Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit
Event description
As the anchor event of Singapore International Agri-Food Week (SIAW), in collaboration with Temasek, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA), and Enterprise Singapore (ESG), the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit will bring together over 1000 global leaders to identify the strategic priorities as we build greater capacity, security and resilience in Asia’s agri-food system. Bruce Friedrich, GFI’s President and Founder, will present “Protein Diversification: Accelerating R&D for APAC’s Net Zero Transition.” Mirte Gosker, GFI’s Managing Director, Asia Pacific, will speak on a panel “Precision Fermentation: Collaborative Models to Scale and Industrialise Microbial Food Production.” We hope you’ll join us there!
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Bruce Friedrich
PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, GFI
Bruce oversees GFI’s global strategy, working with and across all of GFI’s international teams (Asia Pacific, Brazil, Europe, India, Israel, and United States) to ensure that GFI is maximally effective at implementing programs that deliver mission-focused results. Bruce is a TED Fellow, Y Combinator alum, 2021 “American Food Hero” (EatingWell Magazine), and popular speaker on food innovation. He has penned op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, CNN, Nature Food, Los Angeles Times, Wired, and many other publications. He has represented GFI on the TED Radio Hour, New Yorker Radio Hour, Ezra Klein Show, Making Sense (Sam Harris), ReCode Decode, and other programs and podcasts. Bruce’s 2019 TED talk has been viewed 2.4 million times and translated into 30 languages. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown Law and also holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics.
Mirte Gosker
MANAGING DIRECTOR, GFI ASIA PACIFIC
Mirte lives in Singapore, the first country in the world to approve the sales of a cultivated meat product. Prior to GFI, she worked as a management consultant to startups, and as a researcher in humanitarian logistics. She brings experience in startups, international development and philanthropy. Mirte holds a MA in International Development from Wageningen University.
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