CoFE 26 Program Schedule
Sunday, November 8, 2026
| Time | Event |
| 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | Registration desk open |
| 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Opening Mixer |
Monday, November 9, 2026
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| 8:20-8:30 AM | Opening remarks | ||||
| 8:30-10:00 AM |
Plenary Session I: Health and Wellness
Speaker 1: Yrjo Roos
Speaker 2: Sheyla Ramsay
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| 10:00-10:20 AM | Morning break | ||||
| 10:20-12:00 PM | Morning sessions | ||||
| Parallel sessions | Session 1: Emerging Technologies in Food Processing | Session 2: Process Innovation for Sustainability and Food Structure Design I | Session 3: Novel Technologies for Improving Food Quality | Session 4: Improving Shelf Life | Session 5: Green Extraction and Separation Technologies |
| 12:00 PM-1:20 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:20-3:00 PM | Afternoon Sessions I | ||||
| Parallel sessions | Session 6: Processing for Enhanced Food Safety | Session 7: Microbial Survival and Inactivation | Session 8: Surface Disinfection and Modification | Session 9: Ingredient and Extrusion Innovation I | Session 10: Rapid Pathogen Detection |
| 3:00-3:50 PM | Poster view session & Afternoon break | ||||
| 3:50-4:20 PM | Flash presentation of poster finalists and voting | ||||
| 4:20-6:00 PM | Afternoon Sessions II | ||||
| Parallel sessions | Session 11: Food Quality and Postharvest Monitoring | Session 12: Encapsulation and Delivery Systems | Session 13: Advances in 3D Food Printing | Session 14: Food Structure Modeling | Session 15: Food Digestion and Health I |
| 6:15-7:15 PM | Student Division Event: Industry Career Panel | Round table discussion: Navigating the Crisis of Scientific Publishing | |||
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
| Time | Event | ||||
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| 8:20-8:30 AM | Opening remarks | ||||
| 8:30-10:00 AM |
Plenary Session II: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson
Speaker 2: Manmit Shrimali
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| 10:00-10:20 AM | Morning break | ||||
| 10:20-12:00 PM | Morning sessions | ||||
| Parallel sessions | Session 16: Valorization of Food and Agricultural Byproducts I | Session 17: Upcycling into High-Value Ingredients | Session 18: Sustainable and Resilient Food Supply Chains | Session 19: Circular Bioeconomy | Session 20: Cellular Agriculture and Fermentation |
| 12:00 PM-1:20 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:20-3:00 PM | Afternoon Sessions I | ||||
| Parallel sessions | Session 21: Innovations in Protein Processing | Session 22: Food Functionality | Session 23: Innovative and Sustainable Food Packaging | Session 24: Digitalization of Food Processing | Session 25: Modeling and AI for Food Safety and Quality |
| 3:00-3:50 PM | Poster view session & Afternoon break | ||||
| 3:50-5:30 PM | Afternoon Sessions II | ||||
| Parallel sessions | Session 26: Modeling and AI for Food Safety and Quality II | Session 27: Kinetic Modeling of Food Quality and Safety | Session 28: Transforming Food Engineering Education | Session 29: Ingredient and Extrusion Innovation II | Session 30: Process Innovation for Sustainability and Food Structure Design I |
| 6:30-9:00 PM | Banquet | ||||
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
| Time | Event | ||||
| 8:00-9:30 AM | Plenary Session III: Technology commercialization Speaker 1: Stefan Toepfl Speaker 2: Kristi Spence Speaker 3: Changmou Xu |
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| 9:30-10:20 AM | Business meeting/Leadership update | ||||
| 10:20-10:40 AM | Morning break | ||||
| 10:40-12:00 PM | Morning sessions | ||||
| Parallel sessions | Session 31: Modeling and AI for Food Safety and Quality III | Session 32: Packaging and Nutrient Delivery | Session 33: Food Digestion and Health II | Session 34: Valorization of Food and Agricultural Byproducts II | Session 35: Food Biotechnology and Safety |
| 12:00 PM-12:50 PM | Lunch on your own | ||||
| Workshops | |||||
| 12:50-2:20 PM | WS 1: AI for Intelligent Food Manufacturing | WS 2: Smart Moisture Management: From Water Activity to Drying Process Optimization | WS 3-1: Food Physics and Modeling (Part 1) | ||
| 2:20-2:30 PM | Break | ||||
| 2:30-4:00 PM | WS 4: Life Cycle Analysis | WS 5: Clean Processing Technologies | WS 3-2 Food Physics and Modeling (Part 2) | ||
| 4:00 PM | Conference ends | ||||
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