for supporting the No. 1 event in food marketing. We can't wait to see you at the conference!

For more information regarding sponsoring the 2026 Food Marketing Conference, please review the sponsor level information below or contact Lisa Youtzy for more information.

  • Includes in-person conference registration for 24 people. Additional registration or blocks discounted at 20%.
  • Includes unlimited live-hybrid access to all sessions for your organization.
  • Sole sponsor recognition for keynote speaker session, with commercial feature before session—limited.
  • Company ad copy and logo featured prominently within conference ballroom, on website and on all promotional materials.
  • High priority for Food Marketing Association Company Day (Fall 2026/Spring 2027)—student interviews, internship priority, presentations, full-time graduate hiring priority.
  • Three $2,000 Priority Access Sponsor Scholarships awarded in your company’s name.
Become a Priority Access sponsor
  • Includes in-person conference registration for 18 people. Additional registration or blocks discounted at 20%.
  • Includes live-hybrid access to all sessions for 40 people in your organization.
  • Sole sponsor recognition for keynote speaker session, with commercial feature before session—limited.
  • Company ad copy and logo featured prominently within conference ballroom, on website and on all promotional materials.
  • High priority for Food Marketing Association Company Day (Fall 2026/Spring 2027)—student interviews, internship priority, presentations, full-time graduate hiring priority.
  • Two $2,000 Platinum Plus Sponsor Scholarships awarded in your company’s name.
Become a Platinum Plus sponsor
  • Includes in-person conference registration for 12 people. Additional registration or blocks discounted at 15%.
  • Includes live-hybrid access to all sessions for 30 people in your organization.
  • Sponsor recognition for keynote speaker session.
  • Company ad copy and logo featured prominently within conference ballroom.
  • Sponsor recognition on conference website and company logo on all promotional materials.
  • Two $1,000 Platinum Sponsor Scholarships awarded in your company’s name.
Become a Platinum sponsor
  • Includes in-person conference registration for 8 people. Additional registration or blocks discounted at 10%.
  • Includes live-hybrid access to all sessions for 20 people in your organization.
  • Sponsor recognition for a keynote speaker session.
  • Company will be recognized before and after sponsored keynote session.
  • Conference signage recognizing your company throughout the event.
  • Company recognition in select conference promotional materials including print, social media and virtual.
  • Two $1,000 Gold Sponsor Scholarships awarded in your company’s name.
Become a Gold sponsor
  • Includes in-person conference registration for 6 people. Additional registration or blocks discounted at 5%.
  • Includes live-hybrid access to all sessions for 10 people in your organization.
  • Sponsor recognition on conference website.
  • Conference signage recognizing your company throughout the event.
  • Company recognition in select conference promotional materials including print, social media and virtual.
  • One $500 Silver Sponsor Scholarship awarded in your company’s name.
Become a Silver sponsor
  • Includes in-person conference registration for 3 people.
  • Includes live-hybrid access to all sessions for 5 people in your organization.
  • Sponsor recognition on conference website.
  • Conference signage recognizing your company as a Bronze Sponsor.
  • Company recognition in select conference promotional materials including print, social media and virtual.
Become a Bronze sponsor

Questions? Contact the coordinators.

Contact Lisa Youtzy
Contact Dr. Russell Zwanka