• 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