In this fast-paced world, businesses are always on the lookout for ways to stand out from their competitors and the need for upgrading in businesses is increasing exponentially. Future of Function is an event that gathers enthusiastic players in the food industry to explore Mixed Reality shaping the Future of Collaboration, Communication, Future of Work, Healthcare, FoodTech, Education and other verticals so that businesses can use these methods to expand their business to a larger audience.
In an evening of two roundtable sessions, invited speakers will discuss and share more about the future of food solutions across the globe!
Find out more about the full event here.
Session 1: Future of Food
Latest innovative solutions in food technology and experiences - cases studies from around the globe.
How do we optimise personalised consumer food experiences? In this session, we'll explore topics such as farm to table--direct to consumer models, vertical farming innovations, and the intersection of local food and emergency response.
Speakers for Session 1:
Justine Reichman, Founder of NextGenChef
Matthew Cohen, Founder and CEO of Off the Grid
Rob Barlow, PhD, Professor, Researcher, Philosopher, Hult International Business School
Mark Lim | Corporate Strategist and Legal Counsel, NamZ
Mark is also a Strategist of the Nutritional Paradox initiative, a not-for-profit project aimed at bringing together key stakeholders (e.g. industry, government, academia) to create a healthier and more sustainable agri-food system. His responsibilities include developing a positive vision for a food system that embraces both agrobiodiversity and regenerative agriculture, and liaising with project and business partners to bring tasty, nutritious, sustainable and affordable food products to both low-income and high-income market segments.
Session 2: Sugar Roundtable - A taste sampler of multiple innovative sweet solutions to water your mouth
This session is about bringing together sugar innovators, investors, CPG's, manufacturers, nutritioners, and chefs/bakers/chocolatiers to generate an exciting conversation about fortified ingredient solutions, with a deep-dive focus on Sugar. We'll explore how we can maximise the sweet taste sensation while radically reducing the global sugar footprint. We’ll feature “straight from the oven” insights from around the world, leading to relevant business collaboration opportunities.
Speakers for Session 2:
Matthew Godfrey CEO. Nutrition Innovation Chief Executive Officer at Nutrition Innovation
As CEO, Matthew’s role is to develop this business globally reporting into the Board, Shareholders and Founders. Nutrition Innovation technology empowers global mills and refineries to produce Nucane™, a family of innovative healthier sugar reduction, replacement solutions. This innovation unleashes the development of better, healthier food & beverage products. The purpose is to create partnerships in the battle to combat the global obesity & diabetes epidemic through research, development and the adoption of healthier carbohydrates.
Liat Cinamon, VP Business Development and Marketing at DouxMatok
Anand Sundaresan, Regional Vice President, Human Nutrition & Health DSM APAC
Didier Chanove, Head of Marketing & Digital at Unilever Food Solutions Singapore & Malaysia
Moderator for Session 2:
Erin Sweeney | Manager of Sustainable Business & Investments, Grow Asia
About GlobalSaké:
GlobalSaké is a nonprofit movement on a mission to make products make sense in international markets. It is a collective cross-border, cross-culture community of leaders driving international expansion in Product, Growth, Marketing and New Markets' Entry Strategy. They hold quarterly tech talk events sharing cross-functional know-how experiences on international expansion. They bring together a spectrum of industry experts from top tech companies around the globe. Our former events were on Global Growth, ISEO, Brand Localisation, Global Partnerships, International AI and data standardisation, NLP, Product Geo-Fit, Global Payments, building Value Proposition in Asia, Local Content, and more.
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