Connie Tipton, outgoing IDFA president and CEO, sat down with Michael Dykes, incoming IDFA president and CEO, to provide a behind-the-scenes preview of Dairy Forum 2017, Jan. 29-Feb. 1 in Orlando, Fla.

The program will focus on what’s ahead for the dairy industry, including a discussion with former chiefs of staff from the U.S. Department of Agriculture about how campaign rhetoric is translated into policy.

It also will include a talk by the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency on doing business in a turbulent global environment and a conversation about food safety with the Food and Drug Administration’s deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine.