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Solar Foods is transforming the global food system with Solein®, a groundbreaking protein created via hydrogen fermentation. This revolutionary ingredient offers exceptional nutrition and taste, while drastically reducing environmental impact – marking a new, sustainable era in food production.
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iFAB and Kraft Heinz aim to catalyze collaborations that leverage precision fermentation to create sustainable, scalable, and clean-label ingredient solutions that strengthen supply resilience and support a healthier, more transparent food system. This session will highlight iFAB capabilities and fermentation-based ingredient technologies that have demonstrated lab-scale feasibility and are ready for pilot-scale production.
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This session outlines SternMaid Ingredients’ integrated approach to developing clean label foods that support more sustainable protein choices, illustrating how protein performance is shaped across the entire value chain: from grower-connected sourcing and carefully managed protein isolation through enzymatic functionality in formulation. We highlight how gentle wet milling preserves native protein functionality and creates the conditions for targeted enzyme systems to deliver meat-like texture without methylcellulose or synthetic binders. A live demonstration of a clean label hot dog made with alternative protein demonstrates the resulting improvements in bite, snap, and cohesive strength.
The core message: clean label functionality is achieved when raw materials, processing decisions, and formulation expertise are intentionally aligned across the value chain—an alignment enabled through ingredient expertise and technical partnership.
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As nutrition policy increasingly targets UPFs, the key challenge is how food systems can evolve without compromising safety, functionality, or scale. This session builds on the MAHA discussion with a deep dive into food-first systems that replace synthetic additive models. We will explore fermentation, natural food protection, nitrite-elimination, smart sweetening, and fiber-rich solutions across meat, confectionery, beverages, and other food matrices. The session will feature ready-to-use, policy-ready ingredient solutions from Prosur’s Get It Natural™ Toolbox in global commercial use. It will share industry insights showing how protecting food with food delivers healthier products while meeting consumer expectations for transparency.
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Soluble dietary fiber is increasingly recognized as a strategic component in product innovation and reformulation, as the global food landscape adapts to complex nutritional regulations and GLP-1–driven consumer expectations. However, conventional dietary fibers often face limitations in physicochemical properties and application performance across product categories. This session introduces KESTOSE, the first-in-market crystalline-format soluble dietary fiber, developed using Samyang’s proprietary technology. We will explore its unique physicochemical properties and application benefits, and demonstrate how it supports modern formulation strategies, including sugar reduction and high-fiber positioning, while enabling substantiated health benefit claims. The session offers practical insights into how high-purity KESTOSE can drive compliant, consumer-relevant product innovation in today’s evolving food environment.
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As GLP-1 therapies reshape consumer behavior and health outcomes, a far larger opportunity is emerging at the intersection of food, health, and medicine. The session is hosted by the UC Davis-anchored Food and Health Angels, a new early-stage investment group of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders who have founded, funded, and built world class companies in the food and health space. Join us to explore the $1 trillion metabolic health growth opportunity and where investors are placing their bets next..
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This session offers a practical, demystifying deep dive into how AI can accelerate food and CPG innovation by clarifying what different AI technologies, Analytical AI, Generative AI, and Statistical Modelling are, when to use them, and how they meaningfully speed up R&D. Through an applied use case, attendees will see how these tools can enhance formulation, prediction, and decision making, while also gaining a clear understanding of the technical and data foundations required for successful implementation. By the end of the workshop, participants will be equipped with a grounded, realistic view of how to begin or advance their AI journey and will have the chance to ask targeted questions on everything from getting started to integrating multiple AI approaches within an R&D workflow.
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- As companies work to break through the barriers to scale, how are they leveraging innovation to address the balance cost, efficiency, and sustainability at industrial scale?
- How can end-to-end integration of upstream and downstream technologies, shared infrastructure models, and modular systems accelerate and de-risk commercialization?
- What are the biggest challenges in scaling biomanufacturing for food applications, and how do upstream and downstream processes influence cost, yield, and product consistency?
- Where can are enabling technologies, AI and computational modeling optimize bioprocesses, de-risk production across the life cycle and accelerate scalability? What are the challenges of implementation?
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As consumer expectations evolve, food choices are increasingly shaped by concerns for both personal health and broader environmental and societal impact. This breakout session explores how data, technology, and effective storytelling can help communicate the role of animal protein within modern, values-driven diets.
This session will examine how greater transparency in food production enabled by digital tools and traceability technologies can demystify the food system and bring consumers closer to the realities of farming and food production. Through real-world examples, the session will highlight how food companies are using technology to tell credible, positive stories about sourcing, impact, and the broader implications of consumer food choices.
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