IUFoST WORLD CONGRESS
21st IUFoST World Congress of Food Science & Technology
The 21st International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) World Congress of Food Science & Technology will be an action packed 4-day event that covers the latest advances in Food Science & Technology. We will be diving into all the key aspects, such as Food Safety, Food Security, Regulations, Innovations and Advancement in Food Processing, Impact of Industry 4.0, Food Engineering, Digital Transformation in Food Industry, Novel Food Products, Markets and Consumer Research. We will be looking at all these topics and much more, as we uncover how they impact the growth of the Food Industry, both in the region and around the world.
The Scientific & Technical Programme will cover the following sub-themes during the World Congress:
Agri and Aqua-Technology
Food Chemistry & Ingredients
Food Processing and Engineering
Future of Food Manufacturing
Food Packaging & Material Science
Supply Chain Management
Sensory & Consumer Science
Nutrition & Health
Traditional & Future Food
Food Safety & Regulatory Science
Public Private Partnership & Open Innovation
This event will be one of the first few physical face-to-face conferences, providing ample networking opportunities, as COVID-19 moves from a pandemic to an endemic stage. We are expecting strong participation from industry and academia partners. We hope that this will be a “Congress with the Industry & Academia for the Practitioners”.
Notably, the 21st IUFoST World Congress of Food Science & Technology marks 35 years since it was last held in Singapore on behalf of the ASEAN region.
We expect strong support of at least 1,000 – 1,200 delegates from Singapore, neighbouring countries through the Federation of Institutes of Food Science & Technology in ASEAN (FIFSTA), and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. With IUFoST’s global profile, we anticipate another 1,000 – 1,500 delegates from across the world, including from North America, South America, Europe and Africa.
About IUFoST World Congress of Food Science & Technology
IUFoST supports programmes and projects to increase the safety and security of the world’s food supply. World Congresses of Food Science & Technology are organised every two years, to stimulate the ongoing exchange of knowledge in those scientific disciplines and technologies relating to the expansion, improvement, distribution and conservation of the world’s food supply.
Nineteen (19) World Congresses of Food Science and Technology have now been held:
London, UK 1962; Warsaw, Poland 1966; Washington, USA 1970; Madrid, Spain, 1974; Kyoto, Japan, 1978; Dublin, Ireland 1983; Singapore 1987, Toronto 1991, Budapest, Hungary, 1995; Sydney, Australia 1999; Seoul, Korea 2001; Chicago, USA 2003; Nantes, France 2006; Shanghai, China 2008; Cape Town, South Africa 2010; Iguassu Falls, Brazil 2012; Montreal, Canada 2014; Dublin, Ireland 2016; and Mumbai, India 2018.
The 2020 World Congress, which was to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, was cancelled because of the global pandemic.
The next Congress is scheduled to be held on 31 October - 3 November 2022 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.