Designed for owners and C-suite leaders, this session tackles a core executive challenge: knowing whether change is working before the results are in. Contract packagers and manufacturers are managing new customer programs, automation investments, capability gaps, and generational leadership transitions. Yet by the time an initiative shows up in margins, throughput, or customer scorecards, the most important signals have already come and gone. This session explores why senior leaders are often the last to know when change stalls, how family-owned dynamics can mask trouble, and which signals belong on the executive radar. Participants will leave with the questions and leadership moves that keep critical initiatives on course.

This session explores why senior leaders are often the last to know when change stalls, how family-owned dynamics can mask trouble, and which signals belong on the executive radar. Participants will leave with the questions and leadership moves that keep critical initiatives on course.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the leading signals that belong on the executive radar and distinguish them from the lagging metrics most leadership teams rely on.
• Recognize why information about stalled change often fails to reach owners and senior leaders, and how to close that gap.
• Assess how family-owned dynamics, including legacy practices, long-tenured relationships, and generational transitions, shape whether change succeeds.
• Determine the executive-level questions and leadership moves that keep critical initiatives on track or bring them back on course.

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Certification is an important part of demonstrating that a strong food safety and quality system is in place, but certification alone does not always cover every regulatory, customer, product, or operational expectation. For contract packers, those additional requirements can create gaps that are easy to miss until they show up during a customer review, regulatory inspection, or operational issue. This webinar will look at how companies can take a more practical, risk-based approach to identifying those gaps, strengthening existing programs, and ensuring their systems are not only audit-ready but also aligned with the realities of their products, customers, and supply chains.

Learning Objectives

• Identify common compliance and quality gaps that can exist even in certified facilities.
• Understand where customer, regulatory, and product-specific requirements may go beyond certification.
• Use a risk-based approach to determine which gaps require the most attention and additional controls.
• Explore practical ways to connect certification, compliance, and quality into a stronger, more effective overall system.

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Hosted by CPA and presented by Pedrom Rejai, president and founder of Elevate Growth Partners, this session walks through the big shifts happening in supply chains right now and what they mean for copackers, comanufacturers, brands, and retailers. You'll leave knowing which trends actually affect your operation, what the winners are doing, and what's crashed and burned.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the macro shifts hitting supply chains: import cost inflation, trade volatility, and the push toward multi-sourcing for resilience.
• Identify what the winning companies are doing and what experiments have failed.
• Discuss how technology is changing the back-office labor equation and why the operations implementing it correctly are pulling ahead.
• Learn where custom-built systems have become affordable for mid-size operations, with real-world examples of what they cost and deliver.

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Hosted by CPA and presented by Attorney Eric Greenberg, Of Counsel, Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres, and Principal Attorney, Eric F. Greenberg, P.C., this session discusses the regulation of food contact packaging materials.

Learning Objectives

• Summarize the basics of how food contact packaging materials are regulated
• Review the role of FDA compliance guarantees from suppliers and discuss how to read and improve them
• Discuss potential new legal changes about substances deemed Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS)