2021 Good Food Conference - Online
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Speakers
Founder & President, Sol Cuisine
Founder, Warner Advisors LLC
President, Real Vision Foods
Founder, President & CEO, Esco Aster
Managing Director, Further Processed Foods, OSI Europe
New Harvest Fellow, New Harvest
Chief Executive Officer, Nourish Ingredients
Product Manager, Givaudan
Vice President, Global R&D, Int'l Flavors & Fragrances/DuPont
Director, Product Innovation, CRB
Director, Temasek US (Asia Sustainable Food Platform)
Director, Blue Horizon
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
University Innovation Specialist, The Good Food Institute
Academic Community Coordinator, The Good Food Institute
University Innovation Manager, The Good Food Institute
President, Davis Alt Protein Project
Co-Founder, Wageningen Alt Protein Project
Research Assistant, Berlin Alt Protein Project
Biomedical Researcher and Past-President, Boulder Alt Protein Project
Co-Founder, Biosense Alt Protein Project
Co-Founder, Chapel Hill Alt Protein Project
Organizer, Stanford Alt Protein Project
Senior Scientist, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Assoc. VP, Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Deputy Head, Research and Development, EMBRAPA
CEO, Roslin Technologies
Co-Founder & CEO, Unicorn Biotechnologies
Food Biotech Innovator & Entrepreneur, Fybraworks Foods
CEO, Mycovation
Senior Bioprocessing Engineer, CellulaRevolution
Co-Founder & CEO, Alfred's Food Tech
Chief of Staff, Black Sheep Foods
CEO & Co-Founder, Terra Bio
CEO, Umami Meats
Co-Founder & CEO, Boston Meats
Inventor & Founder, Mogale Meat Co.
CEO and Co-Founder, Aqua Cultured Foods
Project Manager, Protein Technology, NIZO
Senior Technology Research Manager, Benson Hill
Vice President, Research and Development, PURIS Holdings
Food Materials Scientist (& GFI grantee), Paragon Pure
Chief Scientific Officer, InnovoPro
PhD candidate, Food Process Engineering, Wageningen University
Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, New Culture Food
Senior Director, Bioprocessing. Culture Biosciences
CEO & Co-Founder, New Culture Food
Business Development Manager & Group Leader Microbial Cell Factories, Wageningen University,
Program Manager, ABPDU, LBL
Co-Founder and CEO, Next Gen Foods
CEO, PURIS Holdings
Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
Chief Growth Officer, Nowadays
Director of Communications, UPSIDE Foods
Founder & CEO, Eclipse Foods
General Counsel & Chief People Officer, Nobell Foods
Managing Member, Clear Current Capital
Chief Operations Officer, Blackhawke Behavior Science
Executive Director, Corporate Development, Pinduoduo
President, Nourish Ventures (Griffith Foods)
Partner, Enfini Ventures
Founder and CEO, Future Food Now Ventures
Co-Founder, Agronomics Limited
Managing Partner, Unovis Asset Management
Investment Manager, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Analyst, Food & Beverage Sector Lead, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Investment Manager, Alternative Proteins, Nutreco NuFrontiers
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Research Scientist, Vow
Co-Founder & CEO, Defined Bioscience
Co-Founder, Rival Foods
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, Aarhus University
Interim Director and Associate Professor, School of Food Science, Washington State University
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Revo Foods
Vice President, Innovation and Technology, Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre
Research Scientist, CSIRO
Research Associate, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, ThermoFisher
Managing Partner, Univos Ventures
Research Associate, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba
Academy Engagement, The Good Food Institute
Co-founder, Moonshot Collective
Foodservice and Supply Chain Manager, The Good Food Institute
Senior Director, Safety & Regulatory, Intertek
Vice President of Corporate Engagement, The Good Food Institute
Journalist, The New York Times
General Partner & Co-Founder, Siddhi Ops & Siddhi Capital
Senior Director of Policy, Plant Based Foods Association
Senior Manager of Digital Media and Policy Fellow, R Street Institute
Policy Manager, The Good Food Institute Europe
Lead Regulatory Counsel, The Good Food Institute
Co-Founder and CEO, Avant Meats
Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Writer, CNN Business
Head of Food Applications, Motif Foodworks
Editor, FoodNavigator-USA
CEO and Co-Founder, Meati Foods
Director of Engineering, Black & Veatch
Chief Supply Chain Officer, Gathered Foods
Branch Head, Risk Assessment & Comms Dept, Singapore Food Agency’s National Centre for Food Science
Partner, Stray Dog Capital
Vice President of Policy, The Good Food Institute
Co-Founder, Wageningen Alt Protein Project
Assistant Professor in Food Safety and Cellular Agriculture, Virginia Tech
Editor at Large, CNET
Senior Fermentation Specialist, The Good Food Institute
Senior Scientist & Plant-Based Specialist, The Good Food Institute
Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, Synthesis Capital
Head of Americas, Sustainable & Impact Banking, Barclays Investment Banking
Group Head Sustainability and Technology Ventures, Global, Kerry Group
Head of Media & Process Development, Wildtype
Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology and Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Davis
Science and Technology Analysis Manager, The Good Food Institute
Chief Business Officer, Laurus Bio
Partner, McKinsey
Managing Director, Alternative Protein, Cargill
Managing Director, Credit Suisse
Reporter, CNBC
Director of Science and Technology, The Good Food Institute Brazil
Policy Advisor, The Good Food Institute
Managing Director, The Good Food Institute Brazil
Corporate Engagement Manager, The Good Food Institute Brazil
Honorary Research Associate, University of Bath
Policy Manager, The Good Food Institute Europe
Managing Director, The Good Food Institute Europe
VP Business Development, The Kitchen Hub
Managing Director, The Good Food Institute Israel
Director of Business Engagement and Innovation, The Good Food Institute Israel
Managing Director, The Good Food Institute India
Chief Operating Officer, TiNDLE (Next Gen Foods)
APAC President, Taste & Wellbeing, Givaudan
Science and Environment Correspondent, The Straits Times
Founder and CEO, Nobell Foods
Chief Scientific Officer, Mosa Meat
Online commodities editor, Financial Times
Program Director, Food and Agriculture, ClimateWorks Foundation
Staff Writer, National Geographic Society
Lead Scientist, Cultivated Meat, The Good Food Institute
Professor, Tufts University
Associate Director, Center for Biopharmaceutical Education and Training
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Fam Chair Professor and Director of Food Science and Technology Program, NTU Singapore
Co-Founder & CEO, WildType
Senior Sustainable Seafood Initiative Manager, The Good Food Institute
Co-Founder and CEO, TurtleTree
Founder and CEO, Rebellyous
CEO, BioMADE/EBRC
Assoc. Professor, Science Team Leader, Dept. of Food Science, Aarhus University
Head of Sustainability, EU SMART PROTEIN Project
Vice President of Science & Technology, The Good Food Institute
Senior Manager of Retail Reporting, SPINS
Founder and CEO, abillion
Scientific Research Funding Coordinator, The Good Food Institute
Startup Innovation Specialist, The Good Food Institute
SciTech Specialist, GFIC
SciTech Consultant, GFIC
Senior Counsel, Dentons
General Manager, GFIC
Innovation Specialist, GFIC
Chief Marketing Officer, Change Foods
Deputy Director, Strategic Innovation and Enterprise, A*STAR
Food and Agriculture Analyst, The Breakthrough Institute
Population and Sustainability Director, Center for Biological Diversity
Assistant Chief Executive (Biomedical Research Council), A*STAR
Operating Partner, Temasek
VP Innovation, Israeli Innovation Authority
Cellular Agriculture Specialist, Agriculture Cellulaire France
Head of R&D, Cultured Meat, Merck KGaA / MilliporeSigma
Senior Manager, Research and Engagements, FAIRR Initiative
Co-Founder and Partner, Synthesis Capital
Head of Strategic Partnerships, Impact Investor, Mission Barns
CEO, Clara Foods
Founder, Cultivated Meat Modeling Consortium
Director of R&D, The Mediterranean Food Lab
CEO & Founding Director, Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation
Distinguished Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Co-Founder & CEO, Ohayo Valley
Chief Operating Officer, UPSIDE Foods
Chief Strategy Officer, Finless Foods
CEO, Tofurky
Head of Global Marketing, Eat Just, Inc.
U.S. Digital Editor, The Economist
Journalist, The Washington Post
General Manager, Hormel
CEO and Founder, UPSIDE Foods
Technical Lead, Investment Committee, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Chief Innovation Officer, Schmidt Futures Foundation
Founder & CEO, The Good Food Institute
Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Agriculture
VP of Product Innovation, Impossible Foods
Managing Partner and CEO, Stray Dog Capital
Head of Future of Protein, COVID Response, and Food Health, World Economic Forum
Deputy Assistant Director for Engineering, National Science Foundation
Executive Director, FAIRR Initiative
Regulatory Counsel. Barrella Law
Director of Business Development, Food, C16 Biosciences
Chair, House Science Subcommittee on Research & Technology
Chair, House Appropriations Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
Booths
Stray Dog Institute
Cultivating dignity, justice, and sustainability in the food system.
Help Desk
Welcome to the GFC 2021 Help Desk!
CP Kelco – A Huber Company
Unlocking Nature-Powered Success
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Accelerating cultured meat production at scale
Kerry
Shaping the future of plant-based food with unrivaled preservation expertise and integrated taste and nutrition solutions.
Beyond Meat
Go Beyond with Beyond Meat
Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing
The alternative protein movement: our holistic approach
PowerPlant Partners
PowerPlant is a growth equity firm investing in emerging consumer food, beverage, foodservice, food-tech, & personal wellness brands.
CIBO
Meeting Demand for Sustainably Grown Ingredients
Big Idea Ventures
Solving the world's biggest challenges by investing in the best entrepreneurs.
Griffith Foods | Nourish Ventures
We Blend Care and Creativity to Nourish the World.
Firmenich
We Create food and beverage experiences to delight and enhance wellbeing, naturally for people and the planet!
A*STAR
Singapore's lead public sector R&D agency, bridging the gap between academia and industry.
Laurus Bio
Laurus Bio is an integrated research-driven biomanufacturing organization with deep expertise in precision fermentation and recombinant technology. We manufacture animal-free recombinant proteins and growth factors for the cultured meat industry. In addition, we offer in-depth precision fermentation expertise as a CDMO service for companies looking to develop, scale-up and manufacture microbial fermentation derived alternative proteins
Bright Green Partners
We empower our clients to win in alternative meat and dairy
MyEats
Through the power of mycelium, we're revolutionizing the way people choose to eat.
Bio-Lead Ltd.
key reagents & cell-culture media to support growth & differentiation of cultured-Meat/fish/dairy cells.
denovoMATRIX
Enabling biology in vitro
Motif Foodworks
Motif FoodWorks is a food technology company working to make plant-based foods better tasting, more nutritious and so desirable that people actually crave them.
BlueNalu
The global leader in cell-cultured seafood
Kuleana: Next Generation Seafood
Supercharged seafood made from plants. Welcome to #thenewschooloffish.
CREMER Nutrition
Benefit from nature.
Avant
A New Kind of Fish - Sustainable & Cruelty-free Cultivated Fish
Genedant Venture Capital
Investing in people. Inventing a world without equal.
Pinduoduo
China's largest agriculture-focused technology platform
Moolec Science
Real animal proteins in plants
New Age Meats
Cell-culture meat company based in Berkeley, CA.
Aleph Farms
Aleph Farms grows beef steaks, from non-genetically engineered cells isolated from a living cow, without harming animals and with a significantly reduced impact to the environment.
UPSIDE Foods
A world leader in cultivated meat, poultry and seafood
ENOUGH
Enough is a food tech company, producing ABUNDA mycoprotein, the most sustainable protein.
EY
Helping organizations capitalize on transformative opportunities and solve their toughest challenges
Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies
TFTAK - Your best partner for Innovative Food Technologies
Rival Foods
Rival Foods develops new technologies, processes and formulations that serve to create game-changing plant-based food products with the goal to outcompete animal protein on quality, health, environmental impact and cost.
Plant Protein Innovation Center
Plant Protein Innovation Center, using and interdisciplinary research approach, will help address you plant-protein challenges and opportunities
Rak Lab
The genetic basis of proliferation and differentiation in cultured meat
Mycovation
Asia's first Bio-tech start-up transforming Mycelium into Bespoke Food & Beverage solutions using our proprietary AI platform
DryGro
We grow Water Lentils - a sustainable, clean label plant protein with incredible functionality
Terra Bio Food
Taste, Texture, and Price has never looked so Sustainable with Upcycled Spent Grain Protein
Patch Organics
Patch Organics - The Worlds First Pumpkin Seed Milk.
Black Sheep Foods
Seeking to be the world leader in plant-based wild and heritage meats.
Fybraworks Food
Real meat proteins, real world solutions.
Umami Meats
Cultivating the future of sustainable seafood.
Boston Meats
Creating true texture in alternative meats!
Eagle Genomics
Unlocking radical innovation by enabling the conversation between microbiome data and the scientist
Altra Design
We are a design agency on a mission to reinvent food systems
Metaculus
A community forecasting platform partnering with GFI to forecast the future of alt-protein.
The Chapel Hill Alt Protein Project
An alt protein ecosystem builder for The Research Triangle Area
The Davis Alt Protein Project
Growing the Alternative Protein Ecosystem at UC Davis Through Direct Student Engagement
The Wageningen Alternative Protein Project
Bringing the protein transition to Wageningen University
Johns Hopkins [Alt.] Protein Project
University group advancing alt protein technology at JHU
FoodTech Tel Hai College
Alternative protein, healthy food product development and food sensory
Food Structuring Lab at Wageningen University
The shear cell is a great method to make new meat analogues: here we demonstrate how it works
Aarhus University
MeatSecret
Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba
Does it sound good? Probing meat-analogue texture with ultrasound
Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation
Designing the Future of Biomedical Innovation
XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion | ASPIRE
$15M XPRIZE competition to develop structured, alternative chicken & fish products. Late registration is open until December 1st!
CellulaREvolution
The leader in continuous cell culturing technologies
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA)
We are a technological innovation enterprise focused on generating knowledge and technology for Brazilian agriculture