Hack Food & Disrupt a marketplace.Inspiration Tour Silicon Valley Food InnovationAugust17–21

ALL ABOUT A very special treat

After Cleantech, the Silicon Valley has identified the next Megatrend. The combination from tech and food sounds promising – facing the fact that we will have to feen 9 Billion hungry mouths on our globe, soon. Food is technical, Food is emotional. Food is something that make us healthy and food is something that often makes us sick. We enjoy sophisticated cuisines and modern chefs and are enchanted by simple dishes of perfectly well prepared vegetarian- meat- or seafood dishes. Lets spend a week finding out, where the journey is going. And we are not only talking about variations of eating bugs. How well does a global melting point of technology go with such a fundamental and basic topic? You will be surprised. And inspired. Your view on things might change after this week. We invite you to meet some of the beautiful minds and inspiring daredevils who will leave you asking for more!

SPIRITINSPIRATION What, Where, Why?

What & Where: From street fair to Digital Lab - The programme consists of:

Sunday, 16th August, San Francisco Street Food Festival (La Cocina) Monday to Friday 17th – 21st, we will visit up to four companies, start-ups and working environments that relate to the food industry Napa Valley Visit - No one can talk about food and Greater San Francisco without having spent a day in Napa Valley

Why:

You will have conversations about experiences that might sound familiar, a spirit that is fuelling and witness methodologies that make things possible which you would not even have dreamt of in your wildest dreams

A Feast For All Senses Meet the Designers of our Foodture

SundaySan Francisco *  La Cocina *  Street Fair

MondaySan Francisco *  Evan Sims *  Treasure 8 *  Feeding Forward *  Lyrical Foods

 

TuesdaySilicon Valley *  Nestle Digital Lab *  Ideo Food Lab *  Khosla Ventures *  Polina/Kptn Cook *  Layla/Koochooloo

WednesdaySan Francisco *  Chirp/Bitty Foods *  Hampton Creek Foods *  Local Food Lab *  Boba Guys *  Nomiku

ThursdayNapa Valley *  Napa Valley *  Mendocino County  

FridaySilicon Valley *  Rebecca Jean Catering *  Mattson *  Impossible Foods

 

La Cocina / San Francisco Street Food FestivalThe San Francisco Street Food Festival features the participant businesses of La Cocina, a ground breaking food business incubator that has been serving the Bay Area since 2005. In collaboration with Noise Pop and The Midway, this year’s festival will also feature a rotating selection of the minds, hands and palates of the people that make San Francisco the best food city in this country, if not the world. We invite you to join over 100 owner-operated food businesses representing the best of the Bay.

Evan Sims

Evan Sims, is the founder of San Francisco Yogurt Company. In June 2014 he left his job as an engineer at a large biotech company, it was time for a new challenge and a new adventure. After a couple of months of inspiration searching whilst rock climbing in West Coast, Colorado and Utah Evan returned to San Francisco to start a company dedicated to making the most delicious high-fat yogurt imaginable. Find out, “Why high fat” and more during the visit.

Treasure8

Treasure8 is a San Francisco-based food innovation and technology company on a mission to solve the nutritional challenges and environmental stresses of a growing global population. The Treasure8 team develops, produces and deploys game-changing, delicious food ingredients, processes and products that are healthier for people and the planet. They also create engaging consumer experiences that encourage better food choices.

Feeding Forward

Feeding Forward is a diverse group of young entrepreneurs determined to end hunger and food waste. Feeding Forward enables businesses to save money by connecting their excess edible food to feed communities in need, instantly. Their platform uses technology to streamline the process of food recovery and distribution, giving businesses the power to eliminate food waste within minutes.

Lyrical Foods

Lyrical foods makes cheeses from simple, natural plant ingredients, using traditional, artisanal cheese-making methods and cultures. The company offers soft fresh, creamy fresh, semi-soft, soft ripened velvety, and ricotta-style cheeses. It markets its products through Whole Foods Market stores.

Nestle Digital Lab

Nestle, which is headquartered in Switzerland, has been quietly operating its "innovation outpost" in the Bay Area for about a year. But the company has only recently begun to talk publicly about the program, which is designed to get the marketer closer to start ups. 

Ideo Food Lab

From extravagant industry promises to scary government statistics, the mixed messages being sent about food today are sometimes exciting, sometimes confusing, and often overwhelming. At Ideo, the Food & Beverage team spends considerable time talking with people about how they make food decisions.

Khosla Ventures

Khosla ventures fundamentally likes large problems that are amenable to technology solutions The firm focuses on early stage companies in the Internet, computing, agriculture, food etc Khosla Ventures has funded agriculture based companies like BioConsortia, which is an agricultural biotechnology company that uses a proprietary method for the selection of beneficial microbial consortia for crop improvement and food companies like UNREAL, a company that’s attempting to rid the world of junk food by providing healthier candy and snack options

Polina - KptnCook

KptnCook is a free app that inspires people to cook at home, founded by Polina Marchenko, Eva Hoefer and Alexander Reeg at StartUp Weekend in Berlin in January 2014. The trio, who all have a passion for food and technology, wanted to make deciding what to cook easy, fun, and stress-free.

Layla/Koochooloo

Chef Koochooloo is an educational platform that teaches kids about Math, Science and Geography, while raising awareness about worldwide causes through simple health conscious recipes. Layla Sabourian is passionate about helping people all over the world live better, and her daughter Delarai was the inspiration behind Chef Koochooloo.

Bitty Foods

At Bitty Foods, delicious food is made with cricket flour. They believe Cricket flour is a tasty source of sustainable nutrition, packed with protein, healthy fats and micronutrients. All their products are free of grains and processed sugar, and are made with coconut oil rather than dairy products. 

HAMPTON CREEK

Hampton Creek is a technology company pioneering the food space using plants from all over the world, and a mission to bring healthier and more affordable food to everyone, everywhere.

Boba Guys

Andrew and Bin started Boba Guys as a way to share the milk tea they remembered from their childhood. It’s next level quality milk tea, boba, and snacks with Asian-inspired flavors made with the best quality ingredients.

Local Food Lab

Founded in May 2012, Local Food Lab is a start up academy and online community for food entrepreneurs.

Nomiku

Nomiku is the smallest, safest, and most powerful sous vide immersion circulator in the world Nomiku combines accuracy, versatility and fun in equal measures. Professionals and enthusiasts alike no longer need to feel under pressure to find a solution to precision cooking at home; the solution is here

Rebecca Jean Catering

Rebecca Jean Catering prides on having a fresh take on event catering. Ingredients are locally sourced and they respect nutritional preferences. They maintain high standards with dietary accommodations including vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free etc. They believe there is no menu that cannot be expertly tailored to meet the client’s needs.

MATTSON

Their core belief is that the disciplines of Creativity, Culinary, and Technology must be synchronized during the product development process. At Mattson, this starts from Day 1. They employ some of the best creative minds in the business who are also equipped with knowledge of food processing, technology, and the culinary arts. Their Food Technologists are cross-trained as Chefs. And every single employee-owner at Mattson is a foodie.

Impossible Foods

Impossible Foods is a company that is developing a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants. Their mission is to give people the great taste and nutritional benefits of foods that come from animals without the negative health and environmental impact. The team has grown to more than 50 scientists, chefs, farmers, and engineers driven to make the best meats and cheeses you'll ever eat — from plants.

Food Innovation redefined by Silicon Valley

A ticket for this remarkable experience covers: -  Organisation and curation of the program. -  Access to all companies and places visited. -  Personal introduction and connection with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and startups. -  Food and beverages during the tour. -  Accommodation in San Francisco. -  Transport during the tour The ticket does not include: -  Travel to and from San Francisco. -  Personal items purchased. -  Outside of tour food and beverages.

Ticket price per participant: € 7.500,–Participation limited to 10, registration curated. Please contact food@iacy.com if you want to apply being part of this tour.

The ONE and ONLY YOUR HOSTS: NIKI ERNST

Nikis professional roots are in branding and advertising. After he has gaines over a decade of experience in global Ad agency networks, he has raised his own agency, planetsisa, and later the global network of organisations in creative industries, IACy (Innovationagency network). Further to that, Niki is attached to TED/TEDx, the worlds biggest network of conference organizers and has been assigned TEDxAmbassador in 2011.

The ONE and ONLY YOUR HOSTS: RUTA KRULIAUSKAITE

Ruta is a multitalented community fueler. She is a pationate and experienced large scale conference organiser and TEDxAmbassador. In a recent crownfunding campaign, she has raised over € 20K for a personal post graduate education scheme at NYU. Ruta and Niki have been working together on numerous projects including TEDx conferences and community events.

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