For more than three decades, the Symposium on Food + Drink has been the leading independent dialogue platform for the DACH region. We unite trade and industry for a future-proof exchange on the subject of nutrition, responsibility and sustainability.
Our goal is to ensure that our industry is firm and committed in advancing nutrition as a key issue for the future against the backdrop of responsibility and sustainability. Throughout the year, we bring together the different decision-makers on topics of great import for the future. In this way, we promote communication between the key shapers of the food industry – with orientation-providing and practical results for trade, industry and young talents.
For more than three decades, the Symposium on Food + Drink has been the leading independent dialogue platform for the DACH region. We unite trade and industry for a future-proof exchange on the subject of nutrition, responsibility and sustainability.
Our goal is to ensure that our industry is firm and committed in advancing nutrition as a key issue for the future against the backdrop of responsibility and sustainability. Throughout the year, we bring together the different decision-makers on topics of great import for the future. In this way, we promote communication between the key shapers of the food industry – with orientation-providing and practical results for trade, industry and young talents.
Leading individuals from the food and beverage industry and retail as well as other experts from science and business are involved as active shapers in the Symposium and work together for the future of the food industry.
A personality from the industry who represents our values, underscores the commitment of the Symposium and supports it responsibly as the patron will assume the patronage for the event. We expect to soon announce this successor of Dr. Walter Scheel, who served as the esteemed patron of the Symposium for many years.
Leading individuals from the food and beverage industry and retail as well as other experts from science and business are involved as active shapers in the Symposium and work together for the future of the food industry.
A personality from the industry who represents our values, underscores the commitment of the Symposium and supports it responsibly as the patron will assume the patronage for the event. We expect to soon announce this successor of Dr. Walter Scheel, who served as the esteemed patron of the Symposium for many years.
For 30 years, we have been offering all key decision-makers and stakeholders in the food industry a space for direct and relevant dialogue at our events. Our highlight event, the Symposium Essen + Trinken (Symposium on Food + Drink), brings together about 1,000 participants from trade, industry and start-ups for this annual two-day get-together: Top decision-makers from the food industry meet game-changers from science, business and politics. This is where decision-makers embark on a direct exchange about the future, discover novelties to enhance their product ranges and expand business networks.
In times of rapid change, the Symposium aims to ready trade and industry for the future with new synergies and formats. Thus, the dialogue platform opens and expands its services to provide all industry participants with a growing number of event formats, channels and dialogue on offer. zugänglich zu machen.
We promote the next leadership generation in the food industry.
Committed with heart and soul: for almost 20 years, Cécile Möhring has been closely involved in the Symposium on Food + Drink with passionate commitment and supreme operational skills to ensure the success of the event. As the managing director of Symposium Essen + Trinken GmbH, she has been conducting the various events and formats of the dialogue platform into the future since May 2023. Previously, she managed the operative business of the Symposium and numerous other successful projects in the food industry and other sectors in her role as Board Member for Operations & Events at Söllner Communications AG. Since September 2023, Cécile Möhring has joined the 360-degree communication agency c&p creative project GmbH by soellner as their managing partner, which has taken over the legacy of the former Söllner Communications.
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The graduate trade specialist is one of the influential decision-makers in the retail sector and has decades of experience in key positions, including positions at EDEKA, REWE and KARSTADT Feinkost. He has been adding his comprehensive expertise to the Board of Directors for over ten years. Karl-Heinz Dautzenberg is primarily responsible for the composition of the Marketplace and the start-up platform as well as for the presentations of the invited guest countries. He also works as a consultant for the company Dautzenberg Consulting, which he founded.
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As a graduate business economist, Matthias Zwingel worked as a division manager at real,- Holding GmbH, among other things, before he took over the family-owned company REWE Zwingel, which was awarded the “Golden Cream Topping” award four times thanks to their successful marketing strategies to ensure customer loyalty. Matthias Zwingel was also awarded the distinguished Silver Pin and the Golden Pin by the Bavarian trade association 'Handelsverband Bayern e.V. (HBE)' for his outstanding commitment. As Vice President, he has been responsible for the HBE and the federal trade association for the food retail industry 'BVLH Bundesverband des deutschen Lebensmittelhandels' since 2013. For over 20 years, he has managed his own food retail company, Zwingel Handels GmbH, comprising with several supermarkets.
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