 Chicken, fish, beef, and pork. The world loves protein, eating 200 million tons of it annually. That meat and fish weighs as much as 1,200 of the cargo ships bringing it around the world. But the current supply and demand already pushed protein production to its limits, negatively impacting agriculture, water usage, ecosystems, and animal welfare. And with the global population set to grow by nearly 2 billion people by 2050, these impact areas will only worsen. In 2020, X-Prize, the world's global leader in incentivized competitions, launched X-Prize Feed the Next Billion, a $15 million competition that challenges teams worldwide to produce proteins that not only replicate conventional chicken or fish in taste and texture, but either match or outperform traditional meat products in access, environmental sustainability, animal welfare, and nutrition. In March 2023, six finalist teams were chosen by a panel of expert judges to advance to the finals. Those finalist teams included CellX, which created chicken using cell-based technology, and Team Eterna, which presented fermentation-derived chicken. Teams PlantEat, Pro Fillet, Revo Foods, and Teftac used plant-based solutions for their chicken and fish products. Now these teams will face the ultimate challenge in the finals of this competition. World-renowned chefs will put these protein innovations through their paces, and in addition to our judges, the public will get the opportunity to be taste testers and try these novel chicken and fish products for the very first time. If you wanna learn more about X-Prize Feed the Next Billion and how you can become a taste tester in the live public finals, head to xprize.org slash feed.