Food+Tech Connect Anniversary Party:An Interactive Farm-to-Table Cocktail Party

Brooklyn Grange / LICSeptember 21, 2011 / 7:00 - 10:00

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Contact: Danielle Goulddanielle@foodtechconnect.comwww.foodtechconnect.com

The Event

What if you brought together 75 of the most talented food and tech innovators...

....stuffed them with great food and drink,

and asked:

How could you use information and technology to hack the food system?

Join Food+Tech Connect in celebrating our one year anniversary with an interactive cocktail party featuring our favorite underground chefs and food tech thought-leaders.

Ingredients and entertainment sourced using Zaarly.

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Chefs

Amanda Hesser Merrill

Stubbs,Food52

Mike Lee, Studiofeast

Natalie Jeremijenko,Mihir Desai

Cross(x) Species Adventure Club

Ben Walmer, Highlands

Dinner Club

Michael Cirino, a razor, a shiny

knife

Past Events

FOOD 2.0 - an official Internet Week 2011 day-long series of panels that explored food data sharing and standards, the future of food reviewing, open source food, and the social kitchen. Notable panelists included: Amanda Hesser, Nick Fauchald, Stowe Boyd, and Natalie Jeremijenko.

IdeaCOMM - Interactive farm-to-table lunch at SXSWi that brought together food and tech’s most innovative entrepreneurs, investors, government officials, technologists, and farmers. Attendees and chefs used featured web platforms and applications to crowdsource and build a food community that connects people at each stage of the process from farm-to-fork. Participating organizations included: Consmr, Greenling, Grubster, Lovefre.sh, The Wine Agent, and USDA.

EATS+APPS - an official Social Media Week NY 2011 food app showcase dinner and networking event featuring reps and founders from innovative food and beverage apps. Participating Apps include Gourmet Live, Food Network, Foodspotting, Snooth, Bread Baking Basics, Ratio, Dinevore, and Gojee.

The Feast Conference FEAST NY 2010 - a curated farm to table dinner for 250 of NYC’s greatest artists, changemakers, government officials, creatives and food innovators as part of the Feast Conference.

The Michelin Guide Red Book 2011 Release Events - announcing the new set of Michelin Stars in both New York and San Francisco for 2011, this event brought together some of the best culinary minds and food personalities in the business.

Food Tech Hackathon NY 2010 - the first-ever Food+Tech Hackathon, which brought together developers, designers, statisticians, urban farmers, public officials, and researchers for a 12-hour hackathon that used open government data to help citizens connect with and understand their food.

1,200+ Food Tech Innovators Connected

Types of Attendees

StartupsPR / Marketing /StrategyMediaResearchersTechnologistsAgriculturistsPolicy MakersOther

IBMUSDAUS Department of StatePop TechAmerican Express Kauffman LabsAgchat FoundationTetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTumblrZagat

Food52FoodspottingNikeFoursquareWindowfarmsYelp AllMenusSeamlessSnoothGojeeGilt GroupeSnooth

O'Reilly MediaThe New York TimesTechCrunchTasting TableGOODGrub StreetCBSFood NetworkGourmet LiveMashableTechPresidentForbes

Sponsorship Packages

Title Sponsor - $5K

Access to mailing list for all event

participants

Custom survey of the community

Logo placement on all event materials,

online promotion

Product showcased at event or

incorporated into programming

Opportunity to give opening remarks

Hang banner & distribute materials

Listed as community supporter on

Food+Tech Connect (including logo)

6 tickets to the event

Platinum Community Sponsor - $3 Logo placement in event materials online

promotion Web platform or app showcased at event Listed as community supporter on Food+Tech

Connect 4 tickets to the event

Gold Community Sponsor - $1.5K Logo placement in all event materials & online

promotion Listed as community supporter on Food+Tech

Connect 2 tickets to the event

Silver Community Sponsor - $250

Logo placement in event materials & online promotion

Listed as community supporter on Food+Tech Connect

1 ticket to the event

Gain market awareness as an early supporter/innovator of sector Learn about trends in the fast-growing food and tech industry Meet key decision makers and influencers from the worlds of information technology,

government, agriculture, food production, and investment Gain media exposure among the food, wine, and tech media

Co-Hosts

FOOD+TECH CONNECT

Danielle Gould: Danielle Gould is the founder of Food+Tech Connect, a startup that connects innovators in the growing food and information technology movement. Through events like The Feast Conference Dinner and the Food+Tech Hackathon she uses food and technology as mediums for cross-disciplinary collaboration. - www.foodandtechconnect.com

HIGHLANDS DINNER CLUB

Ben Walmer: Ben Walmer is the founder of The Highlands Dinner Club, a mobile culinary and social laboratory that offers friends, new and old, a chance to collaborate, invent and produce public food events highlighting local farms, purveyors and seasonal ingredients. He is also the co-founder of the architectural and creative design firm, LIMN Architects. - highlandsdinnerclub.tumblr.com

a razor, a shiny knife is an educational, social and theatrical culinary experience. We host events around the world that push the boundaries of what is possible and expected to happen around a kitchen and table. We have created elegant dining rooms on the tops of sky-scrappers in Los Angeles and on the underground NYC subway, a black banquet devoid of color served in a Victorian cathedral in London. – www.arazorashinyknife.com

For more sponsorship or press information please contact:

Danielle Goulddanielle@foodtechconnect.comwww.foodtechconnect.com