Innovation Forum - Sustainable Landscapes and Commodities Forum

This two day business conference will debate and showcase real world solutions to the most pressing and urgent challenges in commodity supply chains. We’ll look at what’s driving value chain change and how business is working to deliver on increasingly difficult sustainability targets.

Land

This track will highlight leading sustainable agriculture practices and explore initiatives driving climate resilience within supply chains

Forests

This track will break down the challenges faced in removing deforestation from company supply chains, and look at the steps necessary for business to implement policies beyond 2020

Farmers

This track will assess how business can build resilience in smallholder supply chains and ensure social, environmental and economic sustainability for farmers

Tech & Innovation

This track will explore the latest innovations and solutions in agri-tech and how can these be leveraged effectively to build sustainable landscapes

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350+ attendees | 60+ speakers | 30+ practical sessions

The speakers

Jesslyne Widjaja

Golden Agri-Resources

Executive Director

John Sauven

Greenpeace

Executive Director, UK

Ian McIntosh

Louis Dreyfus Company

CEO

Lucita Jasmin

APRIL

Director of Sustainability & External Affairs

Jonathan Horrell

Mondelēz International

Director Sustainability

Abyd Karmali

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Managing Director, Climate Finance

Benjamin Ware

Nestlé

Global Head of Responsible Sourcing

Ellen Rasmussen

Yara

Vice President, Sustainability Programmes and Global Projects

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Agenda highlights

The landscape approach to sustainable commodities: Is this the most effective way to drive resilient rural communities
Social and economic outcomes: How business can embed sustainable practices, boost livelihoods and drive resilience amongst smallholder farmers and local communities
Reframing the narrative: Should business move from enforcing zero-deforestation to incentivising sustainable development when engaging producer countries?
Business and biodiversity: How to effectively monitor, protect and promote biodiversity throughout operations and supply chains
Cross commodity learning: In-depth case studies into leading initiatives, programs and partnerships across a range of commodity supply chains

2020 targets and beyond: What’s been achieved and where next for business objectives around deforestation?
Sustainable land management: How business can enable better water management, tackle the soil crisis, engage in climate smart agriculture and embed sustainable agriculture techniques
The decade of ecosystem restoration: The possibilities and what it means for climate change, offsets and re-invigorating nature
Finance that drives sustainable performance: How is the finance and investment sector engaging in sustainable commodities
Landscapes 101: In-depth practical workshops into the fundamentals of the landscape approach and how business can get started

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Why attend?

Discover best practices from industry leaders and get in-depth guidance on how to effectively implement policies

Meet & network with an influential audience of key stakeholders, including NGOs, business, government and supply chain actors

Benchmark company performance amongst a room of your peers and discover where you should be focusing efforts

What’s different about this forum?

Innovation Forum is:

Candid: Entirely off-the-record discussion that enables open and honest disclosure from speakers and genuine participation from the audience.
Practical: A clear focus on the practical and actionable guidance that can drive change throughout industries and supply chains.
Focused: We provide enough time, resources and expertise to the issues that really matter. We don’t skate the surface, but get to the crux of the issues to provide in-depth, constructive discussion.

Innovation Forum is NOT:

A PR platform: Enthusiastic speakers are NOT given free rein to fill a session presenting their companies, allowing no time to actually get to the crux of the issues.
A talking shop: This is NOT an opportunity for a group people in a room to simply agree with everything said, regardless of outcomes.
All promise, no delivery: We will NOT promise what we can’t deliver. The issues covered are complex. They won’t be solved at a two-day conference. But we will help deliver progress through in-depth, constructive and practical advice around specific issues.