Posts by Scott Bowman
The Future of Food
A recent WebMD series explores how sustainability, food technology, and food as medicine will transform the future of food. As Scott Bowman put it, “We’ve gotten exactly what we designed our food system for. We’ve optimized for low-cost, mass-produced calories. Now we need to optimize for human health and planetary health.” In this series, Scott dives into what’s needed…
Read MoreIn the Future, Will You Get Food by Prescription?
Our diets are a major driver of our health — for better or for worse. Scott Bowman makes the message loud and clear in this article for WebMD: “We are facing a far deadlier global pandemic than COVID-19, but it’s happening in slow motion and it receives too little attention and too little collective action. Our…
Read MoreConvenience 2.0, Proximity & the Transformation of Food
The worlds of food service and food retail have undergone a profound transformation in recent years, driven by consumers’ desires for simplicity, accessibility and immediacy. Technology-enabled business models, and now the spread of COVID-19, are only accelerating the changes we’ve been witnessing. Many food companies have hesitated to proactively embrace these changes, but they no…
Read MoreTWIN Perspective: Restoring Trust in Food
Empowering human health through food demands the involvement of all stakeholders, including global food players. But today, we face an epidemic of mistrust across our food system – from the core science, to what is produced, packaged and delivered to consumers. This mistrust in our food system is a major barrier to achieving global progress.…
Read MoreSilicon Valley Meets Pittsburgh: How an 85-Year-Old Startup is Transforming Itself
Change and disruption are the new normal in virtually every industry, but especially so in the food and retail businesses. Both sectors are being up-ended by technology, changing consumer expectations and desires, new business models, and the rising tide of the venture space, where new entrants are capturing a disproportionate share of the sector’s growth.…
Read MoreNourishing the World: Exponential Challenges, Exponential Technologies
Global population levels will reach 10 billion or more by 2050. In the next 30 years, we have to solve the most important challenge in the history of the human population: How do we nourish the world? That means both providing the proper level of nutrients and sustenance, and leveraging the food system to power…
Read MoreExploring the Social License to Operate in the Ag & Food Value Chain
KIN convened a group of 20 leaders from a variety of stakeholder groups as a follow up to the successful KIN Forum Innovation in Ag and Food (sponsored by Intel and John Deere) held in June 2016 prior to KIN Global 2016.
Read MorePowering Up the NOW! Economy with Corporate Venturing
KIN Forum: Innovation in Agriculture and Food
The KIN Forum on Innovation in Agriculture and Food, sponsored by John Deere and Intel, was an invitation-only gathering of 40 industry and non-industry leaders to discuss the future of the food and agriculture industry.
Read MoreClareo and Client Partner to Improve Healthcare in South Sudan
“I applaud Scott for the work he is doing to address that nagging problem that in our lifetime, one billion people will go to their graves prematurely because they never had access to a healthcare worker. This problem can only be addressed through collaborative partnerships, and my thanks to Clareo Partners for recognizing this.” —…
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