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The insights and science behind what’s next
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Consumer and Retail Trends
Hear what’s shaping the food and drink market - from conscious consumption to new retail models and the balance between health, sustainability, and value. Learn from analysts, strategists, and brand leaders as they share what’s driving consumer choices in 2026 and beyond.
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Future of Positive Nutrition
Explore how science and data are transforming functional foods and dietary supplements - from metabolic health and the microbiome to women’s wellness, fibre, and personalised nutrition. Gain a clear view of the trends shaping tomorrow’s healthier, more sustainable products.
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AI for Food
Innovation
Discover how artificial intelligence supports every stage of product development. Learn how AI can identify consumer insights, test ideas faster, and help create products that balance health, sustainability, and taste, while keeping human creativity at the heart of the process.
Taste. Touch. Discover.
Tastes of Better
Join our signature Tastes of Better programme where ingredient innovation comes life in a range of creative settings.
Connect consumer trends with tangible solutions, meet technical experts, and discover the tastes and technologies inspiring the future of product development.
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The Flavour House
Step into The Flavour House to explore the science and emotion of taste. Through expert talks and the interactive Sensory Lab, experience how flavour, texture, and aroma shape products, drive enjoyment, support clean-label and functional design.
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NPD Discovery Zone
Meet the people developing tomorrow’s ingredients, technologies, and NPD services. At the heart of the Zone, the Discovery Theatre hosts lively 30-minute demonstrations where you can taste, test and explore the practical applications.
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NPD Discovery Table Talks
Take a seat at these unique roundtable discussions, designed for small groups of peers and experts. These roundtables are intimate, interactive, and enable powerful conversations - they are a space where you can openly share challenges, swap ideas, taste and test new concepts and technologies.
People. Partners. Possibilities
Food Matters Live offers two days of rich business networking - an unrivalled opportunity to engage with product development peers, meet industry experts, collaborate with partners, and find new opportunities through a deep programme of structured networking and learning opportunities.
Conversations that count
The new 1-2-1 meeting programme provides access to private, pre-scheduled meetings with key partners, suppliers, and peers. These meetings ensure dedicated time to explore collaborations, discuss challenges, and find connections that can accelerate your product development.
Watch our previous event highlights and discover the Food Matters Live experience
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Heads of, Directors, Senior Manager and Managers in:
- New Product Development (NPD)
- R&D
- Nutrition
- Innovation
- Quality
- Brand
- Marketing
- Ingredient procurement
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Views from our VIPs
We found the sessions very insightful, learnt about some new techniques that are close to our hearts as innovators – I found it inspiring and it was helpful as a networking opportunity also.
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I loved the event. Of particular note was the interactive tasting sessions – the various teams were interesting, knowledgeable and very open to feedback. Looking forward to future events!
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Food Matters Live 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 thought the day was well organised, the venue was nice and spacious and was an excellent choice. The pre-organisation to allocate time slots was a great initiative as I was able to see everything there.
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It was great to attend the event last week, there was a good range of talks on - covering the in the spotlight topics and well organised.
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This was my first Tastes of Better event, and I loved it! I was really impressed by the quality of the sessions, loved hearing trends and insights from different actors in the industry, and enjoyed very much the info (the food and drinks!) provided during the tasting session.
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Partner with us
To find out more about partnership opportunities in Rotterdam, please contact briony.mansell-lewis@foodmatterslive.com
Our partnership opportunities will position you in front of our premium audience looking to connect, collaborate, and do business. Partnership opportunities are available for:
- Ingredient suppliers
- Contract manufacturers
- Sustainability advisory services
- Research and development services
- Business consultants
- Investors and financial institutions
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