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Harvest | Feed | Sustain–Humanity

November 12, 2024

About Summit

GatherVerse Food Summit: Harvest, Feed, Sustain–Humanity.

It is time for the Global GatherVerse community to explore a thing that is so central to us all; food.

This global summit is committed to exploring the expansive and essential world of food, nourishment, sustainable harvest and agriculture and the impact emerging technologies are having on them.

The familiarity inherent in the culture of food definitively involves us all.

We’ll examine the most recent developments in the ecosystem of nurturement. Putting emphasis on how emerging technologies can help address the most pressing challenges of civilization when it comes to sustainability.

We gather with industry leaders, food experts, technologists, farmers, botanists, agriculturist, researchers, policymakers, and local communities to drive critical discussions about food nourishment.

The Food Summit discusses food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as how recent advancements and future trends affect these processes.

Why Attend

• Explore AI-Powered Farming: Discover how AI is being used to enable farmers to make data-driven decisions that maximize yields and minimize environmental impact. Learn how AI contributes to lower input costs such as seeds, fertilizers, and labour by improving farming operations efficiency. Enabling small and large-scale farmers alike to optimize their budgets and increase their profitability.

• Roundtables and presentations: The Food Summit features a series of roundtables and talks with input from foremost speakers. These sessions aim to bring stakeholders together to share insights, challenge assumptions, brainstorm, and collaborate for a better understanding of the food industry.

• Learn about industry developments and sustainable practices: Learn about the advancements in the food industry that are improving the sustainability and effectiveness of technological advancements to improve the efficiency, quality, and environmental impact of the food supply chain.

• Understand food consumers and farmers needs: Gain knowledge about the increasing demand for high-quality, safe, and nutritious food among consumers. Consumers demand food products that are produced using sustainable and ethical practices. Farmers' best practices and needs for high-quality food production.

• Biotech Innovations: Learn about rapidly growing biotech innovations like alternative proteins, precision fermentation, gene editing, food packaging innovation, cellular agriculture, and many more that are redefining the food industry.

• Evolving Relationships with Food: Understand Food’s role in mental and emotional well-being. Food plays an even larger role in mental and emotional well-being, with an emphasis on mindful eating and the emotional connections we form with what we eat. Beyond nutrition, people are embracing how food makes them feel, emotionally and mentally, rather than just focusing on its nutritional value.

Focus Features

1. Robotics and Automation: Discover how robots are transforming food production, processing, packaging, and delivery, lowering human error and increasing supply chain efficiency. How the integration of robotics in the food industry is affecting the food industry workforce and strategies affected people remain valuable in their respective sectors.

2. Food Waste Reduction: The process of minimizing the amount of food that is discarded or lost throughout the food supply chain, from production to consumption. Reducing food waste can have environmental, economic, and social benefits by conserving resources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring food security.

3. Ethical and regulatory considerations: The summit will discuss the importance of policymakers and stakeholders in charge of developing policies and regulations that aim to balance the need for innovation and technological advancements in the food sector with the safety, quality, and ethical considerations of food products and manufacturing processes to protect consumer interests, public health, and environmental sustainability.

4. Food security and sustainability: As the global population continues to grow and climate change accelerates, ensuring that everyone has access to safe, nutritious food while preserving our planet's resources is more critical than ever where emerging technologies are harnessed to create a resilient, sustainable, and secure global food system for humanity.

5. Biodiversity and humanity: The symbiotic relationship between humans and food with a particular focus on preserving biodiversity and embracing the symbiotic relationships in nature as key to promoting food security, climate resilience, and the health of our ecosystems.

6. Shifts in food production systems: As urbanization accelerates, food production is adapting to serve the needs of growing urban populations. Urban farming and vertical agriculture are emerging as innovative approaches, bringing food production closer to consumers by using rooftops and urban spaces to grow crops vertically. This shift reduces the distance between production and consumption, providing fresher, locally sourced food.

Our Purpose

The purpose of the Food Summit is to drive meaningful understanding towards achieving global food security and sustainability. The summit aims to explore how emerging technologies can be leveraged to enhance the food industry so that everyone, everywhere, has access to safe, nutritious, and sustainable food.

Who Attends

The summit brings together people from a variety of industries and backgrounds, including technologists, researchers, agricultural leaders, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and individuals. It provides a single platform for the global community to express, share, discuss, and evaluate developments, user cases, current trends, future predictions, and useful strategies to advance the food industry.

Join Us

Join us for the GatherVerse Global Food Summit: Be part of the global effort to secure, nutritious, and a sustainable food future.

May our gather be well.