There are regular FDIN seminars throughout the year. Just by coming along you are joining an innovation best-practice club which is dedicated to the needs of the food & drink industry.

The seminars are about the many aspects of innovation; growing, sourcing, manufacture, packaging, logistics, marketing, selling, promotion, category management, retailing and (of course) product development.

At each meeting we spend the morning hearing from well-informed specialists and in the afternoon we create mini-seminars where we discuss and debate the main topic with passionate peers!

This is networking at its best ... quality time spent with industry counterparts, discussing exactly what we want to discuss and not wasting time on pre-determined issues. In the mini-seminars you'll find out who's doing what, how and why. You can swap best practice visits, and you can update yourself on the theory and practice of innovation..

We publish the output of these mini-seminars as power point and pdf reports. You'll find links to these elsewhere by clicking on the link for 'previous seminars and documentation' (on the left hand column of this page.

Every now and again we re-set the topics for the seminars ahead. We do this by asking all our members what they want to hear about.
In October 2002, we discovered that the hottest issues were:
How to introduce robotics and other technologies (Technology transfer)?
How to choose and implement paperless NPD systems?
How to give consumers what they want when they don't even know they want it?
How to improve cross-functional innovation.
How to deliver value-added innovation in an increasingly price-deflated retail environment?
Which KPIs for measuring innovation and benchmarking possibilities?
How to fund innovation in difficult times?
How to start and manage ideas schemes?
How to use "start-ups" to trial new ideas?
What is the best practice for screening of winning ideas?
What is the best management structure for innovation?
How to Innovate for consumers who don't understand food?
Where do we go to get good training in food & drink?

We use this information to decide what seminars to run for you. See future seminars on the Next seminar page.