Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Seventh International Conference on Food Studies.
Countries represented.
Everybody is familiar with the paradoxes that make the agrifood system unsustainable. What is less obvious is the understanding of how to overcome some of the trade-offs that, at least on the surface, make economic (sustainable development, as we understand it today), environmental protection (also in the light of global climate change) and right to food (quality food and appropriate proportions) goals irreconcilable for a constantly growing population. Solutions can be discovered only by applying new perspectives involving experts, decision makers, companies, scholars and academics through a rigorous multidisciplinary approach involving design methodologies.
Design applied to the agrifood sector introduces new management and business models for tackling complex problems with uncertain outcomes entailing decision-making risks. It also allows the use of design techniques and tools to develop innovative projects. The creative process entails the designer working on a problem without a known solution to develop a creative and original idea that responds perfectly to the identified need. This is a systematically applied process.
The Seventh International Conference on Food Studies will feature plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Full Professor of Marketing, Innovation and Sustainability, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
"Can Tradition Be Exported? The Case of True Italian Taste Project by Assocamerestero"
Academic Director, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IAGE Signature Programs in Rome; Director, Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies, Rome, Italy; Professor, Rome Tre University, Rome, Italy
"Innovation, Creativity and Sustainability in the Restaurant Business"
Head Chef, Romeo Chef & Baker and Glass Hostaria, Rome, Italy
"Innovation, Creativity and Sustainability in the Restaurant Business"
CEO, Startupbootcamp FoodTech and eZecute, Rome, Italy
Start-Up Panel Member
CEO, Milis Bio, Ireland
Start-Up Panel Member
CEO, Trakbar, Croatia
Start-Up Panel Member
CEO, Evja, Italy
Start-Up Panel Member
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award, with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2017 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
Tulane University, Louisiana, USA
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
Chapman University, California, USA
Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
University of Missouri, Missouri, USA
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning Talks are 5-minute "flash" video presentations. Click the button below to view the videos on our YouTube channel.