YFood Link-Up Industry & Startup: Afternoon

Our famous Link-Up is a day dedicated to building connections to take your business to the next level. 

Food Tech startups and scaleups can book-in to meet Food & Drink Industry partners and experts through short 1-2-1 meetings hosted online. So if you're looking to create meaningful industry partnerships, seeking out the right companies to pilot something new or want to get some expert input from industry professionals - then this is a day you don't want to miss!

Link-Up Industry Partners

Sodexo

Founded in Marseille in 1966 by Pierre Bellon, Sodexo is the global leader in Quality of Life Services, an essential factor in individual and organisational performance. Operating in 55 countries, our 412,000 employees serve 100 million consumers each day. Sodexo Group stands out for its independence and its founding family shareholding, its sustainable business model and its portfolio of activities including Food Services, Facilities Management Services and Employee Benefit Solutions. They provide quality, multichannel and flexible food experiences, but also design attractive and inclusive workplaces and shared spaces, manage and maintain infrastructure in a safe and environmentally friendly way, offer personalised support for patients or students, or even create programs fostering employee engagement. From Day 1, Sodexo has been focusing on tangible everyday gestures and actions through its services in order to have a positive economic, social and environmental impact over time. For us, growth and social commitment go hand in hand. Creating a better everyday for everyone to build a better life for all is our purpose. Sodexo is included in the CAC Next 20, CAC 40 ESG, FTSE 4 Good and DJSI indices.

Sodexo is looking to meet with disruptive companies and technology solutions that can be applied to food service; with a particular interest in automation and robotics (particularly applicable to meal production), the application of blockchain and web3, new and disruptive food models and medically tailored food models. It's worth noting that if you are a company creating ingredients, food and drink products, including alternative proteins, then this isn't the right session for you.

When working with innovative companies, Sodexo looks to pilot and ultimately form long term partnerships in order to enhance the services they provide to their clients and to optimise their internal processes. Fast-moving markets demand creativity and agility. By partnering with startups and scaleups to co-create new solutions for their clients and consumers they boost innovation in their business whilst offering their partners the knowhow and market access to help them successfully deploy their solutions. Their vision is to create a future of food service that is both innovative and better for the world.