Magdi Batato
Nestlé
Executive Vice President , Head of Operations
-"The conference was very valuable use of my time; increasing my network, reminding me of some key areas of focus to consider and learning from others."
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
The practical steps for business to navigate incoming legislation, engage and incentivise local communities and effectively implement a forest positive approach
Farmers
The role of business in building resilience in smallholder supply chains and ensuring farmers are prepared for the effects of climate change
Land
How business can enable the transition to regenerative agriculture and drive effective climate action within supply chains
Livelihoods
How business can drive sustainable rural development and close the living income gap to ensure economic, social and environmental sustainability
Past speakers include
Lauren Richardson
Colgate-Palmolive
Chief Procurement Officer
Christine McGrath
Mondelēz International
Vice President and Chief of Global Impact
Stéphane Engelhard
Carrefour Brazil
Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Communications and Sustainability
Simone Gourguechon
McDonald’s
Global Impact, Director, Sustainability and ESG Strategy
Martin Huxtable
Unilever
Sustainable Sourcing Director
Barry Parkin
Mars
Chief Procurement and Sustainability Officer
Victoria Sjardin
The Kraft Heinz Company
Vice President of Marketing, Europe, Middle East and Africa
Agenda highlights
- The landscape approach to sustainable sourcing: How do we scale – and communicate – the landscape approach
- The roadmap to 2030 to 2040 to 2050: The role of sustainable sourcing in your net zero strategy
- Carrot vs stick: What’s the right balance between regulation and incentives to drive low carbon sourcing and deliver social equity?
- A forest positive future: Is 'deforestation-free' still the right ambition for business?
- Understanding incentives: Why social opportunities are key to engaging local actors in landscape initiatives
- Soil carbon measurement and standardisation: How do we get to critical mass?
- Landscape and forest restoration: Examples that have worked to date and the role of business in a community led approach
- Farmer livelihoods: The financing, training and partnerships that can close the living income gap and boost farmer livelihoods
- Regenerative agriculture: What progress has been made to date and what data exists to demonstrate impact?
- Climate risk and adaption: How to prepare farmers for the effects of climate change
- Supply chain carbon: How do you get smallholder farmers to participate in carbon credit generation schemes?
- Sustainable rural development: How business can take a more holistic approach to build community resilience and ensure economic, social and environmental sustainability
- Cross-commodity collaboration on landscape approaches: What does this look like in practice and how can we achieve scale?
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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