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Programme

This pivotal 3-Day Summit & Master Class will cover 11 Opportunities & and Challenges of AI in Food:
1. Mastering the Data
2. Consumer Innovation
3. Personalised Nutrition
4. Discovery
5. Product Innovation
6. Processing Optimization
7. Upcycling
8. Food Safety
9. Sustainability
10. Sharing Data & Collaboration

11. Implementing AI in your Organisation

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3 September
13:00 - 13:25  
Meet & Greet Walk In

13:30 - 17:00  
MASTERCLASS AI & FOODTECH (free!)

Become a more effective leader at navigating your organization through the coming wave of AI-driven change. Gain the tools and knowledge to leverage AI's exponential opportunities and develop your strategy. The MASTERCLASS will see:
- 20+ Use Cases (10 min. each) 
- Interactive group tasks and discussions

When are you a supplier and interested in presenting a use case? Then apply HERE until 1 August.


The MASTERCLASS is a co-production with:
> Jose Luis Cabanero, CEO, Eatable (SP)
> Philipp Stradtmann, Managing Partner, GFC Good Food Creators (GE)​


Use Cases

Mastering Data
- Leveraging data to increase profitability of a food processing plant
Mathieu Cura, Co-Founder, Optimistik (FR)
- Exploring and Implementing Data-sharing Systems

Edward Sliwinski, Senior R&I Manager & Project Member of EU Project FoodDataQuest (NL)

Personalised Nutrition

- How do We Eat Data? Empowering Resilience through Data-driven Functional Nutrition
Rachel Yarcony, Co-founder & CEO, myAir Smart-Food (IL)

Discovery
- Building a New Public-private Partnership: Food Made by Whole Ingredient Processing & AI 
Anouk Lie-Piang, FoodScientist Sustainable Processing, Unilever (NL)

New Product Development & Innovation
- Sourcing Food Ingredients Easily via an AI-enabled Online Marketplace

Jan Klawer, Co-Founder & CMO, 1-2Taste (NL)

Upcycling
- Optimization of Food Production to Minimize Waste
Dennis Brandborg Nielsen, Director, Danish Technological Institute (DK)

 

Food Safety & Risk Assessment
- Leveraging AI for Continuous Monitoring of Emerging Food Safety Risks
Yvonne Pfeifer, Global Data Services Lead, SGS (DE)

- Automate ESG, Quality & Food Safety Compliance Responses with Responsible AI
Maikel Fontein, Director/Founder, Passionfruit (NL)


Sustainability

- Increasing Transparency in the Food Supply Chain with Digital Technologies
Edward Sliwinski, Senior R&I Manager & Project Member of EU Project TITAN (NL)

Implementing AI in your Organization

- Patenting AI inventions in Europe
Gino Prestifilippo, Patent Engineer, NLO (NL)
New Industry Insights from Business Founders how to implement AI in your organisation
Gerrit Feuerriegel, CEO, Bioshyft Platform (GE)

17:30 -18:30  
1-on-1 Business Meetings

18:30 -19:30  
Welcome Reception ​​

4 September: Full Programme, 1-on-1 Networking & Dinner

08:00 - 09:00 
Registration

09:00 - 09:10  
Welcome & Opening

Gerard Klein Essink, Founder & CEO, FoodconNext (NL)
Daniel Dikovsky, CTO, Redefine Meat (IL)

09:10 - 09:20
AI Delegate Introductions

09:20 - 09:45
The AI & Food Industry Perspective: Opportunities & Challenges

What are the opportunities for the AI industry in Food? What are the hurdles & obstacles? What will the business framework look like in 2025?
Kamilla Kurta, GenAI/ML Specialist, Google (NL)

09:50 - 10:15
The AI & Consumer Outlook

What is the state of the industry regarding core application areas such as operational efficiency, the consumer experience, and new product innovation? The finance view on the future.

Julia Buech, Senior Specialist, Food & AgriBusiness, Rabobank (NL)
 

10:20 - 10:45
The New Food Innovation Opportunities

Panel: What are the Value Chain Growth Areas in Food for Food & Ingredient Manufacturers and Processing Manufacturers 

Alexandre Bastos, Head of Front End Innovation, Taste & Wellbeing, Givaudan (SW)
Dr. Eyal Shimoni, Senior R&D, Tech and Food-Tech (IL)

Marcel Van Verk, Vice-President Crop Data Science, KeyGene (NL)


10:45 - 11:30
Morning Networking Break

11:30 - 11:55    
The Key AI Implementation Challenges for Food

Panel: What are the critical challenges for the Food Value Chain? Discussion on: Governance,
Data Protection, Collaboration & Data Sharing, and Making a Research Agenda

Vidya Ranade, Director Digital R&D, FrieslandCampina (NL)
Michael O'Donohue, Scientific Director of the EXPLOR'AE Program/ Director of IBISBA, INRAe (FR)


12:00 - 12:25    
Collaborations & IP: New legal strategies?

Panel: How do we nail down the challenge of sharing data with contracts? How do you handle IP, and which business strategies should be applied in this fast-moving AI field?

Ehud Hausman, Head of Hi Tech Practice, Reinhold Cohn Group (IL)
Luisa García Montoya, Product Manager, AMS-ix (NL)


12:30 - 13:55
Lunch & Networking Break Meeting

13:55 - 14:05
AI Delegate Introductions

14:05 - 14:30
Challenge 1: Mastering the Data!

How to harness and interpret vast data sets from AgriFood sector to drive industrial performance and achieve sustainability goals? How to convert data into actionable insights in the shopfloor? How to become data-driven? Industrial use cases will be shared

Mathieu Cura, Co-Founder, Optimistik (FR)

14:35 - 15:00
Opportunity 2: Consumer Innovation

Panel: AI at the consumer front will offer great options to save costs and accelerate new food innovation. Discussions will revolve around leveraging AI to predict market trends and foster creativity in developing sustainable and appealing food options.            

Jason Cohen, Founder & CEO, Simulacra (USA)
Johan Lagenbick, Co-Founder, FoodPairing (BE)

15:05 - 15:30
Opportunity 3: Personalised Nutrition

Panel: The intersection of AI, health, and diet, focusing on how AI is enabling customized nutrition plans based on individual health data, dietary preferences, and genetic information. The potential for AI to revolutionize dietary recommendations and support health and wellness goals will be a key topic.
Mariette Abrahams, CEO & Founder, Qina (PT)
Nard Clabbers, Thought leader in personalised nutrition, NCNC Nutrition Consultancy (NL)


15:30 - 16:00
Networking Break

16:10 - 16:35
Opportunity 4: Discovery

Emerging AI technologies can lead to breakthroughs in discovering new food sources, innovative farming techniques, and sustainable practices, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the AgriFoodTech sector. 
Jasmin Hume, CEO & Founder, Shiru (USA)
Akos Józwiak, Head of Food and Nutrition Science, Syreon Research Institute (HU)


16:40 - 17:10
Opportunity 5: Product Innovation

Panel: How AI accelerates and refines the process of creating new food products. Discussions will revolve around leveraging AI to predict market trends, enhance food quality, and foster creativity in developing sustainable and appealing food options          

Trevor Groome, Digital Innovation Platform Lead, IFF (UK)
Mario Ubiali, Founder & CEO, Thimus (IT)
Stefan Baier, Strategic and Technical Leader in the Food and Beverage Industry, University of Massachusetts (USA)


17:10 - 18:00
1-on-1 Business Meetings

19:30 - 21:30    
Summit Networking Dinner


 

5 September: Full Programme & 1-on-1 Networking

07:30 - 08:45
1-on-1 Business Meetings

09:00 - 09:05    
Welcome!

Gerard Klein Essink, Founder & CEO, FoodconNext (NL)
Daniel Dikovsky, CTO, Redefine Meat (IL)


09:05 - 09:15
AI Delegate Introductions

09:15 - 09:45
Opportunity 6: Processing Optimization

Panel: How to use AI to enhance efficiency and productivity in food production. The panel will explore AI's impact on streamlining operations, reducing resource waste, and improving the overall efficiency of the food value chain.         

Meinolf Sellman, Top Voice, AI Scientist, Entrepreneur, CTO, InsideOpt (USA)
Noa Weiss, AI & Machine Learning Expert (USA)

09:45 - 10:15
Opportunity 7: Upcycling & Sustainability

How AI can assist in transforming food waste and by-products into valuable resources? Discussions will include case studies on successful upcycling initiatives and the role of AI in identifying and optimizing these processes.

Gábor Pozsonyi, Member of the board, 3D Essence Food (SP)

10:15 - 11:00
Morning Networking Break

11:10 - 11:40    
Opportunity 8: Food Safety

What is essential in ensuring the integrity and safety of food from farm to table, and how can AI play a role in monitoring and maintaining food safety standards? Topics include AI-driven solutions for pathogen detection, spoilage prevention, and ensuring compliance with global food safety regulations.

Asli Solmaz-Kaiser, CEO, iComplai (GE)

11:40 - 12:10
Challenge 9: Implementing AI in your Organisation
What are the Top 10 things to do to get AI to fly in your organization?

Philipp Stradtmann, Managing Partner, Good Food Creators (DE)

 

12:10 - 13:10
Lunch & Networking Break Meeting

13:10 - 13:45
Key Take-Aways of 9 FoodTech Opportunities & Challenges

13:45 - 14:00
Summary & Closing

Gerard Klein Essink, Founder & CEO, FoodconNext (NL)
Daniel Dikovsky, CTO, Redefine Meat (IL)

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