About Future Food Asia Summit
The Future Food Asia Summit is a cornerstone event in the realm of food and agritech innovation, gathering visionaries, entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders to explore and catalyze the future of food. Held on May 15-16, this summit serves as a platform for exchanging ideas, forging partnerships, and accelerating the growth of groundbreaking initiatives that address the evolving challenges and opportunities in the food and agriculture sectors.
Meet the Roquette team
Roquette is pleased to be Innovation Sponsors at the upcoming Future Food Asia Summit 2024.
As the world faces pressing challenges such as food security, sustainability, and health, Roquette remains dedicated to driving innovation and fostering collaboration to create impactful solutions. With a rich history of pioneering research and development in plant-based ingredients, Roquette is uniquely positioned to contribute to the transformation of the food ecosystem towards a more sustainable and nutritious future.
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Reshmi Rajendran, Head of R&D Greater Asia, Roquette
Panel discussion
“If food biotechs pivot away from the food sector, who will lose and who will win?”
Food biotech’s have been in the spotlight over the past decade with precision fermentation and cell cultured meat startups raising millions of dollars as they aim to make food production more sustainable. However, many are now facing challenges with scaling up and cost economics as many of them are working on bulk proteins with lower margins.
When food biotech startups confront the formidable challenge of achieving market prices for food ingredients and the significant capex involved in producing these ingredients, they often consider pivoting towards higher value, higher margin ingredients in adjacent sectors such as nutraceuticals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, etc.
We are seeing more of such pivots happening in the past year as startups focus on turning self-sufficient. Some characterize it as a strategic shift, while others remain optimistic about the possibility of returning to food ingredients eventually. However, undertaking such a pivot presents its unique set of challenges. In this panel discussion, we discuss on who will lose and who will win.
Time
- Date: Thursday May 16, 2024
- Time: 10AM-10:45AM
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About the speaker
Reshmi Rajendran is the Head of Innovation and R&D at Roquette’s Asia Pacific Innovation Center in Singapore and leads a team of scientists in developing new plant-based solutions for the Food, Nutrition and Pharma markets in the region. Trained as a scientist (PhD in Physics/Biomedical Imaging, National University of Singapore), business person (MBA, INSEAD) and administrator (Masters in Public Administration), Reshmi enjoys leading transformation at the interface of technology and commercialization.