Miller Magazine Issue: 127 July 2020

22 NEWS MILLER / JULY 2020 Together with its customers and partners, Bühler is supporting the evolution to a sustainable food industry. Bühler GO!2020 further strengthens Bühler’s collaborative approach to to- day’s challenges for the food industry, by bringing together more than 500 leaders of food companies, academia, industry associations, government organizations, and start-ups. Bühler GO!2020 highlights collaborative innovation in the food industry From June 15-19, 2020, Bühler hosted Bühler GO!2020. This virtual networking and engagement event supports Bühler’s efforts to build and strengt- hen an industry-wide collaborative network of food industry leaders, addressing global nutritional challen- ges such as sustainability, food security, and feeding 10 billion people by 2050. Discussing and exploring latest food trends, such as alternative proteins and ancient grains with US and worldwide customers, will help en- sure that companies have the agility and innovation power to effectively deal with the challenges put befo- re them. To support that, Bühler opened its brand-new Food Application Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 19. "Bühler GO!2020 is about learning together how the food industry can meet these global challen- ges with good sustainable businesses that create real impact," says Andy Sharpe, CEO Bühler North America. Together with its customers and partners, Bühler is supporting the evolution to a sustainable food industry. Bühler GO!2020 further strengthens Bühler’s collabo- rative approach to today’s challenges for the food in- dustry, by bringing together more than 500 leaders of food companies, academia, industry associations, go- vernment organizations, and start-ups. Culminating in the opening of the Food Application Center in Minnea- polis on June 19, the Bühler GO!2020 event focuses on framing the global challenges, creating safe and trans- parent food chains, sustainable protein supplies for 10 billion people, workforce development, and leadership. "This new Food Application Center will be an impor- tant resource for the North American food industry as we focus on the future of food, reintroducing ancient grains, peas, and lentils into our diets, and innovating around plant-based proteins; all of this addressing the demands of consumers as diets are changing fast," says Stefan Scheiber, CEO at Bühler Group. “Many of the global challenges we faced before the coronavirus have only been intensified. Our collective situation has held a magnifying glass to these challenges. It has shown us where we can improve our food supply chain, and our Outside view of Bühler’s brand-new Food Application Center in Minneapolis.