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July 10-11, 2023

The Impact of Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Human Health and Wellbeing

The combined efforts of IIFH and Mars Inc. will connect world-class experts on the microbiota-gut-brain axis and industry leaders in the health and wellness landscape to discuss the role of the microbiome as a health modulator of brain, gut, immune system function and health in adults.

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AgFunder is a new kind of venture capital firm. Our mission is to invest in bold and impactful technologies rapidly transforming our food and agriculture system.

Founded in 2013 and based in Silicon Valley, AgFunder is one of the world’s most active foodtech and agtech VCs. We’re rethinking venture capital for the 21st century. We were born online, and with our publication AFN we’ve built a global ecosystem of 85,000+ subscribers. This gives us one of the most powerful networks to help build impactful and important companies.

King’s Hawaiian and IIFH are working together to explore new opportunities to create irresistible and nutritious foods that can be shared and enjoyed with families, friends, and communities, and steward this legacy into future generations.

Cornucopian is a Medicine 3.0 investment firm. They use long-term capital to build and support results-focused, high integrity companies that use scientific knowledge and accessible technologies to help everyone attain improved healthspan, enhanced performance, and extended longevity.

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The USDA AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) aims to solve the world’s biggest challenges to crop and food production facing our planet: ensuring a sustainable, nutritious, efficient, and safe food supply while mitigating the impacts of climate change.

The Innovation Institute for Food and Health (IIFH) at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) is a leading food and health research institute working with industry leaders and academic experts to find healthier ways to make the foods people love. The Institute is focused on creating a future where people can enjoy the foods they love, and those foods are both good for them and the planet.

Exponential Food Labs (EFL) is The March Group’s venture studio focused on building the next generation of food & health companies with AI at the core. EFL brings together unique domain expertise with leading synthetic biology and data science innovators, food & health industry veterans, and VC operating expertise in partnership with IIFH.

The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish. We make big bets to promote the well-being of humanity. Today, we are focused on advancing human opportunity and reversing the climate crisis by transforming systems in food, health, energy, and finance.

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) is a global effort to create a public database of the biochemical composition and function of the food we eat using the state-of-the-art mass spectrometry technologies and bioinformatics.

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The Production Board is a San Francisco-based technology incubator and investment holding company, aiming to improve the efficiency and economics of global food and agriculture markets. To realize this mandate, they conduct deep research into fundamental problems in the food and agriculture value chain, and identify opportunities where technology may enable new operating models or improved end products. They then fund, build, and capitalize companies based on core theses. In some cases, supplying capital and strategic partnership to external companies already pursuing this work.

IIFH Involvement