2018 Innovator Summit
Transformation of the Food System: Energy, Biotechnology, and Digital.
The third annual Innovator Summit was co-hosted by IIFH, together with the Energy Institute at Colorado State University (CSU), the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR), and The Mixing Bowl. More than 200 guests from leading industry, research, technology, finance, government and non-profit sectors came together to address common challenges and uncommon solutions across food, ag and health.
2017 Innovator Summit
Fostering Uncommon Collaboration at the Nexus of Energy and Food.
The second annual Innovator Summit was held on May 16, 2017. More than 130 participated from across research disciplines and industry, including at least 60 organizations such as AT&T, Coca-Cola, Gates Foundation, Kansas State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIT, NASA, the US Department of Agriculture, and several campuses across the University of California system.
2015 Solution Summit
Fostering Uncommon Collaboration for Universal Access to Safe, Secure and Sustainable Nutrition.
The IIFH culminated their inaugural visioning process with a two-day Solution Summit on December 2 and 3, 2015. More than 300 participants attended, spanning the entire food system, from production to processing, distribution, sale and education – including representative investors, faculty, community groups, entrepreneurs, students, researchers and corporations.
Challenge Definition Workshop
A series of workshops solicited insights from academic, industry, government and community participants to identify common issues and specific questions addressing key challenges in food, agriculture and health.
The Challenge Definition Workshop at UC Davis was the first in a series of consultation events. The IIFH and The Mixing Bowl Hub worked together with participants on October 29, 2015 to identify priority issues at the intersection of food, agriculture and health. Prevailing challenges in the broad areas of health, sustainability, knowledge, governance and values/behaviors informed the 2016 call for proposals, which required uncommon collaborations to generate real-world solutions.