The British Frozen Food Federation is delighted to be welcoming our keynote speaker for the Technical Conference Anne Gravett, Head of Stakeholder Engagement, Receipt & Management at the Food Standards Agency.

Anne works in the FSA Incidents and Resilience focusing on incident detection and prevention and her team’s remit is food safety situational awareness and stakeholder engagement.

Anne started her career with plants and agronomy and ended up in food safety. She’s worked in policy, enforcement, resilience and emergency response which included the UK national food/feed sampling system rollout and also led EU exit planning for FSA incidents. Annes’ key interest is using data/information to improve food safety and has close ties with WHO INFOSAN who they now use to replace RASFF, and sits on the INFOSAN Advisory Group.

Anne will be talking about maintaining Food Safety through challenging times. The presentation will give insight into how we work differently since the EU exit & Covid to protect consumers from food safety incidents; covering new proactive systems and approaches, and highlighting the crucial role that industry plays in this process.

You can still book your tickets to this year’s Technical Conference here.

The network and projects coordinator at the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) at the University of Lincoln, Steve Brewer, will be speaking at this year’s Technical Conference.

Steve’s background includes the UKRI- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)-funded Internet of Food Things Network Plus, an interdisciplinary initiative which is working to reduce food waste, increase nutritional value and productivity, and reduce environmental impact across the supply chain, plus a number of Innovate UK projects including Trusted Bytes and Digital Sandwich. Steve is a part-time doctoral candidate at the University of Southampton investigating the role of a previous Network Plus, IT as a Utility as a Living Laboratory.

The food system is facing many challenges today: waste, cost, nutrition, safety, authenticity, and climate change. In the sense of digital information, data offers a range of solutions through technologies such as robots, AI, IoT, drones and telecommunications. Steve will present various insights and potential solutions based on his work and experience.

You can view the full conference day programme here.