Podcasts about smart kitchen summit

In this episode we sit down with Mesh Gelman, the founder and CEO of Cumulus Coffee, to talk about reinventing the cold brew experience. A former Starbucks innovation executive, Gelman shares how his journey from coffee burnout to cold brew evangelist led him to build a sleek countertop system that delivers barista-quality nitro cold brew and cold espresso in under 60 seconds, without the need for nitrogen tanks. The two dive into the challenges of building a hardware startup, the evolution of consumer coffee habits, why cold is the future, and how Cumulus is positioning itself as both a coffee company and a tech innovator. Check out our upcoming virtual event, Smart Kitchen Summit 2025 at www.smartkitchensummit.com. Podcast listeners can use the discount SPOONPOD for 20% off of tickets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, Mike chats with George Peppou, founder and CEO of Vow, the Australian startup pushing the boundaries of cultured meat. George shares how his background in science, food, and invention led to building a company that creates entirely new types of meat, like quail foie gras and even a woolly mammoth meatball. George dives into Vow's bold approach to scaling production, including the in-house design of the world's largest food-grade bioreactor, and how they're defying industry trends by continuously selling cultivated meat in Singapore. George also discusses regulatory progress in Australia and New Zealand, what it takes to bring cultured meat to grocery shelves, and why others are now approaching Vow in the space for manufacturing support. Check out our big virtual event in July, the Smart Kitchen Summit! www.smartkitchensummit.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike talks with Cole Ashman, founder and CEO of Pila Energy, about how his company is rethinking home energy with a distributed, plug-and-play battery system. Instead of a single powerwall in the garage, Pila's mesh battery network allows users to place smaller batteries throughout the home, appliance by appliance, to back up critical devices like refrigerators and sump pumps. Cole shares how his experience with Tesla and Span shaped the vision for Pila, explains why whole-home battery backups are out of reach for most people, and explores how Pila is making backup power more affordable and flexible. They also dive into how upcoming policy changes—like Utah's new legislation supporting plug-in solar and storage—could open up a new era of DIY, portable energy for renters and homeowners alike. Cole will be joining us at the Smart Kitchen Summit, so make sure to get your ticket today at www.smartkitchensummit.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest for this episode of The Spoon Podcast is Dana McCauley, CEO of the Canadian Food Innovation Network (CFIN). Dana joins Mike to discuss the impact of recent US trade policies under the Trump administration on the Canadian food industry, highlighting the challenges and uncertainties faced by Canadian food businesses. McCauley also describes CFIN's role in supporting Canadian food companies through innovation and collaboration, and touches upon the strengths and emerging trends within Canada's food tech sector. The Spoon is bringing back the Smart Kitchen Summit this year July 21-31st. Make sure to check out our website and get your ticket ASAP! https://www.smartkitchensummit.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's conversation is with Sam Rose, who has spent her entire career unraveling the complexities of bringing consumer products—often kitchen-related—to life. I first met Sam about eight years ago, introduced through our mutual friend, Scott Heimendinger, who was collaborating with Sam on developing a next-generation coffee grinder. But this wasn't just any coffee grinder. It was a cutting-edge, tech-forward device that could sense the freshness of the beans, use burr grinders to achieve perfect consistency, and more. In other words, it was exactly the kind of innovative kitchen gadget that intrigued me, especially as someone who organized the Smart Kitchen Summit. However, Sam's journey didn't begin with coffee grinders. Her first product was much simpler—at least from a technology standpoint—and was inspired by a personal frustration. Disgusted with a cheap silicone spatula, Sam thought, "Why don't I just make my own?" And that's exactly what she did. Throughout her entrepreneurial journey, Sam has not only mastered the art of creating and selling her own consumer products to hundreds of thousands of customers but has also developed a comprehensive set of business processes and technologies to help others do the same. To top it off, she's now investing in companies she believes she can help succeed—focusing on physical consumer products, a category that many investors shy away from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is the audio from the very first session at SKS 2024, Lessons From the First Wave (And How to Prepare for The Next One). The session included Chris Young (Combustion, ChefSteps, Modernist Cuisine), Scott Heimendinger (Sansaire, Modernist Cuisine and Cuisonic), and Kai Schaffner (Thermomix). The session was moderated by The Spoon's Michael Wolf. It was a lively conversation about how we are seeing patterns of behavior reminiscent of the last wave, as well as what each of the speakers is excited about for the future. We'll be talking about some of these same topics at our next event, the Food AI Summit. Use discount code PODCAST for 15% off tickets. 

Today on NOW with Dave Brown: Canadians are rethinking drinking culture. Dawn Dickinson explores why in her preview of Maclean's Magazine. “Inside Out 2” swept the box office this past weekend. Entertainment critic Michael McNeely reviews the film. Plus, the Smart Kitchen Summit recently took place in Seattle. Marc Aflalo recaps some of the latest gadgets to improve your kitchen. This is the June 20, 2024, episode.

The Smart Kitchen Summit recently took place in Seattle. Marc Aflalo recaps some of the latest gadgets to improve your kitchen. From the June 20, 2024, episode.

SKS 2024 is in the books, so Carlos Rodela and Mike sit down and talk about the craziness of the past week, some of the products they checked out at the show, and some of the talks by our great lineup of speakers. If you'd like to see a video version of this conversation with interspered photos from SKS, check it out on the Spoon later this week.  

What would happen if you put a big battery in your induction stove? For one thing, you could cook at a much higher temperature because the power the battery brings to each cooking session is much higher than a traditional outlet. You also have the start of a fractionalized power wall, creating a foundation for what could be your electrified home. We talk about these and other implications of electrification in this conversation with Sam D'Amico, the CEO of Impulse Labs. Sam will be at Smart Kitchen Summit this week talking about kitchen electrification and the Impulse Labs story. If you'd like to see Sam in person, get your ticket for the Smart Kitchen Summit at www.smartkitchensummit.com. Use code PODCAST for 15% off tickets. 

If you follow food Instagram or TikTok, chances are over the past couple of years you've seen a touchscreen toaster from Revolution Cooking.   Revolution's toaster went viral during the pandemic, in part because it has a touchscreen, but also because of a price tag north of $250.    But Revolution CEO Tom Klaff said the toaster was just the beginning, and the fuller vision for the company started to come into focus this past CES when they introduced the Macrowave, a device that combines microwave cooking, infrared heating, air frying and more.    In this podcast, we talk to Tom about why he decided to enter the kitchen technology space, how he and his partner came up with the idea to create a touchscreen toaster, launching during a pandemic, becoming Oprah's favorite toaster, and much more.    If you want to meet Tom in person and hear about his heating technology, he'll be at the Smart Kitchen Summit on June 4-5th. Just head to www.smartkitchensummit.com and use the coupon code PODCAST for 15% off tickets.  

This episode's guest is Assaf Pashut, the founder of Chefee, a company that makes home cooking robots.   If there's a category in kitchen technology where there have been lots of startups over the past few years, it's food robotics. Zume, Flippy, Remy Robotics, BurgetBot, and Picnic to name a few. Even Travis Kalanick is getting into the act.   However, most food robots are made for commercial kitchens and that's for good reason. As consumers tend to like appliances we're familiar with, so the idea of having a robot to make our food seems like something out of a science fiction future.   But Assaf Pashut had a vision for using robotics to help us make better food and so he built Chefee, a home food robotic system that is different than anything out there. It's not a countertop appliance that has automated things within a box, or a system that has big robotic arms attached to the wall. With Chefee, the robotics recede into the background.   In this conversation, we discuss how Assaf came up with the idea for Chefee, how he got to where he is today, and his vision of the future. He also tells the story of pitching Chefee on Shark Tank.   If you'd like to see Assaf in person you can do so at the Smart Kitchen Summit. Just use coupon code PODCAST at smartkitchensummit.com for 15% off.

Nick Holzherr is well-known in the smart kitchen space. With the rapid growth of his startup Whisk and the acquisition of the company by Samsung, it's one of the true success stories in this market.   Whisk was the first recipe startup to explore early on how to use AI and apply it to recipes. As we find out in this interview, Nick and his team were building everything from the ground up, including buying computer chips to run his AI models a decade ago.   Nick also tells the story of going on the British version of The Apprentice and appearing before Lord Sugar (the British version of Donald Trump) to pitch the company.    Over the years, Nick's company started working with grocers in Europe and eventually appliance brands, and it wasn't long before he started getting calls about acquiring the company. Nick talks about those heady days in which he got three companies all making bids to buy the company.   Nick also discusses what he is excited about and where he sees the use of AI in the kitchen going.    If you'd like to see Nick and hear his story in person, I'd encourage you to head to Smart Kitchen Summit. You can use the discount code PODCAST to get 15% off tickets at smartkitchensummit.com.

This week Mike and Carlos be joined by Future Market's Mike Lee to talk over some of the most interesting stories of the week. Mike Lee also tells us about his new book Mise,  which paints four different scenarios depicting the potential direction of our future food system. Here are all the stories we'll be talking about. Bored & Hungry Closes – Food & Web3: A check in on where things are In March 2022, NFT and crypto investor Andy Nguyen purchased Bored Ape #6184 along with three Mutant Apes and soon decided to establish a Bored Ape-themed restaurant named Bored & Hungry. The restaurant opened its doors on April 9, and by the end of its first day, it had served 1,500 burgers and had lines stretching around the block. Two years later, Bored & Hungry has closed. Last week, Nguyen announced on Instagram that the restaurant's original location in Long Beach, California, was closing. He shared that they had sold the concept to a franchising company from Asia known as HUNGRY Dao. Is AI-Powered Customer Interaction at Fast Food & Retail Giving Up too Much Privacy? A Fast Company article titled “How fast food is becoming a new surveillance ground” looks at how new customer interaction layers using things like bio-authentication, cameras, profile information, and more are a new risk for gathering information about the public.  And earlier this week, we saw Steak n Shake launch facial recognition nationwide for check-in. Are we going through an airport or going to buy a surf and turf? Vow Thinks Imitating Meat We Eat is Bad Approach. Enter the Quail Parfait.  Green Queen: The Syndey-based startup is today launching its cultivated Japanese quail in Singapore's Mandala Club, after the country's regulator gave it the go-ahead to sell the product. But unlike other rollouts of cultivated meat, where chefs are supplied with the meat itself (which they then incorporate into dishes), Vow is taking a novel approach. What restaurant kitchens get is a parfait containing its cultivated quail. Mike's Book about The Future of Food The four future visions in Mise (pronounced “meez”), which range from the year 2033 to 2067, are created to help people understand the potential long-term impact of things that are happening today in the world on our food system. The book identifies 5 major happenings in society, technology, the economy, the environment, and politics (abbreviated and referred to as the STEEP factors) that will have a profound impact on the way the world produces and consumes food. We'll be talking about some of these food futures and how it will shape our lives at the Smart Kitchen Summit on June 4-5th in Seattle. If you'd like to join us, you can use the discount code PODCAST for 15% off tickets at checkout. 

This week on the Food Tech News Show we are joined by Scott Heimendinger, one of the inventors of the home sous vide circulator and a long-time kitchen tech inventor.  Here are the stories we talk about: Apple is working on robots for the home! – From Bloomberg: “The original concept for the robot was a device that could navigate entirely on its own without human intervention — like the car — and serve as a videoconferencing tool. One pie-in-the-sky idea within Apple was having it be able to handle chores, like cleaning dishes in a sink. Google has used its latest AI to create a new tool that creates a fusion recipe between two culinary cultures. Lifehacker: “According to Google,  Food Mood can provide creative inspiration for your next meal. Select two countries and this fusion recipe generator will create one for you. You can choose whether you would like to cook a starter, a soup, a main course or a dessert. For example, why not try a unique blend of flavors from Sri Lanka and Uganda or mixing influences from Oman and Belgium? This experiment was created by artists Emmanuel Durgoni and Gaël Hugo, and uses Gemini 1.0 Pro via Vertex AI.” Whirlpool has let the entire Yummly team go. Appliance giant Whirlpool has laid off its entire Yummly team. According to industry sources, the company recently laid off all the employees for the recipe and cooking app and website. These sources tell the Spoon that it's unclear what the company plans to do with the property it acquired in 2017. Amazon Pulling ‘Just Walk Out' from Amazon Fresh Grocery Stores – According to a story published in The Information, Amazon is planning to pull its Just Walk Out cashierless technology from its large-format grocery store, Amazon Fresh. One Robot Pizza Chain Operator Breaks Down the Cost Each Part of the Pizza-Making Process – For small operators (and big ones as well) in the pizza business, Andrew Simmons's posts on Linkedin have become must-read material. Scott will be at the Smart Kitchen Summit, talking about some of the lessons he's learned building the kitchen of the future. If you are interested in seeing Scott at SKS, you can use the discount code PODCAST for 15% off tickets. 

On this week's Food Tech News Show, Mike and Carlos welcome Rachel Konrad, former head of communications for The Production Board, Impossible Foods and Tesla. The stories we catch up on include: People are Scared Sh**tless: It gets real on stage from pessimistic VCs Startup Polopo shows off tech to create egg-derived proteins in potatoes using molecular farming techniques Is the Keto Cereal Craze over? Trader Joe's opens new small-format store Robot of the week: The Chefee robot You can find the video version of this Weekly Food Tech News show at The Spoon and you can find the audio-only podcast on Apple Podcasts.   A reminder: It's the last two days to get early bird pricing for the Smart Kitchen Summit. Use discount code PODCAST at checkout for 15% off of tickets.       

If you follow the world of kitchen and consumer food tech startups, you know there hasn't been much in the way of venture funded startups targeting food waste in the home. That changed last year when Mill lifted the veil on the company and its first product, the Mill Bin, a smart food recycler. The company had a unique approach, offering a subscription-based home food waste recycler and an accompanying service that would turn the food grounds into chicken feed.  We decided to catch up with the company's CEO, Matt Rogers, to hear about the journey to making Mill. During our conversation, we also talk about: The early lessons in building a tech-powered food recycling appliance and service Why Matt decided to target food waste after building a smart home company in Nest The challenges in getting consumers to think about wasting less food How better data could help us change consumer behavior  The future of food waste reduction technology in the consumer kitchen If you want to learn more about Mill, you can head to their website or join us at the Smart Kitchen Summit where we will be hearing from company cofounder Harry Tannenbaum. Use discount code podcast for 15% off tickets.

Over the past decade, Fresco has been building technology that helps appliance and housewares brands to create smart kitchen products. The journey for Fresco started when the company - then known as Drop - created a connected kitchen scale. After finding success selling its scale in the Apple store and other locations, the company started working with other brands to help provide enabling technology to power their smart kitchen solutions.  Fast-forward to today, and Fresco is now working with some of the world's biggest kitchen brands, including Panasonic and Viking, to help them build out their smart kitchen solutions. To hear about this journey, we welcome Anthony Sullivan, the Chief Product Officer for Fresco, to the podcast.  On the podcast, host Michael Wolf talks with Anthony about: The journey from a consumer product company to a platform company Building software for appliance brands The evolution of the mindset of appliance companies around creating solutions that enable cross-brand connectivity The challenges of getting consumers to adopt more tech-forward solutions in the kitchen And lots more! You can learn more about Fresco at www.frescocooks.com  If you are interested connecting with Fresco and other kitchen tech companies, you'll want to be at the Smart Kitchen Summit on June 4-5th in Seattle. Use the discount code PODCAST for 15% off tickets at checkout.

Around 2009, Ralph Newhouse's company hunted down excess inventory of small electrics and would re-sell them into the secondary market. However, it wasn't long before Newhouse realized he wanted to make his own appliances, and that's when the Chefman we know today was born. Newhouse wasn't done. As he and Chefman started to see how new connected products made their way into the market over the past decade, he realized he wanted to create a brand around more tech-forward connected products, and that thinking led to the creation of ChefIQ, a startup within a startup focused on the smart kitchen. In this conversation, Newhouse talks about this journey, why he decided to create a separate company for his connected products, and where he sees the future of the connected kitchen going.  And...for those interested new products, we have a couple reveals by Ralph in this podcast that are heard for the first time.  Have a listen! For those interested in checking out where the future kitchen is going, you'll want to be at the Smart Kitchen Summit on June 4-5th in Seattle. Use discount PODCAST at checkout for 15% off tickets.

Ty Thompson and the rest of the Ovie team recently passed a major milestone: They shipped their first piece of hardware. The product, a consumer food waste management system, was over half a decade in the making. Along the way to market, the founding team faced numerous challenges around funding, finalizing the product concept and design, building prototypes for manufacturing, and finding the right manufacturer to work with. Ty talks about all of these challenges and the lessons learned, including: -Battling mission creep around the product's vision -How to find the right minimum viable product to get it into production -What you need to do (and what you shouldn't do) when looking to find the right manufacturing partner -How to balance your life and your day job while hustling to build a startup And much more.  Ovie will be at Smart Kitchen Summit, so if you like what you hear and want to connect with the team in person, get your ticket at www.smartkitchensummit.com.

Chris Young is one of the most provocative and interesting thinkers in the future of food and cooking, so any time he visits The Spoon podcast we learn a lot. This time was no exception.  In this episode of The Spoon Podcast, we talk about: How he has put AI compute into something as small as a thermometer  Where he thinks generative AI and other AI is going in the food and cooking space How he thinks big companies should approach the AI era  Why he's back creating content for Youtube and other channels again And much more! Chris will be back at Smart Kitchen Summit this summer in Seattle, so if you're interested in seeing him there or learning more, head to www.smartkitchensummit.com.  

Amazon has unveiled yet another innovative yet slightly creep new technology in their palm-pay concept at Amazon Go. The Spoon editors discuss this and other stories in this week's editor roundtable, including -Bear intro Servi the restaurant robot -Shiok gets more funding for its lab-grown shellfish -Light-killing water vessel? We also preview some of the finalists for the Startup Showcase for Smart Kitchen Summit. via Knit

Smart Kitchen Summit 2020 is going virtual. Like so many events this year, the global pandemic has forced an evolution from in-person to online. Is the food tech world better positioned to go virtual? On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with The Spoon publisher Michael Wolf about the Smart Kitchen Summit 2020 and how they plan to execute the first ever worldwide virtual event. A highlight of the October event is the Startup Showcase, the longest running and most well known food tech startup competition. This year’s 10 finalist companies will have the opportunity to pitch and demo their innovation to a global audience of leading executives, influencers, journalists, analysts and funders interested in the space. Startups can enter to participate until September 15, 2020.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Tech Bites by becoming a member!Tech Bites is Powered by Simplecast.

In this episode, The Spoon team talks about Walmart's new membership program and the launch of Grabango's technology at Giant Eagle. The team also discusses a new ghost kitchen robot, food halls at H-E-B and a new startup that is using AI to create cheese. Mike also complains about the lack of bathrooms on road trips. Food Tech Show listeners: Smart Kitchen Summit is in six weeks! Just go to www.smartkitchensummit.com to learn more. via Knit

The Spoon’s publisher, Michael Wolf joins host Penny Rosema as they discuss interesting advances happening in terms of technology coming into the kitchen. An acceleration of online shopping experience and services were realized due to Covid-19. Individuals who would have never considered using online technology to order groceries have found themselves learning the process out of necessity. Other trends Michael shares are personalization around nutrition and food storage systems to help with the reduction of food waste. Michael is also the founder of the Smart Kitchen Summit. It started in 2015 to focus on food technology and how it’s incorporated in the kitchen. He had an overwhelming feeling that there would be a large-scale reinvention in the way we cook. To help be a catalyst in the innovation, he felt it was a good idea to bring people together to talk about it. Partnerships and ideas have evolved through the event over the years. CMA members receive special offers for the 2020 Smart Kitchen Summit by going to the members area. Michael will be a featured speaker at the CMA 2020 Fall Member Meeting. Resources: Michael Wolf | LinkedIn The Spoon The Food Tech Show | Podcast Smart Kitchen Summit CMA Membership Discount for Smart Kitchen Summit Tickets | Login to Redeem Spoon Plus Membership

We're back after a mini-vacation following Smart Kitchen Summit. This week the Spoon editors got back on the mic to discuss: -The BRÜ tea maker (and Mike's inability to say the word umlaut) -The new Uber Eats delivery drone -The YourLocal app that allows restaurants to sell excess food at a discount -The new California law that mandates food waste bins in quick service restaurants -Sweetgreen 3.0! Enjoy your podcast and, as always, please leave a review if you enjoy what you hear. via Knit

The 5th Smart Kitchen Summit was held a few weeks ago in Seattle. Two days in early October when entrepreneurs, food techies, food futurists, and investors gather to check out the latest ideas around how to make the process of planning for, shopping for, and preparing foods/meals better. To make it easier, faster, cheaper, less wasteful, or in some other way more rewarding through advances in technology. A slew of smart appliances and smartphone apps were on display.In this podcast I get the perspectives on some the featured ideas at the Smart Kitchen Summit from two experts in their fields who attended. Lisa McManus is a kitchen equipment tester. She’s a reporter and editor who also stars on PBS television shows "America's Test Kitchen" and "Cook's Country.Anna Marie Cesario spent a good part of her career at food companies like Unilever, attuned to the whole meal preparation process. She and her teams developed recipes that fit into our changing lifestyles. In this show I also consider if and how any of these ”smart” solutions could help me in my own kitchen…

The Wink hub seems to be one step closer to death, Google announces a bunch of new Nest products, and Signify acquires Eaton Lighting. Plus Anova Culinary’s Steve Svajian joins us to discuss the latest Smart Kitchen Summit and bring us up to speed on Anova’s latest products and announcements. The post Home: On #127 – Precision Cooking, with Steve Svajian appeared first on The Digital Media Zone.

Joined by Dave Baarman, from The Wireless Power Consortium this week, at the Smart Kitchen Summit. But we’ll be talking more that just how wireless power affects your kitchen. We’ll of course, talk sports. Established in 2008, the Wireless Power Consortium is an open, collaborative standards development group of more than 500 member companies from … Continue reading Dave Baarman, Co-Chairman at The Wireless Power Consortium →

The Spoon team (Mike, Catherine, Jenn & Chris) got together this week to talk food tech! Here are some of the stories we discussed: -The Caper smart grocery cart -The new bill in California that would require gig economy workers to be treated as employees -Impossible's first retail product, which looks like it will be a pound of "ground beef" -A look at this year's class of Startup Showcase finalists for the Smart Kitchen Summit If you want to see the startups we talk about or hang out with the Spoon crew, make sure to go to the Smart Kitchen Summit! Use discount code PODCAST for 25% off of tickets at www.smartkitchensummit.com - via Knit

Imagine you could "delete" the portion in a food DNA sequence that is bad for you. That's exactly what CRISPR and gene editing promises to do, and in this podcast Mike catches up with Deepbranch Biotech's Pete Rowe to learn more about this technology that promises to be one of the food industry's biggest game-changers over the next couple of decades. You can learn more about Deepbranch Biotechnology at https://deepbranchbio.com/ Make sure to check out the Smart Kitchen Summit at www.smartkitchensummit.com and use discount code PODCAST for 25% off of tickets. via Knit

We’re sharing a panel Richard moderated at the last Smart Kitchen Summit about commerce in the kitchen. How do you sell stuff to consumers in their own homes without it feeling annoying? And we have a winner for our ultimate smart home kit! The post Home: On #118 – Kitchen Commerce appeared first on The Digital Media Zone.

On this very special episode of HomeTech: Join us as we look back on the biggest smart home stories of 2018 on our fourth annual “Fireside Chat”! As in year’s past, we are joined by Mike Wolf, founder of the Smart Kitchen Summit and publisher of The Spoon, and Richard Gunther, host of the Digital Media Zone’s Home:On Podcast. This year, we are also joined for the first time by Rose Thibodeaux, founder of the excellent smart-home product review YouTube channel, “It’s Rose”, and author at the Home Alarm Report. This jam-packed episode will provide you with a comprehensive look back at all the trends that defined the connected home this year, including predictions about what 2019 will bring. Don’t miss it!

"The [cannabis edibles] consumer is probably not who you think it is," said Linda Gilbert, formerly Managing Editor, Consumer Insights cannabis data company BDS Analytics. "The average age of a cannabis consumer is 42. This is not an 18 year old living in his parent's basement." In this talk from the Smart Kitchen Summit 2018, The Spoon's Catherine Lamb talks with Linda and two other experts about the burgeoning cannabis edibles market - and where we can expect it to grow from here. via Knit

Richard looks back at last month’s Smart Kitchen Summit, TiVo starts rolling out some smart home features to customers, and Josh Pollard joins us to share his thoughts on some of Google’s new Home product, and he updates us on what’s going on these days in his smart home. The post Home: On #112 – Google’s Home, with Josh Pollard appeared first on The Digital Media Zone.

In this episode, Teri once again welcomes Bahubali Shete and Mario Rodriguez of Klove Chef. They talk about being a startup in the voicefirst world, and how it is important to continue to innovate at lightning speed.Welcome Bahubali Shete and Mario Rodriguez!Today we welcome Bahabali and Mario back to the podcast. They first appeared on Episode 44. Today we talk about their experience of being a startup company in the voicefirst world. As a reminder, Bahubali Shete is the co-founder and CEO of Klove Chef and Mario Rodriguez is its Chief Culinary Officer. Klove Chef is a voice-guided cooking assistant that helps keep your hands free for cooking, while giving you relevant cooking tips.Klove Chef Klove Chef is a conversational solution which takes consumers through meal planning, recipe discovery, buying ingredients and cooking with the support of a conversational assistant. Focusing on becoming the primary interface for consumers in the kitchen. Includes a chat bot feature. Facilitates an easier cooking experience for home cooks by giving them chef tips, hacks and tricks. It is available in Canada! Yeah!A startup in the Voice Tech space: The challenges and successes There’s great difficulty in trying to come up with languages and terminology that fits users in different countries (with diverse cultures). It takes much longer for people like potential investors and early adopters to understand a Voice Technology product/solution. Klove Chef is consistently getting 5-Star reviews because early adopters love it, once they try it out. Kove Chef is building up their recipe database. They recently participated at the Smart Kitchen Summit; the “Sears of Food Technology.” Klove Chef is the only Voice First cooking solution in the Food Tech space. It has created numerous partnership opportunities. A New feature, RecipeBox, enables users to add their own recipes through either voice or chat bots. They can then convert them into speakable recipes on Alexa and Google Home. They are currently accepting beta signups for RecipeBox. Klove Chef is building a community of people who interact with Klove Chef on a daily basis while sharing their home recipes with each other. A one-stop shop for culinary questions: Klove Chef plans to offer a Q&A solution for users. Forging partnerships with companies that will add other elements of functionality to Klove Chef is another goal. The partners are helping diversify the types of recipes, and develop compatibilities with certain devices and appliances that have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth functionality. The Mealkits partnership: Klove Chef helps Mealkits consumers with any problems they have during the cooking process, while also enabling them to provide feedback on the experience. Mealkit companies are able to get unmatched in-depth cooking analytics from Klove Chef. They are working on offering a white label solution for brands and celebrity chefs.List of resources mentioned in this episode:Alexa in Canada Podcast Episode 44: Voice Guided Cooking with Bahubali Shete and Mario Rodriguex from Klove ChefKlove Chef’s WebsiteVoice in Canada: The Flash BriefingReviews of top Alexa Skills in CanadaTeri Fisher on TwitterAlexa in Canada on TwitterPlease leave a review on iTunesShopping on Amazon.caThe Alexa Conference, presented by VoiceFirst.FMuse promo code ALEXAINCANADA for 20% off See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

While most of us only started to think about food robots in the last couple of years, Rishi Israni and his cofounder (and wife) Pranoti Nagarkar Israni have been thinking about them every day for a decade. That's because ten years ago Pranoti decided to build a robot to create the Indian flat bread called roti so she wouldn't have to make it every day by hand. Fast forward to 2018 and the Rotimatic flatbread robot is arguably the most successful home kitchen robot worldwide. In this podcast I talk to Rishi about the journey behind the Rotimatic, what the difference is between and appliance and a robot and where exactly these things called food robots are going in the future. You can find out more about the Rotimatic at https://rotimatic.com/. Find more Smart Kitchen Shows at www.thespoon.tech. If you would like to meet Rishi and Pranoti in person, make sure to get your ticket to the Smart Kitchen Summit at www.smartkitchensummit.com. Use the discount code PODCAST for 25% off of tickets. via Knit

At last year's Smart Kitchen Summit, celebrity chef Tyler Florence declared "the recipe is dead!" There's no doubt the recipe is changing with the arrival of new technologies, cooking methods and content formats, so we decided to have a conversation about this at Smart Kitchen Summit Europe. This episode of the Smart Kitchen Show features a panel conversation featuring the BBC's LuLu Grimes, Hestan Cue's Jon Jenkins and Dishq's Kishan Vasani. The panel was moderated by YouTube star Katie Quinn. You can see hear more about the future of the recipe at Smart Kitchen Summit in Seattle at www.smartkitchensummit.com. Use discount code PODCAST for 25% off tickets. via Knit

Today’s episode is a little different than the norm: it’s the panel I moderated in Dublin, Ireland a few weeks ago at the Smart Kitchen Summit Europe. The Smart Kitchen Summit is a conference that looks at the food + technology Venn diagram. What is the evolving role technology plays in our kitchens, and what are the implications of that? This panel that I moderated had the panelists Lulu Grimes of BBC Good Food, Kishan Visani of DishQ, and Jon Jenkins of Hestan Cue. The title of our panel was, "Personalized, Shoppable and Guided: Recipes Are Not Dead." --smart kitchen summit-- @smartkitchensummit - instagram @SmartKitchenCon - twitter www.smartkitchensummit.com --keep it quirky-- @keepitquirkypodcast - instagram @qkatie - katie quinn on instagram & twitter www.youtube.com/TheQKatie www.facebook.com/TheQKatie See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Smart Kitchen Summit's curator, Mike Wolf, joins us to review the discussions that Richard facilitated at this year's event. Included in this episode, you'll hear Richard's own panel, Don't Brick My Fridge, where he discusses with his panelists some of the issues businesses face when selling connected products. The post Home: On #095 – Kitchen Panels, with Mike Wolf appeared first on The Digital Media Zone.

During our recent Smart Kitchen Summit, celebrity chef Tyler Florence proclaimed that "the recipe is dead." Not to get all Monty Python, but Milk Street founder Christopher Kimball disagrees and thinks Florence's take is dead wrong. In this episode we talk with Kimball about recipes, why cookbooks are still king in the kitchen, and what connected gadgets he actually likes. via Knit

John Gauntt brings you a look at his experience participating in the 2017 Seattle Smart Kitchen Summit. It's the tech, the people and the ideas that are going to help shape the future of the kitchen in our lives.

It's time for Mike and Ashley's annual post-Smart Kitchen Summit wrapup where they talk about the talks, the startups, cooking tech and all the behind the scenes happenings. It's required listening, an indispensable "director's cut" accompaniment to the Smart Kitchen Summit. We'll also already posting videos from the Smart Kitchen Summit over at the Spoon. Check out www.thespoon.tech where you'll see the video sessions first. You'll also want to check in with the www.smartkitchensummit.com from time to time for more details about upcoming events as well as photos and videos of SKS17. via Knit

We're busy preparing for Smart Kitchen Summit 2017, which is only one week away. To prime the pump, we'd thought we'd release some of our favorite sessions from last year as podcasts. This sessions, entitled The Chefs, featured none other than Kenji Lopez Alt (Serious Eats, James Beard award winner), Chris Young (ChefSteps, coauthor Modernist Cuisine) and Philip Tessier (Hestan Smart Cooking, Head Coach, Bocuse d'Or Team USA). If you haven't purchased your tickets for SKS 2017, you can do so now at www.smartkitchensummit.com. Use discount code PODCAST to get 25% off of tickets. via Knit

When I tell people I cook with Facebook, they give me a strange look. But using Facebook's chatbot interface as a cooking interface is surprisingly natural. The first cooking company to create a Facebook Messenger chatbot interface is ChefSteps, who launched their Joule-Messenger integration earlier this year. The chatbot is part of the company's larger vision around the idea of 'conversational cooking', which I discuss with the ChefSteps CTO Michael Natkin. For listeners interested in the Smart Kitchen Summit, less than two weeks until early bird pricing expires. Use the discount code PODCAST to get an extra 25% off of tickets. via Knit

If you've read an article about Zume Pizza, chances are it focused on the how the company is using robotics to make pizza more efficiently. But here's the thing: while robot-assisted pizza production IS interesting, it is NOT what's the most intriguing part about Zume Pizza's business. No, instead it's the application of data analysis combined with what the company calls an "elastic" pizza delivery network that pushes final cook and delivery to where the most demand is that's what is the most revolutionary about this fast-growing pizza startup. In a sense, the company is applying cloud computing concepts to pizza creation, bringing the ability to scale fast to meet demand with highly efficient resources. This makes sense for a whole bunch of reasons. Traditional retail fast food involves hundreds of thousands - even sometimes millions of dollars - in fixed cost associated with each (to use a telecom term) "point of presence", but once the store is built you're stuck in one place. Why not move to meet demand where it's at, when it's at? That is what Zume is doing with a network of mobile pizza trucks that do final-cook in smart ovens and through a fleet of scooters that bring the pizza to the consumer's home. In today's podcast, Mike talks with Zume Pizza cofounder Julia Collins. If you'd like to meet Julia Collins and hear her talk about the future of restaurant tech in person, make sure to be at the Smart Kitchen Summit. Podcast listeners can get Smart Kitchen Summit tickets for 25% off using the discount code PODCAST. Just go to www.smartkitchensummit.com. You can find out more about Zume Pizza by going to https://zumepizza.com via Knit

On the 50th birthday on the microwave, the core technology behind the fast-cook workhorse faces an uncertain future. One of the technologies taking aim at the old-school microwave is RF solid state cooking. A company that figures to be a key player in the RF cooking space is Goji Solutions. With a portfolio of technology originally developed for heating tissues for medical environments, today Goji Solutions holds over 100 patents in the RF heating market. Goji is working with appliance makers to bring products to market using their RF cooking technology. We talk to Goji Solutions President Yuval Ben-Haim to hear the backstory of his company's technology and to get a state of the market for RF cooking. If you'd like to hear Ben-Haim talk about RF cooking in person, make sure to come to the Smart Kitchen Summit where he will be speaking. Go to www.smartkitchensummit.com and use the discount code PODCAST to get 25% off of tickets via Knit

Mike and Ashley catch up on the top smart kitchen and foodtech news of the last few weeks, including: -Whirlpool's acquisition of Yummly -Amazon's latest Echo device, the Echo Show -Microsoft's new Cortana powered wireless speaker -PicoBrew's record breaking campaign for the Pico C -The microwave's 50th birthday and while it may not be long for this world -The Cinder grill's Indieogogo campaign We also catch up on all the news coming out of the Smart Kitchen Summit. If you'd like to go to SKS, head to www.smartkitchensummit.com and use the discount code PODCAST and get 20% off of tickets. via Knit

In this podcast, Mike talks with Mikel Cirkus and Matthew Walter from Firmenich, the largest privately owned flavor company in the world, about the idea of flavor as a technology. They explore how flavor can be broken down into different elements, how the speed of innovation and discovery in flavors continues to accelerate across geographies in today's connected world, and how the connected kitchen is impacting the flavor industry. You can learn more about Firmenich at http://www.firmenich.com/ Find more Smart Kitchen Shows at www.thespoon.tech and find out more about the Smart Kitchen Summit at www.smartkitchensummit.com via Knit

Live, From 2017 CES, Michael Wolf NOB Technology Power Hour Interview Series We're joined today by Michael Wolf.  Mike is kind enough to catch up with us via his vantage point, live at 2017 CES.  Michael Wolf is writer, host of The Smart Home Show, The Smart Kitchen Show, proprietor of the Technology.FM web portal of like-minded technologists thespoon.tech, with daily analysis and reporting about the smart kitchen and the food tech revolution, including personalized nutrition.  Mike is also the founder of the annual event, The Smart Kitchen Summit (at smartkitchensummit.com) which, from the web site, “is the leading event dedicated to exploring the intersection of tech, food, design, and commerce in the connected kitchen." Mike is covering 2017 CES, live from Las Vegas, featuring the latest in consumer electronics, connected cars, sports tech and more from the gathering of companies tiny and gigantic, all showing their products, especially those in the Smart Home, Smart Kitchen space, and of particular interest to The Not Old Better audience.   Via SKYPE, as he navigates the massive crowds at CES 2017, live,  I want to welcome Michael Wolf to The Not Old Better Show.

Mike visits with his long-time friend and IoT guru Stacey Higginbotham. They talk about Stacey's visit to Seattle and the Smart Kitchen Summit, Alexa, what she is excited about with smart home and her new podcast. You can find Stacey online at www.staceyhigginbotham.com Also, check out our new site focused on the connected kitchen and future of cooking at http://thespoon.tech/ http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

Lots of homes have intercom systems. Most of them suck and are antiquated. And pretty much no one has video intercom systems, at least ones that use Wi-Fi and are developed for consumers. Enter Jonathan Frankel and Nucleus. Jonathan went to CES 2014 and toured the floor looking to see if anyone was offering a consumer Wi-Fi video intercom system for the home. No one was and Nucleus was born the next day. You can find out more about Nucleus at www.nucleuslife.com If you want to come see Mike in Seattle and hang out with smart home luminaries like Charlie Kindel of Amazon Alexa, come to the Smart Kitchen Summit. Visit www.smartkitchensummit.com and use the discount code PODCAST for 10% off. http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

We have a new Smart Home Show coming this week, but why not try out Mike's other show, the Smart Kitchen Show? This week, Mike and Ashley catch up on the foodtech and connected kitchen news, including: -3D food printer ChefJet is still alive -A performance art piece posing as 3D printer food restaurant in London -Food service robots are going to take your food service job -Food delivery startup gets $ for being fresh -Plus updates on the Smart Kitchen Summit! Subscribe to the show in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/smart…d1037600142?mt=2 RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/SmartKitchenShow Or check out the archive at the SKS website: www.smartkitchensummit.com/show http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

In this episode, Mike talks to Alex Capecelatro, CEO of Jstar, the company behind Josh. Josh is a voice virtual assistant for the smart home. You can learn more about Josh at https://www.josh.ai Subscribe to more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com We've announced the new date for the Smart Kitchen Summit. go to www.smartkitchensummit.com for more info. http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

Mike is joined by Frank D'Andrea as they do a post game wrap up of the Smart Kitchen Summit. If you want to check out the Summit sessions yourself, all the video sessions can be viewed at www.smartkitchensummit.com/video http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

On this episode, we have a two-parter as Mike catches up with Richard Gunther before he flies to Seattle for the Smart Kitchen Summit. On the second half of the show, Control4 CEO Martin Plaehn talks about what Control4 had to show at CEDIA. Check out the livestream of the Smart Kitchen Summit at www.smartkitchensummit.com/video on Thursday November 5th to see Mike, Richard and Internet of Things podcast host Stacey Higginbotham! http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

I (Mike) am pretty excited to announce a new podcast called Smart Kitchen Show. I know, I need to work on more original names, but I'm pretty proud of this new show. It's got great stories from makers in the foodtech and smart kitchen space and also will be the story of us putting together a little thing called the Smart Kitchen Summit. It's like the Startup podcast, but for smart home and food tech. Check this podcast out and subscribe to it on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/smart-kitchen-show/id1037600142 or using RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/SmartKitchenShow Thanks! http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

This week's show is a two parter: First we talk the week's news with Dan Roberts, cofounder of Scout Alarm. We also talk to Dan about being one of the early Alexa program partners (Amazon announced an investment in Scout last week through the Alexa fund). In the second half we talk to Kai Kreuzer about open source smart home system openHAB and the news that they've just launched an openHAB channel on IFTTT. You can find out more about Scout at https://www.scoutalarm.com/ You can find out more about openHAB at http://www.openhab.org/ The sponsor for today's show is Soundwall, a company that is making connected art that CEO Aaron Cohen describes as Sonos meets Instagram. You can find out more about Soundwall at www.soundwall.com Listen to and subscribe to more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Check out our first event called the Smart Kitchen Summit, a conference about the future of the connected kitchen: www.smartkitchensummit.com http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

This week's podcast features Cameron Robertson, CEO of smart lock maker Lockitron. Mike and Cameron catch up on the smart home news, including: -Amazon Echo becoming available for all -Astro's smart lighting for apartment dwellers -Roost's smart Wi-Fi battery for smoke alarms -Freshhub's kitchen commerce technology integration with NCR -Hoover Europe's Wi-Fi appliance range Mike also shares a few thoughts on Alexa's unbundling from the Amazon Echo and the Alexa $100 million development fund. Cameron and Mike also talk about the smart home startup landscape and whether there is a shakeout, and Cameron lends some great context given all the battles he's fought with Lockitron. Alexa also interrupts Mike's podcast intro (see podcast pic for the weird ToDo list that resulted from that) You can find out more about Lockitron at www.lockitron.com The sponsor for today's show is Soundwall, a company that is making connected art that CEO Aaron Cohen describes as Sonos meets Instagram. You can find out more about Soundwall at www.soundwall.com Listen to and subscribe to more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Check out our first event called the Smart Kitchen Summit, a conference about the future of the connected kitchen: www.smartkitchensummit.com http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

This week's podcast features Andrew Thomas, cofounder of Skybell, and Ben Stagg, CEO of Halo Smart Labs. In the first segment, Andrew and Mike talk about Quirky's problems, the layoffs at Leeo, and discuss if there is a smart home shakeout coming. They also talk about the Nest press event and Andrew tells Mike he's being a little greedy for wanting more news. In the second half of the show, Mike talks with Halo Smart Labs CEO Ben Stagg about their next generation smart smoke alarm/emergency detector and they talk about the Nest Protect 2 news coming out of the Nest press event. The sponsor for today's show is Soundwall, a company that is making connected art that CEO Aaron Cohen describes as Sonos meets Instagram. You can find out more about Soundwall at www.soundwall.com Find out more about Skybell at www.skybell.com Find out more about Halo Smart Labs at www.halosmartlabs.com Listen to and subscribe to more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Check out our first event called the Smart Kitchen Summit, a conference about the future of the connected kitchen: www.smartkitchensummit.com Image: Wink Robot Butler http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

It's just a matter of time before all the dumb machines in our home become smart. You know that right? In this episode Mike and guest Shane Dyer of Arrayent talk about the news of the week: -HomeKit's super slow rollout -Nest's new camera -The June Intelligent Oven And then they talk about what will happen to the appliance industry as all those dumb machines become smart. Please check out our new event, the Smart Kitchen Summit, at www.smartkitchensummit.com and also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/smartkitchencon You can find out more about Arrayent at www.arrayent.com Subscribe to the Smart Home Show and listen to archives at www.thesmarthomeshow.com http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

In this episode: -Mike wonders what's next for Nest and what they'll announce on June 17th -Mike and BeOn Home's Alexei Erchak talk about the rise of DIY security and the beginning of the HomeKit era. -Mike and Alexei talk about BeOn Home and their products You can find out more about BeOn at http://beonhome.com/ Support Mike and the podcast by checking out the Smart Kitchen Summit at www.smartkitchensummit.com AND by following the Smart Kitchen Summit on Facebook and Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/smartkitchensummit https://twitter.com/SmartKitchenCon Thanks for listening! http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)