Thomas King
Thomas King
Food Frontier Founder and Chair
Thomas King is a founder, international speaker and future food specialist who has been recognised as one of Australia’s most accomplished young pioneers. For over a decade Thomas has driven food systems, environmental and poverty alleviation initiatives across five continents. He was named Young Australian of the Year VIC in 2015, awarded a Myer Innovation Fellowship in 2019 and on The Australian’s 2022 100 Top Innovators list. Realising the huge potential of plant proteins and cellular agriculture to help safely and sustainably feed our growing global population, he founded Food Frontier in 2017 as Australia and New Zealand’s independent think tank on alternative proteins. Thomas is a seasoned public speaker, having presented at over 100 conferences, schools and summits since 2014, including on-stage conversations with Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz, Dr Jane Goodall DBE and HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed. His story has been profiled across ABC’s One Plus One, The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend and The Weekend Australian Magazine.
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Meet the Meat Makers and Taste the Future
WED, OCT 18, 11:00 AM
Conference
As the world’s population heads towards 10 billion by around 2050, the need to produce more protein with finite natural resources is intensifying. Even the Australian domestic consumer market for these products is forecast to be worth over $3 billion a year by 2030. NSW’s scientific skills in the corporate world, in academia and government, put us at the forefront of innovative synthetic food and plant-based meat alternative production. Many of our businesses are leading the world in new food production technologies.
Meet the Meat Makers is your opportunity to meet some of these world-leading innovative businesses and the experts in developing the new technologies. The panellists will discuss the opportunities and challenges that are presented by the increasing demand, while at the same time managing technological development, sourcing and enhancing a skilled workforce and the impacts on environmental and business sustainability.
