CREATE: The Future of Foodservice

CREATE is where restaurant leaders, from the largest chains to the most innovative emerging growth concepts, come together to learn, discover and advance.

Produced by Nation’s Restaurant News, this new festival-style, live event is designed to provide the opportunity to reconnect with your foodservice industry colleagues. There’s nothing traditional about this event — no big exhibit hall to navigate or mandatory meetings to attend. CREATE represents what’s next, and it’s how industry leaders move forward, faster, together. Join more than 50 speakers and hundreds of restaurant executives in Denver!

It’s time to be together again. It’s time to innovate again. It’s time to CREATE.

Why should you attend CREATE? NRN editor-in-chief Sam Oches explains.

2021 Keynote Speakers

Monty Moran

Former Co-CEO

Chipotle Mexican Grill (2009-2016), Lawyer, Author, Pilot & Filmmaker

Sheilina Henry

Group Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion

Bloomin' Brands

Tanika Cabral

SVP & Chief of Staff, Chief Customer Office

The Coca-Cola Company

Marissa Andrada

Chief Diversity, Inclusion, and People Officer

Chipotle Mexican Grill

James H. Pogue II, Ph.D

President/CEO,

JP Enterprises, LLC

Greg Kingen

Chief Revenue Officer

Black Box Intelligence

Wade Allen

Sr. Vice President and Head of Innovation

Brinker International

James Fripp

Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer

Yum! Brands, Inc.

2021 Featured Speakers

Damola Adamolekun

CEO

P.F. Chang’s

Khalilah Cooper

Senior Director, Service & Hospitality

Chick-fil-A, Inc.

Michael Lastoria

Founder + CEO

&pizza

Jane Grote-Abell

Executive Chairwoman of the Board and Chief Purpose Officer

Donatos

Carin Stutz

CEO

Native Foods

James Park

CEO

WingWok

Susan Beard

Culinary Operations Manager

Slim Chickens Restaurants

Joe Guith

Restaurant Category President

Focus Brands

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What Makes CREATE Different?

This is not your traditional event!

Ask the Experts Sessions

These 30 minute Q&A sessions feature relevant and timely questions and instant takeaways for restaurant operators from industry experts.

Fireside Chats

Get up close and personal with some of the biggest names in the foodservice industry during this moderated discussion.

Lightning Keynotes

A fast-paced, forward thinking, solution-based, no fluff “TED style” presentation focused on data, customer case studies or the benefits of a partner solution.

Raising the Bar

A master-class focused on the future of the bar from both a beverage and food perspective. Sip and taste the trends during this interactive program held in the brand new Bezel Veiled Bar at the Sheraton Denver Downtown.

Pop Up Festival

Sample new menu items at the Pop-Up Food Festival! This new feature allows you to explore what our partners have to offer.

Industry Celebration

Join us as we reunite as an industry to celebrate as we rise and rebuild and look forward into 2022.

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