Infant & Toddler Nutrition

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

8:30 AM - 3:30 PM PDT // 11:30 AM - 6:30 PM EDT

*preliminary and subject to change

Anywhere you like! It's a virtual conference. Just make sure you have a smart phone, tablet, or computer with internet access.

ROUNDTABLE DEEP DIVE

Infant & Toddler Nutrition

We are so excited to host this virtual learning event on May 14, 2025 and connect with CACFP leaders and partners from all across the country. The Virtual Roundtable Deep Dive: Infant and Toddler Nutrition will provide attendees the opportunity to experience the high-quality learning, networking and idea-sharing that you are used to from CACFP Roundtable, but right at your fingertips.

Let's spend a day together (virtually) connecting with our CACFP community and diving deep into infant and toddler nutrition. This virtual learning event will provide you the practical and timely information you need to operate the CACFP for young children through two disciplinary tracks: (1) infant nutrition (ages 0-18 months), and (2) toddler nutrition (ages 18-36 months). Sessions will be live with opportunities to directly engage with the speakers, and available for on-demand viewing (for 12 months post event).

We hope this website provides you all the information and resources you need; but if you have any questions - we're just an email away! You can contact us at conference@cacfproundtable.org.

MORE ABOUT CACFP ROUNDTABLE

CACFP Roundtable was formed in 1977 and is a nonprofit organization that works alongside the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) community to educate, advocate, and support the field. In all of the work we do at CACFP Roundtable, we see it as our duty to help facilitate dialogue, promote innovation, and create space for collaboration - this Roundtable Deep Dive is no different.

Registration includes access to the Roundtable Deep Dive online platform for live sessions and 12 months of ongoing on-demand viewing. Registration will open in early 2025.

REGISTRATION RATES

ROUNDTABLE MEMBER: $150

GENERAL ADMISSION: $200

BECOME A CACFP ROUNDTABLE MEMBER

CACFP Roundtable members receive a generous discount on Roundtable Deep Dive: Infant and Toddler Nutrition registration and all of our learning events. If you are interested in becoming a member and enjoying all the benefits that come along with it, please process your membership before you purchase your Roundtable Deep Dive registrations. You can learn more about membership here: https://www.cacfproundtable.org/become-a-member.

Tentative Program

Wednesday | May 14, 2025

**NOTES:

This agenda is prelimary and subject to change.
All times listed below are Pacfic Time Zone

8:30 - 9:30 AM - Welcome & Opening Speakers

9:40 - 10:40 AM - Breakout Sessions #1

10:45 - 11:00 AM - Innovation Showcase

11:05 AM - 12:05 PM - Breakout Sessions #2

12:05 - 1:05 PM - Mid-day Break // Networking Areas Open for Attendees

1:05 - 1:50 PM - Welcome Back & General Session Panel

1:55 - 2:10 PM - Innovation Showcase

2:20 - 3:20 PM - Breakout Sessions #3

3:20 - 3:30 PM - Closing Remarks

A finalized agenda with more detailed information about the Roundtable Deep Dive: Infant & Toddler Nutrition program, speakers, and workshops will be available in early 2025.

OPEN CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

CACFP Roundtable is excited to announce its Call for Presentations for the 2025 Roundtable Deep Dive: Infant and Toddler Nutrition virtual learning event. We invite you to submit a presentation or innovation showcase proposal for a breakout session on infant or toddler nutrition. We are seeking training that is developed from lived-expertise, includes practical tools and resources, and addresses the issues that our CACFP community is facing.

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

WHAT TO EXPECT

Roundtable Deep Dive is a virtual event and all presentations will be conducted live during a scheduled time on May 14, 2025.
Presentations will be recorded and available for attendees to watch on-demand.
Workshop sessions are 60 minutes long, including Q&A. We encourage presenters to engage in discussion with attendees through our online learning platform.
Innovation Showcases are 15 minutes long and are intended to be rapid delivery of targeted information regarding an innovative method, tool, or best practice. We are seeking both industry partners and CACFP operators.
We have a team available to support you day of with any video and audio needs.
The attendees are eager to learn and interact! The most common feedback we receive at our learning events is that attendees want real-world examples and best practice sharing.

WHY PRESENT?

Be part of a dynamic community that is advancing new ideas, policies, and programs in CACFP.
Collaborate with experts in the field.
Presenters receive one free registration!
Amazing professional development opportunity.
Receive recognition for and feedback about your practice or program.
Have a seat at the table!

TIMELINE

December 31, 2024: Deadline to submit presentation proposals
February 2025: Presenters will be notified about presentation proposal selections
March 2025: Registration opens
May 14, 2025: Roundtable Deep Dive: Infant and Toddler Nutrition goes live!

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Your presentation should provide the following:

Relevance and Clarity: We are looking for infant or toddler nutrition content only. The presentation description should clearly articulate learning objectives and how the presentation will support attendees' learning and growth.
Engaging Format: Involves the audience, stimulates dialogue, and is consistent with the principles of effective adult learning.
Practical Application and Thought-Provoking: Presentations should provide take-away knowledge that can be used by participants in their day-to-day work in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, describe how ideas and methods can be transferred for use by others, offer how-to skills to improve performance; or reflects research and/or practical experience that is innovative and well-grounded.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Audience: Attendees will include child care center staff; family child care educators; Food Program operators and sponsors; local, State and Federal level policy-makers, administrators, and leaders; advocates, researchers, child care trainers and others who support the CACFP.

Presenter Registration: Presenters are encouraged to register and participate in the entire conference, but are not required to register. Lead presenters and up to 1 co-presenter will be offered free registration.
Honorarium: CACFP Roundtable does not award presenters an honorarium.
Presenter Responsibilities: Presenters are responsible for timely communication with the planning team and adequate preparation of their presentations. CACFP Roundtable encourages sharing handouts and presentation materials digitally through our online learning platform.
CACFP Roundtable reserves the right to make changes to proposed presentation titles and descriptions, to place sessions in alternative tracks, and to encourage joint presentations if multiple proposals are submitted on similar topics.

SPONSOR & EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES

Join us and make your mark by becoming a sponsor or exhibitor at the 2025 virtual Roundtable Deep Dive and grow your business with CACFP. As a sponsor, you can have the opportunity to display your partnership with the field, thought leadership, generate brand awareness, and interact with a large audience in a dynamic virtual setting.

Sponsorships opportunities start at as low as $1,500.

Innovation Showcase

The Roundtable Deep Dive Innovation Showcase is designed to expose innovative companies operating in the nutrition, food service, and child care industries to attendees at the virtual event. Have the opportunity to speak for 15 minutes discussing how YOUR solutions can be utilized by our audience of CACFP operators and sponsors OR bring on a client to give a testimonial themselves! Opportunities to show off your products/services start as low as $250 with our Innovation Showcase!

For sponsorship and innovation showcase opportunities, contact Elyse Homel Vitale at 619-914-5565 or elyse@cacfproundtable.org.

Infant & Toddler Nutrition

ROUNDTABLE DEEP DIVE

Infant & Toddler Nutrition

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