Kira Nash spoke with Carlo Suy, the recently retired former head of Belgian and international brand Casibeans to discuss the company’s history and the highlights and challenges of his career in pulses.

Andrea Gomez is the commercial director of Progranos, a Mexican company trading in corn, beans, soybeans and chickpeas. This week, she chatted to the GPC’s Ana Krepp about the Mexican pulses industry.

Debates about opportunities created by this market are also part of the event.

The webinar covered Michigan, California, Minnesota and North Dakota, Rocky Mountain and Nebraska.

Kira Nash interviewed David Julian McClements, a professor and researcher in food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States, about his groundbreaking work with plant proteins to create new, healthful, plant-based alternatives to traditional meat and dairy.

Speaking from his Kimpex International office in Cairo, Brooks & Kempton’s founder and CEO talked to Madaline Dunn about trade, perseverance and the importance of community support in the pulses industry.