Name: The Future of Food USA
Start: 2022-06-14 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2022-06-15 00:00:00 UTC
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

This two-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 what supply chain transformation means on the ground to ensure more resilient and regenerative food systems.

Regenerative food systems

The opportunities - and challenges - in the transition to regenerative agriculture and the role of brands to deliver speed and scale

Climate action

How business can promote effective climate action throughout agricultural value chains to drive Scope 3 emissions reductions and deliver on net zero commitments

Farming and land use

Cross commodity insights into the on-farm innovations and solutions that can boost farmer livelihoods and enable sustainable food production

Supply chain resilience

How food brands can work with farmers and key actors to mitigate supply chain risk and adapt to the effects of climate change

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2021 speakers

Ashley Allen

Oatly

Chief Sustainability Officer

Jon Hixson

Yum! Brands

Chief Sustainability Officer & Vice President Global Gov Affairs

Tina Owens

Danone

Senior Director, Food and Agriculture Impact

Hervé Duteil

BNP Paribas

Chief Sustainability Officer

Kim Marotta

Molson Coors Beverage Company

Global Senior Director Corporate Responsibility and Enterprise Risk Management

Kate Schaffner

Kellogg Company

Global Sustainable Agriculture Lead

Rob Meyers

PepsiCo

Senior Director, Global Sustainability

Anbinh Phan

Walmart

Director, Global Government Affairs

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Agenda highlights

Climate Leadership: How food brands can drive net-zero transformation
The regenerative food company: What does this look like in practice, at scale?
Rethinking procurement: How sourcing practices must adapt to deliver climate targets, supply chain resilience and market transformation
Decarbonising agriculture: What innovations are being used to reduce farming emissions?
Farmer-friendly data: How to overcome the barriers to data collection, verification and application
Soil health: How to measure and verify the carbon benefits of improved soil health and crop protection?

Biodiversity on the ground: What are realistic KPIs on biodiversity protection and enhancement?
Renewed commitments on forests: What does ‘forest positive’ look like in practice for a food brand?
Climate risk and resilience: The leading tools and technologies that enable farmers to predict and adapt to the effects of climate change
The carrot (and the stick): How carbon accounting can incentivise and accelerate action within the land use sector
Enhanced crop performance: How to reduce inputs, costs and waste through on-farm technologies and precision agriculture
Trust and transparency: The power of honest marketing to build trust and reconnect consumers with their food

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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

'Excellent content, great options for meetings, great networking'

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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.