Our annual networking event of the year!
The Food and Drink Industry Dinner gives you the chance to network with industry
peers and catch up with colleagues and clients over a sumptuous three-course
meal.
Attended by around 500 guests, it attracts the best known global brands and the
UK’s most ambitious, successful SMEs.
Join us at the iconic Guildhall, London for pre-dinner drinks in the East and
West Crypts before moving upstairs to the stunning Great Hall for dinner and
entertainment. The spectacular setting for the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet
since
1502, the Great Hall is a vast space with a soaring, high-arch ceiling and
stunning
Gothic architecture.
Previous attendees include: Nestlé, Mars Food, Mondelez
International, McCain, Warburtons, Taylors of
Harrogate, Danone, Dr. Oetker, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Ferrero, General Mills, Tate
& Lyle Sugars, Unilever, Kerry, Birds Eye, HSBC, Siemens, AON and many
others.
Dress code: Black tie
Guest speaker
Emma Barnett
Newsnight presenter, host of BBC Radio 5 Live’s three-hour morning
programme, 5Live Daily, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Emma Barnett
is known
for her sharp interviewing skills, expertise in politics, media and digital
trends - as well as social affairs, religion and feminism. She uses her role as
a
facilitator to ask the right questions and challenge concepts effectively.
The former Women’s Editor of The Daily Telegraph, where she created and
launched the women’s section, she now writes a weekly column for The
Sunday
Times. In the past, she has worked for Media Week and contributed to The Times,
The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, Esquire Magazine and TimeOut London.
Covering technology, business, politics, and where women meet these worlds, Emma
is influential in her commentary, with guest presenting slots on Woman’s
Hour and her own radio show on 5 Live. She has also chaired the Women’s
Hour Power List and spoken at TEDx.
Since November 2014 she has been presenting the Five Live Hit List, reporting on
current social media trends. Regularly appearing on TV and radio, including BBC
Radio 4, BBC Five Live, Sky News, CNN, BBC Three and LBC, Emma’s face is
as recognisable as her voice. In 2011, she earned the accolades of Digital
Journalist of the Year and Digital Writer of the Year.
Tipped as a 'one to watch', Emma previously shortlisted for Red Magazine's
annual '20 under 30' Hot List, which highlights the most up and coming women
under
the age of 30. She has gained a loyal following on Twitter as an influential UK
journalist tweeter.
Former host of London’s Biggest Conversation every Sunday on LBC,
Emma’s is the voice of the Capital. She explored the issues behind the
biggest
news stories of the day, and interviewed the key people behind the headlines.
Emma presented Gadget Geeks on Sky One, a studio-based show covering digital
media and technology, and is hailed as a leading media and culture commentator
after having interviewed some of the most influential personalities in The
Sunday
Telegraph.
She also presented a documentary for BBC Radio 4 entitled ‘Do we have a
right to be forgotten?’, where she examined the ownership of online
identities and who owns information in the digital age.
Emma has also worked as the 'The Interrogator', for a podcast that confronts
social, political and religious dilemmas from all angles. From Octover 2017,
Emma
has co-presented After the News on ITV.
In 2019, Emma was announced as a new Newsnight presenter alongside
Emily Maitlis
and Kirsty Wark.
Her news coverage includes general elections, breaking political news, the royal
wedding for LBC and the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival for The Telegraph and
Telegraph TV.
Organiser: Craig Hannington, 02074207126, craig.hannington@fdf.org.uk