Chicago’s McCormick Place served as host for the 2013 IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo for several days in mid-July.
Chicago’s McCormick Place served as host for the 2013 IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo for several days in mid-July. Nearly 1,200 exhibitors (a 10% increase over the 2012 event) catered to more than 23,000 attendees, making it the second-largest in the show’s history.
Food safety, health and wellness, and sustainability were the convention’s most popular topics of conversation and seminars. In fact, sustainability was the principal focus in this year’s keynote session by Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, editor-at-large at Time and columnist with The Washington Post. He explored the extreme food challenges facing the world, both in developed and developing nations, and delved into food waste, food safety and food insecurity.