This year's BakingTech was a great success, and we are looking forward to BakingTech 2019, "Baking a Fresh Future", to be held February 24 - 26, 2019, featuring current ideas, best practices, insights, case studies, and lots of social networking. We want attendees to be educated and inspired after each talk, and we need you to make this happen!

ASB invites you to submit a paper proposal and share your knowledge, experience and solutions with industry representatives from around the nation.  The topics below are areas that will teach and better prepare us for the challenges as well as the opportunities that lie ahead!

• Future of Baking
• Human Resources
• Food Safety/Regulatory Issues/Employee Safety
• Research & Development
• Ingredients/Bakery Products
• Manufacturing/Distribution Technologies
• Marketing

We welcome all submissions, but will have the highest consideration for those papers addressing the subjects specified in the above list. Visit our website to learn more about the above listed topics and call for papers, and submit your proposal today.   The submission site will remain open until May 3.

Always wanted to volunteer on an ASB committee or task force but wasn't sure how?  ASB has just made it easier to influence the future successes of ASB's programs, meetings & member benefits.  

As a volunteer you will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and perspectives with other volunteer leaders.  Please click here to complete the ASB "Volunteer Sign Up" form today to let ASB's Board of Directors and staff know which opportunities you're interested in!

The "Volunteer Sign Up" form can also be accessed by clicking on the For Members and  Resources tabs located on the  ASB homepage.

ASB is continuing its Engineering and Maintenance/Machinist Scholarship Program for 2018/19.  Your summer engineering student interns and maintenance/machinist employees can apply for one of five $4,000 scholarships to help them reach their educational goals and advancement within your company.

The purposes of the scholarship program are:

• To provide financial support for university students who are pursuing a degree in engineering, have interned at a bakery and are interested in a career in the wholesale baking industry.
• To provide financial support for wholesale baking company employees who are pursuing additional training in maintenance/machine operations at a trade school, vocational institution or community college.

The study commissioned by ASB and ABA, “ The Workforce Gap in U.S. Commercial Baking: Trends, Challenges and Solutions,” showed that the three areas of greatest need for skilled workers in the wholesale baking industry are engineers, machinists, and maintenance personnel.    The ASB Scholarship Program directly addresses these wholesale baking workforce challenges.

If you have a summer internship program for engineering students and/or a relationship with an engineering program at a nearby university, please share this program with them and encourage them to apply.  If current machinists and maintenance employees are interested in continuing their education and enhancing their skills by attending a program at a trade, vocational school or community college, please encourage them to apply.

Attached are the scholarship criteria and the application forms.  The deadline for applying is June 1, 2018.  Selections will be made by July 1 and awards will be made in time for the 2018/19 school year.

Please share this with both your HR Director and other colleagues within your company.

Student Scholarships:

• Student Scholarship Criteria
• Student Scholarship Application

Employee Scholarships:

• Employee Scholarship Criteria
• Employee Scholarship Application