Tomorrow's Menu

Chef Douglass Williams is founder and owner of Boston restaurants MIDA, Apizza, and DW French, was named Food & Wine’s Best New Chef in 2020 and earned an “Outstanding Chef” nomination from the James Beard Foundation in 2023. 

Freight Farms’ mission is to create the global infrastructure to revolutionize local access to food. They are dedicated to making fresh food accessible to anyone, anywhere, any time with a complete platform of products and services – the Greenery S, farmhand®, and Client Services - to empower their global community of partners. With this global infrastructure, they aim to revolutionize local access to food for a more sustainable future–not just in terms of the environment, but by also making communities more resilient and secure.

Tender Food is a food technology company whose mission is to develop the next generation of alternative meat products that even meat lovers love. They use a unique process that takes plant ingredients and shapes them into muscle fibers. This methodology allows us to mimic more complex structures, creating meat replacements for all varieties of meat.

Helen Cheng is an interdisciplinary marine scientist with over 20 years of experience in marine, coastal, and estuarine ecology, and fisheries and coastal policy and management. Cheng integrates public outreach and engagement into her research and fosters collaborations and partnerships with groups such as academic and research institutions, federal, state, local agencies, and grassroots organizations.