The Good Kitchen Summit, the pioneering govt summit centered on the digital transformation of the buyer meal journey, is worked up to announce its return in 2024. In 2024, SKS will return to its birthplace, Seattle, Washington, scheduled for June 4-Fifth.
“I’m thrilled that SKS is making its return to Seattle subsequent 12 months, the place our journey started,” stated Michael Wolf, SKS founder and Spoon writer. “Whereas we had over ten thousand of the SKS neighborhood be part of us for digital occasions in the course of the pandemic, there’s nothing like seeing, touching, and tasting innovation. I look ahead to connecting with these serving to rethink how we do issues on the earth of meals and cooking in individual.”
Themes For 2024
SKS 2024 will deal with a number of the most vital themes across the innovation-driven transformation of how we store, prepare dinner, eat, and convene round meals. A number of the key themes and questions that will likely be explored in the course of the two full days at SKS embrace:
AI’s Influence on Meals: Exploring how AI is reworking each a part of the meals worth chain, together with how customers discover, buy, and put together meals. How can meals firms, equipment manufacturers, retailers, and extra harness the ability of this unbelievable expertise?
Meals Waste and Sustainability: How can innovation-powered modifications can we make to scale back meals waste alongside the buyer meal journey?
Meals and Vitamin Personalization: The expertise and instruments exist to create personalised meals and diet plans that result in higher well being outcomes. How can the meals business adapt in a world through which GLP-1-based medication are making a murky outlook for conventional meals manufacturers?
Automation & Cooking: Automation is changing into important within the industrial kitchen. How will it match within the shopper kitchen and our meals lives?
On-Demand, Decentralized Meals Manufacturing: The packaged-goods meals ecosystem is wasteful. Can new types of on-demand, decentralized meals manufacturing applied sciences like 3D printing cut back the packaging and waste of conventional CPG fashions, and the way will these methods scale in industrial and shopper settings?
Meals Discovery & Meal Planning: We’re extra probably these days to discover a new recipe on TikTok than in a cookbook. As meals retailers & CPGs lock into these new discovery channels to allow buy journeys, will the buyer of the longer term be part of them?
Kitchen Electrification: Induction cooking methods are each extra environment friendly and higher for the atmosphere, however customers are hesitant to undertake them. When will the electrification of the buyer kitchen occur, if ever?
Startup Showcase
Along with two full days of TED-style shows, panels, workshops, and networking, SKS is bringing again our pioneering Startup Showcase. Launched in 2015, the SKS Startup Showcase has been instrumental in connecting startups with buyers, company companions, and even alternatives like showing on Shark Tank. Startups who’re constructing the subsequent nice expertise that they imagine will change how we store, prepare dinner, retailer, or eat meals within the residence are inspired to apply right this moment.
Location Particulars
SKS 2024 will likely be held on the stunning Block 41 occasion heart within the coronary heart of Seattle. Block41 has two full flooring of occasion and exhibition area, two full kitchens, and an out of doors area for our celebration and joyful hour on June 4th.
Be a part of Us
Mark your calendars and save the date for June 4-Fifth in Seattle. In case you are curious about talking at SKS, submit a speaker utility right this moment. In the event you’d wish to deliver your organization’s product to Seattle and share it with the SKS and Spoon neighborhood, please fill out our sponsor kind. And when you’d wish to buy a ticket, you will get our Tremendous Early Chicken pricing between now and February twenty ninth, 2024.
We look ahead to welcoming you in 2024!
