Detroit Food 2020 - Visions of a Food Future

Due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic we have transitioned Detroit Food 2020 to a virtual event. We will honor registration for the March summit. If you would like a partial refund for the difference of the registration rate you paid in March, or would like to cancel your registration and receive a full refund submit your request by October 4. 

Detroit Food 2020 - Visions of a Food Future

October 5-9, 2020

Virtual

In 2010, the first Detroit Food Summit considered “Powering Up the Local Food System.”  This theme looked to culture, economics, and wellness as guides to produce a food sovereign, financially viable and healthy system from seed to table to the soil.  Since that first Summit, the Detroit Food System has grown both intentionally and organically.

The Detroit Food 2020 summit looks with intention toward what Detroit Food could, should, and will be in “Visions of a Food Future.”  How do and will the vision of a food system guided by culture, economics, and wellness continue to take shape?  What could, should, and will the Detroit Food System be?

This summit marks the tenth summit, and we will celebrate past work, frame current needs and explore the possibilities. We look to honor Reverend Dr. JoAnn Watson for her championing the creation of the Detroit Food Policy Council, review the city’s food policy from the establishment of the council to the present and examine the direction of food. 

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Keynote Speaker

Howard Conyers, Ph.D.

Dr. Conyers is a rocket scientist, pitmaster, and founder of Conyers Family BBQ, From The Low Country to the Bayou, and GUMBO JUBILEE. After over 20 years of learning history of the south and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, he has worked for NASA for over 10 years.  He officially launched his Conyers Family BBQ LLC in 2016 to be a pitmaster, cultural food educator, and STEM expert to the New Orleans Area. Join us Friday morning to learn how he is taking important lessons of the past and applying them to the present, and ultimately to the future.

https://www.howardconyers.com/

Tracks
Tracks at Detroit Food 2020 will include Food Policy, Food Waste, Future of Food, and Mindful Eating for the Beloved Community. The Food Policy Track will look at food policy through a micro, mezzo and macro lens. Sessions will explore federal, state, and local policy and how those policies affect people here in Detroit. Innovative solutions to policy challenges will be discussed. We all play a role in wasting food and it is up to all of us to fix it. In the Food Waste Track, you’ll find workshops discussing this issue using multiple lenses including culture, climate, policy, and business. The Mindful Eating for the Beloved Community Track will introduce communities of color to a new paradigm and provides new frameworks of approaching public health in marginalized populations that lack access to food- health education. We invite people of color to be a part of the conversation as we launch this effort to frame the mindful movement in terms that are relevant to people of color and as it places people of color in leadership and at the helm of its design. The Future of Food Track will explore the various components that will build our future food system, and engage participants to define what those components are and how we will use them.

Registration

We have a sliding scale for registration, and no one will be turned away.

Advocate $40

Standard $25

Senior/Student $5

Virtual Resource Fair is $30

Friends of DFPC - 20% off*

*Friends of the Detroit Food Policy Council receive a discounted registration fee for Detroit Food 2020. Current Friends and new Friends who join by Monday, September 28 will receive a discount code that can be used for the standard registration.

We offer a range of registration rates so that conference can be accessible to as many people as possible. Please support Detroit Food 2020 by giving as generously as possible with your registration contribution. The true expense of Detroit Food 2020 is $25 per person. We will consider the registration amount you pay in excess of $25 as a tax-deductible gift to Detroit Food Policy Council. Detroit Food 2020 does not offer group rates. Please pay the registration contribution that you can afford for each participant in your group. A limited number of scholarships are available.

Virtual Resource Fair

The Virtual Resource Fair will include a short video (30-90 seconds), written description, and links for each exhibitor. The Virtual Resource Fair will be open to all participants for the duration of the summit. Virtual Resource Fair Exhibitors must register and send media to our Resource Fair coordinator by Monday, September 27. Registration for the resource fair includes full registration for one person to attend Detroit Food 2020. You will receive instructions for sending your content once you complete the registration. 

Volunteers

Volunteers who signed up for at least four (4) volunteer hours for our in person Detroit Food 2020 that was to be held in March will receive free registration for the virtual Detroit Food 2020.