If there was one factor we discovered after we held the first-ever Meals AI Summit final October, it’s that just about each meals firm believes their enterprise will basically change on account of synthetic intelligence.
Whether or not it’s corporations constructing farm gear, managing meals provide chains, launching new grocery buying codecs, or creating new quick-service restaurant chains, nobody alongside the meals worth chain will stay untouched by the speedy tempo of change introduced on by AI. In different phrases, we’re in a once-in-a-generational rethink of enterprise as traditional, a tectonic shift that calls for firm leaders constantly be taught, strategize, and collaborate to ensure their corporations survive and even thrive into the longer term.
Due to this, we realized that we needed to discover a technique to deliver collectively our group and others throughout the meals system to speak in regards to the completely different impacts AI is having throughout numerous elements of the meals system greater than every year. Whereas we cherished the truth that the massive concepts that have been shared on the Meals AI Summit have already resulted in new partnerships and collaborations, we puzzled if we introduced collectively people extra frequently – on a month-to-month foundation or much more often – might need a fair greater affect.
Fortunately for us, considered one of my favourite organizations – the Future Meals Institute, led by one of the consequential leaders sooner or later meals house in Sara Roversi – had the same concept. So when Sara approached me about becoming a member of forces for a collaborative new group to do exactly that – I jumped on the probability.
So, alongside the FFI, I’m tremendous excited to announce in the present day the launch of the Meals AI Co-Lab!
What’s the Meals AI Co-Lab? It’s a collaboration that goals to be a gathering house and studying middle for leaders who’re constructing the way forward for meals by synthetic intelligence. We are going to discover completely different subjects, interact with our group, and supply info equivalent to {industry} surveys about what individuals are doing on the intersection of meals and AI.
To kick issues off, we are going to host month-to-month industry-focused conferences with thought leaders creating utilizing AI throughout numerous elements of the meals system. Quickly, we can even announce in-person occasions within the US and Italy the place the group can get collectively, community, be taught collectively, and construct their very own collaborations.
If you happen to’d like to affix us on this journey, we encourage you to affix our LinkedIn group and likewise register for our first digital occasion, AI & The Way forward for Meals, which can happen subsequent Tuesday, March nineteenth. At that occasion, we’ll interview two thought leaders: Dr. Patrick Story, a professor of Philosophy at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, taking part in a Nationwide Science Basis-funded challenge analyzing the affect of automation and AI on the meals system, and Kevin Brown, the CEO of Innit, an organization constructing a platform that plugs into generative AI giant language fashions to make them extra meals “fluent” and energy AI-assisted meals data methods and providers.
I hope to see you there, and I’m excited to work with you to be taught, collaborate, and construct the longer term with the Meals AI Co-Lab!
