There’s a growing market for innovative new food products, but getting from an idea to an in-demand product on grocery shelves is a long and often difficult process. In Monday afternoon’s Business FIRST session, “Innovators on the Edge: Pushing the Boundaries of Science to Feed a Hungry Planet,” four food science entrepreneurs shared their experiences in building products and businesses from their passion, creativity, and discoveries.
Building a food science-based busines…
Julie Smolyansky of Lifeway Foods offers advice for startups and other entrepreneurial ventures.
Energy, insight, cutting-edge science, and lots of networking characterized IFT’s Annual Event and Expo.
Manna Tree’s Steve Young discusses the private equity firm’s focus on companies whose products improve human health.
Paul Shapiro offers an update on efforts to ban cultivated meat sales and reflects on its negative impact on product innovation and consumer choice.
Scentian Bio, a technology company that combines insect biology with nanotechnology in sensor devices, took the top spot and a prize of $10,000 at The Pitch competition during IFT FIRST.