This two-day business conference will identify the main areas of opportunity and innovation within the food and beverage industry. We’ll assess how business can react to consumer trends and expectations, whilst building sustainable, resilient agricultural supply chains.

This conference will now be held virtually to ensure that dialogue around these critical issues continues during this difficult period. Through the online platform we are committed to delivering the same practical content and genuine networking opportunities to ensure the partnerships, collaboration and action continues across the food and beverage industry.

Climate

A prominent theme throughout the conference, we'll focus on how food and beverage companies can reduce climate impacts and help build resilience for all supply chain actors.

Farmers

We’ll highlight the most significant challenges and opportunities at farm-level, whilst emphasising how business can ensure farmers are environmentally and economically sustainable.

Land

This track will highlight the leading practices in sustainable agriculture and explore initiatives which increase production whilst protecting the local environment

Finance & Investment

We'll assess the role of finance in supply chain innovation and discuss how investors can drive the transformation needed to achieve sustainable agriculture.

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The speakers

Rebecca Marmot

Unilever

Chief Sustainability Officer

Anna Turrell

Nestlé

Head of Sustainability, UK & Ireland

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

Group Supply Chain Director

David Pendlington

Mars Wrigley Confectionary

Global Sustainable Sourcing Associate Director

Diana Visser

Corbion

Senior Director Sustainability

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Agenda highlights

Climate action: Are 1.5C climate targets realistic? Are we ready to make the necessary changes?
Chemicals in agriculture: What consumers want and what the science says
Financing sustainable agriculture: How investors can drive and enable a sustainable food system
Tackling food waste: The potential climate and efficiency gains
Trust and transparency: The leading innovations enabling greater transparency in the food industry
Regenerative agriculture: What’s the scope for scale across the supply chain?

Consumer trends and expectations: How business can react and adapt to rapidly evolving expectations
Public goods for sustainability outcomes: How can – and will – incentive reform drive a sustainable revolution in European farming?
Soil security: How leading brands are adapting practices to reduce soil degradation and ensure healthy soils
Farmer data that delivers: How to collect, collate and utilise on-farm data to ensure everyone benefits across the chain
The economics of farming: The key role of business in making suppliers economically sustainable and ensuring the farmers of the future

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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.