With thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors
Marler Clark - Platinum Sponsors
Food safety lawyers and experts since 1993 For 30 years, Marler Clark has been the leading expert in food safety law and has represented thousands of victims in food safety cases against large corporations including Walmart, Dole, McDonald’s, and Nestle. Our team is dedicated to helping victims of foodborne illness outbreaks The food attorneys at Marler Clark, Inc., PS are the USA’s leading lawyers representing victims of foodborne illnesses such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria. Marler Clark was formed in 1998 following the historic Jack-in-the-Box E. coli outbreak that sickened nearly 700, hospitalizing hundreds and causing the death of 4 children. Bill Marler and Andy Weisbecker, who represented the E. coli victims, joined forces with Bruce Clark and Denis Stearns, who represented Jack-in-the-Box, to form the first and only law firm with its sole mission to represent the victims of foodborne illnesses like E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, Hepatitis A, and others. Since 1998, Marler Clark has been involved in all major outbreaks in the United States and has consulted on cases worldwide. Together, they have secured verdicts and settlements for their clients amounting to more than $850,00,000.
BioMérieux - Silver Sponsor
A family-owned company, bioMérieux has grown into a global leader in in vitro diagnostics, driven for over a century by a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a constant commitment to improving public health worldwide. Since 1963, bioMérieux has played a key role in advancing diagnostics to support better health outcomes. For more than 30 years, the company has also supported the food industry with innovative solutions that help ensure food safety and quality. Through its Augmented Diagnostics approach, combining advanced microbiology and molecular technologies with data science and genomics, bioMérieux empowers industry players to make confident, data‑driven decisions across the entire production value chain.
https://www.biomerieux.com/corp/en/our-offer/food-safety-and-quality.html
Hygiena - Silver Sponsor
Hygiena delivers rapid microbial detection, monitoring, and identification solutions to a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, healthcare, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, and personal care. Utilizing advanced technologies and patented designs, Hygiena provides industry-leading ATP monitoring systems, PCR-based pathogen and non-pathogen detection and characterization systems, allergen tests, environmental collection devices, and more. Hygiena is committed to the mission of providing customers with high-quality, innovative technologies that are easy-to-use and reliable, backed by excellent customer service and support. Headquartered in Camarillo, California, with multiple offices around the world, and over 180 distributors in more than 100 countries worldwide, Hygiena-branded products span the globe.
Exhibitors
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Sponsorship Opportunities
The VTEC congress is the only international conference for science communication scientific researchers and practitioners in the Shiga toxin (verocytotoxin)-producing E.coli (STEC / VTEC) community. The aim is to provide a global platform to exchange ideas and knowledge all aspects of STEC biology and epidemiology, covering animal, human, environmental, and public health, and microbial pathogenesis, and microbial genomics.
The triennial series of VTEC meetings has been held in different countries since 1998 and tends to alternate between different continents. The 2026 meeting will be the first held in the UK since 2003 (Edinburgh). It is an internal meeting, open to a global audience and anticipated to attract a goof proportion of European members.
There are a number of opportunities and ways which you can increase your visibility at the VTEC Conference 2026 with bronze to platinum sponsorship packages and bespoke options available.
Reasons to sponsor:
- We expect to welcome over 400 international delegates from around 25 countries will be represented, this is an opportunity to promote your organisation prior to, during, and after the conference.
- Demonstrate your commitment to the STEC / VTEC community and in the development of young researchers and supporting participants from low- and middle-income countries.
- Your support of the conference will be acknowledged widely both through online platforms, the conference website and app as well as at the conference itself.
If you are interested please download our Sponsorship and Exhibitor Manual, or get in touch to find out more.