8-9 October 2025
Food Matters Live Ascot
Connect with leaders from across the food industry for two inspiring days of cutting-edge food and ingredient innovation designed to solve NPD challenges and accelerate innovation.
Food Matters Live Ascot features a rich programme of market trends, technical insights and unique ingredient showcases – presented by leading industry experts and ingredient innovators at the forefront of sustainable food and nutrition.
What to expect
Tastes of Better
A unique set of innovative ingredient showcases for all those working at the heart of product development. Each showcase will take you through an inspiring and experiential journey of technical insights and taste, designed to support you in solving new product development challenges and accelerating and sustaining innovation.
Insights and trends
Featuring over 100 international speakers, this series of talks, case studies and panel discussions will enable you to stay ahead of consumer and retail trends, debate the future of food and positive nutrition, celebrate success, identify areas of challenge, and explore how technology can empower innovation in your product development.
NPD Discovery Table Talks
Led by industry experts, Table Talks provide a setting for informed but intimate discussion around key themes. Discussion points include innovative ingredients, sustainable sourcing, formulation support and advice, technology patents, investment, regulation and cross-sector industry collaboration.
VIPs we host include
Abel & Cole | Aldi Stores Ltd UK | Asahi | Bakkavor | BaxterStorey | Believe in Science/ Urban Legend | Bidfood | British Sugar | Caffe Nero Group | CH&Co | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners GB | Compleat Food | Crediton Dairy Ltd | Crosta & Mollica | Delightful Food Group | Ella’s Kitchen | En Route International | Enterprise Ireland UK | Fiona Cairns Ltd | Foodspring | Fullers | Futura Foods | Ginsters | Greencore | GuDee | Heart with Smart Group | Higgidy | Hilton Foods | Holland & Barrett | Hotel Chocolat | Hovis | Huegli | Huel | Jude’s Ice Cream | Just Love | LEON Restaurants Ltd | Lily’s Kitchen | Little Moons | Marks & Spencer | Marston Foods | Meadow Foods | Met Foods Ltd | Mitchells & Butlers | Mondelēz International | Mood Foods Ltd | Nestle | Nomad Foods | Nurture Brands | Nutriburst Vitamins | Palmer & Howells | Penny Hunking | Quorn | Ramona’s Kitchen | Roberts of Port Dinorwic | Rondanini | Rowse Honey -Valeo Foods UK | Samworth Brothers | Signature Flatbreads | Sofina Foods | Subway | Sumol+Compal | Suntory | Suptropic | Tarwi | Tayto Group Ltd | Tesco | Toast Brewing | Twisted Kombucha | Unilever | Veg Life | Waitrose & Partners | WARP Snacks | Weetabix | Westbury Street Holdings (UK) | Whitworths Ltd | Yo! Sushi
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Join the conversation
Take your involvement with Food Matters Live’s events to the next level. Whether it’s exploring latest announcements or connecting with fellow industry experts, this is your chance to have exclusive access and be part of our most engaged audience members.
