The Sensible Kitchen Summit, the pioneering government summit centered on the digital transformation of the buyer meal journey, is happy 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,” mentioned Michael Wolf, SKS founder and Spoon writer. “Whereas we had over ten thousand of the SKS neighborhood be a part of us for digital occasions in the course of the pandemic, there’s nothing like seeing, touching, and tasting innovation. I sit up for connecting with these serving to rethink how we do issues on the planet of meals and cooking in particular person.”
Themes For 2024
SKS 2024 will deal with a number of the most necessary themes across the innovation-driven transformation of how we store, cook dinner, devour, and convene round meals. Among the key themes and questions that can be explored in the course of the two full days at SKS embrace:
AI’s Affect on Meals: Exploring how AI is reworking each a part of the meals worth chain, together with how shoppers discover, buy, and put together meals. How can meals corporations, equipment manufacturers, retailers, and extra harness the facility of this unbelievable expertise?
Meals Waste and Sustainability: How can innovation-powered modifications can we make to cut back meals waste alongside the buyer meal journey?
Meals and Vitamin Personalization: The expertise and instruments exist to create customized meals and diet plans that result in higher well being outcomes. How can the meals trade adapt in a world through which GLP-1-based medication are making a murky outlook for conventional meals manufacturers?
Automation & Cooking: Automation is turning into important within the business 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 scale back the packaging and waste of conventional CPG fashions, and the way will these methods scale in business and shopper settings?
Meals Discovery & Meal Planning: We’re extra seemingly 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 long run be a part of them?
Kitchen Electrification: Induction cooking methods are each extra environment friendly and higher for the surroundings, however shoppers 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 displays, 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 traders, company companions, and even alternatives like showing on Shark Tank. Startups who’re constructing the following nice expertise that they imagine will change how we store, cook dinner, retailer, or devour meals within the dwelling are inspired to apply in the present day.
Location Particulars
SKS 2024 can be held on the stunning Block41 occasion middle within the coronary heart of Seattle. Block41 has two full flooring of occasion and exhibition area, two full kitchens, and an outside area for our celebration and completely satisfied 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 involved in talking at SKS, submit a speaker software in the present day. In case you’d prefer to carry your organization’s product to Seattle and share it with the SKS and Spoon neighborhood, please fill out our sponsor type. And when you’d prefer to buy a ticket, you may get our Tremendous Early Fowl pricing between now and February twenty ninth, 2024.
We sit up for welcoming you in 2024!
