Rethinking our food system
Recap: FXT Connect 2023
FXT connect #foodxtech
brings together tech innovators, food producers, investors and supporters.
Our goal?
- putting food technology on the map in the region ,
- help create an ecosystem
- detect what the new opportunities are
- stimulate innovation for agrifood
- create activity of food tech startups in the region
Innovator
A startup or aspiring entrepreneur with innovative ideas? With a focus on food products based on plant-based proteins or insects, applications or solutions for food delivery and consumer apps or new ideas that tackle food waste or ensure transparency in the food chain?
Do you passionately provide sustainable solutions to the many challenges facing the food industry?
Investor
Are you a business angel looking for exciting opportunities that make a difference?
Contribute to the sustainable solutions that make the food industry 'future-proof' and prepare it for the European Green Deal objectives of 2030? Invest in solutions that make a difference in the world in which your children and grandchildren grow up?
Producer
Active in the food industry or food service? Curious about which applications will give your company a competitive advantage? Also looking for products or services that use innovative techniques to process food? Or rather to improve the functionalities of food ingredients?
Then Foodtech might offer the solution. For example, for the food industry there are 3D printing solutions, encapsulation technology for certain ingredients, industrial-scale robot solutions, Artificial Intelligence (AI) for optimising your sales forecasting, etc.
In the field of food service, there are solutions such as food delivery, smart kitchen technology or consumer apps.
Supporter
Do you have both the experience and the passion to support, advise and help launch entrepreneurs in the food and food tech sector?
Already active as a knowledge institution, in the world of banking or consultancy, as a network organisation or are you working in an incubator? Do you like to support new initiatives that make a difference?
What is foodtech
Foodtech is a collective name for 8 domains that affect the entire food chain:
the primary sector (agriculture)
also called agritech –
a range of technological developments that support our farmers.
the secondary sector or food industry
the food processing technologies (robotization, AI applications, 3D printing, ...) and NXT generation food & drinks (plant-based, cell-based, alternative proteins, functional foods, insect products, ...)
the tertiary or service sector
… world of food delivery (ghost kitchens, dark stores, D2C, …), smart equipment (for food service & consumer), consumer apps & applications, food safety & traceability solutions (blockchain…) to tackling and preventing food waste.
Location
PXL-NeXT
Eleventh Line Street 23a, 3500 Hasselt
Event partner
Key partners
Partners
