Israeli firm working to save the planet - but with chicken soup still on the table

Through its “cutting-edge cellular agriculture”, Future Meat Technologies is attempting to cut the cost of artificial meat – which it says it has cut to approximately $20 per kilogram, still roughly ten times as much as farming of real animals.

UKIB, the bilateral chamber of commerce between the two countries, also hosted a discussion of the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to instantly scan images of household items to direct shoppers to a myriad of identical items online.

Susan Aubrey-Cound, of visual solutions firm Syte.ai, said: “Fifty-nine per cent of consumers think that visual information is more important than textual information.”

Tal Shmueli of Jolt.io also discussed lifelong learning and skills-building, while Run Almog, the senior vice-president of InfiBond, gave attendees a glimpse of a future of increasing “singularity” between man and machine.

Other speakers included Alan Feld, the managing partner of Vintage Investment Partners; Gal Hochberg, of Clear Blockchain Technologies; Meirav Peled, of Riskified; and Prof Ronen Feldman, the co-founder of Amenity Analytics.

Wednesday’s conference, sponsored by LabTech, followed UKIB’s Business Awards Summer Reception at Millbank Tower on Tuesday evening.