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WHAT AND WHY?

The Good Food Institute’s (GFI) conference is the world’s leading event focused on accelerating the marketplace for plant-based and cell-based meat, two promising food technologies that will allow us to feed almost 10 billion people by 2050.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

We’re bringing together the scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and companies working in plant-based meat, cell-based meat, and supporting technologies. If you want to be part of the plant-based and cell-based meat future, this event is for you!

WHAT TO EXPECT

Get the latest on cutting-edge plant-based and cell-based meat research, hear strategies and insights for industry growth, and gain insights into evolving consumer sentiment.

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2019 World Class Speakers

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Tom Mastrobuoni

Chief Financial Officer, Tyson Ventures, Tyson Foods

Tom is the Chief Financial Officer and a founding partner of Tyson Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Tyson Foods, the largest food company in the US. He has led the Tyson Ventures investments in and sits on the boards of Beyond Meat (exited), FoodLogiQ, Big Idea Ventures and New Wave Foods

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Lavanya Anandan

Lavanya Anandan

Head of Partnerships & External Innovation, Merck KGaA

Lavanya is the Head of Partnerships & External innovation, within the Strategy & Transformation group at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a global life science and pharmaceutical company.

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Uma Valeti, MD

CEO + Co-Founder, Memphis Meats

Uma is a cardiologist, entrepreneur, and the CEO and co-founder of Memphis Meats. Memphis Meats is the world’s leading company producing cell-based meat: real meat grown directly from animal cells without the need to raise animals.

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Patty Trevino

Patty Trevino

SVP of Marketing, CKE Restaurants, Inc.

Patty Trevino has 20 years of marketing experience leading innovation, marketing communications, and brand strategy for CKE, Bloomin’ Brands, Burger King Corporation, and Procter and Gamble.

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Seth Goldman

Executive Chair, Beyond Meat

Seth Goldman is Executive Chair of Beyond Meat, which just had the most successful IPO of 2019 and is now in over 33,000 grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, universities, and beyond.

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Sara Young

Sara Young

General Manager, Plant Based Proteins, MorningStar Farms

Sara Young is General Manager of Kellogg’s US Frozen Veggie category. She oversees one of the leading plant-based protein brands, MorningStar Farms, which offers a breadth of options including the number one veggie burger to chicken nuggets and breakfast sausage.  

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Ann-Veneman

Ann Veneman

Fmr. United States Secretary of Agriculture

Ann M. Veneman has a distinguished career in public service, serving as the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) from 2005 to 2010 and as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 2001 to 2005.

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Christy Lebor

Christy Lebor

Global Innovation Lead, JBS

Christy Lebor is Global Innovation Lead for JBS – the world’s largest protein company – where she is responsible for creating revenue opportunities focused on the future of protein.

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“Entrepreneurs, scientists, venture capitalists, technologists, engineers and foodies alike gathered for two days to talk about the future of alternative proteins and how to make them better, safer, faster, more affordable and more sustainably through emerging technologies. It was an amazing experience.”

—Tom Mastrobuoni, CFO, Tyson Ventures

“The Good Food Institute has been a special home and a special supporter for this industry and I really wanted to come out and engage not only with the other industry stakeholders but also support The Good Food Institute back.”

—Niya Gupta, Founder & CEO, Fork & Goode

“It’s great to see this many people this passionate. Not just idealistic but actually getting things done. We’re delighted to be at this conference. This is the ecosystem of our peers.”

—Seth Goldman, Executive Chairman Beyond Meat

“We really, truly enjoyed the conference. The level of speakers was very high-caliber. All panels and presentations were interesting and relevant...it was a great conference, that lived up to the high expectations I had, in every aspect.”

-Daniel Skaven Ruben, Consultant, The Rockefeller Foundation

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2019 Sponsors

Presenting Sponsor of the 2019 Good Food Conference: Morningstar Farms
Thanks also to our food sponsors, Beyond Meat, Impossible, JUST and Morningstar Farms
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Due to the Covid-19 crisis, GFI is not hosting the Good Food Conference in 2020.

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