​Food and Health Innovation Mini Summit

​Knowledge & Innovation Cooperative | October 16, 2025 | 12:00-4:00 PM | SAGE Atlanta

​The Reality: 80% of health outcomes are determined by social factors, not medical care. 1 in 8 Americans face food insecurity, costing $77B annually in healthcare. Atlanta has world-class hospitals next to food deserts. This summit connects the people already solving pieces of this puzzle upstream.

​At Zane Venture Fund, we believe true health innovation happens before people get sick - through food access, preventive care, and aging support systems. This isn't your typical panel event. We're convening the practitioners, founders, researchers, technologists, and investors who understand that the future of health starts with addressing its foundations.

​The Goal: Connect brilliant minds working on food access, preventive health, and aging solutions in Atlanta. Leave with concrete partnerships, pilot commitments, and funding connections.

​Featured Sessions

​12:00-1:00 PM | Interactive Food Founders Panel

​Moderator: Jasmine Crowe-Houston (Goodr)

Focus: Building sustainable food/health solutions and what comes next in food innovation
Lunch provided during panel

​1:00-2:00 PM | Doctors + Developers Collaborative Session

​Moderator: Eddie Lai (Portal Innovations)

Focus: Building tech solutions that healthcare practitioners actually want to use
Working session format with concrete next steps

​2:00-3:00 PM | Medicine vs Nutrition Deep Dive

​Moderator: Brandy Nagel (Georgia Tech)

Focus: Defining boundaries and intersections of clinical intervention vs nutritional prevention
Research-to-practice collaboration

​3:00-3:30 PM | SAGE Presentation

​Tour and overview of Atlanta's premier innovation space

​3:30-4:00 PM | Partnership Formation & Next Steps

​Structured networking with follow-up commitment tracking

​What Makes This Different:

​✅ Upstream Focus - Addressing health determinants, not just symptoms
✅ Interactive Format - Working sessions that produce actual partnership commitments
✅ Cross-Sector Mix - Practitioners, founders, researchers, and investors collaborating
✅ Concrete Outcomes - Partnership agreements, pilot commitments, investment leads
✅ Part of InnovateATL - Atlanta's premier innovation week

​You'll Leave With:

​🤝 Scheduled follow-up meetings with potential partners
💰 Investment leads or pilot program commitments
🧪 Solutions tested with community validation
📋 Clear next steps for collaboration

​Target Attendees: Healthcare practitioners, food entrepreneurs, digital health innovators, researchers, health system leaders, agriculture innovators, preventive care advocates, aging-focused technologists

​RSVP Required | Limited Space — 75 attendees | Lunch & Tour Included

​This event is part of Zane Venture Fund's Knowledge & Innovation Cooperative (KIC) - convening entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors to collaborate on systemic health solutions.