Welcome to the 2023 Stanford Food Summit! Hosted by the Stanford Medicine’s Plant-Based Diet Initiative, this day-long conference brings together Stanford researchers to collaborate in creating a more healthful and sustainable world.
The day includes:
Keynote: Ethan Brown, CEO of Beyond Meat
Stanford Plant-Based Diet Initiative seed grant research presentations
Expert panelists from across Stanford schools
Plant-based lunch and snacks
Networking mixers
Funding opportunities
Breakout sessions
Topics: microbiome, food as medicine, teaching kitchens, seed grant funding opportunities, menus for health and sustainability, healthy school lunches, food and nutrition security, nutrition science, food systems, entrepreneurship, public policy, Stanford research, and more.
Come all day or for a la cart events
Tentative Schedule
8:00am Coffee, registration, mingling
8:45am Opening remarks
9:00am Ethan Brown keynote speech
9:30am Plant-Based Diet Initiative Seed Grant Award Winners and their Research
10:30am Networking
11:00am Panel discussion 1 (topic pending)
12:00pm Plant-based lunch
1:30pm Panel discussion 2 (topic pending)
2:30pm Break
3:00pm Breakout work group sessions with experts (topics pending)
4:00pm Networking, plant-based snacks, fermented food bar
The 2023 Stanford Food Summit is hosted by the Plant-Based Diet Initiative (PBDI), a research unit of Stanford Medicine made possible through generous funding by Beyond Meat. For more information about research projects and how to apply for seed grants for pant-based diet research, please visit pbdi.stanford.edu.