Our online Office Hours on Friday, October 9 features marketing expert Kim Feil of Aspire Healthy Energy Drinks, a fast-growing start-up that produces calorie-burning sparkling beverages with zero calories, sugars and carbs. Register for this free event at https://bit.ly/2GslgNN.

Our 11/6 Office Hours features ForceBrands, the leading specialized recruiting firm and job marketplace for consumer brands in the food, beverage, beauty, cannabis, pet, and consumer technology sectors. Sean Conner, Co-Founder, and Chief Progress Officer will discuss 2021 hiring strategies for consumer brands, key learnings for team building gained during the pandemic, and navigating the future of the workplace. Visit https://bit.ly/2TaXoRR to register and pre-submit questions.

The pandemic disrupted the local food supply chain. But making a virtue of necessity, many Chicago-area farmers have pivoted to new ways of delivering local products straight to consumers — and companies that buy directly from farms to sell to consumers are playing a crucial role. We are pleased to present Farm-to-You: Delivering on the Promise of Local Food, a free webinar that is part of our Navigating the New Normal series. Register at https://bit.ly/2Tq3spF.

Save the date of December 1 for a major national webinar: The Future of Food: Retail as a Proxy for the Evolving World​, featuring longtime Whole Foods Market Co-CEO Walter Robb, KeHE CEO Brandon Barnholt, SPINS President Anu Goel, New Hope Network Market Leader Carlotta Mast and Naturally Chicago Co-Founder Jim Slama. Register at https://bit.ly/35hYqTa.

Join us on December 10 for "10 Reasons Investors Pass... And Ways to Enhance Odds of Raising Capital" with guest speaker Andy Whitman of 2x Partners — a pioneer in Good Food investing. This Office Hours event is free to register at https://bit.ly/3lj0TlR

Join us on Friday, January 8, 9 a.m. central, for our first free Office Hours of 2021. The topic is Raising Capital Successfully: Best Practice Preparation and Navigation, featuring Michael Movitz, Founder of The Movitz Group, and Tom Malengo, Co-Founder of Brandjectory and Partner/Chief Business Officer of The Litchfield Fund. Visit https://bit.ly/382NVDh.

Join us for our online Office Hours event on Friday, January 22, 9 a.m. central, featuring Zack Strange and Chris Simpson, attorneys in Polsinelli law firm's Venture Capital and Emerging Growth Companies Group. Zack and Chris concentrate their practice in representing consumer product companies and venture capital and private equity funds (learn more here: https://foodbevconsumer.polsinelli.com/). The topic: Early-Stage Fundraising Traps and Pitfalls – A Legal Perspective. Visit https://bit.ly/3p4sPLQ to register.

Join us for our online Office Hours event on Friday, February 5, 9 a.m. central, featuring Brian Rolling, Co-Founder and Chief Video Officer at SRW, a dynamic marketing agency that is focused on the Good Food and Natural Products space. Brian's presentation on Creative Video Content in the [...]

The 12th annual (and 1st virtual) Good Food Financing & Innovation Conference will be held February 17-18, 2021. The Good Food Financing & Innovation Conference (F&IC) — which includes the Naturally Chicago Pitch Slam — will be held online on February 17-18, 2021. We are working on the [...]

The topic is Connecting With KeHE's Supplier Programs. KeHE is a leading specialty, natural & organic, and fresh product distributor, and you'll learn from leaders Katie Paul and Rachelle Radcliffe about two innovative KeHE supplier programs: elevate™ and DIVERSEtrade™.