The past few years have proven transformative. Our planet has endured a seismic COVID-19 pandemic shock that disrupted established patterns—and created new pathways. Our ability to gather in person disappeared overnight, and is only now starting to return. Travel stopped. Then started. Then stopped again. And then started once again—hopefully for good.
We’ve endured the same cycle with in-person events and other key opportunities to gather and learn, such as production plant visits. Many food and beverage production facilities are only now starting to begin accepting visitors onto the plant floor again. I’ll be getting out to meet with the industry at every opportunity, and I crave the market insights I gain from these in-person interactions.
But along the way, we’ve learned much about our remote capabilities—particularly when it comes to technology. Many of our freshly developed and refined remote tools will serve us well as we move forward in an industry that increasingly embraces the efficiency, safety, and transparency that connectivity brings—including how we interact as an industry throughout the year.