27.6.2023 – Tuesday – Rabin Congress Center – Tel Aviv
Opening Assembly – 09:30
Food Security, National Security, Society Nutrition Resilience
National Food Security Strategy. Countries Nutritional independence. Global Agro Food -Tech policy.
Moderator:
Prof. Eyal Shimoni -Tech & Food-Tech expert
Key Note Speakers:
Mrs. Miriam Ueberall, Senior R&D Executive
Former VP for R&D – International Kraft Heinz and ex-Unilever
Prof. Yosi Shacham–Diamand – Bio convergence, and food security
Head of the Scojen institute for synthetic biology at Reichmann university.
Head of Bernard L. Schwartz chair for nano scale information technologies, T-A University.
Chair Professor at the Thapar institute for engineering and technology, Patiala, India
Speakers:
Mr. Dror Bin – CEO, Israel Innovation Authority
Prof. Roni Strier – Chair of the Israel National Council of Food Security
Towards a national outline for food security: key principles
Nir Goldstein, CEO, GFI Israel – Food Securitech:
National strategy and the alternative protein promise
Nadav Berger, Yoni Glikman – Founding and General Partners, PEAKBRIDGE
FoodTech 2.0 An industry with some growing pains.
12:00 – 13:00 – Visit to – Agro Food Tech Innovation – EXPO
Noon Plenum – 13:00
AgroFood-Tech – From Innovation To Action – Global Leadership & Growth Engines
Market trends. Investments forecast. Business opportunities.
Agro Food-Tech global ecosystem leaders.
Moderator:
Mr. Gil Horsky
Founding Partner, FLORA Ventures
Former Senior Director Venture Investments at Mondelēz International
Key Note Speaker:
Mr. Victor E. Friedberg – Global Leader
Founder – New Epoch Capital/ Food Shot Global/ Seed 2 Growth Ventures (S2G)
“The Coming Era of Nutritional Security”
Panel: “What is hot (and not) in the world of AgriFood-Tech investments”
Moderator: Gil Horsky (FLORA Ventures)
Participants:
Panel: “Low-tech & high-tech – How established industry players are joining the new Agri-food-tech revolution”
Moderator: Gil Horsky (FLORA Ventures)
Participants:
Panel: “How do we build the next commercially viable AgriFood unicorns”.
Moderator: Jonathan Berger (“The Kitchen” / Strauss)
Participants:
Closing Session – 15:30
MENA Region
The Next Frontier for Agrifood Innovation – New “sweet spot” of Agrifood security
Moderator: Mrs. Shirley Shahar, Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer, Dana global–Abu Dhabi
Participants:
17:00 – Opening Ceremony of the Global Food Security Summit – Food Sec &Tech Israel 23
Opening remarks:
Mr. Tomer Avnon – President of Avnon Group
Mr. Nir Barkat – Minister of Economy and Industry (TBC)
During the day: Agro Food Tech Market – EXPO
Full scale exhibition. Demonstration and exposure of leading industries, Start-ups, innovations, developments, solutions and initiatives. Dozens of exhibitors, tasting stands of student works and Food Tech laboratories. Agro Tech innovations demo’s.
28.6.2023 – Wednesday – Tel-Hai College – Agro Food Tech Valley, Galilee.
09:30 – Food Institutes – The Engine Behind the Global Food-Tech Revolution
Hosted by the Israeli National Food Institute
Moderators:
Dr. Sabine Trupp – Fraunhofer LZSiS, Germany
Guy Tovy – ProSolv Technologies CEO, Israeli National Food Institute CEO
Dr. Ofir Benjamin Senior lecturer and researcher – Food Science department Tel Hai College / Israeli National Food Institute CTO
General: A professional meeting and “round table” discussions of the world leading food institutes teams. Launch of the “International Food Institutes Forum”.
Participants:
USA-North Carolina Food Innovation Laboratory, Germany-Fraunhofer Center for Secure intelligent Systems, NL – Foodvalley NL, Costa Rica – Costa Rican Association of Food Science & Technology, Switzerland – Swiss Food Nutrition Valley, India – THAPAR Institute , Denmark – DTU Bio-sustain National Food Institute , South Sudan – University of Juba, Nigeria – Department of Agricultural Production and Resource Economics, Sierra Leone – School of Natural Resources Management, Njala University, NARO – Japan, Philippines – Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and more..
11:30 – Technological Synergy as an Operational Concept for the future food system.
Hosted by: Fresh Start – Global FoodTech incubator
Moderators:
Mrs. Noga Sela-Shalev, Fresh Start – CEO
Prof. Nir Ohad – Director, Manna Center Program for Food Safety & Security Faculty of Life Sciences – Tel Aviv University
12:30 Visit to – Agro Food Tech Innovation – EXPO
13:00 – (parallel sessions)
Food Security & Sustainability Under Changing Climate Conditions
Innovation in Agriculture and Sustainability
Hosted by MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute
Panel: Food security and sustainability under climate change.
Presented by MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute, Northern Agriculture R&D Investigators
Moderator: Professor Itamar Glazer.
Participants:
Dr. Lior Rubinovich (principal investigator at Migal Research Institute, Northern Agriculture R&D) –
Development of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) as a new multi-purpose crop in Israel
Dr. Omer Crane – Development of apple orchards ready for robotic management
Physiology of grapevine and deciduous fruit trees
Dr. Navot Galpaz – Principal investigator of subtropical crops (banana and mango) – Migal
Improving banana production in Israel, by developing solutions for yield limiting factors.
Dr. Adam Abramson, Principal investigator, Agricultural and Environmental Economics- Migal. Decision Support for Data-Driven Farm Profitability Optimization.
Panel: Desert Agriculture.
Presented by Ramat Negev, Central & Northern Arava –Tamar, R&D investigators
Moderator: Professor Jacob Vaya
Participants:
Dr. Tom Groneveld
How much is too much? The effect of irrigation and fruit thinning on date palm yield and quality.
Dr. Maayan Kitron
Challenges of growing cut flowers in extreme desert environment.
Dr. Yael Barlavan
Bacterial isolates from desert plant showing a better anti-fungal activity for agriculture.
Dr. Moran Segoli
Desert Agriculture: From Theory to Practice.
Dr. Amnon Bustan
Quality wines in the Negev: challenges and solutions.
Sum-up Panel: The impact of climate change on agriculture up
Moderator: Professor Dan Levanon
Opening Remarks: Mr. Avi Dichter – Minister of Agriculture (Tbc)
Key Note Speaker: Mr. Ali Ebrahim Faqeeh, Analyst
Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)
“Addressing Food Security Challenges through Machine Learning Technology”
Dr. Michal Levy – The Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Agriculture
13:00 – Rethinking Proteins
Exploring the Viability and Potential of Alternative Proteins for Sustainable Food Security
Challenges in the transition from development to production.
Hosted and led by The Israeli Innovation Authority
Ronit Eshel – Alternative proteins – leading technology in Foodtech
Aviv Oren,GFI –Alternative proteins- opportunities , growth engines, business & investment forecast
Panel: R&D Infrastructure in Alt. protein
Moderator: Noa Matarasso
Participants:
Dr Serdar Uysal – Founder & CEO, LIVZYM Biotechnologies Inc., Turkey. Exploring the Viability and Potential of Alternative Proteins for Sustainable Food Security.
Transition of Foodtech companies into large scale manufacturing.
Dr. Ziva Hamama – Novel Food regulation, alt proteins
Panel: Path to scale up of Alternative protein manufacturing
Moderator: Ronit Eshel
Participants:
17:00 – Launch of the Israeli National Food Institute – “Galilean Dinner”. Special ceremony.
During the day:
Agro Food Tech Market – EXPO
Full scale exhibition. Demonstration and exposure of leading industries, innovations, developments, solutions and initiatives. Dozens of exhibitors, tasting stands of student works and Food Tech laboratories. Agro Tech innovations demo’s.
29.6.2023 – Thursday – Tel-Hai College – Agro Food Tech Valley, Galilee
09:30 – The 10TH Food Tech Conference of Tel-Hai Academic College
Hosted by Food Science department Tel Hai College
Food Security and Sustainability as a Catalyst for Innovation in Food Tech and Agro-Tech.
The leading annual academic conference in Israel.
Disclosure of groundbreaking research, unique solutions and initial developments.
Moderator: Dr. OFIR BENJAMIN Senior lecturer and researcher – Food Science department Tel Hai College / Israeli National Food Institute CTO
Special guest: Prof. William Chen – Director of Food Science and Technology, Nanyang University, Singapore
10-10:15 Opening remarks
10:15-10:45 Opening lecture
Dr. Liron Amdur PhD, Planning-agriculture-economics-environment
Agriculture and food system consultant, research fellow at Yesodot Policy Research Institute
10:45-12:00
Panel: Food institutes’ innovative scientific approach to the Food Security problem
12:00 – Presentation of students product’s developments – outstanding groups
14:00-15:15
Panel: Innovation in Food Security research.
15:15-16:00
Panel: Student communities from the Israeli Academy speaks FOOD SECURITY
10:00 – (parallel sessions)
The Food Industry and Food Security
Hosted and led by:
The Ministry of Economy & The Food Industries Association
The food industry’s role in strengthening national food and nutritional independence.
Sustainable food consumption. The food industry’s global challenges.
Special Guest Speaker : Mr. Malte Schlüter
Global Director F&B / CPG / FMCG / Life Science
Mitsubishi Electric FA Global Industry Solutions Division
13:00 – (parallel sessions)
Community and Public Health
Nutrition Security and sustainability transitions of food systems
Hosted by:
The Nutrition Division – Ministry of Health.
The Israeli Forum for Sustainable Nutrition & The National Council for Food Security
Special Guest Speaker:
Dr. Judith van der Horst – Graat – Innovation Lead Food & Health, Food valley NL
Society, Health, Economy, Environment & National resilience.
Sustainable nutrition as a key to National Food Security
15:00 – Closing Session
Representatives of student’s Foodtech communities from Reichman University, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Agriculture and Tel Hai College. In the panel, the representatives as the younger generation that will soon enter the market of food industry and foodtech companies will talk about their activity in the Foodtech field in recent years and their personal point of view on Food Security and the solutions for the food of the future.
During the day:
Agro Food Tech Market – EXPO
Full scale exhibition. Demonstration and exposure of leading industries, innovations, developments, solutions and initiatives. Dozens of exhibitors, tasting stands of student works and Food Tech laboratories. Agro Tech innovations demo’s.
