• The 7th Industrializing Cultivated Meat & Seafood Summit

    GFI’s Elliot Swartz, Ph.D., will share insights at the 7th Industrializing Cultivated Meat & Seafood Summit in Boston. Join Elliot and other experts as they discuss R&D innovations that can drive down costs, improve scalability, and accelerate progress toward bringing cultivated meat and seafood to market.

  • 2026 Tufts Future Food Innovation Day

    Joyce Cummings Center 177 College Ave, Medford, Massachusetts, United States

    Join GFI President Bruce Friedrich at Tufts University’s 2026 Future Food Innovation Day, where he’ll participate in a morning fireside chat with Tufts professor and cell ag pioneer Dr. David Kaplan.

  • Foods of the Future: Science and Engineering Approaches (Gordon Research Conference)

    Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center 601 West McKinley Ave., Pomona, California, United States

    The focus of this conference is to bring the multi-disciplinary future food community under one roof with a singular focus: collaboratively advancing the science and engineering of safe and scalable production systems for sustainable agriculture.

  • Future of Protein Production – Chicago

    GFI is heading to Chicago! Join Bruce Friedrich, Patrick McAuley, and leading voices across science, policy, and industry for a solutions-focused summit on the future of food.

  • Natural Products Expo West – Competing on Health: Insights for Plant-Based Brands

    Marriott 700 W Convention Way, Anaheim, California, United States

    Event description Health isn’t just a trend—it’s reshaping the competitive landscape of food. At Natural Products Expo West, GFI will lead a timely conversation on how evolving definitions of “healthy” are influencing consumer behavior and shaping growth in the plant-based category. In “Competing on Health: Insights for Plant-Based Brands,” Taylor Leet-Otley, GFI’s Senior Consumer Research […]

  • Bruce Friedrich at Politics & Prose

    Politics and Prose at The Wharf 610 Water St SW, Washington, District of Columbia

    Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity's Favorite Food—and Our Future - with Nicolás Rivero.

  • Meat: The Next Agricultural Revolution

    Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St George St, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Bruce Friedrich kicks off Canada’s premier alternative protein symposium in Toronto.

  • Bruce Friedrich at Johns Hopkins University: Meat — a homecoming conversation

    Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland

    Event description Co-hosted with the Center for a Livable Future (based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), this event is a chance to connect the dots between food innovation, public health, and building food systems that are healthy, just, equitable, and sustainable. We’ll dig into the big ideas and surprising stories in […]

  • The Future of Innovation, Sustainability, and the Law Symposium

    Northwestern Pritzker School of Law 375 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    GFI’s Madeline Cohen joins Northwestern Pritzker Law’s 2026 Animal Law Symposium for a timely conversation on the legal and policy questions shaping the future of food innovation.

  • Alternative Protein Symposium: Bridging Science and Society

    NC State University 840 Oval Dr, Raleigh, North Carolina

    Join Bruce Friedrich and our Alt Protein Project leaders from NC State, Duke University, and Virginia Tech at the Alternative Protein Symposium: Bridging Science and Society.

  • The Climate Challenge & Protein Diversification for the Global South

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Food systems sit at the center of the climate challenge. This DC Climate Week session brings together development finance leaders, researchers, and industry experts to explore how diversified protein production can advance climate resilience, economic development, and food security across the Global South.

  • SynBioBeta 2026

    San Jose McEnery Convention Center 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, California, United States

    Bruce Friedrich joins SynBioBeta to make the case for a new way of producing meat—one grounded in science, built for scale, and critical to the future of food.

  • 2026 Climate Solutions Prize Festival

    Marché Bonsecours 305 De la Commune Street East, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Bruce Friedrich joins the Climate Solutions Prize Festival to explore why the future of climate action must include the future of food.

  • Meet GFI at the 2026 NCSL Legislative Summit

    McCormick Place West Building 2301 S. Indiana Ave, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    GFI is collaborating with two leading organizations advancing food innovation: the Plant Based Foods Association and the Association for Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Innovation.

  • World Food Forum 2026: Protein diversification for the Global South

    FAO Headquarters Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy

    How can protein diversification strengthen food systems across the Global South? At the World Food Forum, GFI and the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein at North Carolina State University will bring together global experts, policymakers, and young researchers to explore how protein innovation can support stronger agricultural value chains, livelihoods, and food and nutrition security.