Manchester event preview draft – Food Matters Live

Food Matters Live Manchester

13-14 May 2025

A preview of what's on

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Welcome

We’re so pleased to be bringing the NPD and innovation community back to Emirates Old Trafford on 13-14 May. This preview offers a first look at what’s in store – from the immersive Tastes of Better ingredient showcases, to expert insights on the main stage insights programme and the ever popular NPD Discovery Table Talks. Take a moment to watch the short video and see how this VIP experience is designed to support your product development goals in a truly personal way.

We also extend a warm welcome and huge thanks to all our partners and speakers, and we are proud to be supporting our charity partner FareShare Manchester in their invaluable work in tackling food waste and poverty.

Whether you’ve joined us before or are coming along for the first time, we look forward to welcoming you as our VIP guests.

Briony Mansell-Lewis, Managing Director

Meet your peers in NPD - all heading to Manchester

NPD • Technical • R & D • Innovation • Culinary • Nutrition • Quality • Brand • Marketing •

📢 Iceland Foods • Papa Johns • Baker and Baker • Warburtons • Costa Coffee • Greencore • Aramark UK • ABP Eatwell • Pret a Manger • HECK! Food • Spudbros • THG – Myprotein • Hovis • Premier Foods • Can Cook • Compleat Food

Are you ready to accelerate your innovation pipeline alongside them?

VIP places are exclusively reserved for NPD and innovation professionals working at food and drink brands, retailers, manufacturers, QSRs, and foodservice companies.If you are interested in attending and do not qualify for a VIP pass, you can secure a business pass.

How Food Matters Live will help you navigate today's market challenges and advance your NPD strategy

Where ingredient innovation meets real NPD support

Tastes of Better offers immersive, one-hour sessions packed with technical insights and tailored advice to support your NPD goals

Your personalised itinerary

Tastes of Better is an exclusive experience for our VIP guests, showcasing a diverse range of ingredients and solutions, all carefully sourced and prepared by our partners. That’s why we work with you on pre-booking these sessions to ensure the best possible event experience for you, and to enable our partner culinary teams to cater to exact numbers reducing the risk of food waste.

Your front-row seat to the trends driving change

The main stage programme delivers future-focused insights, science backed strategies and big-picture thinking

Hear from 50+ industry voices

Gain essential insight into the forces reshaping product development — from fibre and gut health to clean-label reformulation, affordability and shifting consumer priorities.

From fibre to flavour: let's talk NPD

NPD Discovery Table Talks put your challenges at the centre of the conversation

Led by the experts, shaped by you

Join small, focused table talks with Azelis, Döhler, Limagrain Ingredients and more – including Nomad Foods, Mustard Research and the University of Nottingham. Get straights answers, share ideas and explore real solutions to your NPD challenges

A few words from our VIP guests

“What a fantastic day - I have to say, this was one of the best food events of this type I have attended. The balance was right between technical information, food sampling, interesting debates and networking.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed attending the Tastes of Better event. It was great to step away from the day-to-day and think about the bigger picture, trends impacting our category, emerging opportunities and interact with some great food ingredient businesses"

“Just a short note to say how much I enjoyed the Inspiring Nutrition event. I thought it was incredibly well organised, with some very interesting expert speakers and panellists"

“Tastes of Better is a great event to keep on track with the latest and future of the food industry. Friendly and relaxing format for quality networking.”

“I found Tastes of Better really insightful and it brought the whole supply and manufacturer piece together. But also, it was very informative and on trend and what we need to be thinking about going forward. It was a really good detailed insight"

“Really insightful talks and a lovely group of attendees whom I got to know throughout the day. The sessions were great and I loved seeing different topics being discussed by companies from a variety of areas within the industry"

Strictly reserved for NPD and innovation professionals and F&B brands, manufacturers, retailers, QSRs and foodservice companies

Designed for business service providers professional services and consultancy firms.

A taste of what's to come

We look forward to welcoming you to Food Matters Live Manchester

Strictly reserved for NPD and innovation professionals and F&B brands, manufacturers, retailers, QSRs and foodservice companies

Designed for business service providers professional services and consultancy firms.

We are delighted to welcome VIPS as our guests, but we are obliged to charge a small fee to cover booking processing costs. We are proud to support FareShare Greater Manchester and are donating 10% of this fee to help support them in their work to overcome food poverty.