Bio

Alessio is the co-founder and CEO of Forward Fooding, the world’s first collaborative platform for the food & beverage industry fostering innovation via FoodTech Data Intelligence and corporate-startup collaboration. He now works with F&B companies of all sizes and investors to support them with understanding how AgriFoodTech innovation can be used to create a more sustainable future of food. Alessio is an avid ecosystem builder and leads the Global Tech Advocate group (FoodTech) since 2016. He is a tech and startup aficionado determined to make this world a better place by creating the largest community of food and food tech innovators in the world and fostering collaboration opportunities among its operators. He now works with F&B companies of all sizes and investors to support them with understanding how entrepreneurship, collaboration, and investment models can be used to create a more sustainable future of food. Alessio also regularly speaks and consults food company on technology and investment models to foster food innovation. Some of his recent speaking engagements include keynote presentations at Food IT conference (US), FBIF - Food & Beverage Innovation Forum (CHN), World Mobile Congress (SP), RoIF - Rothamsted Open Innovation Forum (UK), EIT Food Innovation forum (SP), AECOC Seguridad Alimentaria conference (SP), Food Vision (UK), Food Tech Matters (UK), Personalised Nutrition conference (UK), The Big Meet (SE), The Grocer Conference (UK) Agtech&Foodtech Berlin Summit (GE), Smau (ITA - UK) among others. A global citizen at heart, he has lived, studied and worked in Italy, South Korea, Australia, US, and he now spends most of his time in between the UK and Spain. He very much enjoys connecting passionate food people when not trying new forms of food or training for his next Ironman.