Four confirmed sessions address regenerative organic supply chains, ingredient-supplier platforms, sugar-reduction formulation, and year-round digital sourcing across the food, nutraceutical, and cosmetic categories.
— Organic ingredient sourcing is increasingly being shaped end to end, from how raw materials are grown to how buyers and suppliers connect and formulate with them. IO Summit Organica, the curated organic ingredient sourcing summit taking place July 12 at Row 24 in Chicago, has confirmed a four-session program spanning that range.
The sessions move from the digital platform connecting buyers and suppliers year-round, to regenerative supply chains at the farm level, to the models behind building a global ingredient-supplier network, and into the formulation science of reducing sugar without losing structure.
Tiffany Zhao, director of product development at Ingredients Online, will open the program with a demonstration of IO Global, the company’s digital sourcing platform. The session will cover supplier discovery, product listings, and tools designed to keep buyers and suppliers connected beyond the show floor. It aims to help attendees extend the relationships they form at Organica into year-round sourcing.
Paul Whitman, category manager at Tradin Organic, will present “Building Regenerative Supply Chains: Lessons from a ROC Ginger and Cacao Agroforestry Project in Peru.” The session will examine Tradin Organic’s Regenerative Organic Certified ginger and cacao agroforestry project in Peru, including the partnerships, practices, and supply chain considerations behind its development.
Whitman will discuss the environmental and social factors involved in the project, along with the challenges of implementing agroforestry within a commercial supply chain. He will also address how lessons from the Peru initiative are informing new agroforestry efforts in other regions.
Mike Liu, chairman of BCFoods, will present “How to Build a Natural Ingredients Supplier Platform.” Drawing on BCFoods’ global operations, Liu will outline the structural challenges facing natural-ingredient supply and explain the company’s “four-in-one” model for serving customers worldwide through local business operations.
Ling Ma, technical consultant and scientific advisor to BLB Bio-Tech USA Inc., will close the program with a discussion on sugar reduction in formulation. Her session, “Bulk + Biome,” will address how removing sucrose affects texture, bulk, and mouthfeel, alongside a fiber shortfall most consumers do not meet against the FDA’s 28-gram Daily Value.
The session presents application data on a dual-ingredient approach that pairs a resistant dextrin for structure and process stability with a high-purity short-chain fructooligosaccharide for prebiotic function.
The summit caps participation at 50 exhibitors by design, a curation choice intended to keep the floor focused on organic-certified suppliers and qualified buyers rather than on scale. Ingredients Online, a member of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, drew more than 600 attendees to its previous summit.
“Buyers are not coming to Organica for a catalog. They are coming for suppliers who can stand behind a certification and a spec sheet,” said Sherry Wang, founder and chief executive officer of Ingredients Online. “We built the program around the questions that actually stall a sourcing decision — what you can document, what you can defend, and what you can put on a label.”
The summit’s speaker application remains open at https://ctryg.share.hsforms.com/2QEjUeg9PQ8GEx6Vvddo3Fw.
Companies interested in the remaining exhibitor spots can apply at https://ctryg.share.hsforms.com/26ClRGceZSn6ZojQQ7k6y8g.
IO Summit Organica takes place July 12, 2026, at Row 24, 2411 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
About Ingredients Online
IngredientsOnline.com is a leading B2B e-commerce marketplace for nutritional raw materials, connecting buyers and suppliers across food and beverage, nutraceutical, cosmetics, animal nutrition, and pharmaceutical industries. Ingredients Online is a member of the Council for Responsible Nutrition and supports sourcing and supplier verification services for a global customer base.
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