Conference Background

China's food and beverage industry is undergoing profound structural transformation. "Eating healthy" and "eating for function" have replaced simple satiety as mainstream consumer drivers, propelling functional foods, precision nutrition, and weight management into a period of explosive growth. Meanwhile, cutting-edge technologies such as synthetic biology, microbial fermentation, and AI nutrition algorithms are being rapidly deployed, fundamentally reshaping the underlying logic of ingredient R&D and product iteration.

Behind this wave, opportunities and challenges coexist:

· Market Expansion: China's functional food market has surpassed one trillion RMB, with weight management, oral beauty, and gut health categories posting the highest compound annual growth rates.

· Accelerated Ingredient Innovation: Emerging functional ingredients such as HMOs, ergothioneine, and postbiotics are rapidly clearing regulatory hurdles; upstream ingredient suppliers are transitioning from "selling raw materials" to "selling solutions."

· Rise of Women's Health: The "She Economy" is driving oral beauty and female nutrition to become among the fastest-growing categories, with urgent demand for differentiated product development.

· Tightening Regulations Drive Upgrades: Oversight of health claims and functional food registration continues to intensify, raising the bar for evidence-based efficacy and compliance capabilities.

Why This Summit?

In a rapidly evolving industry landscape, brand R&D decision-makers need to identify the next growth track, ingredient suppliers need to reach brand clients with precision, and research institutions need to find commercialization partners — yet these needs have long been fragmented and difficult to aggregate efficiently.

The Food & Beverage Future Ecosystem Summit 2026 was created to solve exactly this pain point.

Science-Based Ingredients

How to move from efficacy hype to clinical evidence, building genuine product differentiation through scientific data

Precision Targeting

How to evolve from general nutrition to targeted population solutions, capturing incremental markets among seniors, women, and Gen Z

Regulatory Compliance

How to convert compliance costs into brand trust assets under tightening regulations, achieving sustainable growth

In 2026, FNBS returns to Guangzhou to explore the next decade of tech-driven food and beverage innovation.

600+

Industry Representatives

35+

Speaker Sessions

50+

Leading Brands

4

Concurrent Forum Tracks

2026 Summit Agenda Overview

Forum Track

Key Topics

Ingredient & Technology Innovation Forum

Great Ingredients Make Great Products — Scientific Breakthroughs & Application of Cutting-Edge Ingredients

· Latest research on functional ingredients (probiotics/prebiotics, botanical extracts, collagen peptides, NMN, etc.)

· Development trends in novel botanical and food-medicine homology ingredients

· Bioavailability enhancement technologies: microencapsulation, nanotechnology, etc.

· Industrial applications of synthetic biology in nutritional ingredients

· Regulatory pathways for novel ingredient registration and health claims

Precision Nutrition & Product Innovation Forum

From Generic Products to Targeted Needs — Nutritional Solutions for Specific Consumer Groups

· Silver economy: nutritional interventions for bone health, cognition, and sarcopenia in the elderly

· Women's health: prenatal nutrition, menopause management, beauty-from-within

· Gen Z nutrition: sports performance, mood support, sleep nutrition

· Children's precision nutrition: brain development, immunity, and gut health

· Nutrition management for chronic disease populations (diabetes, cardiovascular, obesity)

· Bestseller blueprint: deconstructing formulas and marketing of top-selling supplements

Regulatory Compliance & Market Growth Forum

Navigating the Cycle — Compliant Operations and Business Growth in the New Regulatory Environment

· Latest developments and policy interpretation on functional food registration/filing

· Progress and opportunity windows in new health claim applications

· Cross-border compliance: dual-direction pathways for export and import

· Marketing compliance red lines for live-streaming e-commerce and private domain channels

· AI-powered nutrition health: smart formulation, consumer insights, and precision marketing

· Investor perspective: current investment trends and quality tracks in the health industry

Why Attend?

Ingredient Suppliers

Brand / Product Teams

Regulatory / Academic Bodies

▶ Direct access to 600+ brand procurement and R&D decision-makers

▶ Present the latest technical findings and clinical data at the Ingredient Innovation Forum

▶ Participate in dedicated buyer-supplier matchmaking sessions for quality leads

▶ Sustained brand-ingredient storytelling across media platforms

▶ Access the latest niche category consumer trends and competitor intelligence

▶ Connect directly with top academic experts to advance industry-research collaboration

▶ Stay current on regulatory developments and proactively manage compliance risks

▶ Deep exchange with peers on bestseller formulation and marketing logic

▶ Engage directly with industry to understand real-world compliance pain points

▶ Accelerate commercialization of research outcomes

▶ Co-author white papers and industry standards

▶ Expand academic reach to a broader industry audience

2025 Past Speakers (Selected)

Dr. Ai Hua

Weight Management & Sports Nutrition

Secretary-General, Sports Nutrition Division, Chinese Nutrition Society

Dr. Zhu Huilian

Research Advances of Betaine in Healthy Weight Management

Prof., School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University; Chair, Guangdong Nutrition Society

Dr. Qiu Lipeng

Developing Oral Beauty Products from a Pharmaceutical Perspective

Associate Prof., School of Life Sciences & Health Engineering, Jiangnan University

Dr. Dai Daoxin

20 Years of Collagen: Decoding the Science of Endogenous Activation

Oral Beauty R&D Dept., Shiseido (China) R&D Center

Chen Junjiang

Functional Food Trends & Product Innovation

R&D Center Director General, Want Want Group

Dr. Kan Juntao

Theory and Product Innovation in Metabolic Health Solutions

Senior Nutrition Research Scientist, Amway (China) Innovation Center

Zhang Guangming

Weight Management Is Not Dieting — It's a Lifestyle

Founder, ffit8

Zhao Yanrong

Precision Sports Nutrition: Opening a New Era of Mass Health

Head of Sports Nutrition R&D, Mengniu Group

Prof. Liang Minci

Next-Generation CRO for Microbiome Health

Chief Medical Officer, Difilico Biotech (Shanghai)

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