WMC2023

About WMC2023

After 5 years of absence, the international meat society can finally meet again at the World Meat Congress 2023.
COV, the Dutch Meat Producers Association, and the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) are proud to host the WMC2023 in the city of Maastricht, the Netherlands.
For many decades, the WMC is a major global event for all stakeholders within the meat value chain all over the world where relevant challenges and opportunities related to meat production are discussed.
The theme of this year’s Congress is Meeting Society and Consumer. The diverse parts of the Congress will focus on the various challenges that the meat sector is facing in all parts of the world as well as on the opportunities that can be seized when understanding what society and consumers expect of their high quality and nutritious food.
We have invited excellent and appealing speakers from industry, national and supranational government, NGOs and the academic realm who will address highly topical issues related to meat production and meat trade.
Meat is an important part of citizens’ diet, but is also in the center of many societal concerns. The WMC2023 congress will provide all participants a unique opportunity for contributing to bridging different viewpoints and witnessing actual solutions for these interesting social and economic challenges.
This edition will strongly focus on the sustainable production of meat since this is at the heart of societal and consumers concerns. This will ensure that the WMC2023 will provide excellent opportunities for stakeholders within the meat value chain to witness the latest developments and experience the networking with the many hundreds other leaders, experts and specialists from outside and inside the meat industry.