The crowdfoods Association and INTERGASTRA have concluded a promising partnership and are integrating NEWFOOD X NOW, a start-up and innovation exhibition and conference of crowdfoods, in INTERGASTRA 2026 for the first time.

After six successful new food and start-up events, the crowdfoods Association will stage NEWFOOD X NOW, its start-up and innovation exhibition and conference, for the first time as part of INTERGASTRA 2026 from 8 to 10 February 2026.

NEWFOOD X NOW will be integrated in INTERGASTRA as a separate exhibition and conference under the motto "Taste the Future of Food & Cuisine".

During the future-oriented NEWFOOD X NOW innovation exhibition in the ICS foyer, more than 100 start-ups and innovators will have the opportunity to present their food innovations to trade visitors from restaurants, food retailers and the food industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on the three INTERGASTRA days which attract the highest number of visitors.

The organisers are expecting approximately 75,000 trade visitors, including around 3,500 buyers and around 5,000 representatives from the food retail trade, at the Stuttgart Trade Fair Center.

The 3-day New Food Conference  in the ICS Conference Center will be staged concurrently with the New Food Expo. The NEWFOOD X NOW Conference programme is aimed at up to 2,000 participants and will feature technical talks, talk panels and start-up pitches on all three event days.

Two networking evenings, i.e. the "Investors Night" and the "Food Buyers Night", are also scheduled to take place on 8 and 9 February 2026, and are specifically aimed at investors and purchasing managers.

All visitors to the exhibition can attend the Conference free of charge with a valid INTERGASTRA ticket. Start-ups and innovators will be able to present their new products and solutions for the gastronomy and food industry on more than 100 standardised stands. The stand packages include furniture and start at €1,750 for three days. Stands containing special fixtures and fittings such as cooking stations or refrigeration systems are available from €2,250.

More information is available online at: https://newfoodx.com/

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About crowdfoods

• "crowdfoods – Association of Innovators & Start-ups in Agriculture, Food, Gastronomy & Food Trade" is the first cross-border organisation for company founders, start-ups, innovators and entrepreneurs in agriculture, food, gastronomy and the food trade in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein (D-A-CH-LI).
• The objective of the Association is to promote company founders, innovators, new businesses, start-ups and innovations in food, agriculture, gastronomy and the food trade as the driver of digital, economic and ecological change along the entire agricultural and food production chain.
• Crowdfoods promotes start-ups and innovations from the field to the fork or shelf – in analogue and digital form – through networking and knowledge transfer. The Association's network combines over 1,000 contacts of start-ups, innovators, agriculture, the food industry, gastronomy, food retailers, investors and research.
• As a vertical platform and network, crowdfoods uses local ambassadors to link the large number of local and regional start-up initiatives of the food chain across borders throughout the entire D-A-CH-LI region. crowdfoods now has ambassadors in Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Bremen, at Lake Constance, in Linz, Vorarlberg, Zurich, Lucerne and Liechtenstein.
• The Association enables members to tap new markets and find market partners, and also benefit from different services provided by the Association – for example special conditions of the Association's partners or during events, free PR and marketing opportunities, in the area of know-how and knowledge transfer, or with contact initiation and networking with potential partners.
• As the mouthpiece of start-ups and innovators, crowdfoods stands for the future of the entire food value chain. The Association was created at the start of 2017 from a food start-up project as a private initiative of Mark Leinemann and Jay F Kay. In 2018 crowdfoods was transformed into an Association under Swiss law with its head office in Kreuzlingen (Switzerland) on Lake Constance and started its commercial operations.
• Since then, the Association has staged 7 large international conferences and exhibitions, as well as more than 30 local network events.

More information about the Association can be found online at: www.crowdfoods.com