Switzerland is the food laboratory of the future
Interview Martin Vetterli - Matin Dimanche
Sustainable Food Systems Forum and Challenge
22/23/24 September. This event focuses on leveraging sustainability in food systems, and advancing the businesses and innovations that will help reduce CO2 emissions and sustainably feed the forecasted 10 billion population by 2050. On the September 22nd and 23rd we have 5 modules that make up our Sustainable Food Systems Forum. The aim is to dig deeper into how startups can leverage sustainability in food systems and advance their business. We have talks from the founders of Climeworks and LiveKindly; Panel discussion between GEA, Bühler, Nestlé; The Founder of sustainable change focused VC Blue Horizons & some live pitching. On September 24th we have the Sustainable Food Systems Challenge. Here 6 top startups, selected from over 470 applications by our partners, will pitch their idea, which when scaled by one of our partners could reduce emissions and help feed the planet. You get to vote and decide which is best.
Open Innovation Symposium
15/16 September. This event is designed for MassChallenge partners. It will bring “startup – corporation” collaboration to life in 5 workshops/lectures and we have chosen some interesting subjects and compelling speakers that will help C-1, Middle and Junior managers get into the topic. In the last module we aim to leverage the knowledge of all of us to create some best practice that partners can take home with them.
Schedule & registration here
Schedule & registration here
The Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley is pleased to invite you to a joint virtual event on the Future of Food Technology and Innovation co-organised by the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore together with SGInnovate
The Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley is pleased to invite you to a joint virtual event on the Future of Food Technology and Innovation co-organised by the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore together with SGInnovate (a major platform based in Singapore, connecting Deep Tech startups with top talents across the ecosystem to share ideas of innovation).
The event will take place on Wednesday the 2nd of September at 10am-11am (Swiss Time) / 4pm – 5pm (UTC+8), for one hour of presentations, panel discussion and Q&A, with our distinguished speakers:
Roberto Reniero, Managing Director, Nestlé R&D Centre in Singapore
Alex Ward, Head of Innovation APAC, Givaudan
Seck Yee Kwang, Director of Food and Consumer Cluster, A*STAR, Singapore
The event details are published here and is open for registration. Please feel free to forward this message to your network.
ScanTrust and SAP to enhance food traceability
ScanTrust, a connected goods platform for companies that depend on selling physical products in a connected world, has developed an integration to the material traceability option for SAP Logistics Business Network. The solution gives food and beverage brand consumers the ability to track the end-to-end provenance of their food.
Over the last ten years, large, global food producers have been steadily losing market share to smaller, local brands mainly due to the loss of trust in the food industry. Addressing these challenges, ScanTrust, the developer of patented QR-codes and the global software solutions provider SAP have partnered to develop end-to-end, farm-to-consumer material traceability solutions for the SAP Logistics Business Network.
The solution enables brands to collect and trace batch-level information on raw materials, ingredients and finished products. Among other benefits, brands can use this to identify which products are affected by product recalls instantly.
Thanks to the integration with the Scantrust connected goods platform, this data can now also be linked to a unique ScanTrust QR code, which is printed on product packaging and made available directly to end consumers. Scanning codes with a smartphone enables brands to deliver compelling stories around the provenance of their products, gain valuable data and insights on consumer behaviour based on QR codes and create a direct communication channel with consumers.
With the integration and the combined solution offering, ScanTrust and SAP together accelerate digitization in the food chain. It is expected that as more projects come online, the benefit of being able to connect directly to consumers will pay for itself, both as a win for brands and for consumers.
“Right from the start, we saw a great fit and complementarity between the material traceability option for SAP Logistics Business Network and the ScanTrust connected goods platform”, says Nathan Anderson, CEO of ScanTrust. “This integration is a great milestone that will unlock significant value for both, SAP’s and ScanTrust’s customer base and enable us to deliver real value to the food industry and empower consumers.”
(Press release)