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Tech City News: London to host first Food Tech Week

Weblog post. Newstex Trade & Industry Blogs, Newstex. Oct 1, 2015.

October will see the launch of London's first ever 'Food Tech Week' which will be celebrating all things food and facilitating tech disruption of the food economy and ecosystem.

FTW will see food brands, innovators and startups join forces to tackle some of the biggest challenges currently facing food and agriculture. Speakers at the events will include Richard Reed, co-founder of Innocent Smoothies, Camilla Dolan, from MMC Ventures and John Quilter of FoodBusker and co-founder of Cru Kafe.

Events will include a food and agtech sustainibility hackathon at WeWork Moorgate, a future of food event at the Ace Hotel and a pitching event at Google Campus.

Victoria Albrecht and Nadia El Hadery, co-founders of London Food Tech Week, said: "Food is one of the most important economies in the world, and technology is essential to driving scalable, global and positive progress. With this event, we are looking to unite the food tech community for the first time, in a meaningful way, to forge vital food tech partnerships and foster collaboration for the good of all.

"Only by working together can we transform the world of food & agriculture."

FTW starts on 16 October.