The Food & Beverage Innovation Forum 2019 (FBIF2019), was held in Hangzhou International Expo Center in China on April 23, 2019. The forum, themed as “Gaining New Momentum from Open Innovation,” focused on the new format in the food industry. More than 120 global speakers and 4,000+ decision-makers from 700+ leading companies — including Nestle, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mondelēz International, Nongfu Spring, Yili and Mengniu — were in attendance.
On the first day of the FBIF2019, the Plenary Session officially started after the opening remark by Isabella Hsu, the Founder & CEO of Simba Events. Isabella pointed that FBIF not only kept focusing on its own growth from 2014 to 2019, but also continually observed the trends of global F&B industries, and found that more and more small but promising companies showed their strong product power, which has attracted the great attention of the top 100 companies in the global food industry.