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FOOD OF THE FUTURE I FUTURE OF FOOD
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES NOVEMBER 18 | 6:00-9:00 PM 200 BEACON STREET, SOMERVILLE
CONFERENCE THEME Italy will host the 2015 World Exposition in Milan under the main theme “Feeding the planet. Energy for life”. The event represents an opportunity to share strategies and problem solving styles with regards to food security and sustainable access to nutrition as well as to showcase industrial innovation in this field. The Greater Boston Area, with its prestigious universities and state-of-the-art research centers, is a favorite place for reviewing the most recent applications that could be employed in the agro-food sector, always taking into consideration a sustainable context. The aim of this symposium is to connect cutting age technologies developed within many different disciplines with food and nutrition perspectives.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM 6:00-6:30 pm
Registration
6:30-6:40 pm
Welcome
6:40-7:10 pm
First Panel - Speaker Fabio Marazzi Challenges and Perspectives for an Inclusive and Sustainable Access to Food If nine hundred million people suffer from malnutrition while an equal number suffer the effects of overeating and a poorly-disciplined diet, it is clear that the theme of safe, healthy eating is a truly global issue that directly or indirectly involves most of the earth’s population. To provide responses to these increasingly pressing themes, EXPO 2015 wants to be the occasion to represent excellence in the methods, techniques and rules of food production, in strategies for achieving energy savings in food production and in the rational use of renewable energy resources and the conservation of natural resources; and first and foremost among these, water, the most basic source of nourishment for mankind and the earth itself.
7:10-7:40 pm
Second Panel - Speaker Fiorenzo Omenetto Living Materials for Food Safety The use of biomaterials for technological applications has been introduced over the past few years. Among these, silk is finding new applications as a useful biocompatible, edible material platform with utility in high technology applications. We will overview how purified silkworm silk can be reassembled, among other things, in a multitude of high quality, micro- and nanostructured optical and illustrate the implication of a new class of "living materials" that can affect our daily lives, from the way we administer drugs, to the way we consume food.
7:40-9:00 pm
Networking Reception & Buffet
SPEAKERS Fabio Marazzi is a lawyer, University professor and member to several national and international, public and private, board among which Expo 2015 SpA. Fabio Marazzi is founder and senior managing partner of MAdvisors (formerly known as Emmeplus), a firm dealing with the process of internationalization of business, with offices in Milano, Lugano, Boston, Charlotte, Tel Aviv & Paris, serving corporations interested in the international business transactions, with a focus on Innovation & Technology and Life Science. Expert in business practice and particularly in m&a, corporate transactions, EU Law, innovation and internationalization regulation, with focus on the life science, nanotechnology, HLS and particularly with regards to the exploitation of industrial property and technology transfer process. He is member of many national and international organizations (ASIL, IBA, UIA, ABA) and author of several publications. He is also vice-president of the Aerospace and Defense Industry Steering Committee – American Bar Association, fellow member of CILS and of the Institute of Law & Medicine.
Fiorenzo Omenetto is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and leads the laboratory for Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Biophotonics at Tufts University and also holds an appointment in the Department of Physics. His research interest covers optics, nanostructured materials (such as photonic crystals and photonic crystal fibers), nanofabrication, and biopolymer-based photonics. Since moving to Tufts at the end of 2005, he has proposed and pioneered (with David Kaplan) the use of silk as a material platform for photonics, optoelectronics and high-technology applications, is co-inventor on over 70 disclosures (published and unpublished) on the subject, and is actively investigating novel applications that rely on this technology base. Applications of this material platform have received extensive press coverage, and have been featured in MIT’s Technology Review magazine in 2010 as a TR10– ‘top ten technologies likely to change the world’. He was named one of the top-50 people in tech by Fortune magazine in a class of 50 featuring Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Shigeru Miyamoto among others.
