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Day 1 Calendar

Day 1 – EHEDG World Congress 2026 | Vienna – 7 October

Note: This schedule is subject to change

Main Stage
08:00
08:00 - 09:00
Registration – Name Tags, Welcome Packages, Coffee
09:00
09:00 - 09:15
OpeningHein Timmerman (EHEDG President & Diversey)
09:15
09:15 - 09:55
Religion of Food Safety: Prioritising Spending and Investing in Equipment Frank Cervi (Mondelez)
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
The Importance and Benefits of Diversity & Inclusion: Impact on Creativity and Design Kristen Anderson (How Women Lead)
10:30
10:30 - 11:00
Hygienic Design Is a Decision, Not a Detail – The Message of EHEDG Guideline 8Jürgen Hofmann (Hygienic Design Weihenstephan)
11:00
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break & Poster Session with Q&A
Auditorium - Food Safety & Hygienic Building Design
Room II - HD of Components
Room III - Automation, Data & Food Safety
Main Hall
11:30
11:30 - 11:50
GL 44 Part 2 – Managing of Building Work and Equipment Installation/Removal During Food ProductionGun Wirtanen (SeAMK)
11:30 - 11:50
GL 20 & 14 – Hygienic Design and Safe Use of Mixproof Valves &

Requirements for Valves in Hygienic ProcessesUwe Heisswolf (Kieselmann GmbH)
11:30 - 11:50
GL 62 – RoboticsAlan Friis (FORCE Technology)
11:30 - 11:50
Guided Sponsor Visits
11:50
11:50 - 12:10
GL 44 Part 3 – Hygienic Design Principles for Food FactoriesPatrick Wouters (EHEDG) & Herwig Nollet (Volker Aufderhaar)
11:50 - 12:10
GL 65 – Sampling Systems For Representative Liquid SamplingCarsten Rosendal (KEOFITT)
11:50 - 12:10
Sustainability in Food Factories Through Best Practice Food Safety Andrew Still (SMC)
11:50 - 12:10
Guided Sponsor Visits
12:10
12:10 - 12:30
GL44 / Part 4 – Karen-Louise Habermann & Rod Benson (Sika)
12:10 - 12:30
The Gauss Illusion: Why flux density does not measure magnetic separation performanceConré Oostrom (Goudsmit Magnetics)
12:10 - 12:30
Turning Hidden Risks into Actionable Decisions: A Data-Driven Approach to Food Safety Brett Ira (ACO)
12:10 - 12:30
Guided Sponsor Visits
12:30
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30
13:30 - 14:20
Round Table – Auditing: The Role Auditing Can Play in Verifying the Effectiveness of Hygienic Design as a HACCP Prerequisite ProgramModerator: Marc Cwikowski (World of Auditing)
Panel: Franz Geissler (EURO-CONCEPT), Stephan Tromp (IFS), Elsabe Matthee (FSSC), Belen Barber (SGS), Ciaran Conway (Ferrero)
14:20
14:20 - 14:45
Making Hygienic Design Happen in the Food Factory Adam Ruskin (Ecolab)
Main Hall
14:45
14:45 - 15:15
TBAAhmad Roustom (BLÜCHER)
14:45 - 15:15
Guided Sponsor VisitsGroups 1-3
15:15
15:15 - 15:40
Coffee Break & Poster Session
Main Stage
15:40
15:40 - 16:10
Biofilms in Food Processing: Persistence, Removal, ValidationFelix Schottroff (BOKU)
16:10
16:10 - 16:50
From Recalls to ROI: Rethinking Hygienic Design & Sanitation Through Risk, Not Zero-ToleranceNathan Mirdamadi (Kerry)
16:50
16:50 - 17:00
ClosingWrap-up – Hein Timmerman (EHEDG President & Diversey) & Gerhard Schleining (BOKU)
18:00
18:00
Buses to Dinner Venue
19:00
19:00 - 19:30
Arrival & Welcome Cocktail
19:30
19:30 - 23:00
Congress Dinner at Orangerie Schönbrunn
Day 2 Calendar

Day 2 – EHEDG World Congress 2026 | Vienna – 8 October

Note: This schedule is subject to change

Main Stage
08:30
08:30 - 09:00
Registration – Name Tags & Coffee
09:00
09:00 - 09:15
Opening Hein Timmerman (EHEDG President & Diversey)
09:15
09:15 - 09:40
Invisible contaminants: PFAS in what we eat, drink and breathe Emanuele Sozzi (RTI International)
09:40
09:40 - 10:05
Productivity – The Implementation of Hygienic Design in the Development of a New Site Vicky Van den Bossche (Agristo)
10:05
10:05 - 10:30
Innovative Flushing Approaches: Experimental Investigations on Complex Components Used in Chocolate-Processing Matti Heide (TU Dresden)
10:30
10:30 - 11:00
From Connected Assets to Business Outcomes: Using Industrial Data to Improve Food Safety, Sustainability and Operational Performance Mohamed Al Kadari (ifm)
11:00
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break & Poster Session – Poster Evaluation by the Scientific Committee
Auditorium - HD for Dry Materials
Room II - CIP: Challenges & Solutions
Room III - Equipment, Water & Hygienic Design
Main Hall
11:30
11:30 - 11:50
GL 63 – Chocolate Speaker: Matilda Freund (EHEDG), Co-Speakers: Adam Ruskin (Ecolab), Anett Winkler (Cargill), Chloe Pallister (Nestle), Edyta Margas (Bühler Group), Guiseppe Allais (Ammega Group), Jitendra Rai (Mondelēz International), John Holah (Kersia), Kelly Calixto (Diversey), Matti Heide (TU Dresden), Miomir Niksic (University of Belgrade), Natacha Holmud (FORCE Technology), Nicola Stringer (Barry Callebaut) & Shaun Pitcher (HPS Pigging)
11:30 - 11:50
GL 50 – Hygienic Design Requirements for CIP Installations Hein Timmerman & Joe Matthews (Sycamore Process Engineering)
11:30 - 11:50
GL42 – Disc Stack Centrifuges - Design and Cleanability Thomas Kleimann (GEA Group)
11:30 - 11:50
Guided Sponsor Visits
11:50
11:50 - 12:10
GL 22/41/38/60 – Dry Materials Gabrie Meesters (Delft University of Technology) & Martijn van der Hoeven (Danone Nutricia Research)
11:50 - 12:10
Interaction between surface finish and adhesion behaviour of media on differently treated stainless steel surfaces Arnulf Hörtnagl (THWS)
11:50 - 12:10
GL28/ Safe and Hygienic Treatment, Storage and Distribution of Water in Food and Beverage Factories Anett Winkler (Cargill)
11:50 - 12:10
Guided Sponsor Visits
12:10
12:10 - 12:30
Sanitation in the Chocolate Industry and the Importance of Hygienic Design Nicola Stringer (Barry Callebaut)
12:10 - 12:30
Digital assistant is the future of CIP & COP processes Vasyl Mazov (Viravix)
12:10 - 12:30
3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc. Meri Beth Wojtaszek (3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc.) & Chris Hylkema (NYS Dept. of Agriculture & Markets)
12:10 - 12:30
Guided Sponsor Visits
12:30
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
Auditorium - Thermal Processing
Room II - Food Packaging & Equipment
Room III - Professional Growth in Hygienic Engineering
13:30
13:30 - 13:50
GL 39 – Design Principles for Equipment and Process Areas for Aseptic Food Manufacturing Oliver Martini
13:30 - 13:50
GL 43 – Hygienic Design of Belt Conveyors for the Food Industry Enrico Visconti (Habasit)
13:30 - 13:50
Storytelling in Technical Presentations: How to Keep Your Audience Truly Engaged Juliane Dias (Flavor Food Consulting)
13:50
13:50 - 14:10
GL 12 – The Continuous or Semi-Continuous Flow Thermal Treatment of Liquid Particulate Foods Bengt Eliasson (Tetra Pak) & Joerg Zacharias (Krones AG)
13:50 - 14:10
GL 29 P2 – Hygienic Design of Packaging Systems for Solid Foodstuffs – Part 2: Thermoforming Packaging Machinery Peter Golz & Tobias Braunegger (MULTIVAC)
13:50 - 14:10
Effost & Eye Mentorship Programme Gabriela Versteeg (Effost), Adwy van den Berg (EHEDG) & mentors
14:10
14:10 - 14:30
Insights to Crack and Biofilm Detection Samuel Peppin (Bioscan)
14:10 - 14:30
GL 23 Part 1 & Part 2 – Lubricants Taco Mets (Van Meeuwen Lubrication) & Sofia Öberg
14:10 - 14:30
EHEDG Summer Course Dirk Nikoleiski & Dr. Gerhard Schleining (EHEDG)
14:30
14:30 - 14:50
Coffee Break & Poster Session
Main Stage
14:50
14:50 - 15:30
Sustainability Moderator: Dr. Niamh Burke (Dairy Processing Technology Centre)
Panel: Ludvig Josefsberg (Tetra Pak), Georg Kalss (Bühler Group), Patrick Wouters (EHEDG), Raquel Ezcurra Barcos (University of Limerick) & Andrew Still (SMC)
15:30
15:30 - 16:10
Foreign Bodies Debra Smith (Vikan) & Intisar Khan (Nestle)
16:10
16:10 - 16:50
Do You Trust This Bite? Food, safety and the strange act of putting the outside world inside our bodies Marije Vogelzang (Food Design Playground)
16:50
16:50 - 17:00
Closing Wrap-up & Poster Awards
Hein Timmerman (EHEDG President & Diversey) & Gerhard Schleining (BOKU)
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