FoodTech Forward
Clear rules for measurable impact.
FoodTech Forward is an independent impact contest. It is not a lottery and does not reward raw clicking.
Entry
Participants may join with Google or email. A verified Google account needs no additional profile form. On the email path, mobile is required for contact, name is optional, and the results dashboard remains locked until email verification.
Attribution
Every participant receives a unique link. The first valid browser attribution remains sticky; opening another participant link later does not steal attribution.
Measurement
Campaign-essential integrity measurement preserves attribution, prevents abuse, and qualifies visits even when optional analytics is declined. Marketing page and click analytics run only with consent.
Conversion
A CTA click or Console handoff is not an account signup. Signup becomes provisional referral success only after a signed, verified event arrives; commercial customer verification remains a separate later state.
Ranking
Verified businesses that actually join FoodTech rank first. Ties are broken by qualified unique visits, then a capped contribution from qualified link opens, then earlier participation.
Integrity
Preview bots, traffic classified as abusive, excessive token regeneration, and artificial repeat opens do not create a ranking advantage. FoodTech may exclude abnormal activity while retaining an internal audit trail.
Prizes
There are ten positions: Enterprise for rank 1; Scale for ranks 2–3; Pro for ranks 4–6; Growth Flex for ranks 7–10. Every prize is a one-year subscription.
Claim and transfer
After results are announced and the prize is claimed, it may be assigned or transferred to an eligible business chosen by the winner. Any private commercial arrangement between winner and recipient is outside FoodTech and does not alter ranking.
Announcement
Results are locked internally before disclosure. The announcement date is scheduled later, sent to eligible participants by email, and winner names appear in the dashboard at the scheduled time. Publication on FoodTech’s Facebook page is a separate editorial action.
Privacy
Participation data is used to operate the contest, verify access, communicate, and measure attribution. The raw browser identifier never leaves Portfolio for Console; only its protected fingerprint is stored in the measurement system.