Announcing 5.16 Food Startup Branding Bootcamp, Must-Attend Food Events + More

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From a case for the coming food bubble, to agtech investment exploding in Q1 2015, to a roundup of the best food events, these are last week’s top stories. Like what you read? Feast your eyes on the full roundup here. Or better yet, sign up for Food+Tech Bytes and get the latest and greatest in food tech delivered to your inbox every week.

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1. Announcing Food Startup Branding Bootcamp 5.16 in NYC

Forget expensive marketing consultants. Learn how to make your brand standout across everything you do – from your website to your packaging to your social media – in ONE day!

2. Must-Attend Food Events: Spring/Summer 2015 Edition

Our top food tech event picks for Spring and Summer 2015, including conferences, panels, Meetups and much more.

3. Catalyzing a Food Revolution through Connected Ecosystems & Open Innovation

Expo Milano’s Feeding the Accelerator Curator explores how moving from silos to ecosystems, closed labs to open innovation is critical for a better future.

4. Food Supply Chain Transparency Is Key to a Healthy Future

Peretz Partensky of Sourcery explores how new tech and decentralized business models are tackling the least transparent part of our food system: the supply chain.

5. Help Jimmy’s No. 43 Get Back On Its Feet After East Village Explosion

Join us this Wednesday from 7-10 for a benefit/celebration of local food hero Jimmy Carbone. 100% OF THE PROCEEDS will go to Jimmy’s No.43.

6. The Coming Food Bubble – TechCrunch

Is food tech in the throws of a dot-com era bubble? What will the landscape look like when it bursts? Robyn Metcalfe of The Food Lab explores.

7. Could Amazon Do To Groceries What It Did To Books? – Seeking Alpha

Amazon’s launch of Dash might be the best look we’ve had so far into how Amazon thinks about omnichannel.

8. AgTech Industry Takes in $1.04 Billion in Q1 – AgFunder

Q1 came in with over $1 billion disclosed investment dollars across 79 deals—a 122 percent jump from Q1 last year, with a 44 percent increase in deal volume.

9. Eating Insects Isn’t as Eco-Friendly As People Say – TIME

Do crickets really have the potential to be the new beef? Not yet, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE.