Tag Archives: food industry

Episode 13: Hacking Food Waste: A follow-up with IFT Student Competition Winners

January 19, 2022Uncategorizedfood, food industry, Food Science, food scientist, hackathon, IFT, institute of food technologists, students, technology, university, wasteiftscidish

Join host Bruce Perkins to learn more about the student group who won the Don’t Spoil It! An International Digital Hackathon in March 2021. The students share their motivations for joining the competition, the benefits from the competition, how they overcame obstacles, what they are currently working on and more.

Marcela Silva: Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School, Nigel Kang: University of Minnesota, Sofia Sierra Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School, Fawaz Bagoudou: Shinshu University, Chandrima Shrivastava: Empa

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Episode 3: The Fuzzy Front End of Product Development

May 14, 2021Uncategorizedamy shipley, consumers, covid, food industry, Food Science, food technology, IFT, institute of food technologists, product development, transformiftscidish

How human connection drives trends.

Where do businesses start when they want to develop a new product and how do you know this product will be a hit with consumers? This episode dives into the difficulties that occur at the beginning of product development, and how important it is for consumers to connect with a product to transform a hip fad to a lasting trend. Our guest, Amy Shipley shares her insights on how to get past the difficult beginnings of product development.

Speakers:

Amy Shipley, Managing Director and Partner, Sterling-Rice Group

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