Meals, Drink & Hospitality Week has revealed its 2026 ambassador line-up, showcasing a various group of business leaders throughout meals, drink, hospitality, and expertise sectors.
The ambassadors will play a key function in shaping the programme, sharing insights, and fascinating with guests on the occasions, which deliver collectively operators, suppliers, and innovators throughout the UK’s hospitality panorama.
Meals, Drink & Hospitality Week is the umbrella model for the portfolio of commerce occasions and competitions together with IFE Manufacturing, IFE, HRC, Worldwide Salon Culinaire, The Pub Present and Hospitality Tech360, collectively the UK’s greatest celebration of business innovation, happening at Excel London from 30 March to 01 April.
Nick Powell, Portfolio Director for Meals, Drink & Hospitality Week, says: “Our 2026 ambassador line-up displays the breadth and dynamism of the UK’s hospitality and meals sectors. Every ambassador brings distinctive experience, and their enter will guarantee guests can entry the most recent insights, sensible recommendation, and inspiration throughout each space of the business.”
Ceri Gott, Tradition & Management Coach and Ambassador for Hospitality Tech360, feedback: “Hospitality Tech360 offers precisely what we’d like proper now – an area to hearken to and study from one another. Hospitality individuals are extremely beneficiant in sharing their expertise – and real collaboration with tech companions is invaluable to growing options that work for companies and the individuals in them. With tech growing so quickly, I can’t wait to listen to concerning the innovation and classes realized over the previous 12 months.”
Steve Alton, CEO of the British Institute of Innkeeping and Ambassador for The Pub Present, provides: “The Pub Present offers an excellent area for pub operators to step away from the day-to-day of their companies, permitting them to find new tendencies, companions and collaborations with colleagues from throughout the sector.
“I’m delighted that the BII are as soon as once more, headline companions for the present, permitting us to share the voices of our 13,000 members, with key operators sharing their successes, classes realized and far more within the operator panels over the course of the occasion. See you all there!”
The Pub Present
Steve Alton, CEO, British Institute of Innkeeping
Emma McClarkin OBE, CEO, British Beer & Pub Affiliation
Hospitality Tech360
Gavin Allison, International Head of IT, Lore Group
Matt Bell, CEO, Mollie’s
Chris Fletcher, Founder & CEO, Tech on Toast
Tommy Giraux, Head of Restaurant Methods, Trustworthy Burgers
Nicole Goodwin, Advertising Director, Comptoir Group
Ceri Gott, Tradition & Management Coach
Tom James, CEO, Invoice’s
Jo Lynch, Account Director, KAM
IFE
Andy Richardson MBE, Meals & Drink Council
James Bielby, CEO, Federation of Wholesale Distributors
Karen Inexperienced, Enterprise Coach and Keynote Speaker, Buyerology
Freya O’Mara, Buying and selling Supervisor – Meals Cabinet and Speciality Meals, Ocado
IFE Manufacturing
Kerri Fiddler, Head of Portfolio – Meals for Later, Greencore
Mex Ibrahim, Co-Founder, Girls within the Meals Trade
Ton Knipscheer, Govt Director, European Copackers Affiliation
Richard Werran, International Director Shopper, Retail & Meals, BSI
Meals, Drink & Hospitality Week takes place from 30 March to 01 April, discover out extra about every thing occurring as a part of this 12 months’s blockbuster occasion at fooddrinkandhospitalityweek.co.uk.
