Rebecca Marmot
Unilever
Chief Sustainability Officer
This three-day business conference will bring together leading brands and key stakeholders to identify the main areas of opportunity and innovation within the food and beverage industry. We’ll assess how business can react and adapt after a challenging year, whilst continuing to build sustainable and resilient agricultural supply chains.
Climate action and leadership
How food companies can drive effective climate action throughout the value chain and reduce environmental impact in line with stakeholder expectations and net zero commitments
Farming, land use and nature
Cross commodity insights into sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices and how food systems must adapt to ensure long term environmental, social and economic sustainability
Financing and enabling innovation
The role of business and investors to work together to drive and finance the technologies and innovation that will define the future of food
Adaption, recovery and durable supply chains
How food brands and key actors can work with partners across the value chain to drive an effective response and a sustainable recovery from the global pandemic
All timings are in BST
All timings are in BST
2020 speakers
Anna Turrell
Tesco
Head of Environment
Deborah Perkins
ING
Global Head of Food and Agribusiness
Isabelle Grosmaitre
Danone
Health & Alimentation - Catalyst
Nicko Debenham
Barry Callebaut
Head of Sustainability, MD Biolands Group and Chairman of Cocoa Horizons Foundation
Chris Fielden
innocent drinks
Group Supply Chain Director
David Pendlington
Mars Wrigley Confectionary
Global Sustainable Sourcing Associate Director
Diana Visser
Corbion
Senior Director Sustainability
Agenda highlights
- Leadership perspectives: C-suite insights into key challenges, trends and opportunities within the food and beverage industry
- Regenerative agriculture: Current trend or the future of sustainable agriculture?
- Farmer perspectives: The major sustainability challenges and successes from the ground
- Climate positive food: How to deliver on ambitious climate goals within supply chains
- Evolving legislation and policy change: The upcoming impacts on food and agriculture
- Carbon farming: Maximise carbon sequestration and increase soil health, a win-win situation
- Natural climate solutions: How to implement solutions that deliver large scale GHG reductions
- Tackling global food waste: Circular food systems and other leading approaches
- Animal welfare: How to monitor and ensure the protection and welfare of animals in your supply chain
- Trust and transparency: How business can keep up with the ever-rising demand for information on products, supply chains and ecosystems
- The value of farmer data: How to extract and utilise the full value of farmer data
- Biodiversity: The business case for enhancing biodiversity at farm level
Why attend an IF virtual conference?
Discover best practices from industry leaders and get detailed, practical guidance on how to effectively implement policies
Meet & network with an influential audience of key stakeholders through speed networking sessions and pre-planned 1:1 meetings
In-depth problem solving around the key issues within hands-on deep dive workshops and face to face discussion
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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