Biosafe at Future Food‑Tech 2026 in London

Biosafe’s Sales Director Janne Ylärinne and Project Manager Lars Granlund will be representing us at Future Food‑Tech 2026 in London on 24–25 September 2026.The two-day summit brings together more than 500 leaders from food brands, ingredient companies, start-ups and investment funds to explore the technologies and strategies shaping the future of food.

This year’s agenda has a particularly strong focus on a challenge familiar to food-tech innovators: turning promising science into products that can successfully reach the market. Scientific validation, safety, regulatory pathways, scale-up and commercial readiness appear throughout the programme.

Here are five sessions that caught our attention.

Top 5 picks for Future Food-Tech 2026

If you're working with novel ingredients, biotech-enabled food production, or new protein technologies, this summit is packed with insights. Here are a few of the sessions we’re most excited about:

From vision to reality: Where food-tech innovation gets stuck

A useful reality check on why promising food innovations stall between pilot and commercial impact. Scientific validation, consumer acceptance, regulation and commercial readiness all meet here, making this one especially relevant for companies trying to turn good science into a viable product.

Host
Katia Merten-Lentz, Partner at Food Law Science & Partners

Speakers
Geert Maesmans, VP R&D Food EMEA at Cargill
Imran Afzal, CEO of the National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC)

Biomanufacturing spotlight: How do novel ingredients win the path to market?

Probably the most directly relevant session for us. It follows novel ingredients from discovery and AI-assisted development towards scale, safety and regulatory approval, with precision fermentation, colourings and additives all on the table.

Host
Marie Asano, Partner at the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund

Speakers
Darren Kidd, Scientific Specialist & Subject Matter Expert at Labcorp
Stephane Mac Millan, Co-Founder & CEO of Verley
Jim Mellon, Founder and Executive Chair of Juvenescence

From recipe to finished product: Can automation get it right?

Food innovation eventually has to work on a production line. This session asks what happens when increasingly complex formulations meet automation, changing ingredients and real-world manufacturing, with quality and safety remaining critical throughout.

Speakers
Erika Redaelli, Global Head of Solution Management and Regulatory & Scientific Affairs at TraceOne
Stefania Stoccuto, Global Industry Developer, Future Food at Siemens

Commercial readiness test: Which food-tech actually makes it?

This one should be entertaining. Series A+ companies are put through a live commercial readiness test covering cost, procurement, regulation, manufacturability and revenue. It is a good chance to see which factors investors and industry leaders consider decisive when food-tech moves beyond the pitch deck.

Romeo Frega, Global Business Development Director at ABF Ingredients
Richie Gray, VP & Global Head of SnackFutures Ventures at Mondelēz International

Jan Hendrik van Gilst, CFO of The Protein Brewery
Zac Austin, Co-Founder & CEO of Pacifico Biolabs
Alex Neves, Co-Founder & CEO of Clean Food Group

Eating in the GLP-1 era: What’s worth the bite?

One of the programme’s more topical consumer-facing discussions. As GLP-1 treatments reshape appetite and portion sizes, food companies are rethinking protein, fibre, functionality and what makes a smaller amount of food worth choosing.

Meet Janne & Lars at the summit

Future Food-Tech brings together many of the areas currently moving fastest in food innovation, from precision fermentation and novel ingredients to functional foods, AI-assisted discovery and new approaches to biomanufacturing. Janne Ylärinne, Sales Director, and Lars Granlund, Project Manager with a focus on bioinformatics, will be there throughout the summit.

If you are developing a novel ingredient, microbial strain or biotechnology-based food product and would like to discuss regulatory strategy, safety assessment, sequencing, bioinformatics or the evidence needed for market entry, come and meet us.

Meet us on 24–25 September in London!

	Lars Granlund, PhD Project Manager, Biosafe Book an appointment on Lars's calendar ›
	Janne Ylärinne, PhD Sales Director, Biosafe Book an appointment on Janne's calendar ›