Trend Summit 20201

Tuesday 19th November 2024

  • 2025/26 Online Trend Summit

Registrations are now closed for the 2025/26 Annual Food & Beverage Trend Summit

If you're a trendhub subscriber, you can catch up on all the day's sessions over on the hub.

thefoodpeople's 2025/26 Food & Beverage Trend Summit took place virtually on Tuesday 19th November 2024.

The day saw more than 2,500 industry leaders and Champions of Change come away inspired and informed, ready to shift the future of food & drink by harnessing the power of trends & foresight.

If you're a trendhub subscriber, you can catch up on all the day's sessions over on the hub.

Our Speakers

  • thefoodpeople

    thefoodpeople

    As a team we’ll be sharing with you various elements of our 2025/26 annual trend predictions.

  • Charles Banks, Co-Founder, thefoodpeople

    Charles Banks, Co-Founder, thefoodpeople

    Charles will bring to life the 2025/26 trends framework and explore the defining areas of change on the foresight horizon in this era of momentous change in food and drink.

  • Amelia Boothman, Social, Cultural & Human Behaviour Specialist

    Amelia Boothman, Social, Cultural & Human Behaviour Specialist

    Amelia will be discussing the 2025/26 ‘Social & Cultural’ forces and drivers in Food and Beverage, both in and out of home.

  • Shokofeh Hejazi, Head of Insight, thefoodpeople

    Shokofeh Hejazi, Head of Insight, thefoodpeople

    Shokofeh brings her expertise in trends together with her experience in retail & hospitality in the UK & overseas, to share the culinary & gastronomic trends for 2025/26, from food philosophies & cooking techniques to cuisines & ingredients.

  • Riley Jackson, Head of Marketing and Strategic Partnerships, Ivy Farm Technologies

    Riley Jackson, Head of Marketing and Strategic Partnerships, Ivy Farm Technologies

    What's next for cultivated meat? With a number of significant developments under it's belt, Ivy Farm joins us to discuss what the future horizon looks like.

  • Eric Vildgaard, Chef & Co-Founder, Jordnær Copenhagen

    Eric Vildgaard, Chef & Co-Founder, Jordnær Copenhagen

    Eric joins us to talk about his journey from troubled youth to decorated chef, the culinary principles at Jordnær illustrated with key dishes, how the greatest gift is that of time and generosity, and the future of fine dining.

  • Edd Lees, Co-Founder, Wildfarmed

    Edd Lees, Co-Founder, Wildfarmed

    With regenerative agriculture being increasingly widely adopted, Edd joins us to discuss scaling and the learnings from Wildfarmed on how to build nature based agriculture into a commercial business model that works for farmers, consumers and planet.

  • Kate Cawley, Founder, Veris Strategies and Future Food Movement

    Kate Cawley, Founder, Veris Strategies and Future Food Movement

    Kate joins us to discuss what healthy sustainable diets are, why they're important and for who, the role of policy and how we educate consumers and create demand.

  • James Toop, Chief Executive, Bite Back 2030

    James Toop, Chief Executive, Bite Back 2030

    James join us to discuss what healthy sustainable diets are, why they're important and for who, the role of policy and how we educate consumers and create demand.

  • Steve Challouma, CMO and Executive Committee member, Nomad Foods

    Steve Challouma, CMO and Executive Committee member, Nomad Foods

    Steve joins us to discuss what healthy sustainable diets are, why they're important and for who, the role of policy and how we educate consumers and create demand.

  • Amritha Sastry, Head of Culinary Strategy & Operations, Wonder

    Amritha Sastry, Head of Culinary Strategy & Operations, Wonder

    Amritha joins us from Wonder, a new kind of food hall based in New York City, to talk about innovation in the fast casual dining sector, Wonder’s evolution, and trends in the space.

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What's included?

  • The highlights of thefoodpeople's Annual Trend Foresight Predictions for 2025/26
  • Trend Foresight Predictions for 2025/26 Highlights Downloadable Infographic Poster
  • Inspirational and thought-provoking key notes & presentations, relevant for all aspects of the food and drink industry, to truly bring trends to life
  • Ask questions to thefoodpeople team in the virtual event platform
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What's included as a trendhub subscriber?

As a paid for trendhub subscriber, you'll also access the following within trendhub:

  • Annual Trend Foresight Digital Book for 2025/26
  • Cuisine & Ingredients Predictions for 2025/26
  • Trends & Cuisine Videos for 2025/26
  • Interactive Trends Map
  • Copies of all presentations and video recordings
  • Annual Trend Foresight 2025/26 Downloadable Infographic Poster
  • Explainer videos for all food and beverage mega trends & social cultural trends

Another great event, really inspiring content!

  • Kate Rivett

The speakers were inspirational from first to end.

  • Sophie Harding

The whole plant base, vegan element coming through today has given me lots to take away and inspiration for the future.

  • Mark Haynes

Thefoodpeople events are always very inspiring and thought provoking and shows us what we have to look at for development and innovation strategies for the future. Thefoodpeople has gone from UK to global, taking the trends in Australia and USA and how we can use them in the UK is very key.

  • Hannah Sibley

Really good, very informative, nice top line into what might be, quite inspiring.

  • Robert Pattinson

Really interested in the flavour trends we can translate to retail. Enjoyed those!

  • 2020 online summit attendee

The day was brilliantly run, very smooth, the speakers were all very different but all inspiring. We use the trend book all of the time, all my team use the book all the time.

  • Emma Cox

As always, you manage to gather relevant speakers with diverse content.

  • 2020 online summit attendee

What I love about the food people is that you get to sit down all day and it is really well organised. Many other conferences you have to rush from a to b and worry you might miss something, but here you just relax, listen and enjoy.

  • Lauren Rose-Smith
  • editor Tesco Magazine

Great job in tough times inspirational speakers loved listening to their stories and chat style was very relaxed and made it real.

  • 2020 online summit attendee

Ability to dip in and out, and most of all the quality of the information and speakers. The ability to access the recording of the presentation moments after the presentation was finished was great as I had to dip in and out during the day.

  • 2020 online summit attendee

Just a note to say a huge WELL DONE to you and all the TFP team on a very inspirational and thought provoking day. So much wonderful content and engaging speakers. I can only imagine how much work went into it over the last few weeks and months.

  • Annie Dunne

I just wanted to say a big thank you for the session that you hosted yesterday. I thought that there was a real breadth of speakers covering many different areas within food and drink. It has certainly brought about a number of new contacts and potential areas of opportunity. I thought that it was very well executed and managed and I really hope that it continues for the future.

  • Mat Lowry

Was an amazing event, the different themes and great speakers thank you

  • 2021 online summit attendee

Just fabulous and really enjoyed each of the speakers

  • 2021 online summit attendee

How easy it was to fit work in and around the sessions, how informative the sessions were and the fact I can catch up and also re-watch sessions

  • 2021 online summit attendee

It is of course different but being online meant that I was able to attend wherever I was while I might not have been able to travel to and attend a physical event

  • 2021 online summit attendee

Thanks again for a brilliant event - I will share with my colleagues next year this will be one not to miss for sure! thanks again

  • 2021 online summit attendee

The variety from restauranteurs, drinks manufacturers to chefs themselves and loved the academic side of things too

  • 2021 online summit attendee

Registrations are now closed for the 2025/26 Virtual Trend Summit


  • Date:

    19th November 2024 - Broadcast Live in GMT (London), with replays on youtube, trendhub (subscribers) and via email from 20th November 2024

  • Location:

    On desktop or mobile App, at work or at home!! Virtual Live Broadcast

  • Timings:

    Live 08.00 - 18.00 GMT (London) - Exact timings TBC

  • Entry:

    A joining link will be shared by email prior to the Summit date

  • Contact Us:

    For further details, please email us on events@thefoodpeople.co.uk

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