FMI | Midwinter Conference

FMI Midwinter 2023: January 20-23

FMI‘s Midwinter Executive Conference has always been the premier forum for high-impact industry dialog — our moment to tackle what’s next in grocery. You won’t find a more qualified, captive audience of executive-level food industry attendees anywhere else. As an invitation-only event, FMI members focus on the industry's most pressing issues, together.

We look forward to seeing you next year at FMI Midwinter, January 20-23, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Orlando.

New at Midwinter

PepsiCo Rooftop Block Party

Monday, March 28 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Hyatt Regency Garden Terrace
Join us at the PepsiCo Rooftop Block Party for a quintessential night celebrating the industry, sports, music and community. A very special celebrity guest is joining us that cannot be missed--literally and figuratively.

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Keynote: Understanding Why They Stay or Go: Voices from the Workforce

Hear the voices of current and former food industry employees on why they’ve stayed or left and what their employers have done to make the difference, narrated and analyzed by Deloitte industry expert Barb Renner.

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Keynote: A View from the FTC: Encouraging Competition in the Retail Food Marketplace

Federal Trade Commissioner Noah Phillips joins FMI CEO and President Leslie Sarasin for an onstage discussion of competition in the marketplace, regulation and the role of the FTC in overseeing the current marketplace. As the FTC’s priorities continue to evolve in the Biden Administration, we’ll explore how those priorities may impact your business and the broader food industry.

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Dana Peterson, Chief Economist & Center Leader of Economy, Strategy & Finance at The Conference Board

Not 2020-Too: Economic Outlook for the Coming Year

As the new year began with yet another surge in the worldwide pandemic and uncertainty at so many turns, some are jokingly calling this not 2022 but 2020-Too. But the fundamentals today are quite different than they were two years ago.

Chief Economist & Center Leader of Economy, Strategy & Finance at The Conference Board, Dana M. Peterson, will walk us through the economic trends to watch in her signature style.

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COVID-19 Safety Plan

Respecting our commitment to creating a safe, in-person gathering at FMI Midwinter Executive Conference, we have established COVID-19 protocols.

As part of our FMI Midwinter safety plan, we will require either proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction test (PCR) test, administered within 72 hours prior to arrival.

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