View, browse, and sort the ever-growing list of sessions by pass type, track, and format.
If you are seeing varied colors of session titles, here is your guide:
Cranberry = Catersource education sessions
Bright pink = TSE education sessions
Dark blue = those sessions or events that can be attended by anyone with a Catersource or TSE pass, or requires a separate ticket.
Find your best experience by first choosing the pass type you have purchased. This will weed out all other extraneous sessions.
Sessions do fill up and seating is first come, first served. Note: Individual presentations may also be on this website shortly before the published show dates. They may or may not be the final presentation.
Earn CMP credits!
ALL education sessions at this year's conference are approved by The Events Industry Council to count toward your CMP certification. Keep your professional status up-to-date while enjoying and learning from this incredible lineup of speakers.
Chef Paul Buchanan is a leader in the Sustainability/Slow Food movement and co-producer of, “Cooking What Nature Provides,” a series of award-winning short documentaries on producing sustainable events. His passion for locally sourced ingredients drove him to open Primal Alchemy Catering (PAC) in 2001 after working for esteemed chefs Nancy Silverton (Campanile, La Brea Bakery), Pascal Olhats (Pascals), Joachim Splichel (Patina) among others. He is a signer on Alice Water’s “Accord for Sustainability.”
As the first true Farm-to-Table catering company in Southern California, PAC has created seasonal, locally sourced cuisine to the Los Angeles Olympics LA28, TED Conference, Blueprint, Billabong, United States Green Building Council, Nature Conversancy, New Zealand, Space X, and Relativity. He has hosted and produced and the Long Beach Urban Farm Dinner for 15 years.
Highly recognized, Chef Paul has been instrumental in cultivating the urban agricultural movement, advocating for healthy food in schools and is dedicated to food education, partnering with farmers, promoting sustainability, leading the war on the use of glyphosate and plastics, of course…cooking what nature provides.