Global megatrends shaping the food industry to 2035: This panel focuses on food innovations and trends leading the industry and the critical steps for thriving in an evolving ecosystem. A power packed session with focus on demographic shifts, sovereign food strategies, and the rise of wellness awareness and nutrition-tech.  Key Topics: • Redefining food towards health, nutrition and sustainability • Staying ahead as F&B leaders – Adapting to emerging consumer trends and lifestyles, evolving science, ESG regulations and circular food systems as the way forward • Leading your F&B business in a VUCA world • Fuelling health and wellness: The explosive industry surge of functional foods • Best practices for food innovation companies navigating to build trust through transparency and accountability • Integrating nutritional advancements and wellness-focused ingredients into product innovation for enhanced consumer well-being • Precision fermentation and cultivated meats: Is this the next big bet for protein consumers and investors? • Raising the stakes: Protein’s shift back to meat • Progress and potential of innovative food packaging and processing for nutrition, taste and end function • Governing food innovation: Building trust in the era of functional and future foods