JCI European Conference Bruges 2022 - Food For Generations

Let’s talk about a match made in heaven: healthy food, happy employees and smart fridges!

We are very happy to present one of our most important partners in this new episode of our podcast series ‘Food For Generations’! Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Mathias Jennes en Bram Croon, co-founders of FoodM. This promising start up – or should we say scale up – aims to bring healthy food to the work floor with their state of the art smart fridges, app and high tech platform! With their partnerships with local caterers, they also contribute to a better sustainable food system. And with a jaycee from JCI Aalst as their Chief Technology Officer, what can go wrong? #reachforthestars

Eager to dive into the wonderful world of smart fridges? Tune in and be amazed!

Let’s talk about coffee! We are very happy to present one of our main partners in this new episode of our podcast series ‘Food For Generations’! Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Bart Buyse, owner of IzyCoffee. IzyCoffee is a coffee chain specialised in espresso based quality coffees. Their mission: bring high quality coffee to the masses!

Eager to dive into Bart’s coffee paradise and are you curious why “coffee is the wine of the 21stcentury?” Tune in and find out!

We are very happy to present our one of our main partners in this newest episode of our podcast series ‘Food For Generations’! Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Stijn Boeren, Business Development Manager and Member of the Board of Directors at Avecom. Avecom is a very innovative SME which specializes in steering and optimizing microbial processes, the engineering of microbiomes and circular economy.

Are you curious how Avecom solves environmental and industrial problems by using microbial processes to cleanse water, soil and air? Or how the Avecom gives a second life to feed and food streams? Then listen to this brand new episode and find out!

Hear hear, we have a BIG announcement to make! We are happy to introduce our first keynote speaker at the European Conference in Bruges in 2022!

Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Dominique Persoone!
Dominique is the most famous chocolatier – or as he likes to dub himself: Shock-o-latier - in Belgium. He will kickstart our conference in June 2022!

Can’t wait to hear how Dominique fell in love with chocolate, built his chocolate empire and why he cares so much about sustainability? Then listen to this brand new podcast episode. 

Special thanks to Dominique Persoone, The Chocolate Line and Geoffrey Van Hulle!

In our third podcast we interview Mr. Elwin Van Herck, owner of Noordzee Drones and Mr. Guy Meyvaert, project manager and drone expert on agricultural applications at Indros.

During the interview, you’ll discover why they are so passionate about drones and how drones will help strengthen our sustainable food system.

In this second installment, we interview Minou Esquenet, an alderman for the city of Bruges. She is responsible for climate, energy, the environment, and other subjects. In this episode you'll discover what drives her in her job, and what projects Bruges has launched around sustainability and food!

Have you heard about Foodwinners, for example?