September 28 – Member Social

Join us at Chicken N'Pickle. We will meet up Wednesday September 28 at 6PM  for a social meet up at the San Antonio Chicken N'Pickle. Thanks to our sponsors for this event: Nalco Water Technologies and Casey Ingredients.  They are covering for some of the event's...

February 2021 Lunch n Learn – Creating your personal brand

Join us for an hour of tips and tricks for enhancing your personal brand! About this Event In today's world, understanding how to connect with people virtually is more important than ever. This is true whether you are looking for a new job or trying to remain relevant...

Lunch n’ Learn with Grain4Grain

January 14, 2021.January 2021 Lunch n' Learn with Yoni Medhin from Backcountry Mills and Grain4Grain Join us for the first event of 2021 with Yoni Medhin. "Driven by patent-pending technology and a heart for wellness and sustainability, Backcountry Mills transforms...

Lunch ‘n Learns & Industry Events

We are always excited to support our membership.  Lunch’n learns provide a variety of opportunities, including:

  • Hosting – members will go to your location and you can have people tour facility
  • Speaker – Submit an extract if you would like to provide a speaker for a lunch’n learn
  • Sponsorship – for the cost of lunch of 30 people, you will have 5-minute introduction of your company prior to the session, a sign-up sheet for members to sign up to receive more information about your services, distribute your marketing materials to attendees and display signage and/or have a small table with your material at any lunch’n learn you sponsor.

In addition to Lunch’n learns, you may also benefit from joining us in various networking events including Longhorn supplier’s night and Alamo IFT’s Annual Golf Outing.

Let us know the topics you want to learn about, so we can bring in speakers.

We are building our industry calendar!

We support our members by publishing their industry events. Click on the button and fill out the form to send us your event, training sessions, or networking event details.

Past Events

Lunch’n Learn – Salt 101

February 22, 2018, Baytown, TX. Hear the state of the Salt Industry and the what steps the United Salt plant took during a natural disaster. Join us for networking & lunch at Iguana Joes (9118 Texas 146, Baytown, TX). Immediately following, those that are able,...

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Alamo Section 2017 Holiday Party

December 9, 2017, San Antonio, TX. Join the Alamo IFT Section for a family friendly evening! Eric Caballero, current board member, has offered to host a Christmas Party at his home. Potluck: Food provided by IFT Officers; You can sign up here:...

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3rd Annual: IFT-TAMU Day

October 13, 2017, College Station, TX. You are invited to the 3rd annual joint meeting of the Longhorn and Alamo IFT Sections at Texas A&M University’s Department of Nutrition and Food Science. Join us in fun, food, games, and 1-on-1 interactions with Texas...

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Lunch ‘n Learn – Contemporary Nutrition & Labeling

May 25, 2017, San Antonio, TX. The intent of updating the nutrition labeling criteria of foods is to reduce risk factors associated with obesity and other noncommunicable diseases.  These criteria reflect the most recent consensus on foods and dietary patterns that...

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Lunch ‘n Learn – Return On Culture

April 27, 2017, San Antonio, TX. Michael joined the Kiolbassa in 2007 as an intern while working on his MBA. Six months later, he joined the company as the Marketing and Brand Manager. Among Michael’s first achievements was developing the marketing department and...

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Lunch ‘n Learn – Private Brand Development

March 30, 2017, Austin, TX. Find the full biography here.  Mike is Founder and Managing Director of Schall Consulting Group, Inc. (SCG) and has over thirty years of food industry leadership experience as a board member, CEO and operating executive. His knowledge and...

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