Future Food Tech 2024 - San Francisco | ReThink Events | 21 March 2024 | San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Join unmissable industry insights, product tastings, start-up pitches, live cooking demos and plenty of networking opportunities.

Across the two-day program, thought-leaders will delve into crucial topics ranging from tackling food and nutritional insecurity, to improving health through nutritional enhancement and leveraging food as medicine solutions. Expert speakers will explore the latest thinking on the role of AI in scaling alt-protein production, and the rapid growth of automation and robotics across the value chain.

Alongside a hard-hitting main stage agenda, delegates will join intimate and interactive breakout sessions to dig deeper into specific topics, enjoy tastings and cooking demonstrations of innovative new products and meet today’s most exciting entrepreneurs in the Start-Up Arena.

Key Themes For 2024:

• Addressing Food Security through Nutrition-Centered Foods
• Innovations at the Intersection Between Food & Health
• Overcoming the Obstacles in Taking Cell-Based from Vision to Reality
• Scaling Biotech through Infrastructure Finance & Consumer Communication
• Utilizing AI to Create the Next Generation of Foods
• Reaching Net Zero through Climate-First Innovation Strategies
• Exploring Bioactives, Fortification & the Human Microbiome
• Diversifying the Food System with Cutting-Edge Novel Foods
• Market Projections & Predictions from VC and Corporate Investors

2024 Speakers

Amy Chen
Chief Operating Officer, Upside Foods

Andy Jarvis
Future of Food Director, Bezos Earth Fund

Carla Hilhorst
Chief R&D Officer for Nutrition, Unilever

Chris Cochran
Founder and Principal, Good Food Advisors

Christopher Wan
Investor, Bessemer Venture Partners

Darren Streiler
Investment Director, ADM VENTURES

Devon Klatell
Vice President, Food, The Rockefeller Foundation

Don Kerrigan
EX CEO, USA, Nestle Health Science

Elizabeth Crawford
Senior Editor​​, Foodnavigator-Usa

Isabelle Esser
Chief Research & Innovation, Quality and Food Safety Officer, Danone

Jack Bobo
Director Food Systems Institute, University of Nottingham

Jeff Turnas
Senior Vice President of Culinary, Whole Foods Market

Josh Hix
Co-Founder & CEO, Season Health

Katie Stebbins
Executive Director of the Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute, Tufts University

Kim Coffin
Chief Forager, Sprouts Farmers Market

Lanette Shaffer Werner
Chief Innovation, Technology and Quality Officer, General Mills

Leonie Vierck
Deputy Director, Nutrition, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Marc Washington
Founder & CEO, Supergut

Matt Gibson
CEO, New Culture

Matt Walker
Managing Director, Food and Agriculture, S2G VENTURES

Maxine Roman
Lead, Innovation Collaboration and Partnerships, The Kraft Heinz Company

Nicolas Jammet
CEO, SWEETGREEN

Richie Gray
Vice President and Global Head of SnackFutures, Mondelēz International

Sam Kass
Partner, Acre Venture Partners

Sara Eckhouse
Executive Director, Foodshot Global

Sherene Jagla
Chief Demand Officer, Impossible Foods

Steve Young
Managing Partner, Manna Tree Partners

Steven Winegar
Head of Science, Mcwin Capital Partners

Thierry Duvanel
Director of Innovation, BUHLER

Todd Rands
President & CEO. Elo Life Systems

Tony Moses
Director, Product Innovation, CRB

Tyler Huggins
Founder, Meati Foods

2024 Partners

PLATINUM PARTNER:
• Givaudan

GOLD PARTNERS:
• ADM
• Ayana Bio
• Bayer Bayer
• Cambridge Consultants
• Comet
• Cooley
• Covington
• CRB
• Danone
• Demolish
• EgonZehnder
• Elo
• GEA
• Ginkgo Bioworks
• GTF
• Kearney
• KraftHeinz
• Merrick
• Snack Futures
• Planteneers
• Scale Up Bio
• Schrodinger
• Siemens
• Tate & Lyle
• Temasek
• Terviva
• Tetra Pak
• Umiami

INNOVATION PARTNERS:
• Eatable Adventures
• Fresh Start
• Future Food Aotearoa
• AICL Planet Startup Hub
• Mista
• Natural Products Canada
• Plug and Play
• Xprize Feed The Next Billion

REGIONAL PARTNERS:
• Flanders Investment & Trade
• Saskatchewan Canada
• Research Triangle Agtech Cluster

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Black & Veatch
• Botalys
• Brightspeed
• Checkerspot
• CPI
• CSC Leasing Company
• Dsm Fimenich
• Dyadic
• IFF
• Inscripta
• Meatable
• Monch
• Nosh Ingredients
• Onego
• RA Foods
• Stantec
• Traitomic
• Triplebar
• Uncountable VTT

NETWORKING PARTNERS:
• Conti
• Lewis & Clark Agrifood