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The Big Connecticut Food Event
🏆Pitch competition featuring 5 finalist brands
🎤Panel discussions with decisionmakers at leading Northeast grocery and foodservice organizations
🤜🤛Industry expert coaching sessions for Connecticut food & bev brands
🍪Sampling and tabling from emerging Connecticut food & bev brands and solutions providers
Presented by CT Food Launchpad, Food'NBev Connect, Yale Center for Business and the Environment, CTNext
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Connecticut has made substantial progress in developing infrastructure for entrepreneurs in the state’s food and beverage industry. Multiple commercial kitchens, incubators and funding programs now span our small state and have generated interest within the regional industry.
Work remains to remove friction in the Connecticut food entrepreneurship pipeline, including stronger links with wholesale buyers and solutions providers, and more effective support for women and BIPOC entrepreneurs and businesses pursuing sustainable or regenerative processes.
The Big Connecticut Food Event is designed to provide opportunities for emerging food and beverage brands to connect with the expertise that they’re going to need on their journeys, and for strategic and industry partners to meet the growing community of promising brands.
Our goal is to support the development of Connecticut’s entrepreneurship pipeline so it produces multiple food and beverage brands every year that each exceed $2 million in annual sales.
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2141431-0
