Oakland / Seattle / Modern Marvels / Palo Alto / Helena / Chicago / View / Plainfield / Cupertino / Sacramento / Francisco / London / San Francisco / Mountain View / Washington / DC / Cambridge / Paris / New York City / New York / /
Company
Kickstarter / The Absinthe Group / World Headquarters / Procter & Gamble / Digital Garage / The New York Times Company / ConAgra / The New York Times / Last.fm / Hartman Group / Bloomberg / Computer Sciences Corporation / Sony Corporation / Duke University Press / littleBits / WIRED / Michelin / The New York Times Review / Illuminate / National Public Radio / Harper / Whitewave Foods / Flickr / McKinsey & Company / Richmond Global / The Culinary Institute of America / NBC / Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation / New England Medical Journal / Modern Meadow / Formlabs / Hershey / Citigroup / Anheuser-Busch InBev / Treasure8 / Management School Maastricht / Gastronomica / Tesco / San Francisco Chronicle / Campbell’s / Creative Commons / Six Apart / MIT Technology Review / Unilever / IDEO / Stockholm Food / NPR / Twitter / The Culinary Trust / Los Angeles Times / MSNBC / IBM Research / The Washington Post / IBM / Google / National Geographic / the Times / Atlas Research Innovations LLC / Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. / ClearGrape / Hess / New York Women / Harvard Behavioral Insights Group / Thomas Keller Restaurant Group / TCHO Chocolate / /
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America / Africa / Asia / Europe / South America / /
Country
Tunisia / Netherlands / Japan / Indonesia / United States / United Kingdom / China / Italy / Mexico / Switzerland / Peru / Greece / Ireland / /
Currency
USD / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
International Conference & Festival / the Lifetime Achievement Award / the James Beard cookbook awards / the Sprague Memorial Award / the James Beard Foundation Awards / /
Event
Funding / Employment Change / /
Facility
Palmers Cafe / Noodle Bar / Stanford University / University of California San Francisco / University of California / Harvard University / University of Louisiana / Oxford Internet Institute / University of Arizona Program / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / CIA's Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant / University of Wisconsin-Madison / University of California-Berkeley / Sutro’s restaurant / Imperial College / Hess Collection Winery / IDEO's Food Studio / American Museum of Natural History / Columbia University / University of Bristol / Oregon State University / Hotel Management School Maastricht / UC Davis’ Agricultural Sustainability Institute / University of Denver / UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute / Comstock Saloon / Royal College of Art / University of Bradford / Arlequin Café / University of Michigan / University of California Davis / Greystone campus of The Culinary Institute / New York Public Library / New York University / The Restaurant / Brown University / Johns Hopkins University / Sciences’ Institute of Medicine / University of Florence / Bar Tartine / Sugar House Bakery / University of Nevada / NASA Goddard Institute / McGovern Institute / Michael Mina restaurant / Cornell University / McGill University / /
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investment banking e-commerce / software technology / financial technology products / food / food studies / heavy metal / food industry / retail market / architecture tools / delicious food ingredients / machine-vision systems / software modeling / functional technology / technology / high tech space / cloud computing / food science emphasis / palm oil / food products / finance / food biochemistry / Internet service / food blog / 3D bio-printing / healthcare / medical applications / cognitive systems / urban agricultural systems / digital media / software engineering / technology policy / discussed food policy / media outlets / Internet freedom / corporate finance challenges / food science / media arts / food+technology space / food services / anti-disciplinary / retail industries / food choices / pre-web internet / retail / rapid prototyping tools / food service / food sustainability / food security / online course / energy optimization / magnetic resonance imaging / ubiquitous technologies / technology-focused venture fund / broader food systems / beverage clients / food service environment / model systems / food experiences / online stories / food innovation / /
Movie
Around the World / /
MusicAlbum
Lifetime Achievement Award / /
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Napa Valley / Salt / Willamette Valley / Treasure Island / /
Organization
General Assembly / University of California / Sustainable Business Leadership Council / Wharton School / Hospitality Administration / Cornell University / University of Bristol / Johns Hopkins School of Public Health / New School / University of California San Francisco / Oxford Internet Institute / Society for Hospitality and Foodservice Management / Harvard Medical School / Institute of the Golden Gate / MIT House / John D / United Nations / Center for a Livable Future / Momofuku Culinary Lab. / D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation / Food Safety / McGovern Institute for Brain Research / California Culinary Academy / Mozilla Foundation / Oregon State University / Center for Venture Education / Nutrition & Brain Fitness Lab / Columbia School of Journalism / United States Agency for International Development / International Hospitality Advisory Board of the Hotel Management School Maastricht / Overseas Press Club / Harvard Business School / Rational's CTO Office / Rutgers / National Institute of Health / Harvard Law School / Committee on Strategies / Olive Center / Society for Nuclear Medicine / Graduate School / U.S. Department of Agriculture / World Bank / MIT Media Lab / National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine / University of California Davis / School of Architecture and Planning / University of Florence / University of Bradford / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Culinary Institute of America / New York University / McGill University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Advisory Board / New York Academy of Sciences / and the Alzheimer / Central Intelligence Agency / UN Food and Agriculture Organization / University of Nevada / Las Vegas / New York Women’s Culinary Alliance / American Culinary Federation / Council on Foreign Relations / Brown University / Edible Schoolyard Foundation / Johns Hopkins University / Harvard School of Public Health / Media Lab / Royal College of Art / University of Louisiana / World Economic Forum / London School of Economics / University of Wisconsin / the University of Michigan / University of Arizona Program / Culinary Institute / Columbia University / UC Davis’ Agricultural Sustainability Institute / National Press Photographers Association / Association for the Study of Food / Duke University / School of Medicine / Knight Foundation / Chefs Association of the Pacific / NYU / UCLA / Harvard University / Alzheimer’s Association / Cliff House in San Francisco / MIT / University of Denver / Harvard / Yale / Art and Imperial College / NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies / Institute for Wine and Food Science / Stanford University / James Beard Foundation / Cooking Lab. / /
Person
Chris Loss / Melissa Abbott / Martha Stewart / Charlotte Biltekoff / Anne E. McBride / Sam Mason / Lynda Deakin / Lincoln Carson / Christopher Kostow / Michael I. Norton / Joe Brown / Andras Forgacs / Ali Bouzari / Michael Moss / Presenter Biographies Melissa Abbott / Bill Briwa / Patrick Clark / Philippa Mothersill / Eliza Barclay / James Beard / Louis I. Kahn / Kent Larson / Timothy Childs / Dennis Dimick / Frederick Kaufman / Organovo / Bilet Charlotte Biltekoff / Michael Ferrari / Ki Goosens / Elizabeth Dunn / Daphne Miller / Daniel Patterson / Dan Felder / Lisa Mosconi / Jason Clay / Steven Abrams / Caleb Harper / Michiel Bakker / François Payard / Joi Ito / Greg Drescher / /
Position
advisor / deputy editor / founder / author / investigative reporter / CEO / professor / managing director / engineer and the director of Watson Life / a team / senior vice president / markets and food for WWF / investigator / executive chef for the California Café restaurant group / internationally sought-after speaker / Chef / Flavor Hunter / contributing editor / consultant / judge for the James Beard cookbook awards / executive environment editor / executive pastry chef / product designer / co-founder and chief executive / director of the Menu Research and Flavor Discovery Initiative / President / board chair and CEO / practicing family physician / author and associate clinical professor / entrepreneur / principal research scientist / researcher in the Object-Based Media group / professor of psychiatry / executive chef / professor of neuroscience / co-founder and chairman emeritus / R+D consultant / vice president / culinary insights / co-founder and co-managing partner / pastry chef / co-director / director of climate informatics and a senior scientist / director / head of research and development / writer / serial entrepreneur / judge / reporter and editor / development chef / consultant / and researcher / famed pastry chef / program and editorial director for strategic initiatives / director of culinary arts and sciences / director of global food services / culinary chair / Economist / editor / Board member / co-author / health coach and integrative nutritionist / leader / leader in tissue engineering / director of software technology / vice president of strategic initiatives & industry leadership / adjunct professor / director of the Experimental Cuisine Collective / associate professor / vice president of Applied Technology WTI / and a research scientist / research scientist / co-founder / Pilot Research & Development / sous chef / featured and keynote speaker / reporter / co-founder of Pilot Research & Development / member / associate professor of American studies / consultant in the New York office / assistant professor of psychiatry / /
Product
Orion / /
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Louisiana / Wisconsin / Sicily / Michigan / Oregon / California / Colorado / Nevada / Massachusetts / New York / /
PublishedMedium
The Wall Street Journal / Architectural Digest / Natural History / San Francisco Magazine / Saveur / Popular Science / the Times / The New York Times / Scientific American / The New Yorker / New York Times / the Harvard Medical Magazine / the International Journal / The Washington Post / Gastronomica / the New England Medical Journal / Orion Magazine / Architectural Record / National Geographic / Bon Appétit / the San Francisco Chronicle / Harper's Magazine / BusinessWeek / Los Angeles Times / /
Presenter Biographies Melissa Abbott is vice president, culinary insights at the Hartman Group. Melissa has been tracking key trends in the health, wellness, food and retail industries for nearly twenty years, focusing o