Victor has been at the forefront of innovation, investment and sustainability for over 20 years. His first investment, Beyond Meat, became the most successful IPO in 2019 and one of the most successful food IPOs in the last decades. His second investment, Sweetgreen, was IPO’d in 2021 at a value of 5.5 billion dollars and have since revolutionised the healthy fast-casual restaurant sector.

Prof. William Chen is the Michael Fam Endowed Professor and Food Science and Technology Director at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. In the context of Singapore government-funded food initiatives, he is the Director of the Singapore Agri-food Innovation Lab (SAIL) and the Scientific Director of the Singapore Future Ready Food Safety Hub (FRESH).

Nadav was born to a family of food industrialists in Israel and later became a serial entrepreneur in the Food and FoodTech industries. In 2014 he founded FoodLab Capital, becoming the first FoodTech investor in Israel, which led to the founding of PeakBridge, A FoodTech fund managed by food people.

Prof. Yosi is an endowed chair professor at the Thapar institute for engineering and technology, Patiala, India and the international director of the TAU/TIET Food Security Center of Excellence. He served as a consultant to companies such as Zoran, Intel, Applied Materials, Nova Instruments, and multiple investments and holding companies in Israel and abroad.

With over 20 years of marketing experience, Michal focuses on working with startups and young companies to successfully organise exhibitions and international events to meet their goals and targets. She is highly involved in the rapidly growing Food-Tech community in Israel as a mentor and is currently managing an eco-system community group of over 1,000 members.

Dr Trupp is a private lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Physics, University of Bundeswehr, Munich. Her research focuses on material development and integration in sensor components for point-of-care detection devices. She holds ten patents and her research team is involved in several publicly funded projects such as COLODOR (EraNet), FRESH (BMEL) and Serene IoT (PENTA).

Dror is the CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority. Before his role at the Innovation Authority, Dror was president and CEO of RAD, a leading global telecom network solutions company. He holds a BSc in Information Systems Engineering, a BSc in Industrial Engineering from the Technion, and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Tel Aviv University.

Gil Horsky’s passion is investing in FoodTech ventures. Throughout his career, he was privileged to work in various commercial roles in some of the most iconic global food brands: PepsiCo, Nestle, Kraft Foods & Mondelēz International.

Dr Eyal Shimoni is a tech and Food-Tech expert, European 2017 “CTO of the year”, established “The Kitchen FoodTech hub”, EIT Food Accelerators Network (FAN), Israeli Food IoT - Big Data consortia, a Climate and Environment enthusiastic, former Professor at the Technion.

Dr Ofir Benjamin is a lecturer and researcher in the food science department at Tel-Hai College. His research expertise deals with food sensory and food structure. He actively promotes a master plan to establish the first national food innovation research institute at Tel Hai College.