Food & Beverages

Biography

Biography: Patrick Berry

Abstract

Allfoodexperts® is an open innovation platform specialized in solving challenges for the agri-food industry. We are now a community of close to 900 members worldwide with an average of 20 years experience as food technologists. The community covers all areas of the food industry such as dairy, beverage and every expertise needed from developing a product, finding technologies or ingredients down to setting up machinery, packing and logistics. Our members are retired technicians and consultants who want to work on projects for an adequate reward but also employed technicians interested in sharing their knowledge. We want to provide our members with as many challenges as possible and help the food industry innovating and finding applied solutions. Our client base reaches from multinational companies who want to outsource their innovation down to small and medium size companies without R&D departments. Through only accepting SMART challenges we make sure we don’t waist the time of our community. After more than three years running an open innovation project, we know that open innovation works. Open Innovation is not just a buzz word it is reality-our Open Innovation platform and community with 17,000 years of accumulated technical knowledge is the best prove.