Reinventing our Food: Innovation, Collaboration and Businesses in Action
Experience Outline
Discover compelling success stories featuring inspiring enterprises, explore novel tools in artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT, and uncover unforeseen partners to bolster the advancement of your innovative products.
We’ve assembled key stakeholders to offer you support and guidance! Whether you’re a startup or an expanding corporation, come and delve into strategic market insights concerning the future of food.
From concept to market launch, could the formula be simpler than you imagined? An essential experience for all food industry participants, where innovation, collaboration, and enterprises converge to shape tomorrow’s food sector.
Room 200
Sponsors : Sherpannie, Natural Products Canada, BioK+Kerry, Axelys and Synchronex
Room 200
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Workshop
Official launch of the Open Innovation Call
Find out more about BioK+ and Kerry’s innovation interests, and see how you could get involved.
Powered by : Natural Products Canada and BioK+Kerry
Anis Ben Amor
Natural Products Canada (NPC)
Mathieu Millette
Biok+ Kerry
Stéphanie Bourret
BioK+ and Kerry
Mindy Leveille
Kerry Taste & Nutrition
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Natural Products Canada is hosting an open innovation call with Kerry/Bio-K+, a leader in nutrition and food innovation. The call is designed to help Kerry/Bio-K+ identify new and innovative natural solutions to support their globally-recognized expertise. Applicants with interesting technologies and products will submit their non-confidential summaries, and finalists will pitch directly to Kerry/Bio-K+ to compete for the grand prize of $5000 and the opportunity to partner with the organizations. During the session, details will be provided about the target areas, innovation criteria and stage, application process, and more.
Room 200
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Lecture
Find out how Canada is leading the way in meeting the growing demand for alternative proteins
Powered by : Natural Products Canada
Room 200
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
30-Minute Break
Room 200
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Workshop - in French
Innovation in Motion!
From research to market: companies share their success stories.
Powered by : Axelys
Jennifer Larouche
Ribozome
Cédric Prince
Axelys
Valérie Bélanger
Axelys
Maude St-Pierre
Séva Nature Inc.
Charles Lavigne
Mycélium
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Come and talk to companies that have commercialised an innovation resulting from collaboration with research establishments. Find out about concrete examples of collaboration with the research community, inspiring R&D practices and what you need to bear in mind when planning your strategy for marketing innovative products.
- Introduction to the panel
- Context of collaboration with research establishments
- Panel discussion: from research to market
- Discussion / questions from the floor
Moderators :
- Cédric Prince, Director, Quebec Office, Axelys
- Valérie Bélanger, Regional Director, Lower St-Laurent/Gaspé
Block 1: Short presentation of the companies by each panellist
Block 2: R&D strategy
- Stages, processes, best practices
- Collaboration with partners
- Mistakes/tricks to avoid
Block 3: Marketing strategy
- Linking to the business model
- Elements of success
Room 200
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Self-Guided Tour
Booths and Student Posters
Learn more about the companies and experts present at BÉNÉFIQ. Meet the upcoming generation of researchers and their projects that will shape tomorrow’s food products.
Room 200
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Lunch : 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Poster Session : 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Room 200
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Workshop - in French
Creating a Food Product Using AI?
Powered by : Synchronex
Grégory Hersant
Synchronex CCTT Network
Pierre Roisin
CCTT JACOBB - Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
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The aim of this workshop is not only to make artificial intelligence accessible to everyone, but also to highlight the opportunities it offers for the bio-food sector through concrete illustrations. The workshop will also highlight the ethical challenges associated with the use of AI.
Room 200
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Self-Guided Tour
Booths and Student Posters
Learn more about the companies and experts present at BÉNÉFIQ. Meet the upcoming generation of researchers and their projects that will shape tomorrow’s food products.
Room 200
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
30-Minute Break
Room 200
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Workshop - in French
Market intelligence: How do today's consumers see their diet evolving over the next 10 years?
The first presentation of a pan-Canadian study asking consumers about the main issues affecting their diet.
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Innovation comes from needs and opportunities. It is essential to equip ourselves with tools and approaches to identify and validate these opportunities in order to translate them into a value proposition that is recognised and adopted by the target markets. The voice of the consumer or client is one of the tried and tested methods for responding effectively to these factors. Submitting minimally viable concepts or products to a community of potential users provides high-quality feedback to validate hypotheses or detect other opportunities before embarking on the development of the innovation. These elements will be discussed by Daniel Leblanc, President of inBe, using an example and data from a recent study carried out on 1,000 Canadians on their perceptions and knowledge of various issues relating to healthy eating and their level of attraction to a number of innovative solutions.
Room 200
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Self-guided tour
Booths and Student Posters
Learn more about the companies and experts present at BÉNÉFIQ. Meet the upcoming generation of researchers and their projects that will shape tomorrow’s food products.
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