How technology impacts the food production chain & dining experience -DLD Meetup

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We are participating in DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival (http://dldtelaviv.com).

Culinary & tech DLD meetup brings entrepreneurs, investors, chefs, food artisans and advertisers together to discuss taking fooding to the next level by applying technology to the existing industry. Currently, we are experiencing a transformation within the culinary industry, hoping to gain a better understanding of how technology impacts the chain of food production and provides solutions to improve the food system and the overall dining experience. As a result, there has been a massive influx within the industry, ranging from culinary startups, food technology innovators, big data, apps designed to inform food-conscious consumers, investments and software to help improve margins - this explosion is disrupting and changing how food is produced, distributed, sold and consumed.

The Hosts:

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Merav Oren, CEO & Noa Bachar Aharoni, COO - Founders, CuliZ.Market

CuliZ Market is an online global marketplace for culinary experiences. Using CuLiz.Market innovative, easy-to-use platform you will be able to discover, explore and book curated culinary adventures in cities around the world. From Top chefs workshops, tasting sessions, food tours, artisans & special events - Experience the finest cuisine a region has to offer!

Keynote:

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Erel N. Margalit, PhD, Member of Knesset

As chair of the Knesset Task Force for Economic Development in the North and South, Margalit brought together 15 regional councils and representatives of industry and academia in the North. They united behind an initiative that leverages the region’s strengths in innovative agriculture and biotech, making it ripe to become a leader in the medical food industry.

Panel members:

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Maxime Taieb, Managing Carrefour's e-commerce projects & innovation

Carrefour is a worldwide leading group for global retail specialized in food & grocery. Our growing NonFood & Food e-commerce activities capitalize on 5.000 stores in France to offer our customers a strong omni-channel experience with click&collect, drive and pure player capabilities.

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Nadav Berger, CoFounder & CEO, Food Lab Capital

Foodlab Capital is an Israeli investment house which focuses on enabling breakthrough technologies in the medical food, functional food, and food technology sectors. Aside from funding such ventures, Foodlab Capital provides first-class management services and enables unique food innovations to develop into successful products found on the shelves.

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Dror Tamir, CEO & Founder of Steak TzarTzar

A social entrepreneur, working on making the world a better place for our children by improving their diet and health through Plate my Meal (fighting obesity through preventative education) and Steak TzarTzar.
Steak TzarTzar is the world's first mass rearing of grasshopper as an alternative protein source. Grasshoppers being the most consumable insect around the globe: Consumed by almost 1 billion people while offering a efficient, sustainable, affordable and high quality source for protein.

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Shir Halpern, founder and owner of Tel Aviv Farmers market &Food and Ag Tech Advisory in Liftoff Ventures

Shir is a multi disciplinary entrepreneur in Food and Agriculture. She is which started in 2008 and was the first Farmers Market in Israel, a part of the Slow Food international network. Shir is founding partner of WIT - an investment activity for AgriTech ventures and startups that create new innovative sustainable technologies to produce food.
She has daily access to leading innovation and entrepreneurs in Food-Tech and Ag-Tech.

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Hemi Weingarten, Founder & CEO Foodcate

Hemi Weingarten is a repeat entrepreneur. His current venture merges his passion for food and technology. Fooducate is a mobile app that helps people lose weight and improve their health by making smarter food choices.

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Dr. Tsipi Shoham, CTO & Co-founder GrennOnyx. An expert in the fields of molecular and cellular biology.

GreenOnyx is on a mission to make fresh nutrients an accessible global commodity, while setting the bar on food sustainability. Thus, GreenOnyx develops a disruptive high-tech platform designed for urban settings which delivers "just picked fresh" super vegetables at a-press-of-a-button. It introduces Khai-Nam, an aquatic super-vegetable, known to be eaten for many generations in indo-china region. It is a nature-crafted capsule of nutrients, easily blends in high portions within any dish or drink, adding the nutrients we crucially need without compromising taste or diet habits.

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Sagi Briteman, Co-Founder and VP R&D, Artizone

Artizone is revolutionizing shopping at local food shops through an online delivery service. artizone is all about Local Flavors, Delivered. We focus on a full grocery service, from local businesses and artisans to provide the New Grocery Shopper with a True alternative to shopping at the large, national chains.