Food joins sport, music and film as new additions to the tech-fest that is the Web Summit in Dublin on November 4th-6th. The event, which is described as Davos for geeks, is expected to be attended by 20,000 people. The Food Summit will be run in conjunction with Good Food Ireland, which will host a delegates' lunch showcasing Irish ingredients.

Speakers will include UK food writer and broadcaster Tom Parker Bowles and Ross Lewis of Chapter One restaurant.

Hampton Creek, the company which created an “artificial egg” made from plants, which can replace eggs in recipes from cakes to mayonnaise, will talk about food sustainability.

Other topics will include technology and the ethics of food production, and the organisers plan to reveal what a 3-D printed lunch looks like. For more, see websummit.net