09/17/2025
The Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference in Kansas City, Oct. 21-23, is introducing five new EXPO Pavilions offering educational seminars and hands-on training. The Food Safety Pavilion will host 16 presentations to provide guidance to food and beverage manufacturers.
Speakers at the Food Safety Pavilion
Facility Engineers and EPCs will learn to design and specify food-safe systems. Safety/Hygiene Compliance Managers will learn to establish quality specifications to ensure compliance with manufacturing quality systems like FSMA, SQF, BRC and ISO. Maintenance Managers will learn techniques to verify compliance with quality specifications in manufacturing quality systems and to perform quality risk assessments.
Tuesday, Oct. 21
- 1-1:25 p.m. – Air Quality Testing Best Practices for Food Safety, Nikki Smith, Air Quality Business Leader, Trace Analytics
- 1:30-1:55 p.m. – Optimizing Layout of Clean Dry Air Systems, John Moore, Sales Director – North America, GlobalVac & Air
- 2-2:25 p.m. – Compressed Air Quality for the Food & Beverage Industry, Randall Corthouts, Regional Sales Manager – West Territory, BEKO Technologies
- 2:30-2:55 p.m. – From Air to Output: Precision Real-Time Monitoring for Consistent Product Quality & Safety, Martin Zeller, Country Manager, CS INSTRUMENTS USA
- 3-3:25 p.m. – PSA or Membrane? Choosing the Right Technology for Nitrogen Generation, Amanda Guerra, Product & Project Manager, GENERON
- 3:30-3:55 p.m. – The Check Engine Light for Compressed Air Quality, Jan Hoetzel, Managing Director, SUTO iTEC
- 4-4:25 p.m. – Revolutionizing Compressed Air for the Food & Beverage Industry, Jay Mottley, Director of Sales, Tamturbo
- 4:30-4:55 p.m. – Are You Guilty? Keeping Condensate in Compliance with Oil-Water Separators, Chad Timmer, Vice President of Sales, Clean Resources
Wednesday, Oct. 22
- 1-1:25 p.m. – Propane Refrigerant Compressed Air Dryers, a Solution for the Future, Thierry Deschenes, Head of International Sales at CTA
- 1:30-1:55 p.m. – Mikropor Patented Carbolescer Technology, Jeff Crutchfield, Area Manager, Mikropor
- 2-2:25 p.m. – The Importance of Air Quality Standards and Certifications with Compressed Air Piping, Carlo Gatti, Product Manager, Prevost
- 2:30-2:55 p.m. – Clean Air, Clean Food: Maintenance Practices That Protect Your Product, Russell Warner, Vice President of Sales, FS-Curtis
- 3-3:25 p.m. – Air Quality and Food Safety, Jon Jensen, National Product Sales Manager – Energy, SMC
- 3:30-3:55 p.m. – Rental Compressors for Various Industrial Applications & Food Plants, Chuck Westhofen, Business Development Manager, Sauer Compressors USA
- 4-4:25 p.m. – Selection Criteria for Heatless, Heated Purge & Blower Purge Desiccant Dryers for a -40°F Dew Point, Jim DiMaiolo, Sales & Market Manager, Altec AIR
- 4:30-4:55 – TBD
To learn more about the presentations, click here.
To register for the show, click here. Save nearly 50% on EXPO Hall Passes with Early Bird rates when you book before Sept. 30. Group discounts are available; reach out to Kimberly Hill at [email protected] for more information.
About Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference
The Best Practices 2025 EXPO & Conference is the leading North American event focused on sustainable, safe and reliable on-site utilities powering automation. The event takes place Oct. 21-23, 2025, at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, MO. Attendees come from engineering firms, manufacturing plants and equipment companies responsible for specifying, purchasing, operating, selling and maintaining on-site utility equipment in industrial compressed air, vacuum and cooling water systems. For more information, visit https://cabpexpo.com/attend.
