- Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech 2025 will generate an economic impact of 19 million euros in Bilbao
- From May 13 to 15, Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech and Pick&Pack for Food Industry 2025 will bring together over 8,000 food industry professionals to discover up to 420 foodtech innovations
- The sector's major technology fair will receive international delegations, with Germany as the guest country, and representatives from leading companies such as Eroski, PepsiCo, Campofrío, Hijos de Rivera, Danone, COVAP, Angulas Aguinaga and Grupo Nueva Pescanova, among others
Bilbao has everything ready to host a new edition of the great technological fair of the food industry in Spain. From Tuesday 13 May until Thursday 15, more than 8,000 professionals will gather at Food 4 Future - Expo FoodTech and Pick&Pack for Food Industry 2025 to discover the latest innovations to automate and digitize production plants in the agri-food sector, as well as the latest developments in packaging and logistics. The event, which will be held at the BEC and will consolidate Bilbao as the great epicenter of technological innovation in food and beverages, will generate an economic impact of 19 million euros.
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Attendees from across the agri-food value chain will be able to explore up close the strategies, solutions and trends that are improving productivity, efficiency and sustainability in the food industry's production plants. And they will do so together with more than 379 leading experts in the sector, who will share their experiences and points of view at the Food 4 Future World Summit, the largest European congress on innovation in food. Representatives from leading companies such as Eroski, PepsiCo, Campofrío, Hijos de Rivera, COVAP, Kaiku-Iparlat, Tutti Food Group, Angulas Aguinaga, Nueva Pescanova, Bodegas Eguren Ugarte or Familia Torres will participate in more than 125 sessions to address the latest trends and success stories in the application of automation and digitization, artificial intelligence and robotics in the production processes of their own organizations.
In addition, the event will have an exhibition area in which 247 companies will participate. Among them are leading companies such as Agrobank, AZTI, Beckhoff Automation, Christeyns, CNTA, Cocuus, Eurecat, Ibernova, IFR, Leitat and Tecnalia, which will present the technologies that are marking the future of the food industry. Their proposals will range from advanced solutions in robotics, processing and packaging machinery, to innovations in food safety and science applied to food production.
Institutions will once again play a leading role in the new edition of Expo FoodTech and Pick&Pack for Food Industry. Thus, representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Basque Government, ICEX and other authorities will also join the space for reflection on the strategies that are transforming the foodtech industry in terms of innovation, safety, regulations, trends and new ingredients. Among them will be the Honorary Consul in Bilbao, Michael John Voss, who will lead an outstanding institutional and business representation from Germany, this year's guest country.
The director of Food 4 Future - Expo FoodTech, Sergio Fabregat, has indicated that the celebration “will help to draw the future of an industry that is undergoing a fascinating process of transformation thanks to the most disruptive technologies and innovation proposals throughout the value chain. It will also consolidate Euskadi's position as a food innovation hub, generating a positive impact on the region's economic growth and development”.
The fair will also allocate different spaces to emerging companies that are contributing to boost foodtech innovation. In this context, the meeting will once again feature the Expo FoodTech Startup Forum, the forum that will bring together more than 200 startups from around the world to present their disruptive projects to business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and potential partners, technology clusters, associations and universities, with the aim of generating synergies and fostering collaboration. Disruption will be the main protagonist of this forum, which will bring together proposals for applied technologies such as automation and robotics, industry 4.0, refrigeration and air conditioning, logistics, environment and energy, agrotechnology, food processing and packaging, and food science and safety.
Pick&Pack for Food Industry, the key event for packaging and food logistics leaders
Once again building on the successful formula of last year's edition, Pick&Pack for Food Industry will take place simultaneously with Food 4 Future - Expo FoodTech, consolidating its position as the only event in Spain specialized in packaging and logistics for the food industry. The new edition will address the present and future of the sector from the Packaging Congress 4.0 and the Operations & Logistics Summit, two specialized forums that will bring together leading experts and professionals in packaging and logistics to redefine the future of the supply chain.
In addition, the event will bring together leading firms that will present their latest solutions in processing systems, containers and packaging, logistics robotics, transportation, traceability, supply chain, labeling and coding, and new materials for packaging; in addition to technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain or data analytics, among others.
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