April 26, 2024

Global Food Summit, lending a voice to the future of food

The Digital Global Food Summit will be an Online event and will be conducted in English.

Dates: April 28th & 29th 2021 9.00 am
Location: Digital & Live from Wagner Salons at Theresienhöhe, Munich, Germany
Program: HERE you will find the link to the program
Registration Link: HERE you can find the link to the registration

The first Online Digital Global Food Summit on April 28th and 29th, 2021 from the Wagner Salons at Theresienhöhe. Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein, Head and Founder, states that “The future is a state of mind, and it has a name: Bioeconomy. We are today where we would never have dreamed of being ten years ago. We produce edible proteins from CO2, bacteria and energy, we produce lettuce in space or in polar ice and we can predict future flavors and thus sales markets with artificial intelligence.”

Inviting international guests and start-ups to the event, he asks “So are we at the beginning of a bioeconomic age?” and says “Europe has consistently taken the path in this direction with the Green Deal. But what does this mean for our agriculture, for our society and for our cultivation and production methods along the food chain? And what does it mean in the global race to innovate in the food sector? Because progress is in an acceleration phase and this is taking place in China, in the Asian region and in the USA.”

Guests include:

Michaela Kaniber, Minister of State for Food, Agriculture and Forestry of Bavaria,
Dr. Maximo Torero, Chief Economist of the FAO,
Oriana Romano, Head of Unit Water Governance and Circular Economy Cities at the OECD,
Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman of the Singapore Food Agency of the Government of Singapore,
Sandra Simovich, Consul General of the State of Israel,
Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, President of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech),
Prof. Joel Cuello from the University of Arizona,
Prof. David Zilberman from the University of California, Berkeley,
Dr. Pasi Vainikka, CEO of Solar Foods,
Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen, Wageningen University,
Prof. Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University,
Dr. Michael Binder, Vice President Sustainability Development of EVONIK,
Dr. Dirk Voeste, Senior Vice President Agricultural Solutions of BASF SE,
Prof. Abdul Awal from the University of California Berkeley and the University of Khulna, Bangladesh,
Dr. Volker Heinz, Board of Directors of the German Institute of Food Economics,
Dr. Tan Lee Kim, Director-General of the Singapore Food Agency,
Dr. Didier Toubia, CEO of Aleph Farms,
Dr. Simon Reitmeier, Managing Director, Bavarian Food Cluster at Competence Centre of Nutrition

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