Fireside Chat: From Clean-Label Disruption to Global Scale – The v2food-Daring Acquisition
10/22/2025
Memorial Hall
Plenary
In this fireside conversation, we’ll explore one of the boldest moves in the alternative-protein space this year - V2food’s acquisition of Daring - and the vision behind combining technology, brand equity, and global ambition. We’ll probe how their respective strengths - Daring’s clean-label positioning and U.S. retail presence, and V2food’s innovation muscle - are being woven together to tackle taste, texture, nutrition, and scale across geographies. Against a backdrop of market volatility in plant-based, we’ll discuss how this cross-border deal was struck, what excites the CEOs, market headwinds, and where they see the next frontier in food innovation.