First Smart Kitchen Summit Set for Nov. 5 in Seattle

Companies including Amazon, Jarden, June, Microsoft, Moen and Plated will participate in the Smart Kitchen Summit, a daylong event in Seattle Nov. 5 at Sodo Park. Billed as “first connected kitchen event” by event producer NextMarket Insights, the summit will host startups, established brands and innovators, it said. On panels including The Connected Appliance Opportunity and The Subscription Kitchen, participants will discuss home brewing, food commerce, emerging kitchen technologies, smart design and “reinventing the cookbook as we know it," said NextMarket. The event will end with a cookoff where entrepreneurs can pitch their smart kitchen concepts, products and companies to members of the IoT and connected kitchen hardware community. Sponsors include Control4, Soundwall, WeMo and Zonoff, it said.