FUNCTIONAL FOODS FOR WELLNESS 2027

FFWS 2026

January 20-21, 2026

Pullman Bangkok King Power

Amway India Enterprises Pvt Ltd

Good afternoon. My name is Arjun Dasoondi, and I'm from Amway India, where I serve as Marketing Brand Head. I wanted to say that it's been a great experience being at the Functional Foods for Wellness Summit 2026 in Bangkok. It was a very great opportunity to see some of our excellent ingredient suppliers here, as well as fellow speakers who talked about the regulations evolving in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and other Asian markets. This kind of conference certainly helps us come together as an industry to talk about the different developments happening, whether in the area of research and development, marketing, or regulations. So, I think I wanted to thank the team of the Functional Foods Organizing Committee for organizing this excellent event. Thanks a lot. Thank you.

——Arjun Singh Dasoondi, Brand Head - Amway India

The International Probiotics Association (IPA)

Hi, my name is George Paraskevakos, the Executive Director of The International Probiotics Association. It's my third year being invited back to the Functional Foods for Wellness Summit in Bangkok. I'm very pleased to be here and honored to also be invited to speak at the conference. It's a great opportunity for companies thinking about attending the conference. I think it's not only a great networking opportunity to meet new people and new companies, but it's also a knowledge hub where you get to learn about different things: market access, regulatory access, and at the same time, innovation and data. So, what's important is that the attendees are international—not only from the APAC region, but we have also met people from Europe and North America. So, it's a great opportunity to come and explore entering the region, whether you're a brand or an ingredient company. I think it's a must-attend conference for next year.

——George Paraskevakos, Executive Director

Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager Heading the Asia Regulatory Affairs, H&H Group

Thank you to the Organizing Committee for inviting me as a representative of MADSA. My name is Kenneth Cheong, and I came to this event to share our Malaysia regulatory updates and also to network with like-minded people across the region and globally, coming together to discuss functional foods and innovations, as well as how we can promote the products and share these innovations with the rest of our consumers here, and to bring this industry to greater heights. Thank you so much, and I hope to come here again and be a contributor to this FFWS summit once more. Thank you.

——Kenneth Cheong, Head, Regulatory Sub-Committee, MADSA

The Biotics Research Institute of Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.

My name is Kazuya Ohno, and I'm a researcher at Morinaga Milk Industry in Japan. I think this Functional Foods for Wellness Summit is a very good opportunity to broaden our product research, and I'm very happy to have received the wonderful award last night.

——Kazuya Ohno, Researcher

Senior Scientist China Feihe

The Functional Foods for Wellness Summit is truly a world-class platform that perfectly connects cutting-edge nutritional science with real-world health solutions. We are proud to be a part of this prestigious gathering of industry leaders.

——Yang Zhang, PhD

Head of Infant & Child Product Development Department of Mengniu

Hi everyone. I'm very happy to be the representative of Mengniu Dairy participating in the FFWS 2026. First of all, my first impression is that the forum is very professional, focusing on aspects of healthy food, market and consumer insights, regulations and supervision, product innovation, applied research, and other fields. Experts from many countries have delivered very professional academic reports on topics such as weight management, microecological intestinal health, cognitive health, and women's health.

——Shi Suhua

KGK Science

This is my first time at this event, and I have been extremely impressed, actually, with the quality and the content. I've learned so much, and the networking has been fantastic, with being able to make some connections into the Asian market. But most of all, I thought the content of this conference was really excellent.

——Najla Gurthie, CEO

Business Unit Director Microbiome & Probiotics Zinereo Pharma

Hello! Good morning. My name is Ana Nunes, and I'm Business Unit Director for Microbiome & Probiotics at Zinereo Pharma. This is the first time I'm participating in the Functional Foods for Wellness Summit, and it was an amazing event. Here, over these two days, I was able to speak with researchers, regulators, and business people, and even learn the latest trends and marketing insights across this entire region, which is APAC and is growing a lot. I will, for sure, come back for next year's, and I invite everyone to join this amazing event. Thank you.

——Ana Nunes, PharmaD, PhD

Meiji Co., Ltd.

My name is Richard Walton, and I represent Meiji in Japan. I'm very happy to have been invited to participate in this conference. It's very educational. I met many top players in the industry, and the presentations have been very valuable, covering a much broader range of topics than I originally thought about before I attended. This is my first time. Many probiotics have been covered, along with the different regulations in various countries, including harmonization and different efforts to promote and market functional foods around the world, but with a bigger focus on Asia. So, this is once again my first time, but I certainly hope to be back. It was a very good event. Thank you very much.

——Richard Walton, Senior Advisor, Global Business and Industry Engagement

Regulatory Affairs Manager Probiotical S.p.A.

I found the event very interesting. As a regulatory professional, I appreciated the presence of global experts and the regulatory updates from different countries, which is not easy to find in one place. I also found a good synergy between science and marketing, with very interesting insights into new products and new technologies. Finally, it was also a good networking opportunity, which I found very valuable and interesting. So, I appreciated the event very much.

——Dr. Fabio La Spisa

Managing Member INCRENOVO LLC

My name is Dr. Ralf Jäger. I'm with INCRENOVO, and we are a research company, so we conduct human clinical studies. This is actually the first time for me to attend the conference; I was invited as a speaker. I really enjoyed the conference. I really liked the quality of the discussions and the different topics that were addressed, from regulatory to science, as well as the quality of the manufacturers showing their products here. So, I'm really looking forward to attending again next year, and this is becoming one of my favorite shows.

——Dr. Ralf Jager

FFWS 2025

January 15-16, 2025

Pullman Bangkok King Power

Kyowa Hakko Bio Co. Ltd.

HMO is a very unique ingredient，which is very beneficial for not only infants but also adults. and it is expected to support the immune health and gut health and we are the only supplier in the Asian areas and we can contribute our HMO to all over the world. very excited to connect with the lot of people in the industry and thank you very much.

——Masayuki Ochiai, Senior Manager

Kaneka Ubiquinol™

My name is Kazuki Takita from Kaneka Cooperation which is a manufacturer of Kaneka Ubiquinol™ and Kaneka Ubiquinol™ is helping produce energy and for the summit. it's a great opportunity for us to show credential as premium ingredients with out trusted summit FFWS. and also this is a great opportunity for us to connect everyone in this industry all across this region thank you very much.

——Kazuki Takita, Head of Sales (APAC)

Bart

For us it is a very interesting area to support not only the promotion of our company. but also to make some nice reports to present dedicated for the special markets especially for the Thailand and Asian areas and we believe that this kind of meetings can get us closer to different kinds of companies to go ahead and create something new and new for the future development. Thank you very much.

——Katarzyna Czapska & Margaret Kostrzewa

Synbio Tech Inc.

Synbio Techh is a probiotics manufacturer in Taiwan and in this submit we met a lot of potential clients from Thailand, from Malaysia and from China as well so we hopefully next year maybe we will still have the opportunity to sponsor this conference.

——Idelle Chen & Lisa Chen

Biotropics Malaysia

This is my second time attending Functional Foods for Wellness Summit it is really a great place to meet people of like minded businesses in the neutraceutical and also functional foods we learned a lot about the different ingredients the sciences behind it and also regulatory requirements for entering all kinds of regions this is a great place to be and I'm really happy that I was here.

——Dr. Annie George, Head of Science

Biotropics Malaysia

it's a really good opportunity to learn about different knowledge and trends and innovations from different professionals in different areas

——Chloe Kok, Senior Manager, Manager, Sales & Marketing (Performance Ingredient)

Bio-gen Extracts

A wonderful event to be part of with very interesting topics is actually a very refreshing event especially when it comes to regulatory requirements and harmonization of regulations and we see a lot of commonalities which is a positive in the industry and there's a lot more dialogues that can happen and this is a great platform which is supporting such dialogues between different stakeholders across different value chains starting from all the way from the ingredient level to the brands.

——Salman Mehkri, Head of Business Development

Turkish Food Safety Association

It has been great two days it was a great opportunity to learn about what is happening in this region but also what is happening globally and also it was a great opportunity for networking I'd like to invite everyone who is interested in the topics See you next year. Bye bye!

——Dr. Samim Saner, Vice President

Lallemand Health Solutions

I'm truly impressed with the quality of this event, this is the second one, after Malaysia within less than 12 months, it is very rich in the content yet very different, so very complementary to what, we saw in Malaysia and more up to date, I strongly recommend anyone in the regulatory, scientific, business development field to, attend this event so they can stay up to date, on topics of interests, such as my favorite probiotics, thank you.

——Solange Henoud, Chair of the Regulatory Committee

ENAC

Was an excellent event with the great insights specially focusing on the Asia regulatory market which is more of the need of the art for harmonization. so a very good excellent setup with complete understanding and accessibility for the Asia market.

——Ranjitha Balakrishnan, Chief Marketing & Operations Officer

ENAC

I've been a part of FFWS since the first edition, you have done a great job, you have done a great job, and having the right speakers having the right topics, so right from, wellness essentials to the probiotics, everything has been covered very well in these sessions.

——Sharvari Dixit, Chief Marketing & Communication Officer

FFWS 2024

March 06-07, 2024

Wyndham Grand Bangsar Kuala Lumpur

The International Probiotics Association

It was very very interesting and meeting different people from everywhere in the world to come to present here. I’m happy to be here and hopefully I will be back to chair as well.

——George Paraskevakos, Executive Director

The 6AM Agency

The summit had amazing insights, amazing inputs the speakers were really good. There was a lot to learn in these two days.

So congratulations to FFWS. And we will be looking forward to attending the next event.

——Alyssa & Divya

The International Probiotics Association

I would like to express that I really enjoyed a lot of the event. I know how hard you the organizer worked to gather all the speakers. This is a very interesting event. I will definitely attend another event. Thank you so much.

——Solange Henoud, Vice-President Regulatory & Compliance

PT Phytochemindo Reksa

It’s a great privilege for me to be here, and congratulations to the organizers of the Functional Foods for Wellness Summit. A very well organized, curated and professional event.

——Patrick Kalona, Chairman, AAHSA & Commissioner, APSKI

Expert Nutraceutical Advocacy Council

The Speakers were very eminent, the panelists were very eminent, the topics chosen were very relevant.

It’s been an amazing experience…

——Sandeep Gupta, Chief Founder & Director

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