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Innovation Hub

Designed to provoke, inspire and inform

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The Innovation Hub serves as the centre for forward-thinking discussions within the global food and beverage landscape, bringing together diverse voices from marketing, procurement, sustainability, and regulatory affairs.
Through engaging fireside chats, panel discussions, and expert presentations, this dynamic space explores the forces reshaping our industry while examining current trends and anticipating the challenges that will define 2026 and beyond. 

Key topics include:

  • Consumer trends & demand shifts
  • Next-gen sustainability strategies
  • Breakthrough ingredient innovations
  • AI & automation application
  • Communication in a post-trust era

Day 3 will include a dedicated Supply Chain Resilience Spotlight, focusing on geopolitical impacts on global supply chains.

Day 3 spotlight: Supply chain resilience

Future-proofing the food supply chain

Supply chains are under pressure like never before. From climate change and geopolitical shifts to cyber threats and vulnerable raw materials, food businesses are rethinking how they source, manufacture and move products. 

At the Innovation Hub, Day 3 brings the community together to explore practical strategies for building greater resilience. Discover how smarter supply chain design, regionalisation, digital technologies, AI, biotechnology and alternative ingredients can help businesses respond to disruption, reduce risk and stay competitive. 

Whether you work in R&D, operations, strategy, risk, sustainability, innovation or commercial leadership, you’ll gain fresh perspectives to help navigate an increasingly complex global food system.

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  • <p>Identify emerging risks across raw materials, regions and trade routes.</p>

    Identify emerging risks across raw materials, regions and trade routes.

  • <p>Explore strategies for balancing efficiency with greater supply chain resilience.</p>

    Explore strategies for balancing efficiency with greater supply chain resilience.

  • <p>Discover how AI, digital twins and traceability tools can improve visibility and responsiveness.</p>

    Discover how AI, digital twins and traceability tools can improve visibility and responsiveness.

  • <p>See how biotechnology and alternative ingredients could help reduce reliance on vulnerable raw materials.</p>

    See how biotechnology and alternative ingredients could help reduce reliance on vulnerable raw materials.

Session Sponsors

California Almonds
Cargill
CentricSoftware
FOODCHAINID
Simon Kucher
mhv

Meet our speakers

Learn from industry leading experts

Lu Ann Williams

Global SVP Research, Co-Founder
Innova Market Insights

Matthieu Vincent

Partner
DigitalFoodLab

Ina Dawer

Head of Ingredients
Euromonitor International

Karine Dussimon

Global Insight Manager: Health and Wellness
Euromonitor International

Dr Harini Venkataraman

Associate Research Director
Lux Research

Alexander Berndt

Head of Sales and Consulting PLM
Valantic

Startup Challenge

Innovators breaking new ground

The Innovation Hub will host the always popular Startup Challenge where some of the sector’s most promising disruptors will pitch live and one lucky winner will be announced on Day 1.

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