Technology
AI revolutionizes food and beverage industry with personalization, efficiency
Companies like Tastewise and BevSuite are harnessing AI to transform consumer insights, marketing, and operations in food and beverage.
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Consumer Insights
How plant-based food brands are riding the next wave
Plant-based food companies are innovating to ride the next wave.
Infrastructure
Climate Week Kicks Off and the Inflation Reduction Act Turns 1
Lauren Collins and Michael Joyce from V&E look ahead to Climate Week and reflect on the first year of the Inflation Reduction Act
Infrastructure
How Companies Are Leveraging Solar-As-A-Service
Harald Overholm, the co-founder and CEO of Alight Energy walks us through current solar trends in the Nordics and the rest of Europe
Sponsored
Q&A: Meet EOS Hospitality’s Managing Director Tom Burns
This is a part of a series of guest posts from our partner Resort Capital Partners. Tom Burns, managing director for acquisitions at EOS...
Infrastructure
Surveying the Solar Landscape
Daniel Cruise from Lium Research explains which segments of the solar sector are looking bright and which segments might have a cloudy future.
Infrastructure
Sustainability in Action – The ACC Sustainability Leadership Awards
A roundup of all the winners of the American Chemistry Council's Sustainability Leadership Awards, including Covestro, Dow, DuPont, Evonik, SABIC and WM.
Travel
How AI is transforming business operations
The inaugural virtual AI Impact Summit, organized by SmartBrief, aims to separate hype from reality and show how AI will shape industries and transform business functions.
Infrastructure
Optimizing the Grid to Electrify Everything
3M's Terry Collier shares his insights on the latest technologies and strategies to bring more renewables online and enhance grid stability and resiliency.
Leadership
How to know it’s time to change
Leaders can identify if they need to change their operations by analyzing these three categories, writes Dave Coffaro.
Development
Demystifying AI adoption for leaders
Employees often fear that AI will take their jobs, but Tom Henson outlines three ways leaders can allay those fears.
Workforce
Thinking of layoffs? Here’s a better alternative
Layoffs can often be worse for your company than seizing the opportunity to rightsize your workforce instead, writes Joe Raymond.
CPG
Better-for-you beverage options quench consumers’ thirst
Several brands have entered the better-for-you beverage market to fulfill shoppers' need to address specific health issues.
Infrastructure
How Hotels Stay Ahead On Sustainability
Denise Naguib outlines how Marriott leverages best practices from its global portfolio of properties to make travel more sustainable.
Leadership
Has your business model exceeded its shelf life?
Business models, like food, have a shelf life. Dave Coffaro offers strategies to refresh yours if some processes and policies now seem dated.
Sponsored
Seven years into reforms, is the EPA supporting or hindering American innovation?
Seven years ago, former President Barack Obama signed into law the Lautenberg amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. The American Chemistry...
Infrastructure
Is AI the New Crypto When It Comes To Energy Consumption?
Matt Wytock and David Miller from Gridmatic outline the various ways artificial intelligence is helping solve some of the biggest challenges in the energy industry.
Infrastructure
What’s The Deal With E-Liability?
Karthik Ramanna explains the basics of E-liability and makes the case for why companies, standards setters and regulators all around the world should be familiarizing themselves with the concept as soon as possible.
Food
What’s on the menu at the 67th Summer Fancy Food Show?
This year's Summer Fancy Food Show by the Specialty Food Association will highlight the latest trends in the industry and feature some famous faces.
Technology
FMI leader lays out 6 imperatives facing the food industry today
Leslie G. Sarasin, president and CEO of FMI -- The Food Industry Association -- lays out six imperatives facing the food industry today and how the association is working with members to address them with a big-picture outlook.
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Strengthening responses to cross-border conflicts with Global Communities
This post is sponsored by Global Communities In 2023, a record 339 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection, according to OCHA, the...
Sponsored
The power of technology in retail merchandising
How to maximize sales by placing products in their sweet spot.
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Four tips to engaging with your customers post-purchase
How to keep customers coming back for more after their initial purchase.
Finance
Nasdaq’s Chai Discusses The Tech That Manages Risk And Volatility
Roland Chai talks digital transformation and volatility in financial markets and outlines areas where Nasdaq is expanding its suite of offerings, including cryptocurrency custody and the tokenization of carbon credits.
CPG
Exclusive: What NCA’s John Downs is most looking forward to at this year’s Sweets & Snacks Expo
NCA's John Downs reveals what he is most looking forward to at this year's Sweets & Snacks Expo
Infrastructure
How To Diversify The Engineering Workforce In The Energy Industry
Jasmine Robinson from IHI Terrasun Solutions outlines what the energy sector can do to recruit, develop and retain more women engineers.
Infrastructure
Chemistry’s Key Role in Advancing Sustainability
Charles Franklin from the American Chemistry Council discusses the role the business of chemistry -- and natural gas in particular -- plays not just in sustainability, but also the overall economy.
Infrastructure
The Future of Sustainable Air Travel
Jill Blickstein, Vice President of Sustainability at American Airlines, outlines advancements in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other efforts the airline is undertaking to reduce its carbon footprint.
Infrastructure
How American Airlines is Navigating Sustainability
Jill Blickstein, Vice President of Sustainability at American Airlines, talks about the latest advancements in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), fleet upgrades the airline has made to enhance its sustainablility and an AI-enabled system called 'Smart Gating' that conserves fuel and saves time for travelers.
Technology
How plant-based meat is evolving for the future
The future for plant-based meat goes way beyond burgers, chicken nuggets and traditional retail channels.
Food
Food retailers infiltrate new categories with private-label products
Store brands. Own brands. Private labels. However food retailers refer to their own lines of product offerings, they are anything but generic, and, bolstered by a number of factors, they are enjoying their time in the spotlight and food retailers are taking advantage of the attention by innovating in more product categories than ever before.
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What you think you know about QLC SSDs might cost you
This post is sponsored by Solidigm. Tech leaders need every advantage to manage vast data volumes in ways that keep customers, end-users, and CFOs...
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Talk about close to home: What consumers expect from their furniture brands in 2023
A conversation with Jay Symonds, Head of Home & Sporting Goods Advertising at Amazon Ads.
CPG
How consumers are keeping their furry friends fed
Global sales of pet food grew to an estimated $120.9 billion last year and are on track to hit $177.1 billion by 2030, according...
Workforce
Use tech and virtual leadership to manage distributed teams
Communication is key for the success of distributed teams, and technology can play a pivotal role, writes Cory Hymel.
Leadership
Boost employee engagement through learning and development
Ongoing learning and development programs can enhance employee engagement by giving them the new skills they crave, writes Kathy Gersch.
Updates
Superintendent of the Year finalist Hillmann blends optimism, reality
Matthew Hillmann, superintendent at Northfield Public Schools in Minnesota, shares his philosophy of education leadership.
Technology
SmartSummit: Transformative technology trends and innovations in grocery retail
How grocery retailers are using new technology to glean shopper data, streamline operations and improve customer satisfaction.
Food
Q&A: Poly Cal expert, FMI execs talk responses to food inflation
Cal Poly's Ricky Volpe and FMI's Andy Harig and Heather Garlich meet with SmartBrief for an exclusive discussion on food inflation, consumer behavioral changes and grocery retailers’ adoption of new technology.
Food
How will the grocery industry weather 2023? Together
Throughout FMI’s Midwinter Executive Conference earlier this month, retailers and executives across the industry had the opportunity to attend educational sessions with one common theme running through them all: togetherness.
Edtech
Getting my first-graders to see themselves in STEM
Digital libraries and videos can bring fun projects and well-rounded information. This is vital, as students need to see themselves in STEM.
Sponsored
Great American Plant Company wants to help restaurants, retailers offer delicious, affordable plant-based proteins under their own brands
To help its retail and restaurant customers succeed, private-label brand Great American Plant Company brought on Chief Sales Officer Armetha Pihlstrom, who discusses how the company empowers its customers to make their brands household names in the plant-based category.