2012 Partner Program

The 2012 Partner Program provides a unique opportunity to present your product or service to some of the most influential food personalities in the world - both at Annual Conference and year-round.

Program Overview

About IACP

IACP connects culinary professionals with the people, places, and knowledge they need to succeed.

IACP is a worldwide forum for the development and exchange of information, knowledge, and inspiration within the professional food and beverage community. With nearly 3,000 members from more than 32 countries, this organization of creative and talented professionals is engaged in and committed to excellence in nearly every avenue of the food industry - from brand representation to media.

IACP has been at the forefront of expanding opportunities for culinary professionals for nearly 35 years. Members have included Julia Child, CCP; Anne Willan, CCP; James McNair; Rick Bayless; Shirley O. Corriher, CCP; Lynne Rossetto Kasper; Jacques Pépin, CCP; and many more. Tomorrow’s culinary leaders look to IACP as a home where they can connect to the history of the food world and cultivate their careers alongside peers who share their passion for food. Through the years, IACP has helped culinary professionals inspire, celebrate, and shape the world table. Its diverse and influential membership includes:

Journalists, editors, and authors reaching more than 300 million readers and viewers every day.
Culinary schools offering over 200,000 classes to more than 3 million students in 50 states and more than 40 countries.
Chefs and their combined 80,000 employees operating 3,200 foodservice locations, managing annual revenues per operator of $3.5 million, and serving 30 million patrons.
Test kitchen professionals creating 150,000 new recipes and photographers shooting 80,000 food and beverage images.

An IACP Partnership is Good Business

When you become an IACP partner, you access a platform that builds awareness among an audience of core influencers and tastemakers in the culinary world. Partnering with IACP is an opportunity to create and nurture relationships with immediate and future impact for your organization. While many opportunities are offered at our Annual Conference, we offer year-round programs and events as well. All provide a high level of visibility and interaction with our influential membership:

Journalists, editors, and publishers
Marketers and communicators
Culinary educators
Best-selling cookbook authors
World renowned chefs and restaurateurs
Award-winning artisan food producers
Food photographers and stylists
Manufacturers and retailers of kitchen equipment and food and beverage products

Partner at Annual Conference

The 34th IACP Annual Conference, New York City, USA
Thursday, March 29 to Monday, April 2, 2012

The IACP Annual Conference is among the premier professionally focused educational and networking events in the food world. It’s here where companies showcase new technologies, where experts debate and discuss new trends, and where a wide-ranging group of experts from around the world gather to network and exchange information. And with large events like the Opening Party and the IACP Awards, the IACP is an ideal forum to reach a wide audience of culinary influencers.

Conference Theme 2012: The Fashion of Food

IACP brings its 34th Annual Conference to New York City - the global epicenter of food, media, art, and fashion. This city is a crucible of creativity where ideas arise, cross boundaries, and spread throughout culture. Food professionals are a huge part of this creative process, influencing trends in publishing, media, social activism, sustainability, design, retail, and fashion.

Through the "Fashion of Food," we examine, challenge, and celebrate the ways in which the food world interacts with other cultural currents. We explore how food both initiates and responds to the never-ending pursuit of "the new."

Come be a part of this exhilarating conversation. Go behind the scenes with key industry players, get access to the style-makers, taste the latest culinary trends. Connect with your peers from around the world and share the unrivaled energy of the city that never sleeps, a place where cultures converge in the most delicious and exciting ways.

Conference Partnership Opportunites*

From the Opening Party and breakfasts to the Culinary Expo, IACP Awards, networking breaks, and Cyber Café, the IACP Conference offers many highly visible opportunities to connect your products and services to a targeted daily flow of influential culinary professionals: