Join us for the Good Food Tech Summit in Copenhagen

Exploring Food innovation beyond the plate
Copenhagen, September 6th 2018

On September 6th we are bringing together chefs, startups, scientists, designers and other practitioners to explore the relationship between technology and our dining experiences beyond what’s on the plate.

We are part of Techfestival, a week-long dialogue on how technology impacts us as humans and our societies.

The Good Food Tech Summit is an intimate 1-day event by practitioners for practitioners. It’s free, invite-only, and limited to 80 people, attending from all around the world.

• The event is highly participatory — not a regular conference.
• Participants hail from a variety of professions and will take a multidisciplinary approach to how technology impacts the food experiences when eating out.
• No commercial agendas or pitches but hands on sessions with other practitioners.

Let’s challenge best practices in the industry and have candid conversations about our work and the bigger picture. This is a chance for us to understand each other’s perspectives better and to build a diverse, inter-disciplinary community.

A lot of food for thought, we hope. It will be an intense and fun day of conversations and workshops.

Want to join?

We have reserved some last spots for people who are hands on driving the evolution of our food experiences through their work and want to contribute to this community. If you are interested but are not yet on our list — we would love to hear from you and have you join. Just get in touch with us.

If you have any questions ping us on twitter @usethekey

Want to know more? Read on!

Technology in the food world is often associated with cheap, quick and unhealthy food served in uninspiring chain restaurants or far out futures that don’t seem real. Traditional restaurateurs on the other hand are often thought of as artists that are fiercely opposed to technology, resisting everything that’s new.

This summit is all about marrying the worlds of new technology and human craft to create tools that can amplify good food experiences.

Those experiences that we talk about years later; those that feel like magic; those we tell our friends about that feel human and authentic.

This summit is not about the culinary experimentation of what goes on the plate but rather everything that goes into the places we consume the food in, the new ways in which the food gets to us, and the new interfaces that shape how we consume food.

This is a summit that brings together all the perspectives that allow modern food entrepreneurs to create these new food experiences and the tools that power them. From tools that enable chefs to run better restaurants, to new interfaces that connect customers to infinite new food options, all the way to platforms that know what you want and when you want it before you know it yourself.

We want to open a dialogue around how the future of food looks beyond what’s on the plate, all the new possibilities that technology gives us, and new business models it enables.

This are some of the topics we want to talk about

• New cultural paradigms: How does modern media change the expectation/perception of eating out (Youtube, instagram, etc. …)
• New interfaces with food: From ordering (Mobile Ordering, POS, …), Community (ig,fb, review sites)
• New dining formats: From Fast casual to Fine casual
• “Invisible Innovation: From Ghost Restaurants to Cloud kitchens
• New tools: From automation/robots/AI (Augmenting tech vs. robots)to New kitchen devices.
• Customized Consumer experiences
• Back-office tech: Byebye backoffice — Hi Artificial intelligence
• New insights: Who are your guests — Know your consumer (Knowing what your guest wants to eat before he does)
• Learning from the evil chains: Learning from the part of the industry that owns most of the profits and has been using tech for decades.
• How to get people in the door and reach your customers
• New Culture: Running Restaurants like startups and livestyle & entertainment brands.

This is who should come to the summit

• Forward Thinking Restaurateurs
• Innovative Chefs
• Curious Minds who work Front of House
• Kitchen Hardware and Supplies Companies
• Journalist who think a lot about future food experiences & technology
• Food/ Restaurant Tech Startups
• Food Tech Investors
• Designers who think a lot about food experiences
• Architects who think about the spaces we eat in

Looking forward to see you in September!