HIC Calbee Panel Session: Novel Food Experience is Future Asian Wellness
Leave a Nest Singapore is proud to announce Calbee Inc. as a panel session partner for the Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference (HIC) in Singapore on 16 Nov 2024! The theme of the panel session is “Novel Food Experience is Future Asian Wellness”.
Representing Calbee Inc. in the panel session is Ms. Naoko Onishi, who is working on new product development, specifically in functional foods. Calbee has recently strengthened its efforts in creating food products that contribute to good health, and a notable example is the “Body Granola” project, which Ms. Naoko is part of. One of their partners on this project is Metagen Inc., a Japanese startup promoting R&D and business development to implement “gut environment-based personalised healthcare”, and we are pleased to welcome Dr. Shinji Fukuda, CEO of Metagen Inc., as a panellist. Last but not least, we have invited Mr. John Cheng, CEO of Innovate 360, to round out this panellist lineup. Innovate 360 is a Singaporean food tech incubator and innovation hub, and together, these distinguished panellists will showcase the different perspectives on driving innovation in the food tech space.
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PANELLISTS
Ms. Naoko Onishi
Calbee Inc. Health and Food Promotion Department
Ms. Naoko Onishi graduated with a degree from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law at Keio University. After gaining experience in sales at MSD K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Merck, she was involved in product planning and business development for seven years at Calbee, Inc. Since 2023, she has been involved in the planning and development of functional foods and the development of the personalised food program “Body Granola”. Holds an MBA.
Dr. Shinji Fukuda
Founder and CEO, Metagen Inc.
After obtaining his Ph. D. (Gut Microbiology) at Graduate School of Agriculture, Meiji University in 2006, Dr. Shinji Fukuda undertook several research positions at RIKEN. He was then appointed to Project Professor of the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University in 2019. Currently, he is also holding other posts as visiting professor in University of Tsukuba School of Medicine from 2016; group leader of Intestinal Ecosystem Regulation Group in KISTEC-KAST from 2017; Co-PI of ERATO in JST from 2019; and visiting professor in University of Technology Malaysia from 2019. He founded and is President CEO of Metagen Inc. since 2015.
Mr John Cheng
CEO/Founder, Innovate 360
John Cheng is the 3rd generation family business owner of Cheng Yew Heng Candy Factory, a 77-year-old established sugar manufacturing company in Singapore. In 2008, he founded Innovate 360, a food innovation hub and Singapore’s first food incubator with facilities. Innovate 360 is recognized as a food technology partner in food security by APEC and also the Singapore Government. It is an Accredited Mentor Partner helping startups scale and go to market. John is also Chairperson of Feed 9 Billion, which co-launched the Good Food Startup Manual: Singapore Edition. He is entrepreneurship head of SMF’s Youth Committee, and EXCO of SCCI’s Youth Business Affairs Committee.
MODERATOR
Dr. Ryuta Takeda
Representative Director, Leave a Nest America
Ryuta Takeda received Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, and trained as a pure scientist in a biotech field. After joining Leave a Nest, he initiated the ASEAN largest Deeptech entrepreneur platform “TECH PLANTER” in Japan, and managed to spread it to 10 countries to explore Deep Tech to match Deep Issues. In USA, from 2016-2019, he held TECH PLANTER in Silicon Valley and Boston. As well as managing international teams and businesses in Leave a Nest, he also developed a lot of international PoCs and collaborative researches between MNC and startup and different startups, so called international co-creation activities.
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