Our Chief Commercial Officer Mark Pickering has been invited to speak virtually on day two of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) TECH 4.0 on 31st May!

Register to attend and download the full agenda here: tech40.net

Thank you Siôn Geschwindt at TNW for featuring our exciting space-tech news last week!

The feature was published shortly after we announced the £1.5m we have been awarded to build an autonomous farm in orbit 🌕🌎🛰️

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What a day for Vertical Future on Monday!

Huge thanks to the Eu Commission, the World Economic Forum and Umicore for hosting our Founder and CEO Jamie Burrows at the European Green Deal Conversation and luncheon with the other CEO Action Group members.

Listen to our CSO Dr Jen Bromley talk about our grant win announced last week from the UK Space Agency international Bilateral Fund and the Australian Space Agency on BBC's 'Farming Today'!🚀🌕🌎🛰️

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We’re exhibiting at GreenTech in Amsterdam from 11-13th June! 🌱

Vertical Future has received a further grant from the UK Space Agency international Bilateral Fund and Australian Space Agency to develop an autonomous environmental agriculture facility in space alongside the Twitter University of Cambridge! 🚀🌕🌎🛰️

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We’re counting down the days until we will be exhibiting and speaking at the Indoor AgTech Innovation Summit Innovation Summit in Chicago from 24-25th June!

Feel free to email us on [email protected] to set up a meeting.

We’re going to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this April!

Our Founder & CEO, Jamie Burrows, will represent VF as one of the World Economic Forum's Global Innovators at its annual Special Meeting for Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development, held in Riyadh from 28-29th April.

We are attending the Annual Sustainable Investment Forum in Paris on 2nd May!

Organised by Climate Action in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (@UNEP_FI), the Forum will bring together 350 finance stakeholders to Paris 🙌

Last week our Founder & CEO Jamie Burrows had the honour of becoming an Unreasonable Fellow, representing @vertical_future. Thank you Unreasonable team, Barclays UK, and the rest of the cohort for an amazing week!

Thank you so much Forward Fooding for showcasing us on this roundup for being one of the top 20 companies on the FoodTech500 2023 list!

Katia Zacharaki Katia Zacharaki introduces the new collaborative research that Vertical Future is conducting that is looking at the potential for growing 🍓 indoors! #AABHort24

Great day at Plant Protein Connect organised by Crop Health & Protection - CHAP last week, where our CSO Jen Bromley presented our work in the alternative protein space!

It was a hugely informative day and we will take these insights back to our Innovate UK-funded VIP Leaf project team.

It’s an honour for Vertical Future to have been selected to be part of the Unreasonable Impact 2024 program alongside some other incredible high-growth disruptors 🎉🚀

Jamie Burrows our Founder & CEO can't wait for the first full day that kicks off tomorrow!

Goodbye for now Las Vegas!

This week we exhibited at Indoor Ag-Con in Las Vegas where we allowed delegates to step into a virtual environment by using augmented reality, viewing in detail all the key components and processes for another project we're developing.

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting the most wonderful group of visitors at one of our sites, which included visitors from Defra UK, the FoodStandardsAgency, as well as agricultural counsellors representing countries from all over the world.

It was an incredible day!✨

It came home for Vertical Future last night when it was announced that we ranked 12th of all 500 food technology-related companies globally on Forward Fooding's 2023 FoodTech 500 list! That is an exponential increase with us going up 35 places from last year 🎉

And that’s a wrap✨🎬

Amazing week at #4YFN in Barcelona last week.

Big thanks again to Forward Fooding for the invite to speak and exhibit and also to the organisers at @gsmaglobal🤗

Incredible trip in Dubai last week on the Grow London UAE Trade Mission!

Our BD Manager Grant Macdonald was there proudly representing VF as one of 24 innovative London scaleups🙌

Excellent day last week on the first day of #4YFN24 in Barcelona!

Mark Pickering, VF’s Chief Commercial Officer, spoke alongside his other superb panelists on the panel titled ‘Tech Infused Farming: Tomorrow’s Agricultural Frontiers Unveiled’.