Attend Our Conference

The Whole Grains Council holds a major international conference about every year and a half. Our most recent conference, called Whole Grains on Every Plate, took place October 17-19, 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, where health professionals, media, manufacturers, marketers, farmers, and product developers gathered to learn more about the health benefits of whole grains, and the best ways to increase consumption.

As always, we covered the topics and messages that are most important to educating the public (through the top-level media at the conference) and to helping companies make more and better whole grain products.

If you'd like to be on our mailing for our next conference, tentatively planned for early 2014, email Karen Mansur. Want general information on Oldways / WGC conferences? Click on the links below.

• Who should attend our conferences – and who's come to past ones

• How your company can be an active participant and sponsor

Access Past Conference Proceedings

You can access a wealth of materials from our previous whole grains conferences through the links below, including:

• Summary agenda of presentations

• Reports and handouts (an unbelievable wealth of cool things you never knew about whole grains)

• Photos

PDFs of most presentations are available either online or on request, as noted on each conference's agenda.

• Whole Grains on Every Plate (October 2012, San Antonio, TX)

• Whole Grains: the New Norm (January/February 2011, Portland, OR)

• Make (at least!) Half Your Grains Whole (April 2009, Alexandria, VA)

• Just Ask for Whole Grains (November 2007, Kansas City)

• Getting Whole Grains To 3 (January 2006, Orlando)

• Whole Grains Go Mainstream (November 2004, New Orleans)