Events and Outreach

The Innovation Institute for Food and Health regularly convenes deep dialogue to foster uncommon collaboration amongst food system innovators and investors.

2019 Innovator Summit

Transforming Food and Health Globally

The 2019 Innovator Summit at Davis, CA brought together leading experts, investors and changemakers to continue accelerating Transformation of the Food System. This year, the event focused on:

Energy efficiency in food production and processing, with the Energy Institute at Colorado State University
Nutrition and health technology, with the Center for Digital Health Innovation at UCSF
Opportunities in agrifoodtech, with the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and The Mixing Bowl
Communicating about food, with the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy

In its fourth year, the Summit featured an evening reception on May 20, followed by two days’ of invigorating keynote presentations, parallel sessions, innovation showcases, and a tour to the Culinary Institute of America’s Copia campus in Napa Valley on May 21 & 22. Guests from industry, research, technology, finance, NGO and government further developed joint interests and collaborative multi-sector partnerships to bring solutions to market.

We look forward to you joining us again next year in Spring 2020 for an international innovation forum – planned to be our biggest yet!

2019 Innovator Summit - AGENDA

2019 Innovator Summit - SUMMARY

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.

2018 Innovator Summit - AGENDA

2018 Innovator Summit - PROCEEDINGS

Stephen Hohenrieder, 2017 Innovator Summit

Consumption Panelists, 2017 Innovator Summit

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.

2017 Innovator Summit - AGENDA

2017 Innovator Summit - PROCEEDINGS

Angela Glover Blackwell, 2015 Solution Summit

Julie Herlihy – interdisciplinary recruitment for Rawanda – G5C9999

Siegel+Johnston (masters or mischiefs) – G5B9098

CropRescue (presentation) – winners (Apps for Ag) – G5C0196

Ag for Hire – winners (Apps for Ag) – G5B9122

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.

2015 Solution Summit - AGENDA

2015 Solution Summit - PROCEEDINGS

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.

Challenge Definition Workshop - PROCEEDINGS