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.

A rancher’s take on the future of agriculture

This week: North Dakota rancher and UK Channel 5 TV personality Jay Doan joins Ian Welsh to share a frontline perspective on regenerative agriculture and farm resilience. Recorded at the recent Future of Food and Beverage conference in Minneapolis, they talk about why regenerative agriculture is far from a trend, it’s a decades-old practice rooted in resilience, land stewardship, and long-term ...

31 Jul 25

How leading brands make packaging material choices: weighing pros, cons, and unintended consequences

In this webinar, we discussed how brands make packaging decisions, balancing cost, performance, a...

Monday briefing — How to understand your land footprint, manage risk and create positive impact

This week: Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh and Emily Heslop talk about what to expect at the sustain...

Alternative proteins: from olive waste to insect protein

This week: in the first in story of a startup series, alternative protein business InsectBiotech’...

Digitising agriculture: innovation through science with Agmatix

In this episode of the Innovation Forum podcast, host Ian Welsh speaks with Jonathan Sullivan, vi...

Monday briefing – What’s driving sustainable packaging challenges and opportunities?

This week: Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh and Hanna Halmari share latest updates on the upcoming su...

Adaptation to Regulation: a test of corporate resilience under incoming EUDR, CS3D and CSRD regulation – Audio recording

Click here to watch the video recordingIn this webinar, we discussed the evolving regulatory envi...

How ofi plans to make the right choices for agricultural change

This week: Roel van Poppel and Christopher Stewart from food ingredients supplier ofi talk with I...

Rethinking textiles: strategies for effective decarbonisation

Krishna Manda, vice president of sustainability at sustainable cellulose textiles manufacturer Le...

Monday briefing – EUDR clock is ticking: the need for collaboration, alignment and clarity

This week: Innovation Forum’s Emily Heslop and Ian Welsh share the latest updates on the upcoming...

Adaptation to Regulation: a test of corporate resilience under incoming EUDR, CS3D and CSRD regulation – Video recording

Click here to listen to the recording as a podcastIn this webinar, we discussed the evolving regu...

How US family-owned forests can unlock carbon solutions

This week: Nathan Truitt, executive vice president for climate and funding at the American Forest...

Finding the funding for farming with public-private partnerships

Laura Satkowski, senior product manager at CIBO Technologies, talks with Ian Welsh about how inno...

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