Industry Meetings & Events
While the global dairy industry is meeting in Madison, the city is proud to host the National 4-H Dairy Conference in conjunction with World Dairy Expo.
Expo attendees can also benefit from a variety of special industry hosted seminars and meetings. Most of these events are free with Expo admission and offer an opportunity to meet and talk with fellow producers from down the road or around the globe.
For additional information about these events, please contact the hosting company. To locate these meeting spaces, download the WDE Mobile Event App.
The 2025 industry meetings and events are below!
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Monday, September 29 |
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Career Connections |
Atrium | 10:00 a.m. |
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Dairy Shrine Reception and Awards Banquet Hosted by: National Dairy Shrine |
Mendota 1 - 4 | 5:00 p.m. |
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Local Farm Tours |
Madison Area | 12:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
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Wednesday, October 1 |
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CDCB Industry Meeting Hosted by: Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding |
The Tanbark | 8:00 a.m. |
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Local Farm Tours |
Madison Area | 12:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
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Thursday, October 2 |
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No-Feed, Successful Results: A New Era in Robotic Milking Hosted by: DeLaval, Inc. |
The Tanbark | 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
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U.S. Farm Report LIVE! Hosted by: Tyne Morgan, U.S. Farm Report |
The Tanbark | 12:00 p.m. |
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Friday, October 3 |
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Global Perspectives on Women’s Leadership in Dairy |
The Tanbark | 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. |
Career Connections
Hosted by: World Dairy Expo & National Dairy Shrine
Monday, September 29 in Atrium, Exhibition Hall
Looking for something new professionally or struggling with where to begin? Career Connections is your tool to connect with job and internship opportunities in the dairy industry! Through Careers Connections, high school and college students as well as young dairy professionals will connect with World Dairy Expo's commercial exhibitors, sponsors, Dairy Cattle Show exhibitors.
Registration information coming soon.
National Dairy Shrine Reception and Awards Banquet
Hosted by: National Dairy Shrine
Monday, September 29 in Mendota 1-4, Exhibition Hall from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The annual awards banquet highlights the past, present and future of the dairy world. Students receive numerous scholarships, current dairy leaders are honored for their success and prominent dairy leaders are honored for their lifetime of work by their election into the National Dairy Hall of Fame.
*Ticket Required. Order tickets here.
Local Farm Tours
Hosted by: Global Dairy Outreach and Global Cow
Tuesday, September 30 & Wednesday, October 1 from 12:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
During the afternoons of September 30 and October 1, inbound buyers at World Dairy Expo can register to attend farm tours and visit with farm owners and managers providing details about their operations.
“The tours showcase Wisconsin farms with great management,” notes Karen Nielsen of Global Dairy Outreach, who has been organizing farm tours during World Dairy Expo since 1996. “We balance a smaller dairy with a larger dairy, so visitors can get a feel for varying types of operations.” This year’s tours include 250-cow to 3,000-cow dairies; various styles of parlors including robotic, rotary and herringbone; farms with agricultural tourism operations; on-farm processing; on-farm sales and more.
Tours depart at 12:30 p.m. from the Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall. Participants return to the grounds by 6 p.m. Space is limited.
For more details, please contact Karen Nielsen, Global Dairy Outreach LLC at karen@globaldairyoutreach.com | (608) 512-5040 or Jill Stahl Tyler, Global Cow at info@globalcow.com | (802) 254-2879.
