Relating to benefiting from your Pizza Expo expertise, it’s key to have a schedule. Between back-to-back competitions in addition to Demos, Seminars and Workshops on the Las Vegas Conference Middle, there is just too a lot to do in a brief period of time.
Touring with colleagues makes splitting up the huge training schedule extra manageable. For instance, chef Wylie Dufresne of Stretch Pizza is giving a keynote handle on Tuesday, March 24. On the similar time, Will Grant of Sourdough Willy’s Pizzeria is internet hosting a paid workshop that covers the historical past of pizza by way of the way forward for American and Italian-style pizza. What’s a curious store proprietor to do? Ship your workers to the keynote and e-book your self a seat within the workshop. Afterwards, make time to sit down collectively and share every part you discovered. (I attended Grant’s workshop throughout Pizza Expo Columbus, then got here house and instantly made adjustments to my mixer settings.)
Newcomers to Pizza Expo shall be blown away by the scale of the exhibit corridor. Greater than 500 gear, ingredient and repair suppliers shall be onsite that can assist you run your small business extra profitably and effectively. Exhibit ground hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 24-25, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Thursday, March 26. With a lot alternative and restricted time, plan forward! What gear and providers might assist push your small business ahead in 2026?
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Obtain the Pizza Expo cellular app and take a look at the exhibitor lineup. You’ll be able to seek for phrases akin to ovens or pepperoni, then flag firms you have an interest in. If you want a vendor to succeed in out to you, choose “Present Curiosity” within the app to let exhibitors know they’re in your radar. You too can view a map of West Corridor within the app, full with room numbers (for Keynotes, Seminars and a few workshops) in addition to sales space numbers and the situation of occasions such because the Worldwide Pizza Problem and World Pizza Video games.
In the event you solely have time to attend one networking occasion throughout Pizza Expo, make it Beer & Bull. The networking occasion on Tuesday, March 24 at 4:30 p.m. has been reimagined for 2026 with an emcee and a few of Pizza As we speak’s prime columnists available to reply questions on enterprise, kitchen operations, pizza types and extra.
For an additional likelihood to relax with a beverage and rub elbows with the pizza neighborhood, the Pizza Video games Finals & Block Occasion is the place to be. You’ll get an opportunity to observe the finals of the Freestyle Acrobatic Dough Tossing occasion. In the event you’ve by no means been, you’ve by no means seen something prefer it.
So, you’re able to make your schedule. However have you ever registered for Pizza Expo? REGISTER NOW to get advance pricing.
