Top Canadian Food & Beverage Industry Conferences 2024/2025

Food and beverage conferences and trade-shows are a great opportunity to meet with suppliers, retailers and other brands to better understand the landscape of the industry. Start here to help plan your 2024 & 2025 strategy.

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Canada's food and beverage industry is incredibly diverse. From sustainable fisheries and plant-based producers on the west coast, to extensive farmland, agriculture, and flavours in the Eastern provinces.

We’ve scoured the web, reviewed comments, and browsed social media posts in an effort to round-up what we think are some of the best food conferences, expos, and trade shows in Canada.

Food & Beverage Events in 2024 & 2025


Ontario

SIAL Canada

Apr 29-May 1, 2025
Toronto, ON

SIAL Canada is committed to igniting innovation within the agri-food industry, empowering companies in this sector to gain deeper insights into market dynamics and global food trends. This empowers them to enhance and maintain their competitive edge. Thousands of companies have already recognized this fact: SIAL Canada has served as their annual catalyst for over two decades. Its meticulous sector-specific approach addresses the unique requirements of the retail, food service, and food processing sectors.

Planted Expo

May 10-11, 2025
Toronto, ON

Canada's biggest, most juicy, most epic plant-based event of the year! Over 200 vegan edible and lifestyle businesses in one place along with a stage packed with insightful, informative, inspirational speakers from around the world.

Food & Beverage Ontario

May 28-29, 2025
Toronto, ON

The food and beverage market is big business in Ontario, generating over 40 billion annually. FBO’s annual conference is a chance for leaders and entrepreneurs to learn about changes in their industry and meet other movers and shakers.

CHFA NOW Toronto

Sep 19-21, 2025
Toronto, ON
CHFA NOW is the number one source for new products and education for retailers who are doing business in Canada. If your store sells natural health products, organics, specialty foods, health & beauty, sports nutrition and/or nutraceuticals, this is your one-stop shopping experience. Everyone working in retail — from owners to managers to buyers — will benefit from the opportunity to see, touch, taste and compare thousands of products. Take advantage of discounted show pricing on your favourite products, receive special incentive programs from the exhibitors and make connections you won’t find anywhere else.

Grocery Innovations Canada

Oct 29-30, 2024
Toronto, ON

From thousands of innovations, to dedicated meetings between suppliers and retailers, there are numerous opportunities to engage and network with all business facets of the grocery trade. Suppliers showcase your brand, product or company at our exhibition that showcases everything front end to back end including technology, equipment, SMEs, packaging, consumables, food and beverage, and more!


British Columbia

CHFA NOW Vancouver

Apr 25-27, 2025
Vancouver, BC

CHFA NOW (Natural, Organic, Wellness) is on a mission to get more healthy living products into the hands of more Canadians, and we want our events to reflect all the great products that Canadians are looking for as part of their healthy lifestyle.

Grocery & Specialty Food West

Apr 14-15, 2025
Vancouver, BC

The GSF Show brings together retailers and manufacturers from across the nation to discover new innovations, and build relationships within the grocery industry.

From The Ground Up

2025 Dates TBD
Vancouver, BC

Started in 2019, Good to Grow’s annual From the Ground Up Trade Show is the only 100% B.C. trade show connecting our local brands to multiple market channel buyers.

This industry-only 100% B.C. local trade show connects B.C. food and beverage brands at all stages to buyers, distributors, brokers, chefs, media, and other food industry supporters. A showcase to support the incredible processors, producers, and food landscape right here in B.C.

Pitch & Plate

Nov 29, 2024 | Feb 3-7, 2025 (exact 2025 date TBD)
Vancouver, BC

The Pitch & Plate event provides food and beverage processors with the opportunity to learn about and build their readiness for the institutional food service market channel. Businesses receive training and individual coaching sessions, and have the chance to then pitch their products to post-secondary institutions, hospitals, healthcare authorities, broadline distributors, and service providers interested in new and innovative products for their institutions. Pitch and Plate is a Feed BC initiative, delivered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food in collaboration with B.C. food industry educators, Good to Grow and B.C. public sector institutions.


Quebec

Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert (Healthy Eating and Green Living Expo)

Mar 21-23, 2025
Montreal, QC

Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert's mission is to raise awareness of the importance of the quality of our food and our lifestyle on health and the environment through the presence of exhibitors from the sectors of healthy food, organic agriculture, ecological alternatives, ecology, cosmetics, fitness, as well as therapeutic products and services.

CPMA Convention & Trade Show

Apr 8-10, 2025
Montreal, QC

The largest fresh produce event in the Canadian industry, the CPMA (Canadian Produce Marketing Association) Convention and Trade Show provides a unique opportunity for industry leaders to enhance existing relationships and develop new business opportunities in Canada. Our show regularly attracts key decision-makers and customers from all segments of the fresh produce supply chain. Participants include industry executives, category managers, government representatives, and countless other notable staff who are involved in the Canadian fresh fruit and vegetable sector.

Bakery Showcase Trade Show & Conference

Apr 14-15, 2025
Montreal, QC

Bakery Showcase 2025 is the event to see, touch & taste the newest products from baking ingredients (flours, mixes, cake decorations, yeast etc.) baking equipment (ovens, mixers, sheeters, processing machines, packaging machines etc.) Join thousands of industry professionals from bakeries (retail, wholesale, commercial, in-store), grocery, pizzerias, restaurants and food-service outlets at Canada’s ONLY Business-to-Business Baking event!

Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert (Healthy Eating and Green Living Expo)

Apr 26-27, 2025
Quebec City, QC

Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert's mission is to raise awareness of the importance of the quality of our food and our lifestyle on health and the environment through the presence of exhibitors from the sectors of healthy food, organic agriculture, ecological alternatives, ecology, cosmetics, fitness, as well as therapeutic products and services.


Have you been to one of these conferences? What did you think? Did we miss an event or is information out-dated? Let us know!

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