French Food + Tech

Events

On October 21-22, the European Innovation Council (EIC) announced 72 new deep tech scale-ups joining the prestigious EIC Scaling Club at the Scale 100 Forum in Athens, Greece. This vibrant community of over 120 promising European scale-ups is carefully curated to drive growth, innovation, and impact across multiple critical global sectors. The EIC Scaling Club unites some of Europe’s brightest minds, including scale-up founders, corporate innovators, investors, and industry leaders, with the shared goal of fostering the growth of companies primed to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.

The second edition of the World Living Soils Forum concluded after two days of meetings and exchanges bringing together scientists, institutions, business leaders, start-ups, farmers, and executives from both the private and public sectors. Together, they shared questions, solutions, and actions related to soil regeneration, with the aim of accelerating the agricultural and winegrowing transition.

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬!

The 60th edition of SIAL Paris 2024 emphasizes the theme “Own the Change,” highlighting crucial transitions for the sector, including Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Deeptech & AI, Supply Chain, and Africa. These themes will be explored in depth at the SIAL Summits, offering forward-looking insights from international experts and providing concrete solutions for the challenges of tomorrow.

SIAL Insights is an exclusive study combining 3 major international studies to decipher consumer expectations, trends in food innovation, and trends in out-of-home catering and retail on a global scale. This study results from the synergy between the food 360™ study carried out by Kantar every two years for SIAL, the global innovation barometer by ProtéinesXTC, and the study of trends in mass consumption and out-of-home catering carried out by Circana.

The Hello Tomorrow Global Summit, the annual worldwide gathering of the deep tech ecosystem, draws to a close and the winning startups of the 9th edition of their Global Startup Challenge are announced.

After two full days of inspiring keynotes, insightful roundtables, tasty live cooking shows and the never ending one-to-one meetings, you feel part of the community and you just can’t stop thinking “where will we meet next time?”

VivaTech has become the global epicenter for meetings and discussions about tech and innovation. More than 120 countries were represented, with some 40 national pavilions, including Canada, Taiwan, Brazil, the UK and Germany.