Thought For Food Challenge
Join the world’s largest and most diverse agri-food-tech innovation challenge with your solution to address the prevailing question: How do we feed 10 billion people on a hotter planet?
Description
The world’s largest and most diverse agri-food-tech innovation challenge:
🌎 Open to purpose-driven innovators at all stages (idea through to incorporated startup).
🔥 Seeking diverse solutions to the question: “How do we feed 10bn people on a hotter planet?”
🤝 Cash prizes, industry connections, global exposure, plus free access to world-class resources and experts on the TFF Digital Labs
Winning Criteria
- Innovation
TFF commits to being on the cusp of new idea generation. Leverage breakthrough technologies and business models to create a project that is fresh and exciting, in a way that has never been seen before.
- Implementation & Scalability
Food security solutions require short, medium, and long-term goals that shouldn’t end when our competition is over. The project should be implementable, with scalability potential that puts sustainability first.
- Uniqueness
The project should stand out among the wide-array of proposals we see, providing game-changing solutions and embodying a “wow” factor in terms of presentation, so that it gets noticed in a noisy world of innovation and startups.
- Team Spirit
Being an innovator and an entrepreneur is one of the most exciting and rewarding things one can do. However, it is also a long and demanding journey. The team needs to demonstrate that it is able to withstand these challenges and deliver a solution that will improve lives.
How it works?
The TFF Challenge runs for a full 12 weeks where you will gain deep knowledge in food and ag, entrepreneurship, tech, and innovation; connect with world-class mentors; benefit from practical personal development tools; and connect with like-minded social-impact entrepreneurs from over 160 countries around the world.
Access to the TFF Digital Labs
A first-of-its-kind digital accelerator and collaboration platform optimized for next-gen innovators in food and agriculture.
Here's what you get:
- Bespoke innovation roadmap based on your team’s needs and interests.
- World-class mentoring - Pick the mentor who can best support you over the 12 weeks.
- Chance to win travel and funding - The best projects will be selected to continue the journey with us at the TFF Academy and TFF Summit.
- A global community - Benefit from our 15,000+ strong global TFF Community of next-gen innovators, thought leaders and industry experts.
Eligibility
Do you and your team care about transforming the world and our food system? Are you passionate about the possibilities of science, technology and business model innovation? We’re looking for you! Any teams aged 18-35 from any country in the world can sign up. For more info check out the eligibility section.
Timeline
April 22: Sign-ups open
June 3: Pitch deadline (at 12 am Eastern Standard Time)
Extended Deadline: July 14th!
September 5: TFF Academy starts
September 30: TFF Summit in Brooklyn, New York
December 23: TFF Academy ends
🌎 Open to purpose-driven innovators at all stages (idea through to incorporated startup).
🔥 Seeking diverse solutions to the question: “How do we feed 10bn people on a hotter planet?”
🤝 Cash prizes, industry connections, global exposure, plus free access to world-class resources and experts on the TFF Digital Labs
Winning Criteria
- Innovation
TFF commits to being on the cusp of new idea generation. Leverage breakthrough technologies and business models to create a project that is fresh and exciting, in a way that has never been seen before.
- Implementation & Scalability
Food security solutions require short, medium, and long-term goals that shouldn’t end when our competition is over. The project should be implementable, with scalability potential that puts sustainability first.
- Uniqueness
The project should stand out among the wide-array of proposals we see, providing game-changing solutions and embodying a “wow” factor in terms of presentation, so that it gets noticed in a noisy world of innovation and startups.
- Team Spirit
Being an innovator and an entrepreneur is one of the most exciting and rewarding things one can do. However, it is also a long and demanding journey. The team needs to demonstrate that it is able to withstand these challenges and deliver a solution that will improve lives.
How it works?
The TFF Challenge runs for a full 12 weeks where you will gain deep knowledge in food and ag, entrepreneurship, tech, and innovation; connect with world-class mentors; benefit from practical personal development tools; and connect with like-minded social-impact entrepreneurs from over 160 countries around the world.
Access to the TFF Digital Labs
A first-of-its-kind digital accelerator and collaboration platform optimized for next-gen innovators in food and agriculture.
Here's what you get:
- Bespoke innovation roadmap based on your team’s needs and interests.
- World-class mentoring - Pick the mentor who can best support you over the 12 weeks.
- Chance to win travel and funding - The best projects will be selected to continue the journey with us at the TFF Academy and TFF Summit.
- A global community - Benefit from our 15,000+ strong global TFF Community of next-gen innovators, thought leaders and industry experts.
Eligibility
Do you and your team care about transforming the world and our food system? Are you passionate about the possibilities of science, technology and business model innovation? We’re looking for you! Any teams aged 18-35 from any country in the world can sign up. For more info check out the eligibility section.
Timeline
April 22: Sign-ups open
June 3: Pitch deadline (at 12 am Eastern Standard Time)
Extended Deadline: July 14th!
September 5: TFF Academy starts
September 30: TFF Summit in Brooklyn, New York
December 23: TFF Academy ends
Prize
$30,000+ USD in cash grantsinvitation to the TFF Academy (a personalised 3-month acceleration program)
professional production of a short documentary film about your solution
opportunity to pitch to investors and industry leaders at the global TFF Summit