21st Annual World Food Innovate Summit 2023 | Food Innovate Summit | 8 May 2023 | Meliá Milano Meliá, Via Masaccio, 19, 20149 Milano MI, Italy

Join a global network of food innovators and discover how to:
• Distinguish your product in a saturated market
• Achieve a cleaner label without sacrificing taste or tradition
• Discover and define the latest trends in consumer behaviour and buying patterns across the world
• Enhance product formulation with some of the most innovative and exciting ingredients
• Plan your product life-cycle journey with break-through technologies
• Develop strategies and tailoring techniques for expansion into new markets
• Improve new product launch success rate
• Align products and future projects with the shifting consumer trends
• Find new inspiration for NPD and innovation through new techniques and ingredients

2023 Speakers

CHAIRPERSONS:

Matteo Gori
Global Marketing Director, Barilla Group

Simon Carr
VP Head of Practice, Evalueserve UK Ltd

SPEAKERS:

Alberto Musacchio
CEO, Food Evolution

Alice Tarditi
Country Manager, KoRo

Claudia Vasquez
CEO and Director, Origenal Story

Danilo Iorio
Head of R&D - Global B2C Division, Zuegg

David Hardiman-Evans
Senior Vice President, Global Business Development, Ocado Solutions

Diana Mathew
Space Application Engineer, ESA

Eda Fetahu
Open Innovation Expert, Amadori

Edward Bergen
Senior Analyst: Food & Nutrition, FutureBridge

Francesco Magro
Founder & CEO, Winelivery

Gary Nowacki
CEO, TraceGains

Georg Schirrmacher
Managing Director, EIT Food CLC Central GmbH

Giulia Silenzi
Head of FoodTech Acceleration Platform, FoodTech Acceleration Platform

Glenn Mathijssen
CEO & Co-Founder, Alberts

Helene Saurais
Co-founder, Inoqo

Jamie Crummie
Co-Founder, Too Good To Go

João Brites
Director, Growth & Innovation, HowGood

Jonathan Roberts
Senior Brand Manager - Snacks Innovation, General Mills

José Luis Cabañero
Founder & CEO, Eatable Adventures

laria Pietrogrande
New Business Models Marketing Director, Barilla

Laura Toppinen
Head of Brand & Communications, Onego Bio

Mark Grazhul
CEO, Nature Force Technologies AG

Matilda Freund
Retired (Mondelez) VP Global Food Safety, Freund Consulting Company

Nicole Umana
Global Agile Innovation Human Intelligence Director, Mars Wrigley

Paolo Bulgarelli
Milk Purchasing Quality Manager, Gruppo Lactalis Italia

Rita Iacoviello
Strategy Director, Food & Beverage Europe, Veeva Systems

Royce Van Der Zwan
Global Head of Operations & Commercial, Nandos FMCG

Sharon Cittone
Founder and CEO, Edible Planet Ventures

Stefania De Pascale
Professor of Horticulture, University of Naples Federico II

Tom Cheesewright
Applied Futurist, Almond Board of California

Valeria Osti Guerrazzi
Country Manager, KoRo

Vincenzo Fogliano
Chair of the Food Quality & Design Group, Wageningen University

William JH Grand
President, NutriFusion LLC

2023 Sponsors

COMMERCIAL PARTNERS:
• Almond Board of California
• Dassault Systemes
• Evalueserve
• HowGood
• NutriFusion
• TraceGains