Name: 2024 NWA Technology, Innovation, and Vendor Management Conference - Virtual
Start: 06/08/2024 03:00 PM +00:00
End: 07/08/2024 11:00 PM +00:00

National WIC Association

Gerber is committed to serving families with our high quality, nutritious foods and we are proud to have been making WIC foods for babies since the very beginning! Happy 50th Anniversary WIC! Find our latest nutrition education, eligible products, and stay in touch with our expert nutrition science team at the Gerber Medical Hub. We can&rsquo;t wait to meet you at our booth.
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Gerber is proud to announce we have achieved the most Clean Label Project First 1,000 Day Promise certifications of any US infant feeding brand. The Clean Label Project First 1,000 Day Promise certification is a first of its kind and requires the most comprehensive testing panel for chemicals, heavy metals, and pesticides of all Clean Label Project certifications.

Gerber Products Company

Luna MIS
<ul>
<li>Healthy Together enables states and territories to effectively address the limitations of legacy systems with a solution deisgned with user-expereince first. Our cloud-native, SaaS MIS features advanced communication tools, API-driven connectivity, and modular architecture, all to aim to better the experience of administrators and participants.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Our WIC platform modernizes and streamlines the patient and employee experience, eliminating a siloed approach. One door for digital eligibility, enrollment, recertification, shopping and delivery saves time for benefit recipients and program administrators while creating more accessible benefits for residents.</li>
</ul>
FMNP / SFMNP e-Solution
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<li>An e-Solution that provides participants and farmers with a mobile app to transact and redeem benefits and provides administrators with a browser based administrative portal. The comprehensive solution offers "One Door" to services, including enrollment, benefit management, shopping, bank reconciliation, communication, and more. The mobile application will continue to work when connectivity is limited or when the app is offline.&nbsp;</li>
<li>The platform supports a physical card with printed QR code for participants who prefer not to use the application. The farmer experience is provided at no cost to farmers. Healthy Together operates as its own MIS and is capable of linking to existing systems. Digital payments are accepted for FMNP and SFMNP funds with the ability to accept multiple tender types and program benefits.</li>
</ul>
Summer EBT
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<li>A fully integrated Summer EBT platform that streamlines processes by combining a Summer EBT MIS, participant portal, online enrollment, benefit management and more all in one place.</li>
</ul>

Healthy Together

Maximus has a long history of working collaboratively with WIC state agencies and the federal government to provide support as technology and policy changes are implemented. As a strategic partner, we are ready to work with your team as you modernize delivery of services, and respond to the complex challenges and projects. Our portfolio of services includes:
<ul>
<li>Planning Support: Feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, cost-benefit analyses, Advance Planning Documents, requirements analyses</li>
<li>Procurement &amp; Reprocurement Support: Developing and validating detailed program and system requirements, preparing procurement documents, assisting with contract negotiations</li>
<li>Design, Development and Implementation Quality Assurance Support: Gap analyses, system conversion support, system acceptance testing, vendor oversight, Pilot evauation</li>
<li>Project Management Services</li>
</ul>

Maximus, Inc.

Conduent delivers digital business solutions and services spanning the commercial, government and transportation spectrum - creating valuable outcomes for its clients and the millions of people who count on them. The Company leverages cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and advanced analytics to deliver mission-critical solutions. Through dedicated global team of approximately 59,000 associations, process expertise and advanced technologies, Conduent's solutions and services digitally transform its clients' operations to enhance customer experiences, improve performance, increase efficiencies and reduce costs. Conduent adds momentum to its clients' missions in many ways including discursing approximately $100 billion in government payments annually, enabling 2.3 billion customer service interactions annually, empowering missions of employees through HR services every year and processing nearly 13 million tolling transactions every day. Learn more at www.conduent.com.&nbsp;

Conduent

Growing since 1984 to meet the changing needs of those who depend on leading-edge IT services.
At CMA, we believe in building something bigger than ourselves, every day. We support the missions of our client partners and build tailored business solutions that are efficient and value-based.
With hundreds of employees located around the country, CMA has conducted thousands of technology-oriented consulting engagements and developed hundreds of application system solutions for our customers.

As a member of the WIC community, Kellogg's pursues opportunities for multiple WIC stakeholders to work together for the benefit of the program. Our understanding of client preferences allows us to create foods, non-branded recipes and nutrition education materials that help WIC households get the most out of their food package. We also provide food marketing trainings that help staff make WIC foods more appealing and support retailers with shopper insights that can improve the WIC shopping experience.

WK Kellogg Co

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WICShopper was the first mobile application developed for WIC participants and has been under continuous development since version 1.0 was released in 2014. Today, over 1,300,000 families rely on WICShopper each month to manage their WIC benefits and receive important correspondence from their WIC agency.
JPMA + Umoja have partnered to bring WIC participants a mobile shopping experience with easy access to nutritious, affordable foods delivered directly to their doorsteps. Our mobile shopping experience alleviates many common barriers to WIC online shopping such as out-of-stock / substitutions, rural access and food desserts, and all with FREE delivery. Increase utilization of WIC benefits with our simplified tools through the WIC Shopper App, JPMA and Umoja.

Ryan Magee

The WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) began in 1992 to encourage the Food as Medicine principles that WIC was founded on and promote access to fresh produce for low-income women and children. While 1.3 million WIC participants received FMNP benefits in 2022, a vast majority did not redeem those benefits. Earlier this year, NWA received a grant from the Elevance Health Foundation to launch the Increasing Access to Healthy Food Through Farmers&rsquo; Markets initiative, a 3-year project designed to assess the current landscape of FMNP and identify promising practices for increasing redemption of benefits at Farmers&rsquo; Markets. Join us as we present the preliminary findings from the 2024 Farmers&rsquo; Market Landscape Analysis Survey and hold a panel discussion among WIC FMNP leaders from Indiana, New Mexico, and Washington. Panelists will share their states&rsquo; experience in the transition to electronic FMNP, lessons learned as they have navigated challenges, and promising practices for increasing FMNP redemption.

Veronica Griego

Steve Strong

Darlena Birch

Legita Wilson

General Session: WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program - Current Landscape and Opportunities

Break

The Texas Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) identified the need for an on-demand, web-based training tool that provides shopping education to new state employees, WIC participants, vendor staff and local agency clinic staff. In response, the WIC training team developed a virtual shopping experience that breaks down how a WIC client would shop in a store, including selecting the appropriate food items and finalizing the checkout process. This innovative training has increased the efficiency of teaching Local Agency clinics how to assist WIC clients with shopping in the stores, and is also available for WIC clients and vendor staff to increase their knowledge directly.

Celeste Lunceford

Chris LaFleur

Eric Thompson

Jeff Lopez

Marie Gualtieri

Texas WIC Shopping Game: A Virtual Training Experience

User friendly and accessible data dashboards make it easier for WIC agencies to access and understand their data, spot trends and target interventions to improve WIC services. Although WIC has had data for years, many data reports go unused because the data are complex and extensive. &nbsp;Presenters will discuss the potential for data dashboards in communicating data using Tableau&rsquo;s software to create visualizations that allow stakeholders to quickly customize easy-to-understand graphs, charts, and tables to meet their specific needs.

Rachel Freund

Leonard Littleton

Bagya Kodur

Kelsey Gray

Enhancing Your Data Capacity: Designing Accessible Data Dashboards

Join USDA experts for a conversation on leveraging technology to improve the WIC applicant and participant experience. Hear updates about technology-related aspects of USDA&rsquo;s WIC modernization portfolio, USDA&rsquo;s work to advance online shopping and modernize food delivery, and USDA&rsquo;s perspective on AI.

Amy Herring

Patricia Bailey

Nell Menefee-Libey

Rebecca Piazza

Liz Barrett

General Session: Improving the WIC Experience through Technology: USDA Perspective

Both Medicaid and WIC &mdash; programs with shared goals and shared participants &mdash; can improve health during pregnancy, the postpartum period, and the early years of a child&rsquo;s life. Despite the fact Medicaid enrollees are automatically income-eligible for WIC, only 37 percent of all WIC-eligible Medicaid enrollees participate in WIC and a mere 14 percent of pregnant Medicaid enrollees do. Join the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and WIC leaders from California and Colorado to learn about the transformative potential of partnerships between Medicaid and WIC agencies to help address food insecurity and promote healthier communities. Hear about: 
<ul>
<li>the significant momentum in this space;</li>
<li>effective state-level Medicaid strategies including data matching, employing community-based health workers, and improving quality outcomes and addressing health related social needs (HRSNs);</li>
<li>how to foster collaboration between state Medicaid and WIC agencies by better understanding what motivates Medicaid stakeholders and the outcomes they&rsquo;re driving towards; and</li>
<li>state and local experiences and successes in leveraging Medicaid and WIC partnerships &ndash; and the important roles that state and local WIC agencies play.</li>
</ul>

Greta Allen

Zoe Neuberger

Alicia Huguelet

Linnea Sallack

Jeanne Kettles

Unlocking the Potential of Medicaid to Increase WIC Take-up

This session will explore the similarities and differences between automation, AI, and chatbots including when it is appropriate to use each type of technology, the advantages and limitations of each, and best practices.&nbsp; Join us if you want to learn how these technologies can improve the WIC participant and staff experience.&nbsp;

Martelle Esposito

Anna Kravets

Monica Chaudhari

Kevin Boyer

Chloe Dillaway

AI, Automation, Chatbots, Oh My!

This interactive session will reflect on what we have learned over the past two days and consider the future of WIC technology and innovation.&nbsp;

Agenda

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Nell Menefee-Libey

Marie Gualtieri

Georgia Machell

Darlena Birch

Kate Franken

Rebecca Piazza

Whitney Carlson

Stacy Davis, MPH, IBCLC

Karen Farley

Sarah Rogers

Mary Blocksidge

Tanisha Magaoay

Veronica Griego

Steve Strong

Ceping Chao

Cara Cliburn Allen

Amy Herring

Rachel Freund

Celeste Lunceford

Chris LaFleur

Eric Thompson

Chloe Dillaway

Greta Allen

Zoe Neuberger

Patricia Bailey

Caiti Roth-Eisenberg

Wendy Speaect

Michelle Estrade

Jared Medeiros

Legita Wilson

Leonard Littleton

Bagya Kodur

Alicia Huguelet

Linnea Sallack

Jeanne Kettles

Hanna Skadsen

Jeff Lopez

Martelle Esposito

Anna Kravets

Monica Chaudhari

OLIVIA PASCUAL

Kevin Boyer

Jessie Zins

Kelli Darland

Carlos Dees

Ross Bradley

Ashley Rose