Fast Company Middle East to launch Taste of Innovation during Dubai Future Week

Food has always reflected changes in the world. As artificial intelligence, science, and technology shape our lives, the kitchen is now a place to try out new ideas for the future.

This November, Fast Company Middle East will bring Taste of Innovation, an established Fast Company event series, to Dubai and the region for the first time, as part of Dubai Future Week. 

Held as part of Fast Company’s annual Innovation Festival in New York City, the series brings together culinary creativity and ideas about innovation. The experience will take place at Jun’s in Downtown Dubai, exploring how technology and emerging ideas could shape the future of food.

Dubai Future Week, organised by Dubai Future Foundation from 18–21 November 2026, is expected to bring together more than 10,000 people across Emirates Towers and the Museum of the Future to explore how we will live, think, innovate, feel and do business in the decades ahead, all under the theme “For the Human of the Future”.

As part of Dubai Future Week’s wider programme, Taste of Innovation reflects the Week’s focus on making the future tangible and personal. Rather than discussing the future only on stage, the experience invites guests to encounter it through taste, conversation, and experimentation. The experience will explore how emerging ideas could influence the way we live, create, and think about food. Inspired by the UAE’s vision for the future, the menu will explore both possibilities on Earth and what people might need beyond our planet.

The experience is being created with chef Kelvin Cheung, a Fast Company Middle East Most Creative People in Business honoree, MasterChef Asia judge, and chef and partner at Jun’s. Cheung will create the four-course menu, with each course offering a different interpretation of an idea about the future.

The evening will also challenge traditional ideas about creativity and authorship, exploring who or what can help create a dish as technology becomes an increasingly integral part of the creative process.

Taste of Innovation brings together founders, investors, policymakers, and members of the region’s innovation community. The event is meant to go beyond food, giving guests a place to share ideas, explore new possibilities, and discuss the questions shaping the future of business and society.

Taste of Innovation will take place on November 19 from 6:30 PM to 10 PM at Jun’s in Downtown Dubai and is hosted by Fast Company Middle East and Dubai Future Week.

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