Anuga FoodTec India

As consumer expectations evolve, so must the way we manufacture food.

This year,s Anuga FoodTec India Conference focuses on building a future-ready F&B industry - powered by smart tech, safety-first frameworks, and eco-conscious practices.

Gain actionable insights from industry pioneers.

Explore how innovation, compliance, and sustainability can co-exist to redefine operations.

Hall No 3, NESCO Exhibition Ground

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm : Reimagining Food Processing for India@2030 – Smart, Agile & Consumer-Driven

India’s food processing industry is on a high-growth trajectory—set to reach INR 65,244.8 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 8.38% from 2025. Contributing 12% to manufacturing GDP and 11% to agricultural value-add, it plays a vital role in rural employment, farmer incomes, and export growth.

But the sector is at a turning point. With rising demand for personalized, health-centric, and clean-label foods, manufacturers must shift from traditional systems to tech-driven, agile operations—leveraging automation, smart processing, and AI.

This session will explore how digital transformation is reshaping the industry, while addressing the operational and regulatory hurdles on the path to a smarter, future-ready food ecosystem.

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

02:30 pm - 03:30 pm : Securing Food Trust – Strengthening Safety Protocols in the Digital & Distributed Era

As India’s food landscape becomes increasingly digitized and decentralized-with D2C brands, e-commerce marketplaces, and informal retail coexisting-ensuring food safety and authenticity has become a more complex and urgent challenge. Vulnerabilities such as counterfeiting, ingredient fraud, repackaging, and unverifiable sourcing are rising, especially in high-risk segments like nutraceuticals, artisanal oils, and premium spices. In this fragmented environment, building food trust goes beyond conventional QA protocols-it requires embedding intelligence, traceability, and accountability into every layer of the supply chain.

This session explores how technology, regulatory frameworks, and brand accountability can work together to safeguard integrity across the supply chain.

02:30 pm - 03:30 pm

04:00 pm - 05:00 pm : Engineering the Future Plate - Smart Tech Innovations in Indian Food Processing

India’s food processing landscape is on the cusp of a scientific revolution. As consumers demand cleaner labels, enhanced nutrition, and safer food formats, the industry is responding with a wave of deep-tech interventions-from cold plasma and enzyme-assisted extraction to HPP and precision fermentation. These technologies are no longer futuristic; they’re becoming the benchmark for premium, functional, and export-ready products. However, unlocking their true potential in India requires solving for commercial viability, operational scalability, and real-world adaptability-especially in cost-sensitive and infrastructure-light environments.

This session brings together the ecosystem to decode how science-led innovation can become the cornerstone of India’s next food-tech leap.

04:00 pm - 05:00 pm

11:00 am - 12:00 pm : Sustainable by Design: Packaging Tech for the Next Decade

Sustainability in India’s food processing sector is now mission-critical-driven by SDG commitments, regulatory push, and evolving consumer demand. From FMCG leaders to MSMEs, companies are rethinking packaging for climate impact, compliance, and global market readiness.

With tighter EPR mandates and greener trade expectations, packaging is shifting-toward mono-materials, bio-based trays, and smart, recyclable formats. Yet, India’s diverse climates, cost pressures, and infrastructure gaps present real challenges.

This session will spotlight practical innovations and collaborative models accelerating India’s shift to sustainable, SDG-aligned packaging in the food ecosystem.

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm : Designing Waste Out - Circular Solutions in Food Processing & Packaging

India’s food processing sector generates 25-30% of agricultural output as by-products-much of it underutilized due to weak recovery systems and limited innovation. As the world shifts toward sustainable value chains, India has the opportunity to turn this waste into a $15-20 billion circular economy by 2030-spanning functional ingredients, compostable packaging, bio-materials, and energy recovery.

With EPR, ESG, and climate mandates driving change, leading players are moving beyond compliance-redesigning systems for zero waste and closed-loop operations. Circularity is fast becoming a strategic, economic, and competitive imperative.

This session will spotlight how processors and packaging innovators are unlocking value from waste-showcasing scalable, India-fit circular models, addressing ground-level challenges, and highlighting collaborative pathways to align growth with environmental stewardship.

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm

02:30 pm - 04:00 pm : Startup Showcase – Redefining Food Processing with Bold Innovation

India’s food-tech startup ecosystem is beginning to fill long-standing innovation gaps in the processing landscape-especially for Tier 2/3-based factories and MSMEs. With mainstream facilities still grappling with outdated machinery, poor yield optimization, and low traceability, a new wave of entrepreneurs is bringing agile, retrofit-ready, and cost-efficient solutions to the forefront. This session offers a stage to some of the most promising early-stage startups who are not just experimenting, but building solutions tested on ground and ready to scale.

This session provides a platform to showcase breakthrough, scalable innovations that address ground-level needs in real factories, especially in MSME and Tier 2/3 contexts.

02:30 pm - 04:00 pm

11:00 am - 12:00 pm : Ingredients Reimagined: From Additives to Processing Aids - Innovation, Integrity & Impact

India’s food processing sector is undergoing a quiet transformation-driven by the demand for clean-label products, functional nutrition, and sustainable, scalable ingredient systems. Once dominated by synthetic additives and basic fortification, the ingredient ecosystem is now seeing an influx of bioactive compounds, fermented inputs, plant-based solutions, and reimagined traditional crops.

But with innovation comes complexity. From navigating the regulatory grey zones of processing aids and excipients to ensuring consumer trust in clean-label claims, the industry faces both opportunity and scrutiny.

This session will decode how India’s evolving ingredient, additive, and processing aid landscape is adapting to meet the functional, sensory, and safety needs of modern food systems-while remaining globally competitive and locally relevant.

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm : Beyond the Plateau - Practical Innovation Strategies to Scale Food Businesses in India

Many food brands experience strong early-stage growth, only to plateau when expanding beyond their initial product-market fit. This stagnation often stems from a reactive approach to innovation-flooding shelves with SKUs that aren’t backed by insight or solving real consumer problems. Without a system to link market intelligence, product development, and execution, innovation efforts tend to become fragmented, supply-driven, and disconnected from what the consumer actually wants.

This session offers a clear playbook for moving from ad-hoc launches to a scalable, insights-led innovation pipeline. It emphasizes precision, consumer focus, and seamless integration across R&D, marketing, and operations to build future-ready portfolios that grow with consistency, not chaos.

12:30 pm - 01:30 pm