About the Summit

Advancing Food Innovation to Ensure a Healthy & Sustainable Future

As the need for healthy and climate-friendly food and ingredients grows, the role of innovation and collaboration is more important than ever.

Future Food-Tech returns to the innovation hub of San Francisco on March 13-14, bringing leaders together from across the globe navigate the R&D, strategy and partnerships necessary to ensure a healthy & sustainable future through food. 

Pioneers from CPGs & retailers, ingredient and technology providers to cutting-edge innovators and investors, will address themes from ingredient development for more stable supply chains, through to the role of AI in food, exploring the rise of GLP-1 drugs and unpicking the complexities of scaling biotechnologies.

Alongside an action-packed main stage agenda, the Start-Up Arena returns for innovator-centric content and pitching showcases highlighting cutting-edge technologies. Join breakout sessions and workshops for deep dive discussions in an interactive setting, and enjoy the full food-tech experience as you fill your plate at the live demo kitchen and in taste-labs where you get a taste of the future of food.

With more networking than ever before, join Future Food-Tech to build partnerships and be part of the movement that’s transforming the food system.

Key Themes

  • Friend or Foe? Assessing the Role of Food Processing for Food Security
  • Innovations Reducing Food Loss from Farm to Plate for Positive Climate Impact
  • Navigating the Impact of GLP-1 on the Food System & Human Health
  • Alt-Ingredients Stabilizing Supply & Unlocking Positive Impacts for People & Planet
  • Leveraging Health Through Stealth to Improve Nutritional Density through Fortification
  • Building Bioreactors & Beyond: Next Level Technologies Carving a New Route to Scale
  • Accelerating Discovery & Delivery of Bioactives to Unlock Health Benefits Across Life Stages
  • Unlocking ‘Pick & Shovel’ Technologies to Optimize Bioprocessing
  • Crafting Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to Further the Future of Food
  • Attracting Creative Capital & Non-Dilutive Funding to Finance the Food Sector
  • Success Stories of AI in Action Across the Food System

Advisory Board

Who Will You Meet?

The delegate list is packed with senior food-tech visionaries across innovation ecosystem. See who joined the summit on March 21-22, 2024:

Rewatch the 2024 Action

Relive all the action from the 2024 summit, part of our Rethink Agri-Food Innovation Week with World Agri-Tech and Animal AgTech, connecting the full innovation ecosystem from farm to fork.

Rethink Events

Rethink summits are created by experts in the food-tech, water, waste and agri-tech industries to address the issues most crucial to investors and developers in these sectors. Through our global network of industry advisors, we produce highly-focused, topical summits which gather all the right people together in one room to share ideas, find solutions and identify new business opportunities.

We are committed to providing the world-leading platforms for knowledge-sharing, debate and networking for business leaders, featuring the leading experts and gamechangers from across the global ecosystem. Our goal is to promote diversity and inclusion, with particular effort to phase out all-male speaker panels to ensure balanced representation and promotion of women in technology and business.

For more information about rethink, visit www.rethinkevents.com