Anuga FoodTec 2027: international platform for innovation and technology +++ Three building blocks of the technological future +++ Specialised programme for the new key theme
Under the key theme of “Navigate Complexity. Smart. Safe. Sustainable.“, Anuga FoodTec is showing how the food and beverage industries can master complexity and accelerate innovations from 23 to 26 February 2027. This transformation is characterised by global flows of commodities, changed consumer behaviour and climate protection, while the requirements for quality, safety, traceability and efficiency accompanied by sustained cost pressures are increasing at the same time.
The key theme stands for solutions that combine efficiency and safety with ecological, economic and social responsibility – networked, automated, digital and resource-conserving.
“With its key theme of ‘Navigate Complexity. Smart. Safe. Sustainable.’, Anuga FoodTec 2027 points out possibilities for how data-supported control, secure networking and resource-efficient processes can make complexity in production manageable”, explains Roland Thiemann, Director of Anuga FoodTec.
Specialised programme in cooperation with the DLG
In order to reinforce the content orientation of the top theme, Anuga FoodTec 2027 is working together closely with the German Agricultural Society (DLG), which contributes its scientific and practical expertise to the shaping of the specialised programme. “As the specialist partner and industry sponsor of Anuga FoodTec 2027, we are developing the specialised programme for the top theme and networking leading experts from science, industry, politics and practice”, explains Carola K. Herbst, Deputy Managing Director/Food & Food Technology Division Manager of the DLG. “Our ambition is to provide trade visitors with well-founded analyses, concrete recommendations for action and practical solutions that show how technological innovations can be strategically and holistically integrated into complex production processes.“
Navigate Complexity: Three building blocks of the technological future
The Smart, Safe and Sustainable building blocks translate the key theme into practice and mark the most important technological fields of activity for the food production of tomorrow.
Smart: AI-supported, automated and digital systems create transparency, flexibility and efficiency – from raw materials management to intralogistics – and support data-based decisions.
Safe: Process and cybersecurity, hygiene control, monitoring and gap-free traceability secure quality standards and make it possible to manage risks.
Sustainable: Resource optimisation, energy efficiency and circular approaches anchor sustainability as an integral element of modern value creation.
Anuga FoodTec 2027: International platform for innovation and technology
As a global industry meeting point, Anuga FoodTec networks experts from industry, science and politics and provides orientation in a dynamic market environment. As a provider of impulses for the transformation of the global F&B industries, it brings together the international food tech network to advance solutions, strategies and innovations along the entire value creation chain and for all branches of the food and beverage industries – One for All. All in One. Technology is thus presented in a lively way at Anuga FoodTec, treated with a practical orientation and made visible across the entire process breadth. In addition to this, the trade fair also provides clear impulses for the continuing development of food production with its new key theme.
The next Anuga FoodTec is taking place from 23 to 26 February 2027 in Cologne.
