Johnson & Wales University To Host Food Innovation & Tech Symposium

Press release from JWU:

Jan. 20, 2023

Johnson & Wales University’s College of Food Innovation & Technology (CFIT) will gather food leaders from across the country on Monday, March 6 and Tuesday, March, 7, 2023 for the third annual Food Innovation & Technology (FIT) Symposium.

This two-day convening of culinary innovators and thought leaders will tackle food-based topics including food service, food/beverage product development, food security and access, and food system sustainability. Building on the success of past FIT Symposiums, this year’s event offers expanded programming including a keynote address from prominent culinary historian and author Paul H. Freedman, Ph.D. , who will discuss Cuisine as an Academic Subject. In addition to the keynote address, the Symposium will feature:

• Bravo Top Chef alum Elizabeth Falkner will host a screening of the film “Sorry We’re Closed: How Chefs in the Restaurant Business Deal and Evolve in Crisis”
• Culinary entrepreneur Will Guidara, co-owner of the Make it Nice Hospitality group which owns New York’s famed Eleven Madison Park restaurant, will share his expertise in hospitality through his presentation “Unreasonable Hospitality: Giving People More than they Expect.”
• In his presentation From Canapés to PB&Js: Redefining What It Means to Be a Professional Chef, Dan Guisti, former head chef of the world-renown NOMA restaurant in Denmark will draw upon his success in fine dining and discuss how the role of a professional chef is changing.
• In-person participants will enjoy a special lunch prepared by Johnson & Wales faculty and students in the university’s Culinary Arts Museum.

The public is invited to attend in person and virtually. Registration and fee information can be found here:

WHEN: March 6-7, 2023 (full itinerary: FIT Symposium | Providence | Johnson & Wales University (jwu.edu))

WHO: Jason R. Evans, Ph.D., Dean, CFIT; Paul H. Freedman, PhD., Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University; culinary leaders, food thinkers and innovators.

WHERE: In person: Cuisinart Culinary Center for Excellence, Johnson & Wales University Harborside Campus, 265 Harborside Boulevard, Providence RI 02905

Virtual: Information shared upon registration

Johnson & Wales University would like to thank to our valued event sponsors: Charcuterie Artisans, King Arthur Flour, Foodware Group, Southwestern Foodservice Excellence (SFE), and JWU’s Ecolab Center for Culinary Science.”

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