The sixth edition of İzmir GastroFest is once again bringing together domestic and international leading figures to contemplate the future of food under the theme of “Changemakers: Future of Food”

İzmir’s pioneer gastronomy festival, ‘İzmir Gastro Fest,’ was first organized under the theme ‘Migration’ on October 21, 2018, with the aim of highlighting the regions rich culture and cuisine and making the city a gastronomic destination with its wide-ranging assets.

The second edition of the festival took place on October 20, 2019, with the theme ‘Marketplaces’. Transforming the historic Alsancak Train Station into a marketplace, we strived to underline the urgent need for universal conscious production and consumption.

Under the grave conditions of the Covid Pandemic, our 2020 theme of ‘Food and Communication’, gathered together world-renowned experts and chefs online to discuss the subject on a non-stop 12 hour virtual event.

In 2021, we focused on ‘Legacy for the Future: Living Soil’. Despite the significant harm done to soil, we concentrated on the importance and value of healthy soil in our ilves with belief and trust in its power to regenerate.

In 2022, knowing that ‘Legacy for the Future’ couldn’t possibly be limited to soil alone and that water is an essential part of life, we continued with ‘Legacy for the Future II: H2O/Our Fresh and Saltwater Resources’.

This year, as the impact of climate change evolves into a bigger crisis and threatens our existence, we aim to discuss and debate urgent global solutions under the theme of ‘Changemakers: Future of Food’.