How Can Information & Technology Be Used To Hack The Food System?

In honor of our one-year anniversary, Food+Tech Connect is asking leading food and technology innovators – how can information and technology be used to hack the food system?

While many associate the word with a criminal act, “hacking” actually grew out the desire of programmers to explore systems to find out how they could be re-configured or re-programmed to function in new and better ways.

Like the computer software and hardware industries, food and agriculture are highly proprietary industries. And just as the hacking community seeks to understand how a technology works, people are increasingly looking to know who and how their food is produced.

Food+Tech Connect is hosting a conversation about how we can leverage information and technology to accelerate food system innovation and bring transparency, economic growth, equity, and sustainability to the food supply chain.

Please join the conversation between September 14 and 27 in the comments section of the guest posts, on Twitter (using the hashtag #foodtech), on Facebook, and on Google+, or in person at our anniversary party on September 21 at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm. The party will feature thought-provoking bites by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs (Food52), Mihir Desai, Natalie Jerimijenko (Cross(x) Species Adventure Club), Mike Lee (Studiofeast), Ben Walmer (Highlands Dinner Club), and Michael Cirino (a razor, a shiny knife).

A round-up of responses are available here.

Posted Responses:

• Joanne Wilson, Angel Investor
• Bill Niman, Rancher
• Ali Partovi, Angel Investor & Advisor
• Marcus Samuelsson, Red Rooster
• Will Turnage, R/GA, Bread Baking App, & Ratio
• Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology and growBot Garden
• Bo Fishback, Zaarly
• Hilary Mason, Bitly
• Dickson Despommier, The Vertical Farm Project
• Stefani Bardin, Eyebeam
• Ryan Charles, Consmr
• Jeff Miller, Punchfork
• Nevin Cohen, The New school
• Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography, Foodprint Projet & Studio-X NYC
• John Reinhardt and Bob Wall, IBM City Forward & Grown In The City
• Emily Baltz, Baltz Works
• Anthony Nicalo, Foodtree
• Stowe Boyd, Foodte.ch
• Ellen Gustafson, FEED Project & 30 Project
• John Bailey, Top 10 Produce
• Jamie Leo & Destin Layne, Grace Foundation & Eat Well Guide
• Elizabeth McVay Green, Plovgh
• Michael LaValle, Gojee
• Karl & Cara Rosaen, Real Time Farms
• Melanie Cheng, Om Organics, FarmsReach, Catalyst Common
• Marc Alt, Open Source Cities
• Laurie Schoeman, New York Sun Works