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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.
Secure Exposure | Access to Clients
Foodpreneur Scale-Up Lab
Intelli.accelerate: Foodpreneur Scale-Up Lab is your opportunity for real growth breakthroughs during Gulfood Week 2026.
Not standard pitches with the bravado and hype—just presentations on the honest challenges faced by F&B founders.
Wisdom shared live and ongoing support from industry experts on manufacturing, margins, and market entry—leave with clearer priorities, sharper growth levers, and a concrete list of next moves you can activate immediately!
Who it’s for and why it matters?
This opportunity is for F&B founders who have already launched, already have customers, and now face harder problems around margins, manufacturing, listings, export, team capacity, and other challenging areas—not for idea-stage pitches.
Think CPG brands, FoodTech ventures, specialty and free-from products, and grocery-trade startups preparing to scale across GCC and beyond.
Benefit from the expertise of a curated group of experienced route-to-market specialists, food startup ecosystem builders, and CPG and FMCG leaders.
Simple Goal: turn sharing on one honest growth challenge into a rapport- and capacity-building exercise that spurs real momentum and post-event support.
