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.

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

GM’s evolving engagement on operational and product efficiencies

This week: Telva McGruder, director, workplace engineering and operations solutions at General Mo...

How to preserve and restore degraded Sumatran forests

This week: APRIL’s Brad Sanders explains to Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb what the pulp and paper ...

Could political economy analysis have saved Indonesia's palm oil pledge?

Peter Stanbury, principal of Frontier Practice, talks with Toby Webb about how thinking about pol...

Bayer on the innovations that drive food sector security

This week: Ronald Guendel, Bayer Crop Science’s global head of food security and advocacy, on the...

Satelligence on how data analysis has tracked the Amazon fires

Niels Wielaard, co-founder and CEO of Satelligence, explains to Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh how ...

How standards counter food fraud and supply chain fragility

This week: David Horlock, managing director for global food and retail supply chains at BSI, demo...

Why food companies must innovate to cut impact

Jon Dettling, global director for services and innovation at Quantis, and Innovation Forum’s Ian ...

The story behind the Amazon fires

This week: Niels Wiellard from Satelligence on how satellite data analysis can provide crucial de...

Plastics Oceans UK on how to avoid unintended consequences of switching from plastic

Simon Usher, CEO of Plastics Oceans UK, talks with Ian Welsh about some of the changes in public ...

How business can realistically cut plastic use

This week: Nestlé’s Anna Turrell, Plastics Europe’s Eric Quenet and Closed Loop Partners’ Kate Da...

The role of biofuels in a just transition to a low carbon economy

Stephen Wetmore, director of business development at the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, ...

Weekly podcast: how financial institutions are driving sustainable landscapes

This week: ABN Amro’s Dick Ligthart, M+G Investments’ Anita McBain and Invesco’s Maria Lombardo o...

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