Mariano Lozano
Danone, North America
CEO
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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 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.
Climate
This track will focus on how food and beverage companies can reduce emissions, help build climate resilience and tackle deforestation across value chains.
Farmers
This track will look at how business can work with farmers to build resilience down the supply chain and ensure a business model that attracts the farmers of the future.
Land
This track will highlight the leading practices in sustainable agriculture and explore initiatives which increase production whilst protecting the local environment.
Consumers
This track focuses on consumer demand and how this is changing the way we produce food, as well as how brands can best communicate with consumers around innovation and sustainability initiatives.
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2019 Speakers Included
Amanda Davies
Mars
Global Vice President, Procurement Directs
Dave Stangis
Campbell Soup Company
Chief Sustainability Officer
Adrienne Gifford
Olam Spices
Global Head of Sustainability
Jon Hixson
Yum! Brands
Vice President of Government Relations and Global Citizenship
Rob Meyers
PepsiCo
Sustainability Director
Christine McGrath
Mondelēz International
Vice President and Chief of Global Impact
Amy Braun Senter
Kellogg Company
Chief Sustainability Officer
Agenda highlights
- Leadership perspectives on the evolution of agriculture: How are brand and consumer demands affecting business?
- Trust and transparency: How to satisfy consumer demand for information
- Climate change: The role of business in mitigating the effects of climate change and safeguarding supply
- Communicating with your consumers. How to open a dialogue with consumers about their food choices and sustainability demands
- Shark Tank: What scalable tech innovations are out there?
- Deforestation: Are companies in palm oil, soy, cocoa and beef on track to make their zero deforestation targets?
- Disruptive innovation and technology: An in-depth look at precision agriculture, automation, blockchain and the technologies with the potential to revolutionise sustainable agriculture
- Sustainable water, chemical use and soil management: The leading initiatives in encouraging sustainable agricultural practices
- Genetic engineering: What are the opportunities and complications facing the food industry?
- Meat substitutes and alternative protein: How consumer trends are shifting towards plant-based diets and what that means for business
- Antimicrobial resistance: Evolving strategies to combat a global threat
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
The venue
Graduate Minneapolis
615 Washington Ave SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota
55414
United States of America
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