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Zipongo CEO Jason Langheier to Address the Intersection of Technology and Personalized Nutrition at reTHINKFood

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Zipongo, the digital health company that makes it easy to eat well, announced that CEO Jason Langheier, MD, MPH has been invited to speak Saturday, Nov. 7 at reTHINKFood, a conference for leaders in the food, culinary arts, marketing, science, and technology worlds at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, California.

San Francisco-based Zipongo is a digital health company with a mission to positively impact health and reduce chronic disease through personalized, action-oriented nutrition plans delivered through the web, tablets and smartphones. With food as the top driver for chronic disease, Zipongo is a vital component in wellness programs striving to improve eating habits and get the most from their wellness dollars. Zipongo provides tools that make it easy to eat well.

reTHINKFood is a collaboration between The Culinary Institute of America and MIT Media Lab, bringing together a diverse group of thought leaders and innovators at the intersection of technology, behavior, design, and food. The conference's mission is to explore how areas such as Big Data, social networking, mobile computing, behavioral economics, marketing, neuroscience, agriculture, and culinary insight and strategy are radically changing food markets, systems, and consumer choices.

Langheier will join presenters from Compass Group USA and Hampton Creek in a session called "Innovative Supply Chain Companies."  The panel will explore how key partnerships can mutually accelerate pace, drive growth, increase impact, and encourage positive changes that improve the food system.

Langheier will share Zipongo's experience working with Compass Group and some of the nation's largest employers to improve the health of employees and populations by making healthy eating and food buying easier on mobile, web and in person.

reTHINKFood
When: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, 10:30am
Where: Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies / Napa Valley Vintners Association Tasting Theater (2nd floor), St. Helena, CA

About Zipongo
Zipongo is a San Francisco-based digital health company that makes it easy to eat well. We work with employers, health plans and other wellness partners looking for an easy way to engage their members in healthy and sustainable eating habits that drive positive results. Zipongo's proprietary MealRx™ personalization engine delivers individualized recommendations tied to convenient, real-time actions that enable healthy eating at home and at work, including healthy recipes, meal planning tools and discounts and incentives to healthy groceries. We provide a HIPAA-secure, easy-to-implement software-as-a-service platform that runs on web, mobile and tablet. Learn more at www.zipongo.com.

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Amendola Communications for Zipongo
916.346.4213
tstein@acmarketingpr.com

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