The Future of Food: How Food Heroes are Impacting our Society
Maker Faire Bay Area 2017
May 19th-21st
Future Food, an ecosystem with a strong educational core that promotes food innovation as a key tool to tackle the great challenges of the future, introduces you to the faces, stories and experiences of seven food heroes, people who are making the difference in the food space.
Chiara Cecchini
Chiara is the an alumni of Food Innovation Program and now Global Ambassador of Future Food Institute. She founded Feat, a company which aims to make wellness accessible and fun. She is also one BCFN Foundation alumni, a research affiliate of Institute For The Future and she involved in IC Foods at UC Davis.
http://futurefoodecosystem.org
Tim West
Recognized as one of Zagat’s 30 under 30 in 2013, Tim West is a Slow Food chef turned Social Entrepreneur. He is a Culinary Institute of America graduate and grandson of Arch West, the inventor of Doritos. Tim cut his teeth in the kitchens at The St. Regis Hotel in New York and the Facebook headquarters in California before entering the world of entrepreneurship. Tim co-created The Food Hackathon + Forum as a business plan competition and alternative educational experience to encourage entrepreneurs to work on more meaningful problems and to expose corporate teams to a more collaborative and inspiring working methodology. Recently, Tim created True West Ventures, LLC as a consulting and experiential educational design agency specializing in facilitating conversations on the future of food, food systems, food hacking, food entrepreneurship and food culture. Tim has designed learning journeys, spoken on panels, advised and worked with a variety of large companies and small startups including AirBNB, The Center for the Edge @ Deloitte, Singularity University, The Institute for the Future, Nestle, Barnrasier and Intently. The most recent Food Hackathon+Forum was focused on Kids Health during Halloween weekend in San Francisco.
Matthew Lange
Dr. Lange teaches Data Acquisition for the UC Davis School of Medicine Graduate Program in Health Informatics and also teaches Food Product Innovation and Development in the Department of Food Science and Technology at UC Davis. Dr. Lange's research focuses on development of semantic web infrastructures undergirding an emerging internet of food. Ecosystems of technologies and business models built upon such underpinnings hold promise to sustainably deliver precise, personalized, healthy and delicious foods.
Monica Martinez
Monica Martinez is a native of Mexico City, she is a designer, educator, and entrepreneur. She is the founder and owner of Don Bugito, a San Francisco-based food company focused on planet-friendly protein snacks featuring tasty edible insects in sweet and savory flavors. During the past 15 years, she has fabricated artifacts and scenarios inspired by spaces and storage vessels used in food production, display, and distribution. She received her MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. Monica is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony as well as Sculpture Space in New York and has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, most recently at the New Positions program at Art Cologne in Germany and the Museo de Arte Querétaro in México. Her work has been featured on Nova, PBS, The Wall Street Journal, PRI’s The World and the United Nations FAO report on Food Security. Monica resides in San Francisco, California where she is a Senior Lecturer at the California College of the Arts.
Jasmine Hume
At Hampton Creek Jasmin applies materials science to characterize and identify novel plant proteins to make transformative, sustainable foods. Prior to entering the food industry, she worked designing semiconductor surface chemistries at STMicroelectronics. Jasmin holds graduate degrees from both NYU and Chalmers University as well as a bachelors from McGill University.
