This is an Engaging for Impact Event by RMIT's Enabling Impact Platforms. Sponsored by the Fight Food Waste CRC.
Join us for this multidisciplinary two-day event showcasing research from both Australian and global perspectives on food's evolving connections to society, health, and our future.
This event is designed to bring together and foster dialogue among RMIT researchers, industry leaders, governmental bodies, and other crucial stakeholders, addressing urgent societal challenges around food and charting the pathways for a desirable and sustainable food future.
The event will be structured around three pivotal interdisciplinary themes, that frame RMIT University’s Enabling Impact Platforms:
Looking at how food can play a part in driving positive social change.
Exploring the complex and multifaceted role that food plays in our physical and mental health.
Covering the opportunities and challenges of the future of food production, consumption, and sustainability.
Activities across the two-day event include:
Monday, 27 November 2023
9am – 5pm, AEDT
Swanston Academic Building, (SAB) Building 80, 435-457 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
9am – 5pm, AEDT
Building 224, 203 McKimmies Road, Bundoora West campus, Bundoora
This is a two-day event. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend both days as the presentations and sessions intentionally build toward a collaborative project ideation workshop, to be hosted at the end of day two.
DAY 1, 27 November 2023
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| Event Registration Open |
| Acknowledgement of Country and Event Opening |
Opening Plenary Session: The Future of ‘Good’ Food |
| Morning Tea Break (Poster Session and Exhibitor Time) |
Theme 1: Food for Social Change and Connectedness (One Presentation and Two Parallel Session) |
| Lunch Break (Poster Session and Exhibitor Time) |
Theme 2: Food for Health and Wellbeing (Three Parallel Sessions) |
| Afternoon Tea Break (Poster Session and Exhibitor Time) |
Big Question Session: “What is Healthy Food?” |
| Evening Networking Session |
DAY 2, 28 November 2023
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| Acknowledgement of Country and Day 2 Opening | |
Opening Plenary Session: Sustainability and Food |
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| Morning Tea Break (Poster Session and Exhibitor Time) | Food Lab Tour |
Theme 3: Food for Securing our Future (Two Parallel Sessions) |
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| Lunch Break (Poster Session and Exhibitor Time) | Food Lab Tour |
Project Ideation Workshop: Technology and the Future of Food |
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| Closing and Announcing Poster Winners | |
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RMIT University enables economic, environmental, societal, health and cultural impact with government, business and the community through research and innovation.
RMIT's Food Research and Innovation Centre is a world-class facility that helps Australian businesses develop and market innovative, high value products for the global marketplace. Sign up to tour these facilities on Day Two of the Food for Thought event (limited availability).
Food Agility is a $150 million+ innovation hub that is creating new digital technologies and services to benefit the Australian agrifood industry.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
