The conference is open to researchers, academicians, scientists, industry professionals, consultants, policymakers, students, and Ph.D. scholars working in areas related to the conference themes. Participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be submitted as an attachment through the registration link by 2nd October 2026. The name of the presenting author should be indicated with an asterisk (*). All submitted abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee
Themes of the conference
Area I: Smart and Sustainable Food Processing
Sub-Themes
- Sustainable and novel food manufacturing technologies.
- Climate change and crop quality for processing
- Nanotechnology and advanced functional materials for food applications
- Precision fermentation for future foods
- AI, IoT, robotics, and intelligent automation in food processing
- Smart Agri-Food systems and supply chains
Area II: Food Safety, Quality and Environmental Mitigation
Sub-Themes
- Smart packaging innovations
- PFAS, microplastics, and emerging food contaminants
- Water–Energy–Food Nexus for sustainable food systems
- Smart detection technologies and rapid diagnostics for food safety
- Food waste valorization, circular bioeconomy and wastewater innovations
- Digital traceability, blockchain and AI-driven food safety & quality
Area III: Nutrition, Health and Food Innovations
Sub-Themes
- Personalized nutrition and digital health technologies
- Gut Health, microbiome and nutritional interventions
- Bioactive metabolites, functional foods and nutraceutical Innovations
- Alternative proteins
- Omics Technologies in nutrition and health research
- Therapeutic and preventive nutrition
Area IV: Smart, Sustainable and Indigenous Food Systems
Sub-Themes
- Smart gastronomy and sustainable food innovations
- Revival of native food traditions and indigenous culinary knowledge
- Traditional Himalayan foods and nutritional sustainability
- Indigenous food practices as tools for sustainable development
- Millets, mountain crops and forgotten foods of India
- Changing food Preferences among Gen Z and Millennials towards traditional Uttarakhand cuisine
Guidelines for abstract submission
- Abstracts should be 250 words with 5 keywords on A4 size with 25mm margin on each side.
- Abstract should be written in Times New Roman font, 12-point size, with single line spacing.
- Submissions should be in MS Word format only; other formats will not be considered.
- In abstract, Authors’ names and affiliations should be formatted as follows:
- Affiliations should be numbered (1, 2, 3, etc.) and these numbers should be superscripted next to the full name of the author.
- All superscripted affiliations should be listed after the authors’ names and must include the department, institute, address of the institute, and country of the authors.
- Authors’ names should be separated by commas.
- The corresponding author’s name should have an asterisk (*). The description of this asterisk should include the email address of the corresponding author.
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