The Future of Protein Production Amsterdam early bird ends Friday with just 42 passes remaining

The Early Bird rate for The Future of Protein Production Amsterdam 2026 will end this Friday, September 18, with just 42 of the 100 discounted conference passes still available.

Priced at €1,495, the Early Bird pass represents a €500 saving on the standard €1,995 conference rate for the event, which takes place at RAI Amsterdam on November 4-5.

• Just 42 of the 100 Early Bird conference passes remain, priced at €1,495 until September 18.
• More than 1,000 attendees, 140 speakers and 65 exhibitors are expected at RAI Amsterdam.
• One conference ticket provides access to both FPP Amsterdam and the Cultured Meat Symposium.

This year's event is expected to bring together more than 1,000 people from across food production, ingredients, fermentation, cultivated meat, investment, engineering, equipment, research and manufacturing.

It will also mark the European debut of the Cultured Meat Symposium, which will run alongside FPP Amsterdam with its own dedicated conference program.

One conference ticket provides access to both. FPP will cover fermentation, plant proteins, ingredients, processing, nutrition and commercialization, while CMS will concentrate on cultivated meat, including cell lines, media, bioprocessing, regulation and manufacturing economics.

More than 140 speakers are due to appear across the two programs. “Adding the Cultured Meat Symposium has allowed us to build two genuinely complementary programs rather than trying to squeeze everything onto one agenda,” said Alex Crisp, Conference Director. “FPP can go deep into fermentation, ingredients, processing, nutrition and commercialization, while CMS gives cultivated meat the dedicated technical program it needs. Delegates can move between both.”

The agenda will take on manufacturing costs, scale-up, regulation, investment and changing consumer demand, alongside questions about whether Europe is losing food-tech investment and industrial momentum to the USA and Asia.

“We've tried hard to make the agenda reflect where the industry is now,” Crisp added. “The conversations have moved on. People want to talk about manufacturing economics, scale-up, regulation, investment and customers – the difficult questions that determine whether a technology actually reaches the market.”

That shift was summed up during a recent PPTI webinar by Bühler's Leandro Buchmann: “The question is no longer, ‘Can you make the molecule?’ The question is, ‘Can you make it at the right cost?’”

More than 65 companies on the exhibition floor

The exhibition will bring together more than 65 companies covering fermentation equipment, downstream processing, ingredients, analytics, automation, cell cultivation, engineering and manufacturing services.

“The exhibition has grown into a place where people can come with a very specific production or scale-up problem and find companies that can help solve it,” said Peter Mortimer, Event Manager. “With more than 65 exhibitors covering everything from fermentation and downstream processing to ingredients, automation, engineering and manufacturing, there is a huge amount of technical expertise in one hall.”

The exhibition itself will be free to attend in 2026, including access to the Startup Innovation Zone, Innovation Stage presentations, technology showcases and live demonstrations.

“We've made the exhibition free to attend this year because we want to bring as much of the industry together as possible,” Mortimer added. “For conference delegates, that means an even broader group of potential customers, suppliers and partners to meet over the two days.”

The Startup Innovation Zone will provide a dedicated area for younger companies, putting founders alongside food manufacturers, investors, equipment suppliers, CDMOs, ingredient companies and potential commercial partners.

Investment will also feature across the conference program. An interactive Investor Q&A will give delegates the opportunity to question investors about what they expect to fund in 2027, where they still see opportunities and why promising companies sometimes fail to secure backing.

More than seven hours will be set aside for networking across the two days, including breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunches and evening receptions. Meetings can also be arranged through the event app ahead of the show.

“Seven hours of networking is deliberate,” Mortimer said. “People need time to actually sit down with a potential manufacturing partner, customer or supplier rather than spend two days running from one presentation to another.”

Last year's event attracted more than 750 participants from 38 countries. With CMS joining FPP in Amsterdam for the first time, attendance is expected to exceed 1,000 this November.

The €1,495 Early Bird rate ends Friday, September 18, or earlier if the remaining allocation sells out. The standard conference rate is €1,995.

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