Festive season sees 2026 World Confectionery Conference plans progress

In the wake of another notable and highly-engaging World Confectionery Conference in Brussels this September, we’re on the move as the event heads to London next year.

It’s time to mark 10th September in your diaries for our 2026 iteration of the event, which will again place sustainability, innovation, and major policy developments across our combined industries.

Once again, we shall seek to offer comprehensive coverage of our complete value chain across finished products, equipment, systems, and ingredients, as well as related supply chains including the cocoa sector, which will be placed firmly under the microscope.

We have been extremely grateful to all those who have attended over the past four live editions, as well as our founding show which was online due to the pandemic. While digital connections are great in their own right, there’s nothing that quite beats those personal interactions, so make sure to make the most of our early bird rates, which will only be open for the next few months.

Notably, we are extremely pleased that Caobisco European confectionery trade body will be returning to support our event, with its recently appointed new president Tobias Bachmüller, who also serves as a managing shareholder at Germany’s major Katjes confectionery group, set to be among our keynote speakers, with further announcements in due course.

Moreover, making an early reservation for our event is always much appreciated, as it enables smoother planning surrounding the build-up to the conference, which for our 2026 edition, will be held at The View, in central London, which successfully hosted our sister title, Tea and Coffee Trade Journal’s debut conference event earlier this summer.

So please do head on over to our dedicated website, confectioneryconference.com where you can gain regular updates surrounding developments for our 2026 conference, as well as look back on our event this year in Belgium with our picture gallery viewable, as well as our exclusive video review (below).

For our 2026 event, as well as celebrating innovation, we’ll also be placing a further special focus on business resilience, as companies continue to grapple with shared trading complexities.

Once again, our World Confectionery Awards will seek to shine a light on some of the brightest talents gracing our combined sweets, snacks and chocolate markets, and their associated manufacturing businesses.

So, it will be another genuine pleasure to welcome delegates to our next event – which will be our fifth live show, and another key landmark for Confectionery Production in its ongoing mission to engage with the sector in an open and dynamic manner. We look forward to seeing you next year in the UK.

Neill Barston, editor, Confectionery Production magazine

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