April 27-29, 2026

All Speakers

Dog and cat food research experts who will present at Petfood Forum & Petfood Essentials

Lynn Verstrepen
Director of Strategic Growth
Bestmix Software
Lynn Verstrepen is a product leader with more than 13 years of experience creating innovative software for the nutrition industry. With a background in bioengineering and environmental technology, she uses deep industry knowledge and customer insights to develop solutions focused on formulation, quality control, ERP and supplier management. Her mission is to transform complexity into clarity, helping companies operate more efficiently, transparently and resiliently.
Date/TimeTitle
Mon Apr 27
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Petfood Essentials: From nutritionist to operator: AI as your trusted copilot (tentative)
KCCC Room 2215

Lynn Verstrepen, director of strategic growth, Bestmix Software, explores how AI can be a copilot that helps formulators and operators work together through shared, transparent insights. Despite advanced automation and formulation software, quality and efficiency often still depend on who happens to be on shift. This human factor, while valuable, introduces bias and variability that modern technology should help us overcome. Verstrepen explains how AI can turn a company’s own production data, a true goldmine of untapped knowledge, into actionable insights that reduce dependency on individuals and stabilize quality across shifts and recipes. She shares learnings from early implementations showing how AI-driven analytics detect and predict process deviations before they affect product quality, provide operators with real-time recommendations to optimize performance, feed production intelligence back into formulation to continuously improve recipes and build trust in data-driven decision-making while reducing “formulator bias.” The future of pet food manufacturing doesn’t replace expertise but enhances it.