FoodNavigator Reveals Top 30 Food-Tech Innovators of 2025
FoodNavigator has released its list of the 30 most innovative food-tech companies, selected from 78 entries in its 2025 Global Food Tech Awards. The selection reflects a strong focus on technological responses to challenges such as supply chain instability, nutritional deficits, resource scarcity, and environmental degradation. Fermentation and artificial intelligence dominated the field, alongside a growing emphasis on bioactive functionality in ingredients. The awards examined companies across three regions—EMEA, the …
Webtalk: Transforming Food Systems – Insights and Roadmap for 2026 | update #19
The international business webtalk series ‘update’ discusses the most pressing issues of the ongoing protein transition. Based on the latest news, data, and facts, the future of the industry will be put forward and discussed with key market players in this series of talks. Transforming Food Systems – Insights and Roadmap for 2026 December 11th, 10:30 AM CHICAGO | 5:30 PM BERLIN | 4:30 PM LONDON Business models are evolving, political pressure is intensifying, …
New Roundtable Will Discuss Creation of a Pan-European Regulatory Sandbox for Food Biomanufacturing
Think-and-do tank the Ministry of Future Affairs is preparing to host a policy roundtable to discuss a brief titled Closing the European Food Innovation Gap! A Framework for a Pan-European Regulatory Sandbox for Emerging Foods. The event will take place at the European Parliament in Brussels on November 12 between 13:00 and 15:00. It will be hosted in collaboration with Future Affairs Consulting and Enterprise Estonia. The roundtable will feature …
$440 Million in Sales and 1,700 Jobs: Canadian Foodtech Companies Make Impact at 2025 Awards
The Canadian Food Innovation Network (CFIN) has announced the winners of its inaugural Foodtech Frontier awards, which recognize Canadian companies creating innovative solutions in the food industry. The program highlights 25 emerging companies and 10 established industry leaders tackling challenges in sustainability, food security, health, and supply chain efficiency. The winners represent a wide range of foodtech solutions, from food safety and waste management to alternative protein production and packaging …
Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture to Host Cell-Ag-READY Conference as Country Prepares Guidelines for Sale of Cultivated Foods
The Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA) is set to host a conference called the Cell-Ag-READY Dialogue from November 13 to 14. The event aims to bring international developments in regulatory science to the attention of Japan’s administrative stakeholders. It is organized around three pillars that could help to create a Cell-Ag-READY society — regulatory science, innovation, and communication to bridge the two. The conference will feature lectures and panel …
Future-Proof Group Media Adds Cultured Meat Symposium to Global Portfolio
Future-Proof Group Media (FPG Media), the organizer of the Future of Protein Production conferences in Amsterdam and Chicago and the publisher of Protein Production Technology International, has added the Cultured Meat Symposium (CMS) to its global portfolio. CMS is said to be the longest-running conference dedicated to the cultivated meat industry. By integrating the event into its portfolio, FPG Media hopes to strengthen its role as a convenor and information …
Savor Sells Hundreds of Products Made With Animal- and Plant-Free Butter at San Francisco Launch Event
The week before last, food tech startup Savor held a launch event in San Francisco for what it claims are the world’s first commercially available handcrafted confections made with carbon-based, animal- and plant-free butter. The products were developed in collaboration with Savor’s award-winning patisserie partner, ONE65. Hundreds of people RSVP’d for the event, with lines forming outside the patisserie by 3:30 p.m. The supply of bonbon and cookie samples was …
Biokraft Foods Reveals Winners of the Great Indian Cultivated Chicken Cook-Off
Recently, Indian biotech company Biokraft Foods hosted the Great Indian Cultivated Chicken Cook-Off, a competition for promising young chefs. The finalists were selected through a competitive process, and recently participated in a Grand Finale hosted at D.Y. Patil School of Hospitality & Tourism Studies. All prepared dishes using cultivated chicken as the hero ingredient; these were evaluated across key criteria such as hygiene and food waste management, taste and texture, …
Webinar Recap: Rethinking Food: APAC as a Living Lab for the Future | update #15
The recording of our recent webinar, “Rethinking Food: APAC as a Living Lab for the Future,” is now available on the vegconomist YouTube channel. This session explored the transformative role the APAC region is playing in the future of food innovation. Moderated by Nadine Filko, the webinar brought together a diverse panel of experts: Megumi Abigail Yoshitomi, President of the Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture; Byron Perez, Programme Doctorate at …
Clever Carnivore Hosts Cultivated Meat Tastings in California
U.S. cultivated meat producer Clever Carnivore recently hosted tastings of its products in two Californian cities — Palo Alto and San Francisco. These are the first tastings the Chicago-based company has held on the West Coast. The rooms were reportedly packed with investors, chefs, and industry operators, who got to sample Clever Carnivore’s cultivated bratwurst. According to a LinkedIn post, guests were impressed by the taste of the products and …