2021 Convention - Day 2: Keynote speakers

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Shelley McMillan 

Head of Consulting - South APAC, Mintel

Topic: 2021 Australian Food & Drink Trends

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Shelley joined the Mintel Consulting team in 2017, prior to this she worked at Nestl , General Mills and Associated British Foods in marketing, managing brand strategy and new product launches across multiple markets. Working at Mintel combines her 2 passions the food & drink industry (she is a qualified food technologist) and consumer behaviour, most recently completing post-grad in Behavioural Economics.  At Mintel, she is responsible for the South APAC region, leading a team who create customised consulting projects around client’s strategic innovation objectives.

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Food and drink companies will broaden their focus on mental wellbeing solutions, deliver on new value needs, and use brands to celebrate people's identities.

Professor Brajesh Singh, Western Sydney University

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Michelle Colgrave

CSIRO

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Michelle Colgrave is a Professor of Food and Agricultural Proteomics, a chief investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science and the Future Protein Mission Leader in CSIRO Agriculture and Food, based at the Queensland Bioscience Precinct in Brisbane, Australia. The Future Protein Mission will grow Australia's protein industry by $10b by 2027. The scope of the mission is centred on principles of sustainable growth delivering high quality, affordable and nutritionally optimized protein for Australia. It will develop protein-based industries along the full value chain from production to the customer, delivering premium protein ingredients and products, addressing the rapid growth of the protein-based sector. Including plant-based protein, traditional protein, insect protein and microbes such as yeast that can create wealth from waste, the mission will transform low or no value side-streams through advanced biomanufacturing.

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