Food Summit

Yearly, we organize a scientific meeting called the 'Food Summit'. The Food Summit meeting has the following general objectives:

- Setting the scene on this important integrated topic of Food research
- Identifying major issues limiting current progress
- Defining new routes to overcome such issues
- Basically, setting the research agenda for future research in this area

The Food Summit meeting follows a proven concept: after an initial preparatory session with three renowned keynote speakers, a workshop is started around three discussion sessions. Each session will be prepared in advance by a moderator and zoom in on those research issues that are relevant to obtaining real progress. The workshop is invitation only; key scientists will be invited to come to Wageningen and work together, to discuss the issues raised, identify new routes and hence to define the research agenda for future research. Each round of discussions will take the viewpoint of one of the disciplines represented. The issues chosen are selected because they are of joint interest to all. Thus, we expect different disciplines to start exploring how combined approaches will help further these areas. Each round of discussions has its own moderator, who will introduce the issues to be discussed. Then, invitees will share some information in support of the issue to be dealt with. The results of all sessions will be summarized by the moderators and used as input for a science-meets-industry event, with which we will end the workshop.

The meeting is a pure science meeting, key note presentations and reports of the discussion sessions will be reported to all attendants and published later.