Innovation Potential
The Innovation section promotes cooperation between industry and research, demonstrating the potential for innovation.
Discover food innovations!
Innovation section highlights the latest products and technical breakthroughs in Latvia. It is a testbed for new, small-scale product developments where consumers react to products and enable companies to fast-track their developments to market-ready level. Centred around sustainable sourcing, it is as an element of healthy and functional product, new creative interpretations of traditional recipes and modern production technologies.
International Exposure
The platform supports startups, ensures international exposure, and highlights the vital role of technology in food manufacturing and supply.
Cooperation Opportunities
This is where companies, researchers, and industry experts meet to form new partnerships and develop ideas.
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Exposition
Innovation section is an opportunity to present latest products, technologies and prototypes to broad community of professionals and deepen the dialogue between the industry, researchers and startups.
Focus
Sustainable sourcing and production
Healthy and functional food products
Creative interpretation of traditional recipes
Modern production, digitalisation, and automation tools
Aims
To present manufacturing innovations and prototypes
To test the latest products, technologies, and process innovations
To show digital and automation solutions
To create new partnerships
Location: Hall 1 (Latvian national hall): next to the Main Stage to attract maximum flow of visitors.
Start-up are
How startup ideas change food industry
15+ startups behind innovative food products, prototypes or services.
Direct platform for connecting, cooperating and exchanging experience with investors, industry professionals and potential partners.
Product innovation area
Taste products with surprising innovations behind them
Innovative food products from 15+ companies that have been successful on the market and have created and brought to the market genuinely innovative products in last 12 months. To show how innovations can be productively converted into competitive products on the consumer market, area will highlight finished products available on the shelves.
Student and Youth Innovation Area
Discover the ideas of young talents shaping the future of the industry
Ideas and projects from the new generation, created within scientific research papers, student training companies, incubators, and study projects. Schools and universities are where the next food innovations are born and where future industry professionals are developed.
Government area
How science shapes future food production
Various Latvian government bodies will demonstrate latest research results, scientific innovations and their applications that are already determining where food industry goes.
Digital transformation
How technologies improve production and logistics
Focused on IoT, AI, automation, data analytics and other digital products that will revolutionise food production and supply chains
EIT Food area
Discover European-level food innovations at once
International initiatives and projects aimed at building a stronger European food innovation ecosystem, promoting cooperation and opportunities to develop new ideas.
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If you have an innovative food product, technology or solution, Innovation section might be the right place for you to show it to food industry professionals and wider community.
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Participants
Innovation section is provided by: