As the need for healthy and climate-friendly food and ingredients grows, and the sector adapts to a new landscape, the role of innovation and collaboration is more important than ever.
Future Food-Tech returns to the innovation hub of San Francisco, bringing leaders together from across the globe navigate the R&D, strategy and partnerships necessary to ensure a healthy & sustainable future through food.
Pioneers from CPGs & retailers, ingredient and technology providers to cutting-edge innovators and investors, will address themes from ingredient development for more stable supply chains, through to the role of AI in food, exploring the rise of GLP-1 drugs and unpicking the complexities of scaling biotechnologies.
Alongside an action-packed main stage agenda, the Start-Up Arena returns for innovator-centric content and pitching showcases highlighting cutting-edge technologies. Join breakout discussions and workshops to dive into the details in an interactive setting and enjoy the full food-tech experience as you fill your plate at the live demo kitchen and in taste-labs where you get a taste of the future of food.
The 2026 edition begins with a pre-summit programme on March 18, with an exciting opportunity to tour cutting-edge facilities at UC Davis, exploring the most advanced and sustainable winery, brewery and food-processing facility in the world, the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, guided by UC Davis faculty experts.
With more networking than ever before, join Future Food-Tech to build partnerships and be part of the movement that’s transforming the food system.