09:40 

Keynote Address. Analysing the Impact of Total Food Waste across Different Sectors of the Food Supply Chain

• Examining specific terminology
• Exploring the impact of embedded water and energy waste
• Optimising the understanding of carbon impact

• Examining the amount of waste in different parts of the midstream supply chain
• Establishing the main issues and challenges with minimising industrial food waste
• Identifying ways to develop more efficient operation schemes, from ‘smarter’ ingredients to optimised transportation schemes

• Identifying the share of restaurants, retail sector and consumers in contributing to the total quantity of food waste
• Examining consumer responses to labelling schemes
• Increasing customer engagement by optimising communication schemes and providing education on reducing personal food waste

• Scaling up collaboration projects across the food supply chain
• Assessing the effect of efficient collaboration projects on food waste reduction

• Analysing progress made and shaping the direction in which the industry is heading
• Identifying key challenges in increasing food production while benefiting the environment
• Overcoming difficulties in increasing sustainability across the food supply chain
• Addressing social sustainability as part of corporate sustainability programmes

Speaker Panel: Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business and Industry, WWF

Han De Groot, Executive Director, UTZ Certified;

Lindsay Harris,  Deputy Director for Food and Materials Security and Food Standards, Defra;

Michael Gidney, Deputy Executive Director, Fairtrade Foundation;

Mercedes Tallo, Director, Sustainable Value Chains, Rainforest Alliance

• Identifying which market segments do and do not buy sustainable products
• Engaging consumers in reducing negative environmental impact
• Analysing the latest consumer responses to sustainability marketing campaigns
• Exploiting new ways of communicating with customers
• Assessing the impact of social media on sustainability trends

Speaker: Ed Gillespie, Co-Founder, Futerra

• Challenges of devising a sustainability strategy that is commercially effective
• Assessing the effect to which increasing sustainability affects costs
• Examining the potential of sustainable practices to cut costs and increase profits
• Long-term benefits of setting realistic sustainability goals

Speaker: Paul Harrold, Operations Manager, Kelly’s of Cornwall

• Identifying the next step in becoming a more sustainable business
• Challenges of keeping up business growth whilst adapting production processes to benefit the environment
• Finding ‘next stage’ cost and process effective solutions to reach targets

Speaker: Ian Bowles, Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Premier Foods

• 5 years of Plan A
• Demonstrating effective strategy through the business case
• Maximising effective communication to drive consumer engagement
• Scaling up successful pilots

Speaker: Louise Nicholls, Head of Responsible Sourcing, Marks & Spencer’s

• Identifying supply chain areas with the greatest water footprint
• Increasing the sustainability, efficiency and equitability of the water footprint
• Understanding water footprint at a catchment scale
• Prioritising strategies for reducing water use and pollution across the supply chain
• Developing sector perspectives of best practices

Speaker: Ruth Matthews, Executive Director, Water Footprint Network

13:40

Lunch

• Implementing change across the supply chain by considering direct and indirect impact of the product
• Using forecasting, scheduling and monitoring systems to reduce water consumption and withdrawal at farm level
• Identifying areas that offer opportunities to reuse water during production processes within operations

Speaker: Carlo Galli, Water Resources, Technical and Strategic Advisor, Nestle

• Identifying most efficient ways of reducing emissions throughout the chain by working with suppliers
• Using primary data from suppliers to make more sustainable purchasing decisions
• Building capacity among suppliers effectively gather product level data

Speaker: Dexter Galvin, Head of Supply Chain, Carbon Disclosure Project

• Exploring the potential of Renewable Energy
• Generating green energy: what can work
• Analysing the benefits of generation vs the core business
• Generating heat and power from food waste: where does Anaerobic Digestion fit in the food supply chain

Speaker: John Scott-Kerr, Sustainability and Bio Energy, Bidwells

• Developing Ways of Increasing the Supply of Sustainable Palm Oil to Match the Demand
• Certification Standards: Promoting or Restricting Availability of Sustainable Ingredients?
• Successful Use of Technology and Social Media to Improve Consumer Engagement
• Scalability of Renewable Energy
• SME Perspective: Overcoming Challenges in Boosting Corporate Sustainability
• Self-assessment vs External Auditing: Effects on Communicating Sustainability Value to Consumers
• Developing a Time and Human Resource Efficient Process of Internal and External Corporate Assessment
• Cocoa: Developing a Sustainable Integrated Supply Chain

• Evaluating the benefits of collaboration between companies to achieve mutual goals
• Protecting your business interests and retaining confidentiality whilst enabling open communication
• Reducing the amount of time and human resources required to develop commercially effective sustainability strategies

Speaker: Martin Chilcott, CEO, 2degrees

• Developing strategies that focus on all aspects of sustainability: environmental, social and economic
• Evaluating benefits of looking at the ‘big picture’ from the start
• Embedding sustainability within the organisation structure
• Examining strategies to aid and motivate employees to develop ways of improving sustainability of products and processes
• Assessing the potential of a Life Cycle sustainability model to reduce the amount of data required in order to monitor overall sustainability of the production process

Speaker: Annette Hanson, Head of Sustainability, Danisco/DuPont

• Exploring benefits and disadvantages of setting up a universal report structure
• Impact of knowledge exchange on business development
• Possibilities and issues with open data exchange databases

Speaker: Carmel Giblin, General Manager, Sedex

• The role of certification standards in improving communication across the supply chain
• Importance of clear guidelines and support available to businesses across the production chain to achieve clear demonstration of impact
• Establishing a production network to ensure global supply of sustainable ingredients

Speaker: Nicolas Viart, Head of Sustainability, Bonsucro

• Challenges of sourcing ethically: scarce supply and increasing cost  
• Establishing long lasting relationships with the suppliers 
• Impact of certification on ethical sourcing and trading

Speaker: Sarah Roberts, Executive Director, Ethical Tea Partnership

• Overcoming challenges of unmatched supply and demand
• Difficulties of influencing sustainable farming and production as a small or medium enterprise
• Developing ways of increasing supply of sustainably sourced materials
• Potential of government incentives to re-distribute supply

*Speaker panel TBC

• Analysing how farm productivity can grow in an environmentally sustainable way
• Examining ways in which integrated nutrient management can benefit farmers and the environment
• Assessing the effect of resource constraints on increasing agricultural output

Speaker: Barrie Bain, Director of Fertiliser Intelligence, Fertecon

• Balancing the needs of ecology and commercial production
• Engaging with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Evaluating key learnings and identifying opportunities to improve water efficiency of the farms
• Supporting the farming industry in implementation of sustainable practices

Speaker: Rozanne Davis, Head of Sustainable Agriculture and Ingredients, Innocent Drinks

• What do we mean by biodiversity and how do we measure it? 
• Assessing the impacts of the food supply chain on biodiversity  
• Analysing the effects of the UK food supply chain on biodiversity abroad
• Incorporating biodiversity into farming businesses
• Developing strategies to evolve the food supply chain as a whole to improve the impact of food production on biodiversity

Speaker: Abi Bunker, Acting Head of Agriculture Policy, RSPB