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Already tons of info this morning at Chicken Marketing Summit! A full house of 250+ attendees heard from: ▪️ Welcome & Introduction - Greg Watt, WATT Global Media and Tom Super, National Chicken Council ▪️ State of the broiler industry - Bill Griffith, PECO FOODS INC ▪️ Keynote | Chicken 2030: The tech and trends shaping what's next - Kevin Ryan, Malachite Strategy and Research More to come! #ChickenMarketingSummit Photos: Paul Ward Photography

Poultry Tech Summit is back! Held every other year, this poultry technology and innovations summit convenes Nov. 3-5 in Atlanta, Georgia. Watch the 2023 recap video ⬇️ for reasons your peers will be there -- then join them: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gsprae_T 2025 Summit speakers and topics confirmed to date: ▪️ Herek Clack, Ph.D., Taza Aya: Plasma-enabled wearable air curtain for personal respiratory protection ▪️ Wayne Daley, Ph.D., WDDLY Associates: Process monitoring on poultry deboning lines ▪️ Twan Koenen, IWC International: High velocity microdroplets to eliminate chemicals in poultry carcass cleaning ▪️ Amanda Kowalczyk, Ph.D., Hatched Genetics: The future of poultry is female: Only "Lady Layer" chicks ▪️ Kane Miller, Ph.D., Axitan : Endolysins for controlling Clostridium septicum in turkeys ▪️ Katherine Sofia Sierra, graduate student Auburn University: Room temperature plasma for reducing microbial load on chicken parts ▪️ Amit Morey, Ph.D., Auburn University: The sustainable poultry industry 4.0 framework ▪️ David Speller, OPTIFARM: Utilizing existing farm sensor data to identify triggering of the birds’ immune response ▪️ Bruce Whiting, Electrostatic Spraying Systems, Inc.: Electrostatic spraying for poultry disinfection #PoultryTechSummit

2025 Petfood Forum is in the books! We loved catching up with all of you, and can't wait to do it all again in 2026. Join us again in Kansas City, April 27-29. Mark your calendar now! #petfoodforum

Welcome to Petfood Forum in Kansas City! It's a bit gloomy this morning, but it's bright and lively in Lobby 2200, come on in! Here's what's happening today: ▪️ 7:45 a.m. Petfood Essentials Badge Pick Up in Lobby 2200 This is a separate, pre-Forum sustainability seminar requiring paid registration. For questions, please ask the Lobby 2200 staff. Essentials will take place 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. in Room 2215. ▪️ 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Petfood Forum Registration & Badge Pick Up You must have your badge for tonight's Opening Reception at KC Live! (in the KC Power & Light District neighborhood nearby) ▪️5:30-7:30 p.m. Opening Reception The most fun and friendly networking around! Food, beverages, and music celebration open to registered attendees. Use your Petfood Forum app for details and directions, plus watch for alerts here on LinkedIn! Have an excellent Monday. See you soon! #petfoodforum

*JUST ANNOUNCED* ✅ Petfood Industry launches Petfood Forum Brasil! The exclusive news portal, with original content in Portuguese, aims to serve the market as the most complete and comprehensive source of information for pet industry professionals in the country. Details: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/eXJVS7ew Industry professionals will also have access to an exclusive newsletter featuring news and trends in the Brazilian pet food market. The Petfood Forum team plans to explore the feasibility of bringing a Petfood Forum 1-day conference to Brazil at some point. “We do not rule out the idea of bringing a Petfood Forum one-day conference to Brazil in the future,” affirmed Steve Akins, executive vice president of global petfood and events at WATT Global Media. This year, the Petfood Forum brand will present two exclusive pet food-focused sessions at PET South America 2025, between August 13th and 15th, in São Paulo. #petfoodforum Image source: Tim Wall/DALL-E 4

Call for Innovations extended to Friday, April 18: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/g6WmZ2QZ Submit your proposal: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gKEkD-DC The 2025 Poultry Tech Summit is scheduled in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on November 3-5. NEW in 2025, Poultry Tech Summit will be held in collaboration with the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Poultry & Eggs (US-RSPE) annual meeting held November 5-6, 2025. #PoultryTechSummit Elizabeth Doughman Image source: EtiAmmos I iStock. com

DEADLINE ALERT: Speaker abstracts for 2025 Poultry Tech Summit are due April 11, TOMORROW. ➡️ https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/giAsrpZ8 Poultry Tech Summit is scheduled for November 3-5, 2025, at the Atlanta Airport Marriott in Atlanta, Georgia USA. This year's Summit will be held in collaboration with the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Poultry & Eggs (US-RSPE) annual meeting on November 5-6, 2025. #PoultryTechSummit

Great seeing our friends from 🐓 WATT Poultry WATT Global Media poultry at the 2025 Midwest Poultry Federation . Fantastic on Watt Global Media’s 50 year anniversary for exhibiting at the PEAK / Mid West Poultry Show .👏Terrence OKeefe