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Tony Hunter    

Food Futurist Speaker, Food Scientist & Foresight Strategist

Tony Hunter is a food futurist speaker, food scientist, author, and strategic foresight consultant who specializes in the future of the food, beverage, and agriculture industries. He uses his deep technical knowledge and story-weaver skills to inform, inspire, and entertain his audiences.

He has spoken on four continents and regularly presents as an expert on the future of food on podcasts, webinars, TV, radio, and in print. He consults with global food companies, from PepsiCo to KFC, as well as VC investors and the top four global consulting companies, on the impact of food technology and consumer trends.

He is a contributing author to the futurist book “Aftershocks and Opportunities 2” and the Baking and Biscuit International book “Sustainability and Innovations Supporting It.”

Using his distinctive combination of scientific qualifications, business experience, and detailed insight into food technologies, he delivers a unique perspective on the future of the food, beverage, and agriculture industries.

From farm to fork, audiences and clients are amazed at Hunter's stories of the Future of Food.

Speech Topics


Navigating the AI Food Revolution

Not long ago easily usable AI seemed a distant possibility. Then, like all exponential technologies, AI exploded into view, leaving Food, Beverage and Ag companies questioning the effect it will have on them. Understanding how the interaction of AI and cutting-edge food technologies will enable organizations to deliver abundant, nutritious, and appetizing food offerings is critical.

In this fascinating, research-rich keynote audiences discover:

  • Actual examples of Food, Beverage and Ag companies using AI to gain competitive advantage.
  • The key role of AI in accelerating the food technologies of the future.
  • Why the future consumer’s personal AI will define their preferences and behaviors.
  • How to meet the AI driven consumer expectations of the largest generation in the history of the planet, Gen Alpha.

Reimagining the Global Food System

Feeding 10 bn people by 2050 means that the Food, Beverage and Ag industries are at the forefront of meeting this challenge. The problem is that our current food system can’t equitably and sustainably feed the increasing population. New technologies, doing more with less, are rising to the challenge, enabling us to reimagine a more sustainable and equitable global food system. In this keynote audiences discover: • How cutting edge food technologies will change the future of the Food, Beverage and Ag Industries. • Why we need to decouple food from the twin tyrannies of arable land and available fresh water. • Technologies countries can use to attain increased levels of food security and food sovereignty. • How we can embrace exponential food technologies to reimagine a whole new low GHG food system.

Leadership in a TECHXponential Food Future

Technology is now everywhere in Food, Beverage and Ag; indeed, you can’t talk about food from farm to fork without talking about technology. In fact food now is technology and one certainty is that technologies advance exponentially. Food is now technologies advancing exponentially, food is now TECHXponential™.

In this keynote audiences will learn: • Why exploring the Future of Food is a leadership responsibility. • The reason it’s so dangerous to think linearly in an exponential world. • The key technologies driving the Future of Food. • The alternative futures for the Food, Beverage and Ag industries. • How to be prepared and lead an organisation into these alternative futures.

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