{"id":85011,"date":"2022-12-01T14:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/the-taste-of-the-future\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:08:02","slug":"the-taste-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/the-taste-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taste of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
On October 23, 2022, the \u201cTaste of the Future\u201d conference, which focused on the development of alternatives for animal proteins, was held at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n
Speakers presented challenges, developments, and breakthroughs in the development and production of substitutes for animal-based foods. The need for such substitutes is increasing as a result of climate changes, the growing shortage of food and water due to the increase in the world\u2019s population, and the devastating damage to biological diversity in nature caused by the clearing of forests for growing feed for cattle and for other animals raised for food.<\/p>\n
Professor Sima Yaron, dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering and among the initiators of the conference, welcomed the attendees and emphasized the importance of promoting this multidisciplinary research at the Technion, partly through the help of the Carasso FoodTech Innovation Center currently being established within the faculty.<\/p>\n The conference was organized by Professor Yoav Livney and Professor Avi Shpigelman from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Mr. David Shem Tov from the Research Authority, and Mr. Nir Goldstein (CEO) and Dr. Michal Halpert (Director of Academic Relations) from the Good Food Institute (GFI), Israel. GFI is a global nonprofit organization that promotes the development of alternatives to animal-based food by supporting research within the field and its application.<\/p>\n Speakers at the conference included:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Liz Specht<\/u>, vice president, science and technology, of the global GFI organization, who presented the multidisciplinary nature of the field and the needs that require basic and applied research, and emphasized the urgency of conducting research in the \u00a0field<\/p>\n Nir Goldstein<\/u>, CEO, GFI Israel, who reviewed the developments in Israel and the world in the business arena and explained that in terms of investments in alternative proteins, Israel is ranked second globally<\/p>\n Professor Shulamit Levenberg<\/u> from the Technion\u2019s Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, who explained her research in the field of cultured meat<\/p>\n Dr. Martin Jager<\/u>, managing partner of the venture capital fund InnoVestNutrition, who described the complex challenges faced by companies in this field<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Technion President Professor Uri Sivan, said at the conference that, \u201cconnections between academia and industry are a central component of the Technion\u2019s activities today. The traditional boundaries, which associate basic science with academia and applied research with industry, have disappeared. Even at this conference, we see the connection between the two sectors \u2013 experts from the Technion discuss the various issues with people from the food industry. This is the path towards changing the food industry into a high-tech industry.\u201d<\/p>\n Professor Maya Davidovich-Pinhas, a member of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, added that, \u201cthe Technion excels in connecting basic science with applied research in a variety of fields like food and human health and maintains many contacts with the relevant industries.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Panels of both industrialists and academics discussed the challenges of the field and ways to deal with them via multidisciplinary collaborations. At the end of the conference, there was a \u201cTaste of the Future\u201d lunch, where the participants tried \u201csteaks\u201d made from vegetable protein created using 3D printing by the Redefine Meat company and egg substitutes made from plant materials, courtesy of the Yo-Egg company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On October 23, 2022, the \u201cTaste of the Future\u201d conference, which focused on the development of alternatives for animal proteins, was held at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Speakers presented challenges, developments, and breakthroughs in the development and production of substitutes for animal-based foods. The need for such substitutes is increasing as a… Continue Reading The Taste of the Future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a>
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