Produce World's HR director, David Frost, has joined the line-up for this year's Re:fresh Conference.

Frost will discuss key issues around human resources and getting the best out of staff. He will appear during the second session, focused on Diversity in People, alongside Dom Lane of Colour & Thing and Guy Moreton of MorePeople.

Frost joins a strong and wide-ranging speaker line-up on the day that also includesSimon Moore, the head of fresh produce at Waitrose; Robert Balicki, chief executive of Worldwide Fruit; Neil Sanderson, MD at Florette; Chris Bavin of Pacific Produce; Veryan Bliss, commercial technical director at Suncrop; Simon Lee, marketing director at It’sFresh!; and Nick Hay, MD at Fowler Welch.

The event will be opened by His Excellency Dr Federico Cuello Camilo, ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the UK and Northern Ireland.

The conference precedes the Re:fresh Awards 2013, with both events taking place on 10 October at the Intercontinental Park Lane Hotel in London.

To book your place at the conference or awards, visit www.refresh.uk.com.