At the Food Harbour Hamburg, with which we signed an MOU with Singapore's Nurasa last September, we had a session with different presentations and discussion. Among others, Sascha Taube presented the new Food Cluster Hamburg which already has more than 160 members and shall become an anchor in Europe. Eva Keretic shared her concept of The Future Food Campus Hamburg, an industrial scale next generation urban new food growing and production facility in a circular design. This allows 30 harvests a year instead of 3. Dr. Cornelius Lahme from BLUU Seafood presented their state of the art seafood grown from cells which avoids harm to animals, over-fishing and contamination.

We also visited some very interesting innovation-driven companies: goodBytz which is producing a robotic system as kitchen assistant to automate cooking of meals. And, Ohly which is a leading specialist in yeast for all kinds of food production as well as pharmaceutical developments.

This year the reception with the First Mayor, Peter Tschentscher, took place in the City Hall which was very special for all of us. I was surprised and very thankful receiving a bottle ship flying the Hamburg, German and Singapore flag for my 10th anniversary as HamburgAmbassador in Singapore. Thank you very much. Last but not least also a big thank you to Wiete Emskötter and Paula Heine who organised this eventful and remarkable HamburgAmbassador Meeting.