The Future Food-Tech summit focuses on how technology, innovation and investment are transforming the dynamics of the food sector. A leading international networking and business focused event, it brings together active investors, entrepreneurs and major food brands to showcase solutions, share ideas and create new alliances. Hosted in New York, San Francisco and London, each event features 100+ game-changing speakers and the most ground-breaking start-ups entering the market.
Gelatex Technologies is a Techstars-backed materials company from Estonia that is revolutionizing nanofiber production. Gelatex has patented a novel high-capacity solution-spinning method and device for nanofiber manufacturing to innovate cultured meat, tissue engineering, and many other industries. The material comes in rolls, is easily scalable, and is up to 90% cheaper than current nanofibrous materials.
Gelatex Technologies is a Techstars-backed materials company from Estonia that is revolutionizing nanofiber production. Gelatex has patented a novel high-capacity solution-spinning method and device for nanofiber manufacturing to innovate cultured meat, tissue engineering, and many other industries. The material comes in rolls, is easily scalable, and is up to 90% cheaper than current nanofibrous materials.
GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.
Coordinated through its Secretariat in Copenhagen, the GBIF network of participating countries and organizations, working through participant nodes, provides data-holding institutions around the world with common standards, best practices and open-source tools enabling them to share information about where and when species have been recorded. This knowledge derives from many sources, including everything from museum specimens collected in the 18th and 19th century to geotagged smartphone photos shared by amateur naturalists in recent days and weeks
GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.
Coordinated through its Secretariat in Copenhagen, the GBIF network of participating countries and organizations, working through participant nodes, provides data-holding institutions around the world with common standards, best practices and open-source tools enabling them to share information about where and when species have been recorded. This knowledge derives from many sources, including everything from museum specimens collected in the 18th and 19th century to geotagged smartphone photos shared by amateur naturalists in recent days and weeks
Global Green USA is the American affiliate of Green Cross International, founded by President Gorbachev to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future. For 20 years, Global Green USA has been a national leader in advancing smart solutions to climate change that improve lives and protect our planet.
We create transformative model projects and advance new policies that build sustainable and resilient communities and affordable housing. We help local governments, schools, and public agencies integrate sustainable design, clean energy, and water reduction measures and we help people reduce waste, live better, and act more sustainably today--and in the future.
Global Green USA has influenced more than $20 billion dollars worth of building construction by encouraging the integration of green building and sustainability practices, and we’ve educated millions of people about climate-friendly solutions through our five annual events, including the green event of the year, our Pre-Oscar Party. Our impact has been felt across the country, particularly in areas affected by disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans where we led green rebuilding efforts and continue to provide assistance and resources to local residents.
The Water Desalination Report (WDR) is a weekly round-up of all the latest desalination, membrane, and water reuse industry news. Published since 1965, WDR is the most reliable source of up-to-date news for the sector. The report provides insider knowledge on plants, project, technologies, companies, shortlists, key industry figures, events and jobs - helping navigate market trends and developments, get sales leads, and keep an eye on the competition.
The Good Food Institute is an international nonprofit building a sustainable, healthy, and just global food system. With unique insight across the scientific, policy, industry, and investment landscapes, GFI uses the power of food innovation and markets to accelerate the transition of the world’s food system toward alternative proteins. With affiliate organizations in India, Israel, Brazil, Asia Pacific, and Europe, GFI is funded entirely by private philanthropic support.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit the Google website.
The Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force is a subnational collaboration of 38 states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and promote realistic pathways to forest-maintaining rural development through direct partnerships with subnational governments, civil society, the private sector, indigenous peoples, and local communities.
Guardian Circle is a mobile app and peer-to-peer intelligence grid that helps coordinate quick responses to various levels of emergencies for family and friends. Users can invite others to download the app and join their Guardian Circle and once included, the circle will be able to receive alerts and immediately connect with others in the circle and see their location to coordinate the quickest and safest response. Guardian Circle will donate free API access to a Personal Safety Network ‘Intelligence Grid’ to all Women’s Safety XPRIZE teams during the competition’s solutions development phase. Founded in Marina del Rey, California in 2016 by Mark Jeffrey and Chris Hayes, the company aims to help family and friends protect each other with an intuitive mobile app that helps mobile users act fast and maintain control of their personal safety. The app is available for free download on iOS in the iTunes App Store and on Android in the Google Play Store. For more company information, please visit http://guardiancircle.com/.
Hart is a medical software company founded in 2012 in Orange County, Calif. Hart empowers people to access and engage with their health so they can focus on what matters most to them. In HartOS the Hart team has built a bi-directional API platform capable of powering a family of industry-optimized applications, sophisticated plugins, and a consumer-facing health- and activity-tracking app. Capable of extracting and intelligently acting on health data from multiple electronic medical records (EMRs), HartOS makes it possible to rapidly merge and access information among hospitals and clinics. This results in simpler and more effective communication between patients and providers, as well as higher engagement rates than traditional portals. Health providers and businesses gain the ability to adapt Hart’s resources to their own unique needs or to apply Hart’s APIs to their own applications. On the other side of the Hart health equation, app users can combine daily activities and medical information, conveniently schedule appointments, message their doctor, view test results and vitals, and more. Hart’s ultimate mission is to build products that help people become more aware of their health and they achieve this by simplifying information, access and the ability to engage.
Health 2.0 promotes, showcases, and catalyzes new technologies in health care through a worldwide series of conferences, prize challenges, code-a-thons, education programs, and more. The company also provides consulting services to help track and forecast market activity. The Health 2.0 community spans four continents and encompasses health care and technology activities, news coverage, and community updates.
HIMSS is a cause-based, global enterprise producing health IT thought leadership, education, events, market research and media services around the world. Founded in 1961, HIMSS encompasses more than 52,000 individuals, of which more than two-thirds work in healthcare provider, governmental and not-for-profit organizations across the globe, plus over 600 corporations and 250 not-for-profit partner organizations, that share this cause. HIMSS, headquartered in Chicago, serves the global health IT community with additional offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Honeywell has been innovating for more than 100 years and we believe what happens tomorrow is determined by what we do today. Our teams are designing and delivering technology solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings; worker safety products and performance materials globally. Our technologies help everything from aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable.
Adult education providers affiliated with the Mayor's Office for Adult Literacy dedicated to addressing the functional literacy challenges in Houston through education and skills training for employment and family well-being.
The International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) has been held annually since 2011. In addition to hosting its annual congress, ICFSR also has an editorial initiative, The Journal of Frailty Aging (JFA). JFA is a peer-reviewed international journal that is published quarterly and “aimed at presenting articles that are related to research in the area of aging and age-related (sub)clinical conditions.” To learn more about or register for ICFSR, head to ICFSR.com. To access JFA, visit jfrailtyaging.com.
IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and education activities, IEEE is the trusted voice on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics.
IEEE Computer Society is the world’s leading membership organization for professionals in all aspects of modern computing—from cloud to big data, security to mobile, robotics to software defined systems, cybersecurity to IoT. A true community for technology leaders, the Computer Society provides resources to keep its members current in technology and moving forward in their professions—publications, a renowned digital library, a vast program of conferences, technical committees, and much more. The Computer Society also serves the profession at large through the establishment professional qualifications and certifications, training and education programs, events on leading-edge technologies, conference publishing, and a wealth of other services and programs focused on advancing the science and art of computing. More information on IEEE Computer Society can be found at www.computer.org.
A true American brand, Malcolm DeMille, Inc. was founded in Southern California in 1989. For nearly 25 years, clients have recognized MDI as a renowned jeweler, artisan, and sculptor known for its craftsmanship, quality materials and pioneering techniques. Distinguished by its premier manufacturing of sculptural statues, trophies, awards and custom jewelry, MDI has created some of the sports world’s most celebrated trophies and jewelry pieces, including those honoring the AT&T National, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup. Headquartered in Nipomo, CA, MDI has created works which have found their way to the figurative mantelpieces of companies as diverse as Buick, Disney, Nabisco, and the Orlando Magic to name a few. In 2011, MDI created an original trophy piece for the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XCHALLENGE and has been tasked with the newest trophy assignment for the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE.