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Dr. Maame Yaakwah Blay Adjei, a leader in food science and sensory evaluation. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, and lead consultant at Sentinel Foods, PAMP Ghana Ltd, Ghana - contributing significantly to food science research and education in Africa.   With over 20 years of experience across both academic and industry sectors, Dr. Maam...

Beatrice Boakyewaa Blay is a Ghanaian-based Food Technologist with a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and a Master's degree in Food Science currently working as a Research & Development Technologist with a focus in New Product Development, Recipe Renovation, and Packaging Development. She's passionate about all things food and is interested in expanding her scope in the areas of Flavour Science,...

Cristhiam joined Procter & Gamble Beauty Consumer Measurement Sciences group about 1 year ago as a Sensory Scientist for the Skin Care Category. Before joining P&G Cristhiam worked in product research, sensory science, and quality control within the U.S. and Nicaraguan food industries in addition to post-graduate internships in food engineering and packaging, human nutrition, and research and deve...

Gie Liem is an associate professor in sensory and consumer science at Deakin University, CASS Food Research Centre in Melbourne Australia. He previously worked at the Monell Chemical Center in Philadelphia (USA) and Wageningen University and Unilever R&D (the Netherlands). His research is focused on sensory marketing and drivers of consumer food choice. He is part of the editorial board of Food Qu...

Liesbeth Zandstra is Science Leader Consumer Science at Unilever Foods Innovation Centre Wageningen and professor of Food Reward and Behaviour at Wageningen University and Research (The Netherlands). Her main research focuses on scientific challenges to find new ways to make the healthy and sustainable choice the easy and preferred choice. She is particularly interested in psychophysiological and...

Michael Hautus is an internationally recognized expert in quantitative and experimental psychology. As a professor at the University of Auckland School of Psychology, he specializes in sensory and perceptual systems research, cognitive modelling, and analyzing detection and discrimination judgments. With over 100 publications, Professor Hautus has also contributed to research in sensory evaluation...

Tzvi Wiesel is an experienced whisky investor and trader, focused on fine and rare bottles and casks. He is the Founder and CEO of BAXUS, a marketplace for trading high-end wine and spirits, powered by blockchain technology. Tzvi got his start in the spirits industry initially by accident, when he was staffed as a production assistant. He quickly became fascinated by the expansive whiskey collecti...

Parvaneh Parvin is a tech-savvy problem solver with a flair for all things culinary. She studied Digital Humanities and Computer Science at the University of Pisa in Italy, where she also earned her PhD in her research into Just-in-time health feedback systems for older adults with mild cognitive impairments . But she didn't stop at algorithms and data; her deep passion for food steered her on a d...

Julia has recently joined  SAM Sensory and Consumer Research as Research Manager, Germany.  Before joining SAM, Julia graduated with a doctoral degree in Food Science & Technology from the University of Florence. Her research focused on the role of emotions, personality traits, and sensory sensitivity in children's food preferences as part of the EU-funded project " Edulia - Bringing down barriers...

Gern Huijberts is the global innovation portfolio manager at Cargill, with responsibility for businesses in Europe, the US, Brazil, West- Africa, and Asia-Pacific. In this position, he manages the global quality organization for food safety, quality assurance and quality control as well as regulatory affairs.   In previous roles, he has worked at international food companies like Heineken, H.J. He...

Vijay Pravin is the Founder & CEO of bitsCrunch , a Blockchain Analytics and Forensics company focusing on securing the NFT ecosystem. Living in Munich, Germany for the last 10 years, and originally f rom India .     To date, Vija y has helped raise 6.5M USD from prominent Web3 VCs like Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, Chainlink , Polygon , Crypto.com Capital, Gate.io labs, Hashkey Capital, Bord...

Lennox is the CEO & Co-Founder of Satoshi's Index, a token-gated SaaS platform that automates portfolio management for crypto investors. In addition to this, he leads product initiatives at Starbucks Corp, and is the co-founder of NFT Seattle, the region's first large scale Web3 conference.   Lennox on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ lennoxmatsinde Lennox on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ le...

Luiza is the International Sensory Science Manager at L'Oréal France.  She is a Food Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in Sensory and Consumer Science applied mainly in cosmetics, food, and household product categories.  She has recently been assigned the Data Steward role, being responsible for Sensory Data Acquisition, Management, and Application   To learn more about Aigora, please...

Dr. G.B. (Garmt) Dijksterhuis studied experimental psychology and methodology at the University of Utrecht and wrote his Ph. D. dissertation at the department of Data Theory at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. He has written or co-authored some 150 publications in sensory and consumer science, statistics and psychology. He is one of the founders of the Sensometric society and was its...

Carlos Velasco is an associate professor at the Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), where he co-founded the Centre for Multisensory Marketing. Carlos received his Ph. D. in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University, after which he worked on a number of postdoctoral and consulting projects in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. His work is situated at the int...

Carlos Gómez–Corona is the Director Human Insights & Sensory at Firmenich. His main responsibilities are to understand the future consumption of proteins, and the perception of natural and sustainable flavors and ingredients. He has conducted research both in academia and the industry, as well as teaching in the area of sensory and consumer science, collaborating with several research groups world...

Founder of a New York-based brand incubator, Mindy Yang is an advisor, investor, growth hacker, curator, and technical designer & creative director of fragranced, flavored, and functional products.   As an expert on sensory sciences, psychology, marketing, brand strategy, wellness, and immersive design, Mindy is passionate about incubating/launching brands/experiences/products by creating unforget...

Nat Cole is a cryptocurrency and blockchain educator and consultant, working in the crypto & blockchain space for around 5 years.  He is currently working on a 'Phygital' NFT Fashion project, mixing high-quality fashion design, sustainable materials, Web3, and embedded technologies.   Nat's project NFT Clothing Club (NFTCC) is creating a unique high-quality fashion brand and community utilizing Bi...

Nese Yurttas has worked in the field of sensory and consumer science for twenty years including the past fifteen years for Cargill, where she has built Cargill's sensory capabilities in North America into a world-class capability. Nese leads a global community of sensory practice to build best practices and knowledge across the Globe. Across such a diverse product mix as Cargill's, Nese must lead...

Dr. Michelle Niedziela is a behavioral neuroscientist experienced in both academia and industry.  Michelle began her career as a post-doctoral fellow at Monell Chemical Senses Center working on research of functional foods. She continued her career at Johnson & Johnson where she specialized in innovation technologies for consumer products. At Mars Chocolate, Michelle worked on global sensory proje...

Amber Case studies the interaction between humans and computers and how technology is changing everyday life.  Case is currently a 2021 Mozilla Fellow working on the future of money, alternative business models for the web, and creator compensation.  Case is an internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, and the author of four books, including Calm Technology and A Kids Book About Tech...

Gern Huijberts is the global quality director for Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate, with responsibility for businesses in Europe, the US, Brazil, West-Africa and Asia-Pacific. In this position, he manages the global quality organization for food safety, quality assurance and quality control as well as regulatory affairs.   In previous roles he has worked at international food companies like Heineken, H...

Dr. Vanessa Rios de Souza holds a Ph. D. in Food Science and has over 10 years of experience in R&D, consumer and sensory research across multiple food product categories and functions, with a strong background in food science and food processing. She has extensive experience in industrial, academic, and research settings. Vanessa works as a Computational Sensory Science Consultant at Aigora and b...

Dr. Ruth Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University and an expert practitioner of state-of-the-art data science tools and the founder of the HOPE Lab. She is also the Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at Aigora. Dr. Ruth Brown-Ennis received her Ph. D. in Clinical Child and Adole...

Keir Finlow-Bates is the author of "Move Over Brokers: Here Comes The Blockchain" ( https://mybook.to/moveover ), the founder of Chainfrog Limit (one of Finland's earliest blockchain startups), and a prolific inventor of blockchain technologies with 43 patents to his name. Becoming interested in blockchain in late 2009, he has researched it full-time from 2016 onwards. Before that most of his 20-y...