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The FMC will be held March 23 to 24, 2027 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo, MI
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2026 Speakers and partners

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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Jerrold Coakley.

Jerrold Coakley

Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Stater Bros. Markets

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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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Aparna Galiasso.

Aparna Galiasso

Head, Retail and Consumer Goods Industry Strategy and Business Development, North America at Amazon Web Services

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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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Ban George.

Ban George

National Director for Kroger Health

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Tricia Greyshock.

Tricia Greyshock

President and CEO at NFRA

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Carrie Jones-Barber.

Carrie Jones-Barber

CEO at Dawn Foods

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Deepak Jose speaking.

Deepak Jose

Head of Data and Decision Intelligence at Niagara Bottling

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Shayna Krawczyk.

Shayna Krawczyk

Customer Executive at Hormel Foods

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Anthony Kyles.

Anthony Kyles

Industry Expert

Amanda Lai.

Amanda Lai

Director, Food Industry Practice at McMillanDoolittle

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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.

Joey Matos

Vice President of Sales at Danone

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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.

Lynn Petrak

Lead Writer and Editor at Circana

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Gilliam Phillips.

Gil Phipps

Senior Vice President of Global Customer Solutions at Advantage

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Ashley Roehm.

Ashley Roehm

President at Acosta Sales Agency

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Keith Rothstein.

Keith Rothstein

Group Vice President Strategy and Analytics at Meijer

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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.

Katelyn Wandel

MBA Candidate at University of Michigan

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Pat Witte.

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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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?

Questions? Contact the coordinators.

Contact Lisa Youtzy
Contact Dr. Russell Zwanka