HOSTED BY OUR MEMBER CSIFT

Come learn about tools for how rapid innovation can be used in the food industry. Lauren Shimek is a food business innovation expert from California who is coming to Chicago to share her Design Thinking tips and insights with the Chicago Section IFT at this Professional Development event. Concluding her presentation on Design Thinking, Lauren will moderate a panel of Chicago based food companies who all use rapid innovation in their own unique ways. 

Costs (includes appetizers and a drink): CS-IFT Members: $15 Non-members: $25

Lauren Shimek is the Founder and CEO of Food.Tech.Design, an innovation consulting business for the food industry. As a Ph.D. food scientist with over nine years of food design and innovation experience at IDEO in addition to product development expertise at General Mills, she creates breakthrough food and beverage products that tap into people’s unmet needs and desires while being grounded manufacturability. Lauren’s personal passion for food, deep technical expertise and design thinking know-how place her at the innovation intersection of food, science and technology, and design.

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