Open Innovation Forum Food & Drink Pitching Event

This is your chance to pitch ideas to major global players in the Food, Drink and FMCG sectors.

Senior leaders from major Food, Drink and FMCG firms such as Mars, PepsiCo, Heineken, Suntory, Muller, Cargill, Boots, Twinings, Yili and Kerry are holding a pitching event for innovative companies, entrepreneurs, start-ups and university spin-offs. These companies, who are members of the University of Cambridge IfM’s Open Innovation (OI) Forum, are seeking new solutions to their business challenges, so you have the chance to pitch to them at an event on the afternoon of Tuesday 7 December, which will take place online. The 10th Food, Drink & FMCG Innovation Pitching Event is open to all individuals, research organisations and companies of all sizes and levels of maturity. Up to 20 entrepreneurs, start-ups, researchers, innovators and technology developers will be picked to pitch their ideas to a panel of key decision-makers and ‘innovation scouts’ from important food, Drink and FMCG firms

This year’s Pitching Event will focus on solutions to four of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals which the OI Forum members have identified as having the greatest relevance to the Food, Drink and FMCG sectors:

• Zero Hunger
• Good Health and Wellbeing
• Responsible Consumption and Production
• Climate Action