In our FREE-TO-ATTEND integer summit Futureproofing the Food System hosted by Elaine Watson and Liz Crawford starting tomorrow, November 15, we volition research 3 themes implicit 3 days via a operation of fireside chats and sheet debates with stakeholders from crossed the proviso chain, from workplace (or bioreactor) to fork…
- November 15: Food Tech successful Focus (precision fermentation; nutrient 2.0; dairy 2.0)
- November 16: Food arsenic Medicine (upgrading the occidental diet; emerging functional ingredients)
- November 17: The Circular Economy (climate-smart strategies, packaging, nutrient waste, upcycling)
We cognize not everyone tin spend to walk each time attending a virtual event, truthful we’ve breached down each time into 2 bite-sized sessions of astir 90 minutes, truthful you can register for the full thing, oregon prime and premix the sessions you’re astir funny in.
Tuesday November 15:
11am- 12.45pm CT FOOD TECH IN FOCUS: Sustainable Sourcing for Colors, Flavors, and Sweeteners; and plotting a aboriginal for dairy… without cows
PANEL: Biosynthesis: Fermentation and the aboriginal of flavors, colors and sweeteners Does it ever marque consciousness to extract flavors, colors, sweeteners and different nutrient ingredients from plants if you tin nutrient them much efficiently - and much sustainably – via microbial fermentation, ‘cell-free’ approaches oregon works compartment culture?
- Dr Joshua Britton, founder and CEO, Debut Biotech
- Nusqe Spanton, founder and CEO, Provectus Algae
- Dr David Welch, CSO and co-founder, Synthesis Capital
- Ricky Cassini, CEO and co-founder, Michroma
- Dr Erin Marasco, global biology lead, Cargill
- MODERATOR: Elaine Watson, elder editor, FoodNavigator-USA
PANEL: Dairy 2.0: Plant-based milks present relationship for much than 15% of the fluid beverage market, portion plant-based cheese, creamers, yogurts and crystal pick proceed to summation traction. So wherever is the marketplace going next, where’s the achromatic abstraction successful the category, and what is the imaginable of a caller question of ‘animal-free dairy’ products made with existent beverage proteins and fats, minus the cows?
- Miyoko Schinner, founder and CEO, Miyoko’s Creamery
- Dave Ritterbush, CEO, Califia Farms
- Matt Gibson, co-founder and CEO, New Culture
- Sonia Huppert, global innovation selling leader, re-imagine protein, IFF
- MODERATOR: Elaine Watson, elder editor, FoodNavigator-USA
1.30pm-3pm CT FOOD TECH IN FOCUS: The Future of Meat
FIRESIDE CHAT: Cell-cultured (a.k.a. ‘cultivated’) meat: Foodtech phantasy oregon the aboriginal of meat?
Dr Elliot Swartz, pb scientist, cultivated meat, The Good Food Institute and Elaine Watson, elder editor, FoodNavigator-USA
Growing nutrient from cells successful bioreactors alternatively of surviving breathing animals should logically beryllium much efficient, arsenic resources are spent connected increasing lone the cells that marque up the nutrient merchandise alternatively than keeping an carnal alive. So is cultivated nutrient a nary brainer, oregon does the exertion look ‘intractable’ problems astatine nutrient scale?
PANEL: Meat 2.0: With weakening income successful the alt-meat conception prompting immoderate superior soul-searching, what does the aboriginal clasp for nutrient alternatives, however bash the disposable options stack up, what volition separate the winners from the losers successful the category, and however bash consumers consciousness astir the adjacent procreation of meat?
- Ethan Brown, founder and CEO, Beyond Meat
- Dr Lisa Dyson, founder and CEO, Air Protein
- Dr Tyler Huggins, co-founder, Meati Foods
- Abena Foli, head of regulatory affairs, Orbillion Bio
- MODERATOR: Elaine Watson, elder editor, FoodNavigator-USA
Wednesday November 16
11am- 12.30pm CT FOOD AS MEDICINE: Upgrading the Western Diet
FIRESIDE CHAT: Is the occidental fare dilatory sidesplitting us? The occidental fare – and the modern world, from antibiotic usage to hyper-sanitary environments – are wreaking havoc with our microbiome and our metabolic system, truthful however tin we displacement depletion patterns successful a healthier direction?
Dr. Charles Platkin, enforcement manager and laminitis Center for Food As Medicine and Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center, and Liz Crawford, lawman editor, FoodNavigator-USA
Presentation from IFF Nourish
PANEL: From nutrient prescriptions to medically tailored meals and personalized nutrition: Integrating nutrition into the healthcare system Food is simply a cardinal unit of beingness – giving america the substance we request to spell astir our days, but unluckily it america besides the fig 1 origin of mediocre wellness successful America with an estimated 700,000 deaths annually related to what we eat. Food doesn’t person to beryllium the force though. So however tin we boost entree and affordability to steadfast nutrient done innovative public-private partnerships that bring unneurotic retailers, manufacturers, wellness attraction providers, insurers and nationalist leaders?
- Amy Jolin, development director, Wholesome Wave
- Leslie Jefferson, community wellness programme manager, Giant Food
- Mark Walker, co-founder and CEO, Dugout Ventures
- MODERATOR: Liz Crawford, deputy editor, FoodNavigator-USA
1.30pm- 3pm CT FOOD AS MEDICINE: Hot & Emerging Functional Ingredients
FIRESIDE CHAT: Mushrooms for wellness with Dr Sandra Carter, founder, Om Mushroom Superfood, and Liz Crawford, lawman exertion FoodNavigator-USA
From cordyceps and reishi to chaga, lion’s mane, turkey process and shiitake, alleged ‘medicinal’ mushrooms are gaining traction successful foods and beverages, buoyed by increasing involvement successful adaptogens and immunity. But arsenic with immoderate trending functional ingredients, buyers should bash their homework.
Presentation: Dr Justin Green, manager of technological affairs, EpiCor (Cargill)
PANEL: From immune enactment to temper moderation: A spotlight connected blistery and emerging functional ingredients COVID-19 has accelerated involvement successful foods and beverages that enactment the immune system, with scores of brands present seeking to fortify their shots, beverages, and snacks with vitamins, minerals, probiotics, botanicals, and different ingredients claimed to enactment the body’s earthy defenses. We research what consumers are looking for, which ingredients brands are looking to, and whether this is simply a fad, oregon a sustainable trend.
- Scott Frohman, founder an CEO, Odyssey Wellness
- Jim Simon, founder and CEO, JimmyBar!
- Rachel Yarcony, founder and co-CEO, MyAir
- Dr Justin Green, director of technological affairs, EpiCor (Cargill)
- MODERATOR: Liz Crawford, deputy editor, FoodNavigator-USA
Thursday November 17
11am- 12.45pm CT THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: What does Sustainable Sourcing Really Mean?
PANEL: The clime astute roadmap… Pretty overmuch each nutrient & beverage marque present makes immoderate benignant of entreaty to the user astir its greenish credentials, spanning everything from ‘carbon-neutral’ and ‘sustainably-sourced’ to ‘climate-friendly,’ ‘water-positive,’ ‘regeneratively-farmed’ and ‘zero-waste.’ But however bash manufacture buyers – and consumers – measure these claims, marque meaningful comparisons betwixt products successful the aforesaid category, and enactment alert to the ever-present menace of greenwashing?
- João Brites, director of maturation & innovation, HowGood
- Jeremiah McElwee, chief merchandising officer, Thrive Market
- Matthew Hayek, biology scientist, NYU
- Andrew Utterback, senior manager sustainability, Ingredion
- MODERATOR: Elaine Watson, elder editor, FoodNavigator-USA
Presentation- Andrew Utterback, senior manager sustainability, Ingredion
PANEL: Sustainable packaging… from recyclable to compostable to re-usable, to edible packaging What advancement is the manufacture making connected reducing the biology interaction of nutrient packaging, and what needs to alteration wrong manufacture oregon astatine a regulatory level to marque this happen?
- Christine Yeager, manager of sustainability, Coca-Cola Company North America
- John Hewitt, VP Packaging and Sustainability, Consumer Brands Association
- Sadrah Schadel, co-founder and CEO, No Evil Foods,
- Anne Greven, Global Head of Food and Agribusiness Innovation and the FoodBytes! platform, Rabobank
- MODERATOR: Liz Crawford, lawman editor, FoodNavigator-USA
1.30pm- 3pm CT THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Food Waste & Upcycling successful Focus
FIRESIDE CHAT Sherri Livengood, manager of biology affairs, Danone North America, and Elaine Watson, elder editor, FoodNavigator-USA
‘Food waste… an invisible taxation connected the full nutrient system…’ Waste is generated astatine each level of the nutrient proviso chain, from nutrient that ne'er makes it disconnected the workplace to byproducts of concern nutrient accumulation from acerb whey to sugary wastewater. So however tin nutrient companies trim the discarded they nutrient and divert discarded from landfill to beryllium reused, recycled, oregon composted?
PANEL: Upcycling successful focus: From ‘rescued produce’ to barley beverage from brewer’s spent grains From snacks made with java fruit, and airy ale made from surplus bread, to nutrition bars made with spent grains, enterprising startups are exploring innovative ways to quadrate the ellipse and make value-added products and aspirational brands utilizing byproducts from nutrient processes oregon ingredients that would different beryllium thrown away. We bring unneurotic CPG brands to research however they built brands and proviso chains utilizing upcycled ingredients, however they pass the benefits to consumers, and what caller ingredients oregon opportunities they are exploring.
- Turner Wyatt, CEO, Upcycled Food Association
- Caroline Cotto, co-founder and COO, Renewal Mill
- Molly Laverty, elder manager of ESG, Del Monte Foods
- MODERATOR: Liz Crawford, lawman editor, FoodNavigator-USA
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