We’ve posted the agenda for Nosh Live, taking place on December 5 + 6 in Marina del Rey, CA. Key features include growth-focused presentations, technical workshops, Boot Camp education for startups, one-to-one meetings with retailers and investors, product sampling, and the Nosh Live Pitch Slam.

The conference provides actionable takeaways to help you prepare for success in 2025, with a focus on cultivating growth and fostering innovation. The agenda features 20+ presentations, including:

Lessons From a Celebrity Farmer
This conversation with co-founders John Foraker and Jen Garner will dig into the ways that the brand has grown, what has worked and what hasn’t, and the aspects of brand- and company-building that are either enhanced or unaffected when a famous founder is on the cap table. It will also look into key issues affecting entrepreneurial brands and the ways that innovators can seek buy-in from their key partners.

Growing in Whole Foods
Whole Foods Market has long served as a launching pad for food and beverage brands, but many founders don’t know how to get a foot in the door. What do executives and merchants seek from potential suppliers? And what is required to expand into additional regions? Casey Gaston, executive leader of Local and Emerging Brands at Whole Foods, will share how brands can prepare strong pitches, properly calibrate growth ambitions, and forge the best path for success within the company.

State of VC Investing
What are the macro factors creating changes in the exit landscape? How should founders think about business operations and funding due to those changes? A panel of investors will discuss today’s funding environment for early-stage brands and market trends to watch in the year ahead.

Unlocking Growth Amidst Challenges
Founders come into the food business with great ideas, incredible energy, and are fast saddled with the everyday chaos that is running their business and battling for survival. It sometimes takes years to find the patterns in customer feedback and retail fit, and the products needed to unlock growth.Attendees will learn to lop time off of that waiting game when they hear from two brilliant entrepreneurs on the ways they have found high-impact growth opportunities within challenging periods of company development.

Milking Your Manufacturing for Money
A panel of experts will weigh the advantages and disadvantages of self-manufacturing versus partnering with a contract manufacturer. The group will discuss ways to optimize supply chains and scale production as a business grows. Attendees will learn how to squeeze more dollars out of operations and effectively build for the future.

View the list of presentations on the Nosh Live agenda.

The speaker lineup features Once Upon A Farm, Fly by Jing, Goodles, Rudi’s Rocky Mountain Bakery, TikTok Shop, Sweet Loren’s, Whole Foods Market, Good Culture, Afia Foods, Supply Change Capital, VMG Partners, and more.

Respected industry experts, suppliers and service providers will also be on hand to present on the technical how-tos of running a food manufacturing business, providing solutions for growth, operations, fundraising and more.

View the full speaker lineup.

Plus, don’t forget about one-to-one meetings with Whole Foods Market, Springdale Ventures, Wellness Growth Ventures, and Houlihan Lokey; sampling opportunities; the Nosh Live Pitch Slam, Elevator Talk, and the Nosh Live Happy Hour.

View the agenda to see everything that’s happening at Nosh Live Winter 2024. Time is running out to register!

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About Nosh Live

Nosh Live is a two-day business event for the packaged food industry. The cutting-edge conference drives valuable industry connections and promotes the exchange of strategies and ideas. Specific to CPG food companies, the program explores growth strategy, sales, marketing, investment, and more through case-based presentations and panels by an all-star roster of speakers.