Connect with F&B founders, investors, and industry pioneers driving innovation within the F&B sector.
CPG, FoodTech ventures, specialty and free-from products, and grocery-trade.
Showcase your expertise and provide follow-up coaching to our pitching startups.
Apply via our panelist sign-up form.
Take the stage and pitch a growth challenge faced by your F&B startup.
CPG brands, FoodTech ventures, specialty and free-from products, and grocery-trade startups wanting to scale across GCC and beyond.
Partner with us to champion innovation while promoting your company.
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Foodpreneur AI Lab (29 Jan)
Intelli.accelerate: Foodpreneur AI Lab is a practical, founder-led session designed to help food businesses make sense of AI during Gulfood Week 2026.
This is not an AI showcase or tech-heavy conference. There’s no jargon, no sales pitches, and no pressure to already “have AI figured out.” Instead, founders share real use cases, experiments, and open questions around how AI could improve operations, decision-making, and scale.
Through a live AI keynote, short founder AI challenge pitches, and guided discussion, you’ll receive clear, actionable feedback on where AI actually fits in your business today—and where it doesn’t. Expect practical guidance on tools, workflows, and priorities you can test immediately, not theory or hype.
You’ll leave with clarity on AI opportunities, sharper focus on what to try next, and meaningful connections with founders and operators navigating the same questions.
Who it’s for and why it matters?
This opportunity is for F&B founders who are already operating and are now navigating the next layer of complexity—how AI fits (or doesn’t) into real business workflows.
Think CPG brands, FoodTech ventures, specialty and free-from products, and grocery-trade startups that already have customers and are now asking practical questions around operations, forecasting, marketing efficiency, cost control, and decision-making.
Founders benefit from direct exposure to AI practitioners and operators, not vendors—people who understand both food businesses and applied AI, and can translate possibilities into realistic next steps.
