Innovation Forum Podcast

Innovation Forum hosts a weekly podcast along with regular interviews with business leaders in sustainability. Each week, we summarise the latest sustainability news and announcements, and get the views of leading experts on business critical issues. Widely regarded as one of the best sustainability podcasts around, stay tuned for regular insights, debate and analysis.

Deforestation-free supply chains: Addressing 2025 target dates and future trajectories

2025 is a milestone year for corporate action on deforestation and ecosystem conversion. As companies with agricultural and forestry supply chains approach 2025 target...

17 June 2025 - 15:00

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Nestlé income accelerator program: Annual Progress Report

In 2022, Nestlé launched the “Income Accelerator Program”, an innovative family-centred approach aimed at closing the living income gap and reducing child labour risks...

25 June 2025 - 13:30

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Seeing the unseen: data, disruption and supply chain strategy

This week: Olivia Dobson, director of climate and resilience at Verisk Maplecroft, joins Ian Welsh to explore interconnected supply chain risks, the shift toward enterprise-level risk consideration, and emerging challenges around supply chain visibility. They examine how geopolitical uncertainties, regulatory compliance and data management are reshaping sourcing strategies. Plus: Ulla Hueppe, v...

12 Jun 25

From deforestation to regeneration: navigating sustainable land use approaches

Matthew Spencer, global director of landscapes at IDH, talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb ab...

What effective stakeholder engagement looks like

Innovation Forum’s Tanya Richard and Ian Welsh talk about best practices to engage with stakehold...

What’s stopping apparel brands to decarbonise?

This week: Krishna Manda, vice president of sustainable cellulose textiles manufacturer Lenzing, ...

Satellite to soil: the power of remote sensing in agriculture

Indigo Ag’s senior director of remote sensing and data inference, Nick Malizia, talks with Innova...

What's wrong with reuse?

When it comes to reuse and refill, we hear a lot more about pilots than we do about scale. So, wh...

How to unlock agricultural finance

This week: Laura Satkowski, senior product manager at CIBO Technologies, talks with Innovation Fo...

Monday briefing – Navigating packaging challenges: evolving regulations, reuse systems and more

This week: Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh talks with Sarah Jackson about some of the pressing issue...

Landscape approaches in action: aligning stakeholders for sustainable land use

This week: IDH’s global director of landscapes Matthew Spencer talks with Innovation Forum’s Toby...

Breaking down sustainable packaging trends

Ian Welsh talks with John Kotlarczyk, a waste management expert, about the evolving landscape of ...

Monday briefing — Are we ready to be EUDR compliant?

This week: Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh talks with Emily Heslop about the latest updates for this...

How corporate comms can be authentic and transparent

Innovation Forum’s Tanya Richard and Ian Welsh talk about what organisations can do to engage dif...

What’s the role of recycling in sustainable packaging?

Ian Welsh talks with Natalie Betts, assistant vice president for sustainability at the Recycled M...

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