The foodtech industry heats engines for the second edition of Food 4 Future

The food and drink industry has gathered in Madrid at the first Food 4 Future Advisory Council - Expo Foodtech.Companies referents of the food and technological industry, associations, employers and public administrations have shown their support for the celebration of the second edition of Food 4 Future, which will take place from May 17 to 19 at the BEC of Bilbao, hoping to bring together more Of 6.000 leaders of the foodtech industry with a high presence of visitors of international origin.

The first F4F022 advisory council has had the presence of Bittor Oroz, Vice Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Policy of the Basque Government;Javier Garcinuño, general director of Bilbao Ekintza;María Naranjo, director of the food industry at ICEX;Mercedes Gilgado, Chief of Area of the General Subdirectorate of Food Promotion of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Environment;Albert Planas, CEO of Nebext, organizing company of Food 4 Future;Rogelio Pozo, director of the Food 4 Future Congress and CEO of the Azti Technology Center;and Sergio Fabregat, director of Food 4 Future - Expo Foodtech.In addition, leaders such as Bolton Food, IBM, Lantern, Ibermatic, Minsait, CaixaBank, Nueva Pescanova, Osborne, or Kaiku, among others, have participated in the Advisory Council to show their support and involvement in promoting the transformation of the food industry.

Bittor Oroz has defined Food 4 Future as "a space to combine and share the innovations that will transform the food industry; a platform to build economy, employment and wealth and energize the sector".For his part, Javier Garcinuño said that "pandemic and social changes have made us see that we cannot continue working as until now, we have to adapt as soon as possible and make a business proposal and ambitious personal with the aim of positioning Euskadi as territory as territoryLeader in the Food Industry ".

La industria FoodTech calienta motores para la segunda edición de Food 4 Future

In the words of Rogelio Pozo, "we are at a key moment, with an increase in aging population, but at the same time with the largest volume of young population recorded throughout history.Sociological movements influence consumption modes and our personal consumption footprint confirms that with traditional methods we cannot feed the entire population.We need technology to respond to this challenge ".

In addition, Sergio Fabregat, director of Food 4 Future, has confirmed that the Netherlands will be the guest country, a union that the director of the ICEX, María Naranjo, has described as strategic to attract the Dutch ecosystem to Bilbao in order to convert the destination to destinyand to the country in Foodtech.