AI for Food Product Development
How to Navigate Formulation Changes without Starting from Scratch
See how product development teams can use AI to evaluate formulation changes, compare ingredient and supplier alternatives, and surface nutrition, cost, and compliance tradeoffs before committing valuable bench time.
Thursday, October 27 | 11 AM EST, 3 PM GMT
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AI can help food product development teams respond faster to ingredient, nutrition, supplier, cost and regulatory change
A supplier changes. An ingredient comes under scrutiny. A new nutrition target, claim, cost ceiling, or market requirement lands. Suddenly, one formulation decision becomes a much bigger business challenge: How do you respond quickly without creating new problems somewhere else?
For R&D teams, that means evaluating alternatives while balancing taste, texture, nutrition, cost, sourcing, manufacturability, claims, and compliance. Quality and Regulatory need critical requirements considered before they become late-stage roadblocks. And leaders need confidence that teams can respond to change without adding unnecessary rework, delays, or risk to the launch.
But every change shouldn’t become a fire drill.
Join to discover how to:
- Create a digital workbench grounded in your business
- Explore ingredient and supplier alternatives while balancing product performance, nutrition, cost, manufacturing, and compliance
- Compare formulation options and tradeoffs before committing bench resources
- Bring Quality and Regulatory considerations into product development earlier
- Use AI to accelerate exploration while keeping scientific judgment firmly in control
- Move from a promising formulation toward a viable, launch-ready product.
In this practical webinar, we’ll work through a realistic food formulation challenge from the initial request to bench-ready options. You’ll see how food scientists can build on existing work, apply a new constraint, and use AI Formulation to explore ingredient alternatives, compare tradeoffs, and bring relevant supplier and source context into the decision. Because finding a promising formulation is only the beginning.
Compare food formulation tradeoffs before bench testing
The real value comes from determining which ideas are viable—and moving the right ones forward. We’ll explore how connecting formulation decisions with sourcing, Quality, Regulatory, nutrition, and other product development requirements can help teams surface issues earlier and focus valuable bench time on stronger candidates.
Connect formulation to the full product development process
You’ll leave with a practical view of how AI can give food scientists a stronger starting point while helping the broader organization respond to change with greater speed and confidence. See how a more connected approach to food product development can reduce trial and error, avoid late-stage surprises, and help teams move more viable products toward launch.
Our Speakers
Paul Bradley
Sr. Director of Product Marketing | TraceGains
Paul is a veteran product development and product marketing professional with over twenty years in the technology and consulting industries, with a longstanding focus on the food and beverage, restaurant, and retail verticals. He has worked with, and learned from, some of the largest and most dynamic brands in the industry, and is a passionate but pragmatic advocate for the power of technology to help businesses achieve the resiliency and scale necessary to thrive in a complex global marketplace.Â
John Thorpe
Sr. Director of Product Management | TraceGains
John leads initiatives at TraceGains focused on AI, knowledge systems, and enterprise product innovation for the food and beverage industry. His background includes building and scaling software across compliance, regulatory, and innovation-focused platforms in complex industries. He has a law degree focused on international business law and, before converting to the technology sector, helped emerging companies architect compliance programs tailored to their business needs.
