A One-Day Immersive Virtual Experience
August 14, 2026
Hosted by Control Point Holdings LLC
You are officially invited to join fellow industry managers, directors, and executives at a transformative summit that will change your approach to product safety innovation across globally regulated sectors.
The Inaugural Summit
The Thought Leader Product Safety Innovation Summit is not your standard conference with attendee and participant burnout. We welcome change and have taken the opportunity to drive change for the community of thought leaders. After hearing from industry thought leaders about the changes due to minimal momentum and redundancy, we spent over a year and a half creating the inaugural Thought Leader Product Safety Innovation Summit.
We aim to improve accessibility across global regulated sectors and to navigate ethics and innovation. Dr. Darin Detwiler joined us early and set the tone with the objective of cultivating leadership across globally regulated sectors (Agriculture, Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Nutraceuticals) using the 4 A’s framework of Awareness, Alliance, Advocacy, and Activism.
What You Will Accomplish
- Create competitive advantages across regulated sectors.
- Elevate performance throughout your corporate structure.
- Optimize lean operations to exceed measurable results.
- Master the critical intersection where quality management systems meet innovation.
Keynote Headliners
Dr. Darin Detwiler, LP.D.
Dr. Darin Detwiler, our opening keynote and theme architect, shapes product safety policy on a global scale. His work spans regulated sectors and crosses borders, advising government, academic, and industry stakeholders on the systems that protect consumers from agricultural inputs to pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products on the shelf.
He holds a Doctor of Law and Policy (LP.D.) from Northeastern University, where he serves as Associate Professor in the College of Professional Studies. His doctoral work focused on implementing the 2010 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act across all 50 states, and his policy influence has since extended internationally through speaking engagements, published works, and advisory roles. As a professor, author, researcher, and policy advocate, Dr. Detwiler brings the wisdom of someone who has transformed personal experience into systemic purpose.
Kristin King
Kristin King is the Founder and CEO of AnzenSage, a women-owned cybersecurity advisory firm specializing in security resilience for food, agriculture, zoos, and aquariums. She is also Co-founder of AnzenOT, a SaaS OT cybersecurity risk intelligence platform purpose-built for cyber-physical systems.
Kristin is the author of Securing What Feeds Us: Cybersecurity in Food and Agriculture (Wiley, 2026), the first book dedicated to cybersecurity threats facing the food and agriculture sector. With over 25 years of experience spanning IT, OT/ICS, and cybersecurity, Kristin brings a systems-thinking approach that bridges science, technology, and operational realities.
Together, Dr. Detwiler and Kristin King embody all four pillars of the summit. Each represents Awareness of the human and systemic cost of failure, Alliance across regulated sectors and disciplines, Advocacy for policies that protect consumers while enabling innovation, and Activism through concrete action that drives change. The keynote headliners are not anchored to a single pillar. They model what it looks like to lead across all four.
Why This Summit Matters Now
Learning from Cross-Industry Challenges
Globally regulated industries have faced significant product safety challenges in recent years. While complete root causes are not always public, we can learn from these incidents to strengthen our own systems.
Recent Industry Incidents Across Sectors
Food
- ByHeart Formula outbreak (2025) [1,2,4]
- Boar’s Head Listeria outbreak (2024) [5,6]
- BrucePac Listeria recall (2024) [7,8]
- Abbott Laboratories Cronobacter formula recall (2022) [9,10,11]
- Chipotle multi-state incidents (2015–2018) [12,13,14,15]
- Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella outbreak (2008–2009) [16,17,18]: 9 deaths, more than 700 illnesses.
Pharmaceuticals
- New England Compounding Center fungal meningitis outbreak (2012) [19, 20, 21]: 64 deaths and more than 750 infections from contaminated methylprednisolone acetate.
Nutraceuticals
- USPlabs OxyElite Pro acute liver failure recall (2013) [21,23,24]: 56 cases of liver injury, multiple liver transplants, with reported fatalities and approximately $22 million in product destroyed under FDA oversight.
Agriculture and Cyber-Physical Systems
- JBS ransomware attack (2021) [25,26, 27]: the world’s largest meat processor was forced to halt operations across North America and Australia.
- Multistate romaine lettuce E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks (2018, 2019, 2020) [28,29,30]
These are not isolated stories. They are signals.
The Critical Questions for Your Organization
These incidents prompt us to examine our own operations:
- Where do failures exist in our facilities that we have not yet identified?
- Are our risk assessments comprehensive enough to catch emerging hazards, including cyber-physical threats?
- Does our hazard analysis account for the complexity of modern supply chains spanning agriculture, food, pharma, and nutra?
- Have we invested in prevention infrastructure that matches the scale of our manufacturing?
- Is product safety culture truly woven into our charter (vision, mission, and core principles)?
The Pattern We Are Seeing
Across regulated industries, organizations face similar pressures: demands for operational efficiency, lean operations, and measurable results. The challenge is achieving these goals while maintaining and improving product safety performance.
Too often, product safety becomes viewed as a compliance checkbox rather than a competitive necessity. Companies operate with certification standards that allow products to move through supply chains, but do these standards truly drive excellence?
The Compliance Trap
GFSI certification is widely held in food manufacturing. ICH Q10 frameworks are standard in the pharmaceutical industry. cGMP applies across nutraceuticals. Yet performance often settles at the bare minimum. Organizations operate with C-grade results that move products through supply chains rather than drive true excellence.
Compliance-focused thinking creates vulnerabilities rather than protection.
The Infrastructure Investment Reality
The same systematic underinvestment affects entire systems. As Kaitlin Mogentale of Divert, Inc. demonstrates, “our waste infrastructure lags behind the products we manufacture.” Her experience as a CPG founder revealed brutal margins that are not sustainable, economically or environmentally.
Divert’s $100M Turlock facility processes more than 200 million pounds of food waste annually, converting it to renewable energy through systematic infrastructure investment. This represents true innovation: circular value creation rather than checking compliance boxes.
The parallel is clear across all four regulated industries. We need investment in prevention infrastructure that matches the scale of our manufacturing systems, not just audits that allow C-grade performance.
The Leadership Shift Required
“It is valuable to lean into the margins and not the means,” as neuroscientist Michelle Niedziela expressed at the International Society of Neurogastronomy 2025 conference in Philadelphia. The system is broken. Niedziela’s perspective aligns with the leadership mindset shift our industries need.
“Stress can be transformed in the same way we transform that experience for professional athletes. We all love to perform, but the hidden past can rob us of true consciousness,” said Scott Forgey, owner of Be Un Consulting.
Product safety is not a competitive advantage. It is the lifeblood of your customers.
The 4 A’s Framework: Your Path to Transformational Leadership
The summit’s pillars are based on the PEP (Protect Every Plate) Nexus 4 A’s, with Dr. Darin Detwiler serving as theme architect for the 2026 inaugural summit.
During a child’s battle with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), the child drew a figure wearing a cape. This simple yet profound image conveys the central message of our summit: heroes and thought leaders wear different capes. Each person across regulated sectors carries profound responsibility for product safety. Some wear the parental cape, feeding families. Others wear the executive cape, protecting brands and consumers. All share the fundamental obligation to ensure the products we produce are safe.
The 4 A’s Pillars
Awareness. Understanding the true scope and human cost of product safety failures, recognizing that behind every recall statistic are families affected by our decisions.
Alliance. Building coalitions across the supply chain, from beginning to end, recognizing that product safety requires collaboration, not competition.
Advocacy. Speaking up for stronger systems, better practices, and science-based policies that protect consumers while enabling innovation.
Activism. Taking concrete action to drive change through operational improvements, policy reform, or cultural transformation within organizations.
The Summit Arc: Connection, Validation, and Action
The inaugural summit is built as a single-day virtual experience. The arc moves from connection to action.
Connection and Validation
When asked what C-suite executives and thought leaders want from this summit, Dr. Detwiler identified a common denominator: the ability to connect and feel heard. The opening sessions deliver optimism, validation, diverse perspectives, engaging content, emotional resonance, captivating presentations, opportunities for reflection, and meaningful connections.
You will see yourself in the challenges presented. You will feel validated in your concerns about the current system. You will connect with peers facing the same pressures to maintain safety while delivering measurable results.
Breakthrough and Action
Through moderated Q&A sessions, our thought leaders representing Alliance, Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism will engage directly with attendees. An audience panel will showcase thought leadership in action, with five open seats available for executives who want to step onto the stage.
This is not passive participation. Panelists will take home more than certificates. They will receive recognition, resources, and tangible tools to implement in their organizations. The panel format ensures that breakthrough insights emerge from collective wisdom, not just expert presentation.
Each Thought Leader is a Student of Life
Effective thought leaders never stop learning. Dr. Detwiler’s journey from U.S. Naval Nuclear Power training to secondary education, and from Seattle University School of Law to Northeastern University’s doctorate program, demonstrates that transformational leadership requires continuous growth and diverse perspectives. Kristin King’s path from IT into operational technology, plant floors, and incident response, and then into authoring a foundational text on cybersecurity in food and agriculture, demonstrates the same principle.
Your Opportunity
Connect with established thought leaders who possess global experience and proven track records. Product safety culture exists, but it is not always woven into company charters: vision, mission, and core principles.
The Questions Leaders Must Answer
- How do we attract the right talent rather than simply promoting from within?
- How do we retain middle managers and staff when investment priorities focus on elimination rather than empowerment?
- How do we weave product safety threads into corporate culture so they cannot be compromised?
Framework for Innovation-Driven Culture
Build lean teams with the right people who drive discipline internally and externally, igniting productivity throughout your organization. When quality management foundations are in place, continuous improvement leads to breakthrough innovations.
“Mission must be instilled not only as paper on the wall, but into our daily corporate life,” said Don Morrow Jr. We need champions and deputies to support them.
Industry Thought Leaders
In addition to our keynote headliners, the summit convenes voices from manufacturing, investment banking, hospitality, foodservice, and agriculture.
Your Invitation to Lead Transformation
Control Point formally invites you to join fellow industry leaders for the 2026 Thought Leader Product Safety Innovation Summit on August 14, 2026, in a virtual format.
This represents more than a conference. It is a movement toward transformational leadership across globally regulated sectors.
The summit focuses on the critical intersection where:
- Quality management systems meet innovation.
- Compliance transforms into a competitive advantage.
- Product safety culture becomes the foundation for organizational excellence.
Join us as we shape the future of product safety leadership across Agriculture, Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Nutraceuticals.
The time for transformation is now. The question is: which cape will you wear?
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References
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