Food Sec&Tech Israel - June 27, 28, 29 - 2023

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&DInternational 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 StrierChair 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:

  • Ohad Zuckerman (Copia Ag & Foods )
  • Nitza Kardish (Trendlines)
  • Nadav Berger (PeakBridge)
  • Shira Eting (Vintage)

Panel: “Low-tech & high-tech – How established industry players are joining the new Agri-food-tech revolution” 

Moderator:  Gil Horsky (FLORA Ventures)

Participants:

  • Oran Scott (Granot)
  • Natan Feldman (Haifa Group)
  • Ayelet Carasso (Yarzin-Sela)

 

Panel: “How do we build the next commercially viable AgriFood unicorns”. 

Moderator:  Jonathan Berger (“The Kitchen” / Strauss)  

Participants:

  • Esther Barak-Landes (FLORA Ventures)
  • Amit Pilowsky (Key-1)
  • Eshchar Ben-Shitrit (Redefine Meat)

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 globalAbu Dhabi 

Participants:

  • D Shamal Abdulkhaliq Mohammed, Director, AgriTech and R&D, Silal -Abu Dhabi
  • Farid Lekjaa, the president of IAV Agadir, Institut agronomique et veterinaire-Morocco
  • Ifat Peled Dinstag, Co-founder & CEO of Liva Bio Protection Technologies Ltd. – Israel
  • Dganit Vered, Investor, board member, Chief Executive Officer at Smart Agro Fund

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 BarkatMinister 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 TruppFraunhofer 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..

11:30Technological 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

ModeratorProfessor 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

ModeratorProfessor 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 EshelAlternative proteins – leading technology in Foodtech

Aviv Oren,GFIAlternative proteins- opportunities , growth engines, business & investment forecast

Panel: R&D Infrastructure in Alt. protein

Moderator: Noa Matarasso

Participants:

  • Nissan Zeevi
  • Or Rotem, Alagene
  • Ofir Benjamin, Tel Hai
  • Avi Shpigelman, Technion

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:

  • Noga Sela Shalev, Fresh start
  • Jonathan Berger, the Kitchen
  • Oz katz, Ministry of Economy
  • Tamar Eigler, Profuze
  • Remilk TBC

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 DivisionMinistry 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. 

  • Educational Guided Tours at the Agro Food-tech valley. Visits to innovative farms, foodtech initiatives and special sites.