Food & Beverage Roundtable Launch
About this Event
This intimate event brings food and beverage executives together for:
- Candid dialogue on today's biggest industry challenges across Commercial Risk Management and Employee Benefits
- Shared insights and peer-to-peer learning
- Stronger connections with decision-makers across the food and beverage industry
An optional happy hour and dinner will follow at Foxtown Brewing, 6411 W Mequon Rd, Mequon, WI 53092.
Space is limited to keep the dialogue productive and collaborative. Reserve your seat today to be part of the conversation shaping Wisconsin and beyond.
SESSION TOPICS
We’re planning a single day where food & beverage industry leaders can share data, best practices, and concerns for complex risks facing the food and beverage industry, across both commercial risks and employee benefits.
Please confirm your attendance and we will be getting your input on final topics and details across potential agenda topics including those described below. This agenda is not final – we just want to confirm your interest as we plan for this first Roundtable of many! We’ll also develop a survey to gather some information before the meeting, because industry data for many of these topics does not exist.
KICKOFF — PEOPLE & BENEFITS
Session 1 - Healthcare Cost Trends & Specialty Ph*rm*cy
- Medical trend drivers specific to food manufacturing and processing workforces
- Specialty Ph*rm*cy escalation and PBM contract strategies to control costs
- GLP-1 Medic*tion management — coverage policies, clinical guardrails, and budget impact
Session 2 - Workforce Benefits, Retention & Engagement
- Competitive industry benefits benchmarking, including direct contracting solutions, alternative models (ICHRA) and financing models (captive, SIHRA)
- Strategies for attracting and retaining hourly, shift, and seasonal workforce populations
Session 3 - Benefits and Wellness Best Practices and Innovations / Leaves-Compliance
- Leave management complexity in multi-state, 24/7 manufacturing operations
- ADA accommodation tracking and documentation best practices for plant environments
- ACA measurement and reporting pitfalls for variable-hour and seasonal employees
AFTERNOON SESSION — COMMERCIAL RISK & SAFETY
Session 4 - Food Contamination, Recall & Product Liability
- Recall program design — first-party and third-party coverage structures for food processors and manufacturers
- FSMA compliance and its intersection with insurability and carrier appetite
- Customer audit and certification requirements (SQF, BRCGS) and risk transfer implications
- Quality and packaging defect exposures — where retained risk ends and insurance begins
- Crisis communications planning and brand protection in the event of a recall
Session 5 - Supply Chain, Property & Equipment Risk
- Supply chain disruption exposures — commodity price volatility and geopolitical risk
- Business interruption and contingent business interruption coverage gaps for production operations
- Aging equipment risk — valuation, replacement cost adequacy, and breakdown coverage
- Cold storage and refrigeration — property and spoilage coverage considerations
- Natural catastrophe exposure modeling for processing and distribution facilities
Session 6 - Workers' Compensation, Fleet & Cyber Risk
- Workers' comp trends in food processing — repetitive motion, cuts, and cold environment claims across distribution and production sites
- Safety program development and experience modification strategies
- Fleet risk management for distribution operations
- Cyber and AI technology risk — OT/IT convergence in automated processing environments
- Regulatory and compliance risk under MAHA and evolving OSHA enforcement priorities
- Environ, pollution liability — wastewater treatment and ammonia refrigerant exposures
Session 7 - Peer Discussion -- Best Practices and Innovations
- Open forum — sharing best practices, challenges, wins, and innovative approaches across all commercial risk programs – develop industry standard?
- The GLP-1 dual impact: managing it as a commercial demand shift
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