Exclusive: Bartek ingredients joins the 2025 line-up for the World Confectionery Conference
Milad Moshfeghian, of Bartek joins the World Confectionery Conference 2025 edition in Brussels this September. Pic: Bartek
Canadian-headquartered Bartek Ingredients is set to join this year’s World Confectionery Conference as a speaker, with Milad Moshfeghian, vice president of applications and innovation joining our line-up, writes Neill Barston.
The sector expert has spent over a decade in chemical manufacturing, and has progressed his way through his present company to rise to become part of its senior leadership team.
He joins a dynamic array of speakers for our 2025 World Confectionery Conference, which takes place on 11 September at the Marriott Hotel, Brussels, Belgium. This includes keynotes from Ferrero, Luker Chocolate, Caobisco European confectionery trade association, and major industry insights from the Mintel group.
Registration for our event are fully open, so make sure to secure your place at our must-attend event via our dedicated conference website, confectioneryconference.com where you can see the full agenda for this year’s action-packed show.
For his part, Milad began as a research and development specialist in 2012 and progressed through many roles to become Plant Manager in 2015 the Vice President of Operations in 2016.
He then became the Vice President of New Product Development where he explored a variety of derivative products that could be produced from the company’s base products.
Prior to returning to Bartek this year, Milad co-founded and became the COO of Circe Bioscience. A novel gas fermentation company that is trying to go from CO2 to food ingredients.
Milad holds an MBA as well as a BSc. in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Toronto, and his family includes his wife and two young daughters.
Confectionery Production editor Neill Barston commented: “We warmly welcome Milad to our line-up for this year’s World Confectionery Conference, which is coming together especially strongly.
“Bartek has proved itself on an international stage, with major investment in its own processing facilities in recent years that has seen its global capabilities, including providing solutions for the confectionery sector, seeing notable growth.
“So, don’t miss out on your chance to see a dynamic range of presentations that represents the full value-chain of our ever-evolving industries.”
