Bringing together 400 ingredient providers, investors, founders and food and beverage brands, the summit focuses on the industrial reality of innovation: formulation, manufacturing, cost, and scale across today’s food system.
Over two days, the summit will showcase how the industry is closing supply chain gaps, commercializing novel ingredients, and scaling solutions that meet evolving consumer demands for health, functionality, sustainability, and taste.
From fermentation‑derived fats and oils to sweetness and cocoa alternatives, and next‑generation beverages designed for metabolic support and GLP‑1 consumers, Chicago is where innovation meets capital and ideas turn into scalable business outcomes.
The program will explore investment priorities, biomanufacturing realities, formulation constraints, regulatory pathways, and go-to-market strategies across dairy alternatives, fats and oils, coffee and cocoa, and function-forward beverages. Join us to answer the question: Which ingredients will define the next five years of food and beverage?