December 6-8, 2026 • Los Angeles, CA
The next opportunity is already building.
The packaged food brands worth knowing are building right now. Nosh Live brings you closer to the founders behind them while decisions around capital, production, growth, and strategic partnerships are still taking shape.
Early relationships matter
Be there while the next decision is still taking shape.
The fundraising climate for CPG has changed. So has the way brands choose production, service, and strategic partners. The strongest relationships often start early, through direct conversations with founders before the next stage of growth.
Nosh Live is intentionally focused, making it easier to spend meaningful time with emerging food brands and understand where they are headed.
Some brands are already well known. Others are still building toward that moment. Being close early means more time to build trust and stay part of the conversation as the opportunity develops.
Dedicated time with brands you want to know
1:1 Meetings
1:1 meetings are pre-scheduled, structured conversations with brand founders attending BevNET Live.
As a host, you review requests and approve the brands most relevant to your categories, goals, and upcoming needs. Arrive with focused conversations already on your calendar and dedicated time to ask exactly what you need to know.
Pitch Slam
See the opportunity while it’s still taking shape.
The Nosh Live Pitch Slam brings emerging packaged food brands to the stage before an expert panel and live audience. Hear how founders think about growth, traction, positioning, retail readiness, and what comes next.
Some brands may soon be raising capital, expanding production, or choosing new strategic partners. Others are simply worth knowing early. Pitch Slam offers a read on where the market is heading and which founders may be worth a follow-up conversation.
Past Competitors Include:
Taste what’s next. Understand what’s behind it
Sampling
Sampling runs throughout Nosh Live, including the networking happy hour, offering a direct look at the flavors, formats, ingredients, and category shifts shaping what comes next.
Try products alongside the founders behind them, then ask about formulation, positioning, production, and growth plans. The product tells you one part of the story. The conversation reveals where the opportunity may lead.
Hear from the people shaping packaged food
Sessions and Speakers
Nosh Live keeps speakers and attendees close to the conversation, creating more opportunities to ask direct questions, share a product, and hear practical perspective on the decisions ahead.
Past speakers have included VPs of Merchandising, Category Managers, CEOs, and retail buyers across natural, specialty, and conventional channels.
Past Nosh Live speakers have included
Who you’ll meet
Meet brands before the next decision is made.
Nosh Live brings together packaged food brands from early development through national growth, alongside buyers, operators, and industry partners across natural, specialty, and conventional channels.
These founders are making decisions about capital, production, retail expansion, and strategic partnerships. Meeting them early means more time to understand the business, build trust, and stay close as the opportunity develops.
What Past Attendees Say
The intimate setting gives you the chance to truly connect with founders, brands, investors, and buyers... building both new and lasting relationships that help move your brand forward. The connections I made last year have already supported me with sourcing, collaborations, sales, and more.
The sampling opportunities give you a sense into what's coming down the pipe and then you get to meet the founders behind them! No brainer with tangible relationship building.
Two days · The right founders
Be there before the next move is made.
Two days at Nosh Live bring you closer to emerging packaged food brands while decisions around capital, production, growth, and strategic partnerships are still taking shape.
