Food Design Conference Keynote Speaker Announced

2016 International Food Design Conference Keynote Speaker Announced for June 2016

Otago Polytechnic’s Food Design Institute has confirmed Nigerian chef and food designer Michael Elgbdé’ as one of the keynote speakers for the International Food Design Conference and Studio in June 2016.

The announcement comes as earlybird tickets go on sale through www.eventfinder.co.nz for the Dunedin conference. Earlybird tickets are $395 and are available until 18 March when full price tickets will be available for $450 for the three-day event.

Nigerian-born Michael Adé Elgbdé recently returned to Lagos from New York to establish a restaurant that tells the story of Nigeria’s food culture. After completing a degree at the Culinary Institute of America, Elgbdé moved to New York to work at three Michelin star, Eleven Madison Park. Michael has worked with food designer Emilie Baltz (2014 International Food Design Conference keynote) and spent time at French Laundry and Alinea. Michael’s love for food comes from growing up in the kitchen, at home and when his family moved to America where he spent his spare time cooking in his mother’s Nigerian restaurant.

Dunedin-based international exporter Silver Fern Farms is once again the key conference supporter. The International Food Design Conference and Studio is one of the cornerstone events to celebrate Otago Polytechnic’s 50th anniversary. Otago Polytechnic opened as a technical institute in 1966, and is now one of New Zealand’s top providers of hands-on education.

WHAT International Food Design Experience, Conference & Studio

WHEN Wednesday 29 June - Friday 01 July 2016

WHERE Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin

COST Earlybird tickets $395 until Friday 18 March 2015

TICKETS www.eventfinda.co.nz

WEB www.fooddesign.org.nz

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