• 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

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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