KITA FOOD FESTIVAL: SINGAPORE Q1 2025
4 Dec 2024
What will food be like for us in 2034?
Food is central to our cultures. It expresses identity, creativity, and marks milestones.
Today, we enjoy a vast choice of ingredients, recipes, and cuisines.
But change is coming…
With current climate change and population trajectories, research indicates the environment will not be able to sustain food production as we currently know it in 10-20 years to come.
So what will be the future of food? That’s the big question Kita Food Festival and pioneering data consultancy Synthesis will be exploring in Quarter 1 2025.
Through a series of three seminars and a symposium, SyKi, as we’ve nicknamed our partnership, will look at how we will source, stretch and increase nutritional density in food in the decades to come.
Here they are in a nutshell:
Seminar 1 – Sourcing the Future of Food: January 20
Seminar 2 – Stretching the Future of Food: February 10
Seminar 3 – Sustenance in the Future of Food: February 24
The Future of Food Symposium: March 17
A Lineup of Culinary and Thought Leaders
The series will bring together a host of global and regional culinary experts to speak, including:
- Matthew Evans – Australian restaurant critic- turned farmer, chef, TV host and food writer, known for his TV programme The Gourmet Farmer, as well as books SOIL, On Eating Meat and The Real Food Companion.
- Helianti Hilman- Lawyer and founder of Javara established a range of packaged artisanal food products from across the Indonesian archipelago.
- Eelke Plasmeijer – Dutch co-founder of Bali’s award-winning restaurant Locavore and now Locavore NXT, a groundbreaking restaurant that includes a distillery, farm and research lab.
- George Peppou – co-founder and CEO of VOW, Australia’s first cell-based meat company.
- Nithiya Laila – Culinary anthropologist and best known for championing Asia’s indigenous plant life through her TV show, Edible Wild, and co-founder of SG Seed Exchange, a community platform dedicated to the exchange of native seeds.
- Pete Smit- Owner of Dirty Supper in Singapore and champion of whole animal cooking.
- Enzo Acerbi – Co-founder of Vertical Oceans, known for pioneering sustainable, urban aquaculture in Singapore, with a focus on producing high-quality shrimp.
- (more to be announced shortly)
Tickets for the Future of Food series will be available from December 10, 2024. Sign up here to our newsletter for specials and first dibs
A Taste of Tomorrow: Pioneering Flavours
Alongside the talks will be the chance to taste innovative food and cocktails made with cutting-edge “future-food” ingredients. From cultivated meats and air-grown proteins, to insect powders and beanless coffee.
Kita Food Festival Singapore Weekender
In addition to the seminars, Kita’s Singapore Weekender, happening from March 12-17, will return with its signature events that celebrate culinary creativity, innovation and Southeast Asia’s food scene. The rich array of events include Kita’s iconic Big Barbecue, four-hand dinners and kitchen takeovers.
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