The Future of Ingredients | London Pre-FFT Conference Evening
Join Forward Fooding at the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein for an exclusive pre-conference evening ahead of the Future FoodTech London Conference (24–25 September).
Hosted at Imperial's I-HUB in White City, the evening brings together F&B corporates, investors, founders, and researchers to explore what is actually happening at the frontier of sustainable ingredients.
The evening runs across two sessions. Session 1 is by invitation only. Session 2 is open to all.
🔒 Session 1 | Roundtables: The Future of Ingredients (15:30 – 18:00) - By invitation / approval only
A closed-door afternoon at the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein, designed for senior leaders from food and beverage companies, investors and researchers who want a serious conversation about where the ingredients landscape is heading.
The session will include a lab tour of the Bezos Centre, a briefing from Forward Fooding on the state of the global FoodTech ecosystem, and targeted roundtable discussions. Numbers are kept deliberately small to allow genuine exchange rather than broadcast.
The final agenda with 3 roundtables will be confirmed closer to the date depending on registered participants' interests and expertise. Current topics under consideration include:
Precision Fermentation: From Story to Adoption - Where do we really stand on unit economics, regulation, and investor attractiveness, and what needs to happen next for precision fermentation ingredients to move from compelling story to mainstream adoption?
Climate-Vulnerable Ingredients & the Race to Reformulate - Cocoa showed how quickly pressure can build when climate, cost, and supply risk collide. But cocoa is not alone. Coffee, vanilla, palm oil, and sugar are all facing versions of the same crisis. This panel broadens the lens to ask: which ingredients are next, what do credible alternatives actually look like, and what does it cost in money, time, and consumer trust, to reformulate around something people love?
Ingredients for the GLP-1 Era: Nutrition, Function, and the New Consumer - GLP-1 therapies are permanently reshaping how people eat: smaller portions, more selective choices, higher expectations from every bite. At the same time, the convergence of food and health is pushing brands to substantiate functional claims around gut health, metabolic health, and healthy ageing. Together these forces are creating a new ingredient brief: do more, with less. This panel explores which ingredient categories are best positioned to answer it.
Includes access to Session 2. Approval required.
🥂 Session 2 | Startup Showcase & Networking (18:00 – 20:30)
Open to all. A curated selection of FoodTech 500 companies take the floor to showcase their innovations, followed by drinks and networking. Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, corporate, or simply passionate about the future of food.
£10 ticket.
Forward Fooding is the world's leading AgriFoodTech collaborative intelligence platform, connecting corporates, investors, and founders across the global food innovation ecosystem. Home to the FoodTech 500 - the world's most recognised ranking of AgriFoodTech companies - Forward Fooding brings unique data-driven intelligence to every conversation about the future of food.
The Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein, supported by the Bezos Earth Fund, is based at the IHUB, Imperial College London. The Centre advances sustainable food through fermentation science, microbial biotechnology and applied research in partnership with industry.