Sysco Ontario South Healthcare & Senior Living Showcase

Together We Bring Food to Life

When

February 26, 2025
From 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Where

Mississauga Convention Centre
75 Derry Road West, mississauga

Registration

November 22 - February 21, 2025
Ending at 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Entry Limit

Available Seats
Total:   80

Join us for a full-day, in-person event featuring educational speakers and a vendor showcase where you can delve into trends and labour-saving solutions!

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Location and Venue

Mississauga Convention Centre
75 Derry Road West mississauga

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Speakers

Keynote Speaker:   Suzanne Quiring, RD

Suzanne Quiring is a Registered Dietitian both in Canada and USA. She is a member of Dietitians of Canada, Gerontology Network, Washington State Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), Dietetics in Health Care Communities (DHCC). Along with having her 2 year Continuing Care Administrator’s designation, she has over 30 years experience in the Health Care Community food service industry as a Director of Food Services, Clinical Dietitian, and consultant. Suzanne has personally worked in many areas of Healthcare; from acute care to Residential Care including Assisted living, skilled nursing care, palliative care, dementia care, brain injury, cancer care, and extended care. She has an appreciation as to the practical and real challenges of providing great meal service to folks regardless of care level. She continues to work weekly as a clinical dietitian in the healthcare field to “keep it real”. Suzanne is the Inventor of the famous SuzyQ carts, which is an improved way on “how” we typically do meal delivery in our healthcare, which allows for more interaction & choice, hotter food and less food waste, resulting in significant dollar savings. To date, she has helped over 1,000+ communities throughout North America improve the dining experience. Suzanne has been published in 10 peer publications, and was awarded the Marie Taylor Award for Excellence in Long Term Care by Dietitians of Canada in 2015, and ANFP National Dining Distinction Award winner for 2020. Suzanne spends her time providing education support to Residential Care communities via webinar classes, conference speaking, & email/phone support to folks that are motivated to make a positive change in their dining room & hallway services. She loves to share her passion & experience on “how” meal service can be done as resident focused as possible, the culture change that is needed, to ensure loneliness, helplessness and boredom are challenged

Featured Speaker:   Lillian Lau, RD

Lillian is a Registered Dietitian and a member of Dietitians of Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Human Nutrition from the University of Guelph and a Master's of Science in Applied Human Nutrition from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With prior experience as a Clinical Dietitian in long-term care settings, Lillian possesses abundant expertise in the senior living sector. At Sysco, Lillian provides support for customer accounts and menu management while also contributing to marketing initiatives, including toolkits.?  

Featured Speaker:   April Lorimer

April is the Manager of National Sales Healthcare Systems at Sysco Canada.  She is a Nutrition Manager and Chef who fell in love with Seniors when she started her career in the Healthcare sector over 25 years ago. For over a decade she worked with one of our customer partners and six of those years were spent as their Dietary System Specialist implementing and managing Synergy Tech Suite for the organization.  In 2018, April joined MealSuite, our Synergy software producers as a Senior Product Designer and then as a Customer Success Manager. At Sysco, she oversees the delivery and adoption of the Synergy Tech Suite as a business solution for healthcare & senior living customers. Please join me in welcoming April

Featured Speaker:   Frank Merrill

Frank is a Certified Red Seal Chef with 23 years of experience in the hospitality and healthcare industry. He graduated from Liaison College and did his apprenticeship At the Sheraton Center Hotel in downtown Toronto. In the last 10 years, Frank has worked in various culinary settings in the healthcare sector within different areas of Ontario including being responsible for food costing, menu development, food quality and plate presentation. For Sysco Frank is the 1st Culinary Specialist for the healthcare region of Ontario and is tasked with being the Culinary Advisor for the city of Toronto LTC to support their day-to-day operations.