Archives: Agenda

• Striking the balance between cost model prioritisation and sustainability agendas with efficiency-led innovation
• Re-purposing food waste, upcycling side streams, and exploring byproduct potential
• Encouraging broader interventions for circularity in food systems

• Start-up agility vs large business resource
• First-to-market risks and rewards: Approaching regulatory and scientific standards
• Transforming slow-moving mindsets for longevity and progress in new categories
• Collaboration accelerating small-scale innovation through nurtured relationships

• The contrast between emerging and evolving cuisine trends
• What is influencing cuisine’s today and in the future
• How ingredients can play a role in future trends
• How we need to evolve our thinking

Explore the Ozempic trend and its impact on the functional Food & Beverage market. Discover how to innovate with functional ingredients in the GLP-1 space and stand out from the competition.

• Trends and science driving ‘better-for-you’ approaches within populations
• Shifting attention on GLP-1 with increasing interest in UK & Europe retail and F&B
• Formulating with high-quality, evidence-based, and versatile ingredients
• Remaining at the forefront of GLP-1-related innovations with collagen peptides for natural blood-sugar control and satiety
• Tried and tested: F&B formats making the cut for ready-to-market products

Interactive roundtable sessions offer a unique opportunity to come together with your peers to share best practice and develop solutions to critical challenges facing the industry as a whole. Hosted by industry experts and each focused on a single issue, roundtables are an exciting, interactive way to build your personal network and learn from the experience and expertise of others.

Each roundtable session lasts for 40 minutes and delegates may attend up to 2 roundtables.

Roundtable 1 – Consumer Education on GLP-1 Science and Perceptions Around Food Options

Explore the Ozempic trend and its impact on the functional Food & Beverage market. Discover how to innovate with functional ingredients in the GLP-1 space and stand out from the competition.

• Explain differences: GLP-1 mimics (Ozempic-like drugs) vs GLP-1 boosters (functional ingredients found in F&B and supplements)
• Discuss innovative ingredients to ride the GLP-1 trend focusing on scientific evidence
• Discuss consumer perception/education level in terms of science and overall understanding of GLP-1 food options
• Highlight potential of Nextida GC as a GLP-1 booster (and its science)

Florencia Moreno Torres – McLaverty, Global Marketing Manager, Rousselot 

Roundtable 2: Staying ahead of the curve – Meeting consumer and regulators expectations on health and sustainability

• With both consumers and retailers increasingly influenced by changes in the sustainable land use and dietary policy and regulatory spaces, what are the important considerations for food businesses brining products to market in the near future.
• Whether ultra-processed, precision-bred, regenerative, deforestation-free, food businesses have an increasingly number of topics to navigate to ensure that products meet both consumers and regulators future expectations.
• In this roundtable, we’ll introduce some of these topics, explore the challenges and opportunities changes could bring and provide examples of best practice from respected actors who are already driving change.

Lee Holdstock, Head of Regulatory & Trade Affairs, Soil Association

Roundtable 3: Trends & Innovation- Working With AI in the Food & Beverage Sector

• Beyond social media, what view of the world do we need
• Understanding what data is telling us, and not telling us
• Viewing the world beyond ingredients by understanding themes and contexts

Todd Davis, Director of Innovation Intelligence, Ai Palette

• Economic and political instability driving the need for resilience and collaboration in F&B supply chains
• Adapting to ripple effects of tariffs on global ingredients markets
• Pressures to reformulate for diversification and affordability
• Will consumers be willing expand their taste buds from ‘hero’ ingredients’ they know and love?
• How flexible regulation could aid the industry adapt amidst market volatility
• Finding the right ingredients for success