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With Tony Vu (Founder, MintScraps), Elizabeth Meltz (Dir. of Environmental Health, Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group) & Tinia Pina (Founder, Re-Nuble).
Wed, Oct 21, 2015 @ 07:00 PM   $25   ADP Innovation Lab, 135 W 18th St, 5 Fl
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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Food Waste is anepidemic. One third of all food produced in the world is wasted, and that number jumps to 40 percent in the U.S.From restaurant scraps, to grocers disposing of imperfect produce, to spoiled food,roughly$400B in food ends up in landfills every year globally.


To address this enormous problem, innovators are developing technologies and initiatives that aim to reduce food waste across the supply chain. Hear from a handful of these innovators at this month's Food+Tech Meetup.You'll get an inside look at theircompanies' business models, products, challenges and lessons learned.

There will also be networking and drinks and nibbles fromTaste Wine Company,food360, Ox Verte, Sustainable Snacks and more.

We're looking for one more food waste innovator to present. Email nina[at]foodtechconnect[dot]com with more information about your company if you're interested.




SCHEDULE

7:00 - 7:45:Networking, Snacks & Drinks

7:45 - 9:00:Presentations & Q&A

9:00 - 9:30:More Networking




CONFIRMED PRESENTERS

Tony Vu - Founder & CEO, MintScraps -MintScraps is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform developing technology to help restaurants and food businesses monitor and reduce waste. Working with small restaurants and large chains, were building a comprehensive digital waste management solution that combines an online software platform with sensor technology.

Elizabeth Meltz - Director of Environmental Health, Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group -Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich are the distinctive forces behind Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group, an eclectic group of critically acclaimed, unanimously adored restaurants. B&BHG owns and operates over 25 restaurants in New York, Las Vegas, California, Connecticut, Singapore and Hong Kong including Del Posto, Casa Mono and Pizzeria Mozza.The groups flagship is Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca, an award-winning Greenwich Village restaurant where we have seamlessly combined traditional Italian principles with intelligent culinary adventure since 1998.

Tinia Pina - Founder & CEO, Re-Nuble - Re-Nuble uses a proprietary process enabled by technology to convert food waste into a cheaper, highly sterile and stable, organic-based liquid fertilizer for the indoor agriculture industry. It is focused on the commercialization of formulas and technologies to turn food waste streams into biobased materials for indoor growing systems. In doing so, Re-Nuble aims to create completely sustainable, closed loop food and plant production systems.



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