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The Innovation Forum: Future of Food with Unilever, Nestlé, Danone, Mars Wrigley, Barry Callebaut and more

03.02.2020 Share

This year’s conference will be a significant meeting place for leaders across the food and beverage industry. In a critical year that looks set to shape the next decade of action, we’ll assess how food brands can adapt to evolving market dynamics, whilst building and maintaining sustainable, resilient and equitable food systems.

You can see full details in the conference brochure here.

Some highlights of the agenda include:

Climate action: Are 1.5C climate targets realistic? Are we ready to make the necessary changes?
Chemicals in agriculture: What consumers want and what the science says
Financing sustainable agriculture: How investors can drive and enable a sustainable food system
Tackling food waste: The potential climate and efficiency gains
Trust and transparency: The leading innovations enabling greater transparency in the food industry
Regenerative agriculture: What’s the scope for scale across the supply chain?
Consumer trends and expectations: How business can react and adapt to rapidly evolving expectations
Public goods for sustainability outcomes: How can – and will – incentive reform drive a sustainable revolution in European farming?
Soil security: How leading brands are adapting practices to reduce soil degradation and ensure healthy soils
Farmer data that delivers: How to collect, collate and utilise on-farm data to ensure everyone benefits across the chain
The economics of farming: The key role of business in making suppliers economically sustainable and ensuring the farmers of the future
The vegan health halo: Does the alternative protein market lack transparency on health and nutritional impacts?

Already confirmed to speak are senior professionals from Unilever, Nestlé, Danone, Barry Callebaut, Mars Wrigley, Lidl, Quorn, IKEA, The Co-op, Ab InBev, Rabobank, ING, WWF, European Dairy Association, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Louis Dreyfus Company, FMO - Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank, Tiger Brands, Sime Darby, Corbion, Dawn Meats and more.

If you would like to join, take advantage of our early-bird launch rate (saving £400) and register by next Friday, February 7th.

Registration details can be found here.

We strongly encourage delegates to join as a team to ensure you don’t miss anything across the breakout tracks (Climate, Farmers, Land, Finance & Investment, Tech & Innovation, Consumers). Please get in touch for details on group discounts and feel free to share this with any interested colleagues.

PS We are also running a US version of this conference in Minneapolis on 27th-28th May 2020. Full details here: http://bit.ly/3aPUh9C