Tony Hunter
Global Food Futurist & Scientist
Tony Hunter is a Global Food Futurist, food scientist and strategic foresight consultant specialising in the Future of Food and Agriculture. With more than 30 years’ industry experience, he advises global brands, investors and consulting firms on food technology and consumer trends. His TECHXponential™ framework reveals how food has become an exponential technology sector reshaping the future of business.
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Tony Hunter is a Global Food Futurist, food scientist, author and strategic foresight consultant specialising in the Future of Food and Agriculture. A sought-after international speaker, he has presented across four continents and regularly appears in print, podcasts and radio as an expert on the future of the food system.
With more than 30 years’ experience in the food industry, Tony combines deep scientific expertise with senior executive leadership. A qualified food scientist with over a decade in innovation roles, he has also spent more than ten years in senior management, including serving as General Manager of two food companies.
Tony provides strategic foresight and expert advisory services on food technology, consumer trends and their industry impacts. His clients range from global food and beverage brands such as PepsiCo and KFC to venture capital investors and leading global consulting firms including Accenture.
What sets Tony apart is his distinctive blend of scientific credentials, commercial experience and detailed understanding of emerging food technologies. He challenges conventional thinking by reframing the industry: food is no longer simply about products — it is about technology. As technology advances exponentially, so too does food.
Tony’s signature concept, TECHXponential™, positions food as an exponential technology sector. It is a concept, roadmap and mindset that equips leaders to understand disruption, identify opportunity and prepare their organisations for transformational change.
Through inspirational keynote presentations, Tony helps audiences grasp the extraordinary technological shifts reshaping food, beverage and agriculture — leaving them with clarity, strategic insight and a renewed vision for the future of their organisations.
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Tony delivers inspirational keynote presentations addressing the extraordinary changes occurring in the Food, Beverage, and Agriculture industries. Everyone thinks these industries are about products; they’re not, they’re about technology. Food has become technology and technology advances exponentially. Food is now TECHXponential™. It’s a concept, a roadmap, and a mindset that will open audiences’ minds to new possibilities and they’ll leave with a clear understanding of what these changes mean for the future of their organisations.
Leadership in a TECHXponential Food Future
Technology is now everywhere in Food, Beverage and Ag; indeed, you can’t talk about food from farm to fork without talking about technology. In fact, food now is technology and one certainty is that technologies advance exponentially. Food is now technologies advancing exponentially, food is now TECHXponential™.
In this keynote audiences will learn:
- Why exploring the Future of Food is a leadership responsibility.
- The reason it’s so dangerous to think linearly in an exponential world.
- The key technologies driving the Future of Food.
- The alternative futures for the Food, Beverage and Ag industries.
- How to be prepared and lead an organisation into these alternative futures.
Reimagining the Global Food System
Feeding 10 bn people by 2050 means that the Food, Beverage and Ag industries are at the forefront of meeting this challenge. The problem is that our current food system can’t equitably and sustainably feed the increasing population. New technologies, doing more with less, are rising to the challenge, enabling us to reimagine a more sustainable and equitable global food system.
In this keynote audiences discover:
- How cutting-edge food technologies will change the future of the Food, Beverage and Ag Industries.
- Why we need to decouple food from the twin tyrannies of arable land and available fresh water.
- Technologies countries can use to attain increased levels of food security and food sovereignty.
- How we can embrace exponential food technologies to reimagine a whole new low GHG food system.
Navigating the AI Food Revolution
Not long ago easily usable AI seemed a distant possibility. Then, like all exponential technologies, AI exploded into view, leaving Food, Beverage and Ag companies questioning the effect it will have on them. Understanding how the interaction of AI and cutting-edge food technologies will enable organisations to deliver abundant, nutritious, and appetising food offerings is critical.
In this fascinating, research rich keynote audiences discover:
- Actual examples of Food, Beverage and Ag companies using AI to gain competitive advantage.
- The key role of AI in accelerating the food technologies of the future.
- Why the future consumer’s personal AI will define their preferences and behaviours.
- How to meet the AI driven consumer expectations of the largest generation in the history of the planet, Gen Alpha.
