Call for Applications: Foodtech Innovations Awards 2025

Applications are open for the Foodtech Innovations Awards 2025. The Foodtech Innovations Awards recognizes the most innovative proposals that offer a disruptive approach to Customer Experience or Management and innovative business models or technology that can make a change in the food sector.

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About Foodtech Innovations Awards

Opportunity Details

  • Date Published: January 23, 2025
  • Application Deadline: April 04, 2025
  • Category: Contest Entrepreneurs

Food for Future believes that the food industry is booming and while online reviews are great, it always helps to have some recognition from a credible, third-party source. Additionally, as food lovers, they wish to recognize those organizations that are shaping the industry and promote them to a 100,000 strong readerships and to the media.

Their goal is to provide the very best tips on food to their discerning followers and subscribers too. This way, they intend to bring out the best in the food industry and highlight it for the world to see.

Categories

The proposals that will be considered to participate in the Awards must be in the framework of the following categories:

1. Innovative solution on digitalization award for the food and beverage industry

This category seeks to recognise the work and effort of the company, platform, solution or technological application that is impacting and transforming the food and beverage industry, its sales model, its production, process, contact with the consumer or value proposition through a solution linked to the digital and technological sphere. Applications of technologies such as IoT, cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twin or biotechnology among others to the food and beverages industry will be considered.

2. Sustainability project

The aim is to recognise the work and effort of positive impact as an alternative to a problem of environmental impact; and as a fulfilment of the sustainable development goals. SDGS. Such as packaging waste, actions to reduce climate change, more sustainable agricultural practices, science and research applied to understanding and improving environmental impact, circular economy, and better sustainability awareness initiatives.

3. Healthy food

The aim is to recognise the work and effort of the company, project or platform that promotes an innovative and/or scientific solution that promotes healthy eating. This award contributes to the promotion of innovative projects developed throughout the value chain of the food industry, as well as projects within the framework of Foodtech whose solution has a direct impact on healthy eating.

4. Automation and robotics solution for the food value chain

This category is focused on the use of automation and robotics to boost the competitiveness of their production processes or their factories. Projects focused on the field of innovation, research and development (R+D+I) between industrial companies, technology centers or robotics manufacturers may also be presented.

5. Disruptive solution for the packaging industry

This award aims to reward new challenges in innovation in an industry in total transformation for the food industry.

6. Innovative startup

This award is aimed at the most innovative startups with the greatest impact on digitalisation, sustainability and health in the Foodtech sector. Whether they are at a very early stage or at a more advanced stage, innovation and disruption in the solution itself will be valued. This category, in turn, will receive applications submitted directly from the FoodTech Startup Forum of Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech.

7. Spanish startup with the greatest international projection

This award seeks to recognise the Spanish startup with the greatest international projection. Their foodtech solution is considered to have a fully defined global impact in tackling some of the major challenges facing the food and beverage industry

Key Dates

  • Submission Deadline: April 4, 202
  • Finalist Notification: From April 14, 2025
  • Award Ceremony: May 14, 2025

Benefits of Foodtech Innovations Awards

The FoodTech Innovation Awards will grant the finalists with the following prizes:

  • A single invitation to attend the Awards for all the finalists of each category.
  • A trophy recognition of the awarded category.
  • Media recognition and dissemination of the award to all Expo Food Tech channels and Media Partners.
  • Press release mentioned of the project and distribution to economic and specialized media.
  • 5 Premium VIP Passes for the event that will allow you to access the Expo Foodtech Area, the VIP Lounge and attend all the conferences of the Food 4 Future World Summit.

Foodtech Innovations Awards Requirements

  • Open to all companies, universities, vendors, executives, business schools, scholars, researchers, analysts, journalists, start-ups, scale-ups, accelerators, science, tech parks and innovation centers from all over the world.
  • There are no restrictions in terms of the number of entries to be submitted.
  • Entries must not contain any threatening, abusive, defamatory or false content if so, the organizer has the absolute right to remove the entry without any notice to the author.

Evaluation Criteria

All submitted proposals will be evaluated by Food 4 Future Evaluation Committee in terms of the impact achieved within the frame of:

  • Innovation
  • Leadership
  • Disruption
  • Strategy
  • Execution

Application Date and Process

  • Click on the link to the application website to apply.

Application Deadline

04 April, 2025

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