Supplement Symposium Featuring Keynote by Renowned Mycologist Paul Stamets Sponsored by SPINS
Join us for breakfast and a keynote address from legendary mycologist and author Paul Stamets, plus panels and discussions surrounding the latest supplement industry insights.
During this event, hosted by Nutrition Business Advisors Founder and Managing Director Tom Aarts, we’ll explore:
- The best retail channel strategy for supplement brands.
- How buyers can identify the next consumer wellness trends and products to create a standout supplement department.
- Smart ways to combat the industry’s widespread counterfeiting issue.
- The latest from Washington—and what it means for your business.
Resources: Thursday_Supplement_Symposium_Part1.pdf
Thursday_Supplement_Symposium_Part2.pdf
Agenda
7:15am Grab breakfast and find a seat!
7:30am Trends & Data Presentation
Thursday_Supplement_Symposium_Part2.pdf
Agenda
7:15am Grab breakfast and find a seat!
7:30am Trends & Data Presentation
- Scott Dicker, SPINS
- Bill Giebler, Nutrition Business Journal
- Erika Rommel Craft, Nutrition Business Journal
8:00am Supplement & Retail Leadership Panel: Navigating Quality, Channel Strategy & The Changing Consumer
- Jim Emme, NOW Health Group
- Jack Gayton, The Vitamin Shoppe
- Rick Polito, Nutrition Business Journal
- Sherry Zhang, GenoPalate
8:30am Washington Watercooler Talk
- Thomas Aarts, Nutrition Business Advisors
- Steve Mister, Council for Responsible Nutrition
8:45am 2023 NBJ Summit Takeaways & Keynote Introduction
- Thomas Aarts, Nutrition Business Advisors
9:00am Keynote: Paul Stamets
- Paul Stamets, Host Defense Mushrooms | Fungi Perfecti, LLC
Sponsored by
Date & Time
Thursday September 21st, 2023 7:15am EDT
End Date & Time
Thursday September 21st, 2023 10:00am EDT
Venue
Grand Hall Stage, Level 200, Grand Hall
Address
Level 200, Grand Hall Stage
Philadelphia, PA
United States
Philadelphia, PA
United States
| SPEAKERS |
 Scott DickerMarket Insights Director, SPINS Scott Dicker is a Market Insights Director for SPINS, a leading wellness-focused data company and advocate for the Natural Products Industry. With a background in nutrition, he believes in the importance of making wellness options more accessible to everyone and that demystifying data can make that happen. By delving into omnichannel comprehensive market wide data, he identifies emerging trends and explores shifting consumer behavior that helps retailers and brands better understand the market and their audience. Dicker has spoken at many leading industry organizations and shows, including New Hope Natural Products Expo, Supply Side, Plant Based World and many more and been published in top industry resources, such as Natural Products Insider, Nutritional Outlook, and Whole Foods Magazine. He has a long-standing involvement in nutrition and wellness, working as a sports nutritionist and starting multiple entrepreneurial businesses in the field. |
 Erika CraftIndustry Analyst, Nutrition Business Journal Erika Craft, industry analyst for Nutrition Business Journal, is responsible for tracking supplement industry trends and managing market sizing data. She implements quantitative consumer survey research that helps inform NBJ reports, as well as provides general consumer insights for the industry. She is passionate about consumer health and wellness and aims to help individuals and brands with a deeper understanding of the supplement industry. |
| Bill Giebler Content & Insights Director, Nutrition Business Journal An award-winning writer and seasoned natural products industry veteran—with decades of experience in food and supplement retail, lifestyle mail order and textiles product development—NBJ Managing Editor Bill Giebler reports on dietary supplement, food and agricultural trends and opportunities across New Hope properties. |
 Rick PolitoEditor-in-Chief, Nutrition Business Journal As Nutrition Business Journal's Editor-in-Chief, Rick Polito writes about the trends, deals and developments in the natural nutrition industry, looking for the little companies coming up and the big money coming in. An award-winning journalist, Polito knows that facts and figures never tell the whole story and that the story of this industry has always been about people. |
| Jack Gayton Divisional Vice President, Merchandise Manager , The Vitamin Shoppe |
| Jim Emme CEO, NOW Health Group Jim has been a member of the NOW management team since 1995. Jim possesses a unique combination of an education in Food Science and decades of experience in the design and management of food manufacturing and distribution operations, a rare confluence of skills and experience that fit perfectly with NOW’s mission and long-term goals. |
| Sherry Zhang Founder, GenoPalate Dr. Yi “Sherry” Zhang is an obesity genomics researcher, a health tech entrepreneur with 17 years helping individuals with achieving optimal health and wellness with science. Specializing in digital health innovations, Sherry uses her experience to help people gain access to health equity. Sherry is a well-published author in the field of metabolic health and genomics and has been featured in several media publications. Sherry is the founder of GenoPalate, a U.S leading nutrigenomics platform offering personalized wellness. With her science team analyzing multiple million variables per person of GenoPalate’s large and growing client database, Sherry is addressing dietary chronic illness with preventative care of people at the personal level. For her never-ending endeavor in searching for ways of improving people’s health, Sherry has received recognitions of 40 Under 40, Women of influence, Who’s Who and Spirit of Marquette University Award. Sherry often speaks about on stage at industry thinktank meetings including HLTH, Food as Medicine Summit, Personalized Nutrition Innovation and ANA’s Personalized Nutrition Summit. Sherry plays piano, goes to all her son’s basketball games and always looks for ways of eating delicious foods for healthy aging. |
| Thomas Aarts Managing Director, Nutrition Business Advisors Tom is a Principal of Nutrition Capital Network and Managing Director of Nutrition Business Advisors LLC, a strategic advisory firm focused on the nutrition industry. He co-founded Nutrition Business Journal and is Founder and Co-Chair of The NBJ Summit, the premier executive retreat for the nutrition industry. Prior to this, Tom was a Founding Partner of Health Business Partners, an investment banking and consulting firm serving the natural products industry.He has more than 20 years of experience in management consulting, M&A transactions, investment analysis and market research. Tom managed the sale of Nutrition 21 and has advised many leading nutrition industry companies on their strategy and direction, including GNC, Rexall, Nestle, Bayer, and Cargill. |
| Steve Mister President & CEO, Council for Responsible Nutrition Steve Mister has been President & CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement industry, since 2005. Under his leadership, CRN has experienced increased membership each year, doubled its annual budget, sharpened its strategic focus to advance the industry, and launched new initiatives that increase industry responsibility and provide consumer education. During Mr. Mister’s tenure, CRN has been instrumental in enacting the adverse event reporting law for dietary supplements, the Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act, and defeating several efforts in Congress that would have over-regulated dietary supplements, limiting consumer access. Mr. Mister led the association to launch the Supplement OWL, an industry-run online registry of dietary supplements and their labels. He is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Association Committee of 100, holds a Certified Association Executive (CAE) distinction, and is active in ASAE. In addition to his role as President of CRN, Mr. Mister is the President of the CRN Foundation that has housed several of the association’s consumer education and self-regulatory programs. Among the Foundation’s achievements are the creation of a highly successful consumer wellness education campaign (Life…supplemented), a program with the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus to review supplement advertising, and an economic report on healthcare cost savings from the targeted use of specific supplements prepared by Frost & Sullivan. Mr. Mister also serves on the steering committee of the Dietary Supplement Quality Collaborative (DSQC) and served as vice chair of the International Alliance of Dietary Supplement Associations (IADSA) 2018–2022. Prior to joining CRN, Mr. Mister served in several legal and legislative roles for over a decade at the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), completing that tenure as Vice President and Associate General Counsel. Mr. Mister also worked as an attorney in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley, Rein & Fielding in the general litigation, government ethics, and federal election law practice groups, and had a stint on Capitol Hill as a media relations assistant for former U.S. Senator Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. |
| Paul Stamets Owner, Founder & Director of Research, Host Defense Mushrooms | Fungi Perfecti Paul Stamets, speaker, author, mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, is considered an intellectual and industry leader in fungi: habitat, medicinal use, and production. He lectures extensively to deepen the understanding and respect for the organisms that literally exist under every footstep taken on this path of life. His presentations cover a range of mushroom species and research showing how mushrooms can help the health of people and planet. His central premise is that habitats have immune systems, just like people, and mushrooms are cellular bridges between the two. Our close evolutionary relationship to fungi can be the basis for novel pairings in the microbiome that lead to greater sustainability and immune enhancement. Paul’s philosophy is that “MycoDiversity is BioSecurity.” He sees the ancient Old Growth forests of the Pacific Northwest as a resource of incalculable value, especially in terms of its fungal genome. A dedicated hiker and explorer, his passion is to preserve and protect as many ancestral strains of mushrooms as possible from these pristine woodlands. His research is considered breakthrough by thought leaders for creating a paradigm shift for helping ecosystems worldwide. |
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