Rethink Events
- Type
- Enabler
- Location
- Brighton, Australia
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Consumer health & consumer effects, Food reformulation, Food safety & quality, Waste efficiency, Food discovery / recipe apps & experiences, Food marketplace, Personalised nutrition
- Domains
- Proteins, Ingredients
- Technologies
- Platform technology, Platform & Service technologies
About Rethink Events
Future Food-Tech London is a food-tech summit and networking platform that brings together leaders from global food brands, ingredient suppliers, start-ups, investors, retailers, and service providers. The event is positioned as a place to discuss breakthrough technologies, sector-shaping strategies, and the practical challenges of creating foods that are nutritious, accessible, and climate-smart.
The summit is designed for senior decision-makers who want to compare what is actually scaling in the market, not just what looks promising in theory. Its programme combines main-stage debates, breakouts, roundtables, start-up pitches, tastings, live demos, and 1:1 meetings to support commercial conversations across the food innovation ecosystem.
Core Values
- Commercial relevance: The summit emphasizes practical, real-world constraints such as cost, regulation, manufacturability, and consumer acceptance rather than abstract innovation.
- Collaboration: It is built to connect corporates, start-ups, investors, researchers, and advisors so ideas can move from discussion to partnership.
- Innovation with impact: The event focuses on technologies and strategies that can improve nutrition, support climate-smart food systems, and create products people actually want to buy.
- Evidence-led progress: Sessions repeatedly stress scientific validation, market readiness, and measurable value as the basis for scaling new food solutions.
Unique Aspects
- Broad food-tech ecosystem reach: The summit connects more than 500 leaders from global food brands, ingredient providers, start-ups, and investor funds, giving it a wide cross-section of the food innovation market.
- Strong focus on scale-up reality: Its agenda is explicitly framed around what survives commercial scrutiny, including cost pressure, regulation, and manufacturing constraints.
- Hands-on product experience: The Live Demo Kitchen and tasting formats let attendees test innovations as finished foods, not just hear about them in presentations.
- Structured deal-making environment: The event combines a delegate platform, 1:1 meetings, start-up pitches, and networking sessions to support partnerships and business development.