2017 JBF Food Summit: Consuming Power

2017 JBF Food Summit:
Consuming Power

October 23–24, 2017
Convene Conference Center
New York City

Catch up on all the action with archived videos of our live Food Summit coverage!

What do Americans want from their food? What do the challenges and opportunities for a sustainable food system look like in the new political landscape? Where are the new levers of change for policy and business? How can we engage consumers to encourage companies and governments to provide the healthful and delicious food everyone wants to eat. And what role can chefs and other leaders in the culinary industry play?

Leading strategists, business executives, policy makers, nonprofit directors, consumer behavior specialists, philanthropists, and other leaders joined together for one of the most important, impactful and inspiring gatherings of the year.

Speakers included:

Jill Gress, Vice President, Radius Global Market Research
Tamar Haspel, Journalist, Washington Post
Jonas Kaplan, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology, Brain and Creativity Institute and Co-Director of the Dana & David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center, University of Southern California
Jennifer Kuzma, Goodnight-NC GSK Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health and International Affairs and Co-Director, Genetic Engineering and Society Center, North Carolina State University
Mark Schatzker, Author, The Dorito Effect and Steak
Mary Wagner, Founder and President, MK Wagner & Associates, and formerly Research and Development with Starbucks, Mars, E. & J. Gallo Winery, and Taco Bell

Check out the 2017 JBF Food Summit agenda.

NEW! Consumer Study Findings

JBF has released findings from its first-ever research study undertaken to understand American consumers’ motivations and thought processes behind their food choices, beliefs, and behaviors. The research project, coordinated by Karen Karp & Partners (KK&P), and conducted in collaboration with Radius Global Market Research and the Good Housekeeping Institute, focuses on what people have been eating, doing, and thinking about food over the last three years. Read the executive summary here.