Grant Lundberg, CEO of Lundberg Family Farms, will be one of the keynote speakers at the conference.

Preregistration ends Nov. 4, 2016.

PDFs of the conference presentations

The North Bay Business Journal and Bank of America Merrill Lynch will cohost their 2016 Specialty Food & Ag Industry Conference Nov. 8 featuring keynote speakers skilled in marketing of food as well as a third-generation rice farmer from the California Central Valley.

The fourth annual event also features four panelists including the CEO of a flavored-syrup company with 20 percent-a-year growth; a representative of a large, family-owned organic food company; a successful artisan goat cheese maker; and a food-safety manager for an organic bakery. (See this story on the event for details on the speakers.)

The program also will include an update on the new efforts of the Food Industry Group supporting specialty food producers in the region.

“This is an impressive list of speakers and topics of high interest to specialty food producers and agriculture,” said Business Journal Publisher Brad Bollinger. “Nowhere else in the North Bay is this kind of information available, designed to help support and build these foundational North Bay economic sectors in food and agriculture.”