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09:00
  1. Empowering Food Systems: Innovation Building a Path to Security and Sovereignty
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    • Which parts of the food value chain are most at risk from climate volatility, regulatory changes and supply chain disruptions and how can these risks be mitigated?
    • How are food industry leaders adopting emerging technologies and R&D approaches to enhance nutrition, reduce waste and build long-term resilience into their operations?
    • What role does localised food production and regional innovation play in strengthening national food security, and how are governments and companies enabling this shift?
    • With rising production costs and tighter consumer budgets, what cost-effective innovations can be implemented to ensure food remains accessible and affordable?
09:45
  1. Trade & Tariffs: Adapting to Changing Geopolitical Landscapes
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    • How are shifting tariffs, trade policies, and geopolitical tensions disrupting food supply chains, innovation strategies and cross-border investment?
    • In an era of redefined trade flows, how can food sector leaders reposition their strategy and partnerships to mitigate risk and capture emerging opportunities?
    • Which recent shifts have had the greatest impact on the global food industry, and what are the most critical trends and challenges to watch in the coming year?
10:15
  1. Consumer Insights Deep Dive: What’s Driving Today’s Food Choices?
    Main Stage
    15 mins
    What do today’s consumers really want, and how are their preferences evolving in response to innovation in food, health, and sustainability? In this exclusive session, we unveil new consumer insights from a research initiative powered by Lumina, offering a timely snapshot of the shifting landscape of food choice. Drawing on fresh data, we explore how these insights can inform product development, brand strategy, and approaches to building consumer trust in an increasingly complex market.
10:30
  1. Networking Coffee Break
    Exhibition and Networking Area
    30 mins
11:00
  1. Geographies of Growth: Mapping Where Food Innovation Can Thrive
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    A series of case studies exploring countries with distinct approaches and opportunities for food innovation. Hear from leaders spotlighting the UK’s regulatory and government support, the Netherlands’ progressive retail environment, and Finland’s dynamic research ecosystem.
11:30
  1. Prioritising Cost Reduction: Innovations for Scalable, Cost-Effective Food Production
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    • In a climate of economic uncertainty and rising input costs, what specific cost pressures are food companies facing?
    • Price remains a critical factor for success with consumers, in what ways are companies using innovation in R&D, production, or ingredients to drive down costs without compromising quality?
    • From feedstocks to facilities, what technologies are making the biggest impact on reducing high-cost components of bioprocessing and improving unit economics to commercialise?
    • How can strategic partnerships, across public-private, academic-industry, or cross-sector, help reduce production costs and scale production affordably?
12:15
  1. Behaviour Breakdown: Unpicking Consumer Habits and Leveraging Nudging
    Main Stage
    15 mins
    With the consumer at the heart of the food industry, this presentation will uncover explores the behaviours and habits shaping consumer choices. Backed by research, get actionable insights into what motivates consumer choices, from the power of behavioural nudges to the influence of sensory psychology, to better understand the consumer and create products that resonate.
12:30
  1. Networking Lunch Break
    Exhibition and Networking Area
    60 mins
13:30
  1. Transforming Supply Chains: Strategies for Stable & Resilient Supply
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    • From chocolate and coffee to algae oils, which innovations are enabling industry to bridge supply gaps and ensure resilient supply?
    • How are biotechnologies like fermentation and cell-culturing providing opportunities to de-risk volatility in the supply chain?
    • With partnerships established between corporates and start-ups, what scaling milestones have been reached?
14:15
  1. Next-Gen Functional Beverages: Balancing Strong Brands with Tangible Health Benefits
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    • As the beverage market grows exponentially, which brands are leading the charge in functional beverages and how are they identifying and filling unmet needs in this fast -growing market?
    • What novel ingredient and formulations like high-protein blends and prebiotic sodas, are successfully combing scientific credibility with strong brand appeal?
    • What health and wellness benefits are new-generation beverages targeting, and how are brands ensuring these products deliver on taste and experience?
    • What does the rise of functional beverages reveal about changing consumer behaviours and wellness expectations?
    • What new opportunities are emerging for ingredient innovators as the functional beverage space evolves?
14:45
  1. Networking Roundtable Discussions
    Auditorium
    45 mins
    Delegates break into small groups to discuss the most critical issues facing the food-tech industry. Each table is hosted by an industry expert, and delegates can choose the topic most relevant to their business.
15:30
  1. Networking Coffee Break
    Exhibition and Networking Area
    30 mins
16:00
  1. Redefining Sweetness: Technological Advances Taking Sugar Reduction to the Next Level
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    • What emerging ingredients and processing technologies are enabling product development to match sugar’s sweetness, bulking, and functional roles whilst lowering calorie content and satisfying sugar cravings?
    • How do sugar alternatives perform across different product categories and what tailored solutions are emerging for applications like fruit juices, baked goods and dairy?
    • Beyond sugar reduction, what advances have been made with processing methods to maintain sugar levels whilst converting sugar into other ingredients, for improved health benefits and reduced caloric content?
16:45
  1. Investment Horizons: What’s Next for Food-Tech Funding?
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    • As global and economic shifts shake up dynamics in the food industry, what are the ramifications on the investment landscape?
    • Will cautiousness continue to reign when it comes to deploying capital, and how are investors thinking differently about technologies, R&D cycles and profitability in this climate?
    • How are sovereign wealth funds, public investment institutions and non-dilutive capital aiding traditional VC in funding sustainable food systems?
    • How can funds operating at the intersection of public and private capital play a unique role in financing food innovation?
    • For CVCs, what does the balance between strategic alignment and financial return look like? How does this shift based on the current landscape?
17:30
  1. Close of Day 1 & Drinks Reception
    Exhibition and Networking Area
    60 mins
09:00
  1. Innovate to Reformulate: Redesigning Nutrition & Unlocking Clean-Labels
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    • What are the challenges in classifying what is considered to be Ultra Processed Foods (UPFs), and where are the gaps of scientific knowledge?
    • Where has progress been made to pragmatically assess the levels and impacts of UPFs?
    • How can AI and other digital tools be implemented to better understand UPFs, as well as positively change product design to reduce consumer concern and improve nutritional profiles?
    • What innovations are enabling the removal, reduction and inclusion of ingredients to improve nutrition and simplify back of pack labels?
    • What are the challenges linked to shelf-life and sustainability that come with the UPFs debate, and where is the meet in the middle to ensure stable, clean-label products?
09:45
  1. Redefining Food Standards: Science, Safety, and the Global Regulatory Landscape
    Main Stage
    20 mins
    • How will the changes in the US and the FDA impact the approach of regulators around the world? What will others replicate or do differently?
    • What global initiatives and mechanisms have been implemented to fast-track regulatory frameworks for novel foods and ingredients, helping to navigate regulatory uncertainty?
    • As pressure mounts for healthier food and ingredients, what’s needed to ensure classifications, definitions and health claims are based in science and evidence?
10:05
  1. Food Standards Agency Update: UK Regulation Supporting Food Innovation
    Main Stage
    10 mins
    With exciting initiatives supporting innovation and novel ingredients, hear from the Food Standards Agency for an update on the progress of the Cultivated Sandbox program and learn more about the role of the new Innovation Hub in supporting wider innovation in food, like precision fermentation, through enhanced regulatory capacity.
10:15
  1. Networking Coffee Break
    Exhibition and Networking Area
    30 mins
10:45
  1. Start-Up Showcase
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Hear from the hottest innovators in the future food-tech space, pitching their solutions to a panel of judges – followed by Q&A to delve deeper into their products, strategies, and visions for the future!
11:15
  1. The Future of Fermentation: Pathways to Commercialisation & Ingredient Diversification
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    • As the fermentation market evolves, how has the range of ingredients and products created through fermentation expanded, and which hold the greatest potential for commercialisation?
    • What role can fermentation technologies play in reducing reliance on additives and contribute to the move away from UPFs?
    • What range of ingredients and technologies are able to preserve taste, whilst improving health impact and nutritional profile?
    • As scale up and manufacturing capacity remains a challenge, what progress has been made in terms of cost reduction and reaching scaling milestones?
    • How can academia play a key role in the scaling bioprocesses and facility creation? What is needed moving forward to ensure that industry and academia collaborate?
12:00
  1. Global Food-Tech Awards: EMEA Winner Reveal!
    Main Stage
    10 mins
    Future Food-Tech and Food Navigator have partnered to launch the Global Food Tech Awards, a year-round initiative that celebrates the trailblazing innovators shaping the future of food. After judges have been working through their entries for the EMEA heat, find out who’s been voted winner and hear them pitch on stage!
12:10
  1. The Functional Food Revolution: Targeting Women’s Health, Longevity & Gut Microbiome
    Main Stage
    30 mins

    As consumers look to food and diet to positively influence and control health, the importance of functional food and ingredients grows.

    Hear from a range of speakers, diving deep into core trends and key need states being addressed by new processes, ingredients and products. What breakthroughs are being achieved, where are the knowledge gaps, and challenges in delivering tangible health benefits?

     

     

12:40
  1. Networking Lunch Break
    Exhibition and Networking Area
    60 mins
13:40
  1. Beyond GLP-1: Innovation & Ingredients Shaping the Future of Weight Management
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    • How has the continued rise of GLP-1 solutions created a broader weight management trend, and what does this space look like?
    • What can functional ingredients be used to contribute to weight loss or stopping weight gain, and how are these being used in products today?
    • What are the latest developments to induce the feeling of satiety, without the side effects of pharmaceutical GLP-1 solutions?
    • As companies adapt and pivot portfolios in response to GLP-1 trends, what are the differences in approach by B2B and B2C companies? What impact can be made by both groups?
14:25
  1. Rethinking Fats & Oils: Balancing Flavour, Nutrition, and Sustainability
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    • What are the latest developments and processes elevating taste through fats and oils?
    • Given the emissions impact of fats in food production, what alternative ingredients and new R&D processes are enabling more sustainable offerings?
    • What are the challenges that come with price of alternative fats, and where are examples of cost-effective approaches?
    • What developments have been made to ensure alternative fats can meet functionality demands needed for alt-dairy and plant-based products, whilst also
    • As demands for healthier but tasty products grow, how are fat and oil innovations making improvements to nutritional profiles whilst advancing taste?
14:55
  1. From Insight to Action: Priorities & Partnerships for Innovation to Thrive
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    • After two days of high-level discussions on the main stage and through networking, our closing panel will talk through learnings, goals and next steps for the food sector to ensure innovation continues to thrive.
    • What advances are crucial in order for innovation to thrive in a hyper-cautious capital environment, and to what extent is progress stalled by risk-aversion?
    • Whether public-private, academic-industry or corporate-start-up, which collaborations need strengthening in order for the food sector to innovate at the pace needed to address key challenges?
    • What do innovators need to prioritise to ensure they position themselves for success and longevity in the food sector?
15:40
  1. Close of Summit
    20 mins
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