
The New Norm
Executive Council meeting – EC Members Only
20 January 2021 | 16:00 - 18:30

Resilience, business continuity at times of disruption
‘The New Norm’ is the overall topic of the IFFI program 2021 and will be highlighted in 10 events including Business Network and Business Network online and offline events. Following the year 2020 a global COVID pandemic and an increasing awareness about the SDG’s, The New Normal was set with new standards of online working and sustainable manufacturing. These standards may become The New Norm for the food ingredients industry delivering value to food producers and consumers.
This EC meeting touches on ‘Resilience’. During the COVID pandemic the continuity of our business is at stake and to what extend are we prepared for such a drastic change? But more importantly, if we are in the midst of such a change how to safeguard our business from a demand dropout? Those and many more questions will be addressed by the EC members and responded to the keynote speaker Jan Adriaanse, Professor in Turnaround Management in this online event.
16.00 – 16.05 hours
Opening meeting
Ruud Peerbooms, chairman
16.05 – 16.45 hours
Looking into 2020 & 2021
IFFI program 2021
IFFI budget 2021
Halbe Vogel, secretary
Reneé Boerefijn, treasurer
16.45 – 17.15 hours
Networking
17.15 – 18.00 hours
Resilience, business continuity
Prof. dr. Jan Adriaanse
18.00 – 18.30 hours
Wrap up, closing & networking
Ruud Peerbooms, chairman
Within the intimacy of the network experiences and insights with regard to business continuity at times of disruption will be shared between the EC members.
Keynote speaker
Prof. dr. Jan Adriaanse (1972) is Professor Turnaround Management at the University Leiden. Focal research areas are Turnaround, Rescue & Insolvency, a interdisciplinair discipline researching companies that experience strong headwinds. Next to his scientic career Jan is founder and director of the training institute and consultancy firm Turnaround PowerHouse and author of the book ‘Never waste a good crisis’. Too often Jan has seen companies neglecting to make drastic strategic changes while they still had the time, money and momentum to act accordingly. With the COVID pandemic at hand, to start thinking about scenario’s requiring drastic changes is not a luxury but a necessity.

The online Executive Council meeting is for Members Only and senior management of the member companies participate and share insights about business continuity at times of disruption.
Registration
For Members Only, participation is covered by the membership fee. *
- please register by filling in your login details
* IFFI members are employed by the IFFI member companies
Venue
Online event hosted by StudioWHY
Accommodation
Not applicable