Join us on April 6, 2024, for the annual FoodCon conference!

FoodCon is an annual conference that celebrates the food and agri-business community. This year the conference will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2024, at RambleRill Farm.

Our goal is to bring together a diverse audience of students, community members, and business professionals who have a shared interest in the sustainable food industry. We aim to increase the awareness and understanding of the sustainable food industry as well as support and grow the industry here in North Carolina and throughout the country.

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The Future of Food

This year’s conference will focus on how we are thinking about the future of food from a variety of different perspectives ranging from the farmer to the end consumer.

Audience

Each year more than 100 students and community members attend FoodCon. While the event is hosted by professional clubs of their respective business schools, the event is open to environmental, engineering, and policy students as well as food business professionals.

History

FoodCon began at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2014. The conference brought together a diverse range of speakers to discuss current trends and issues in the sustainable food industry. In 2015, the conference moved to Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and became a partnership between UNC, Duke and NC State. For the 2016-17 academic year, the event was held at NC State University, and has since rotated between the three business schools each year.

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Hosts

FoodCon 2023-2024 is hosted by UNC Kenan-Flagler's Net Impact Club in collaboration with Duke Fuqua’s MBA Food and Agriculture Club and the NC State Net Impact Club.