The Spoon: Food Tech Conference

Our food systems are remarkably resilient, but our world faces new challenges. We need to create new ways to feed more people without exhausting our resources and warming the planet.

The numerous challenges facing today's farmers require them to be ever-more-efficient to survive. In this session, we'll look at how farmers are employing automation, IoT, biotech and more to create the farms of the future.

If we are to ever displace animal agriculture, we need an order of magnitude more infrastructure. This session will discuss how we scale plant-based, cultivated or fermentation-based alternative proteins to build a trillion-dollar alt-protein market.

Whether it's ghost kitchens, drone delivery, or augmented reality menus, technology is forever changing the restaurant. This session will look at how technology is driving new business models, creating new opportunities, and changing the restaurant experience.

Our kitchens will change dramatically in the future, and leading the way will how we cook. Whether it's 3D printed steaks to food replicators, how food is made and cooked in the next 10 to 20 years will change dramatically. A look at the cutting-edge technologies changing how we make food.

The space industry has come a long way from the days of Tang and freeze dried ice cream. NASA, JAXA, the European Space Agency, and others are working with the food industry to develop ways to produce food in space. This session will hear from those working on solutions to feed humans during long-term space travel and habitation.