Explore the rich and ever-changing food and beverage industry

Patrick Deufel – Head of Business Development at Infarm

Infarm is the world’s largest urban farming platform, providing vertical farming and intelligent solutions for food production, with a mission to make cities self-sufficient and sustainable.

David Schoensee – Culinary Director at Aitme

Aitme – Your personal chef, anytime, anywhere. We are revolutionizing the food game for your company. Our state-of-the-art robotic kitchen chef prepares every meal individually: always fresh and tasty – and ready to serve in under 5 minutes for your employees.

Dinah Hoffmann – Research Assistant at Kantine der Zukunft

The Kantine Zukunft Berlin, funded by the Berlin Senate Administration for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination, is a project that facilitates the sustainable transformation of Berlin’s public communal gastronomy.

Pascal Bieri – Co-Founder Planted Foods

Planted Foods is a Swiss ETH-spinoff that makes meat from plants – delicious, healthy, cruelty-free and sustainable. We want to revolutionise the way people perceive and consume meat on a global scale

Franziska Lienert – Public Affairs & Movement Specialist at Too Good To Go

Too Good To Go is Europe’s leading company for fighting food waste. With the app of the same name, restaurants and retailers can offer overproduced food at reduced prices to people who pick it up themselves, so there is no need to waste it at the end of the day.

Eva Sommer – Co-Founder and CPO (Chief Product Officer) at Peace of Meat

Peace of Meat is a B2B supplier of cultured meat and advancing the technology for cultivated fat and liver to supply it to customers in the food industry as an ingredient to help them make their products tasty, healthy and sustainable.

Max Kochen – Founder at beets&roots

beets&roots was founded by a Michelin star chef and a business savvy entrepreneur. The inspiration? The lack of freshly prepared, healthy lunch options throughout Germany. The motivation? To become the destination for delicious, seasonal, health-conscious food.

Alexander Holzknecht – Country Manager Germany at Motatos

Motatos is a Swedish e-commerce company with a mission: to save food from overproduction from being disposed of by reselling it online at discounted prices.

Nicolas Hartmann – Co-Founder & Managing Director at VLY Foods

Fabio Ziemßen – Managing Director at NX-Food

NX-Food (Next Generation Food) is a subsidiary of METRO, a leading international specialist for wholesale and food. The company deals with innovative solutions and technologies in the food environment.

Christian Hamerle – Food tech futurist

Christian Hamerle spent more than 20 years, working in the hospitality and gastronomy business, mainly dealing with F&B Management and optimizing service standards and
processes. Beyond that Christian develops food-tech ideas for smart ordering systems and digitalized seamless supply chain management by using Machine Learning, IoT and Blockchain technologies.

Sophia Wessling – Co-founder at Frischepost Berlin

Frischepost Berlin delivers fresh food from local and independent producers right into the city center. We choose our producers carefully and tell the story behind every product we sell. Out of conviction, we stand up for fair prices, direct relationships and resource-saving delivery channels: Power to the Bauer and Bauer to the People.

Peter Dorfner – Head of Investment at Katjesgreenfood

Katjesgreenfood was founded in 2016 and is the pioneer for food impact investing in Europe. A sister company within the Katjes Group, Katjesgreenfood deliberatlely invests outside of classic confectionery in the rapidly growing market for sustainable, plant-based food.

Philipp Wehn – Event Moderator

Philipp specialises in intrapreneurship, innovation and business development in the mobility ecosystem and technology industries.

As part of Siemens Mobility team, Philipp drives growth of the digital portfolio in the rail industry and accelerates innovations by building the perfect business design.

Friederike Gaedke – Executive Director at Die Gemeinschaft

Die Gemeinschaft is a network of local artisanal food producers, restaurateurs, and cooks, initiated by restaurants Horváth and Nobelhart & Schmutzig to connect food producers and chefs in Berlin through an annual symposium and other activities.