This new initiative is working to bring together Maryland leaders and collaborators working in food security, nutrition, food as health, and the integration of AI and technology into the food/nutrition space. As part of this FRESH-Tech effort, we are creating targeted teams focused on developing new collaboration across commonly divergent spaces to build innovative and competitive grant proposals. This will be an effort to create collaborations across researchers, medical practitioners, social workers, food pantries, and community-based professionals focused on food security, nutrition, food as health, and the integration of AI and technology.