Connecting Dairy's Future
Dairy Connect is a strategic platform bringing together producers, processors, retailers, foodservice operators, investors and innovators across the global cheese and dairy sector.
Through events, intelligence, and a new collaborative leadership framework, Dairy Connect brings the industry together.
As the industry enters a period of accelerated structural change - driven by cost pressure, sustainability regulation, talent shortages and shifting routes to market - Dairy Connect exists to support progression, capability and long-term resilience.
This is not an association. Nor is it a single event. Dairy Connect is a connected ecosystem designed to inform leadership, convene the value chain and enable meaningful commercial and technical exchange.
Dairy Connect Ireland | 15–16 April
Connecting Dairy’s Future — Live in Ireland
This April, Dairy Connect comes to Ireland for two focused days of commercial insight, collaboration and leadership at the Bord Bia Campus near Galway. Designed for all those involved in dairy across production, processing, ingredients, technology and foodservice, providing a concentrated forum to address the pressures shaping the sector — and the opportunities emerging beyond them.
Across two days, the programme explores practical innovation, resilience, sustainability delivery and route-to-market strategies, anchored firmly in the realities of the Irish and UK dairy landscape. It is not a trade show. It is a working conversation for those shaping the next phase of dairy.
Attendance includes curated content, peer-level networking and access to the inaugural Dairy Connect Dinner — creating space for deeper relationships and long-term collaboration.
A Connected Ecosystem
Why Dairy Connect, Why Now.
The cheese and dairy sector faces a convergence of pressures that can no longer be addressed in isolation. Margins are tightening. Compliance requirements are increasing. Market access is becoming more complex. And the pace of change is accelerating. Against this backdrop, Dairy Connect provides a structured platform for insight, collaboration and action - connecting awards, exhibitions, leadership forums and market intelligence into a single, coherent proposition.
Dairy Connect Ireland
National Showcase & Sector Forum
This flagship event brings producers, educators, industry leaders, and innovators together for a day of judging, knowledge exchange, and strategic discussion. It's the meeting place for Ireland’s dairy community, with a programme designed to accelerate capability and strengthen future growth.
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Leadership, Collaboration, Resilience
NEXUS is the new professional network dedicated to building the skills, connections, and systems thinking required to navigate a more complex dairy future. Through structured learning, peer groups, and sector insights, it supports leaders at every stage of their development.
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