Simon Lord
Sime Darby
Chief Sustainability Officer
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.
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 key farming communities and ensure social, environmental and economic sustainability for farmers
Finance
This track will explore the role of finance in driving behaviour change and transforming landscapes into sustainable systems
Land
This track will highlight leading sustainable agriculture practices and explore initiatives driving climate resilience within supply chains
Political Engagement
This track will ask the hard questions around the politics and governance of sustainable landscapes, and how business can further engage government
350+ attendees | 60+ speakers | 30+ practical sessions
The speakers
Anita McBain
M&G Investments
Head of Responsible Investing and ESG
Ignacio Gavilan
Consumer Goods Forum
Director of Sustainability
Abyd Karmali
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Managing Director, Climate Finance
Lucita Jasmin
APRIL
Director of Sustainability & External Affairs
Jean-François Timmers
WWF
Global Soy Lead
Julia Clark
Tate & Lyle Sugars
Head of Sugar Ethics
Clive Thomas
Soil Association
Senior Policy Advisor - Forestry and International Land Use
Agenda highlights
- Climate action: What do credible climate and commodity strategies look like and how can business ensure that 2030 targets are met?
- The politics of landscapes: How landscape approaches can utilise business influence to drive political change
- Systemic supply chain change: Is the smallholder business model fundamentally flawed and what does the future hold?
- Finance and funding: The right funding models that can scale landscape approaches beyond the pilot phase
- The carbon revolution: How business can use natural climate solutions to meet objectives on climate change
- Consumer influence: How do companies get rewarded and recognised for sustainable sourcing?
- Agribusiness and FMCG collaboration: How do we build – and grow – effective coalitions which drive real transformation in commodity supply chains?
- Landscape approaches and rural resilience: How to drive structural reform in farming
- Zero-deforestation commodities: Practical case studies that highlight successful programs across a range of commodities
- The durable supply chain: How do we meet resilience challenges, particularly in the context of COVID-19
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.
Who attends
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