WHY ATTEND
The world’s food system is currently responsible for approximately 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. Calls are growing ever louder that we must take immediate action to not only halt this impact but reverse it and restore our Earth. The expectation for change is taking hold and combatting climate change will take involvement from the whole food chain and collaboration has never been more important. Transitioning to regenerative agriculture must be implemented now.
Introducing the Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit where food and beverage brands, ingredients suppliers, food producers, supply chain monitoring platforms, AgTech companies, and consultants meet to tackle the challenges and identify the opportunities in harnessing the full potential of regenerative agriculture practices in the food industry.
Our mission is to bring together all stakeholders and be a neutral platform that enables open, constructive, and educational discussions to further progress towards the transition to regenerative practices. We believe everyone deserves a seat at the table and that the best way to effectively bring about change is through peer-to-peer sharing, partnership, and collaboration.
Join us 6-7 September in Amsterdam as we bring the industry together with one unified mission – to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture to build a more abundant and resilient food system for generations to come!
2022 SPEAKERS
Carla Hilhorst
Dionys Forster
Alex Godfrey
Pascal Chapot
Daniel Baertschi
Nova Sayers
Tobias Streich
Juliana Jaramillo
Beth Jensen
Beth Jensen is Director of Climate+ Impact at Textile Exchange, the leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of sustainable fibers and materials within the apparel, footwear, and home textiles industries. She oversees the evolution and implementation of Textile Exchange's Climate+ Strategy, supporting the industry’s efforts to achieve positive outcomes in the areas of climate, biodiversity, soil health, and water. Prior to Textile Exchange, Beth held leadership roles overseeing and driving sustainable materials and products programs at VF Corporation, a Fortune 500 company with a portfolio of outdoor and active brands including Vans, The North Face, Timberland, and Smartwool, and at Outdoor Industry Association, the North American-based trade association for the outdoor apparel, footwear, and gear sector. She is based in Colorado, USA, and holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business.
Joanna Lawrence
Øistein Thorsen
Julie Reneau
Philippe Birker
Silvia Tonti
Silvia Tonti is VP Circular Economy and Nature Solutions at Yara International. She joined Yara in 2011 as Head of Innovation and Patent and in 2015 took responsibility over the Industrial Business Development unit, leading the definition and execution of the Yara Industrial strategy. She brings more than 20 years of experience in Multinational Chemical Companies, with diverse responsibility across Manufacturing, R&D, Corporate Strategy, and International Business Development.
Harry Farnsworth
James Ede
Marcelo Scarcelli
Martina Henry
Gina Pattison
Sarah Fadika
Vanessa Maire
Nikki Yoxall
Franco Costantini
Lesley Mitchell
Lesley Mitchell is Forum for the Future’s Associate Director for Sustainable Nutrition. She leads Forum’s global work on food, with an expert team covering innovative topics including the future of protein, sustainable animal feed and regenerative agriculture. After a biological sciences PhD at Oxford University, Lesley’s career has focused on working with NGOs to enable transformative change on sustainable food and farming across the food industry and international policy sectors, from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation to international animal welfare NGOs and with meat and dairy farmers in Latin America, China and Europe. She has helped shape UN policy recommendations on livestock, animal welfare and food security, and worked with major multi-stakeholder processes including the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock.
Charlene Collison
Charlene heads Forum for the Future’s Challenge Lab on Sustainable Value Chains, which works to make value chains of key land-based commodities regenerative and distributive. Charlene leads initiatives to scale sustainable and regenerative agriculture, provide decent livelihoods and use fair, transparent business models through agricultural commodity value chains. She leads multi-stakeholder collaborative initiatives across a range of sectors and themes, including directing the Cotton 2040 initiative. Charlene also leads strategy projects with a range of brands, particularly in apparel, with a focus on using futures tools to diagnose and act on emerging systemic challenges.
Charlene is a facilitator on Forum’s School for Systems Change, and supports Forum’s thought leadership on systemic and collaborative change processes. She has over 20 years’ experience in futures, systems thinking, and organisational and societal change for sustainability.
Keith Agoada
Philip Fernandez
Sarah Lockwood
Boris Spassky
Andrew Voysey
Mateja Kramar
Mateja is associated with technology, innovation, and sustainability, with deep knowledge and experience of regenerative agriculture, responsible sourcing, supply chain optimisation and digital transformation. In her dual role at Accenture, she combines co-developing technology-driven, innovative, sustainability solutions (Amplify Program) with helping clients solve their biggest and most urgent industrial and global challenges.
Mateja has over 25 years of international experience in many different industries; advising and working on disruptive innovation, reinvention, and optimisation of business models.
Before joining Accenture, Mateja was a Sustainability Advisor at Microsoft. Prior to that, she was leading a variety of start-up and spin-off projects at the ETH Zurich, where she is still working as a guest lecturer on sustainability, technology, and innovation. Mateja is a serial entrepreneur – with over 20 years’ experience, founding 14 successful companies with patent pending innovations, in 8 different industries.
As a former professional athlete and ballet dancer, she is last 15 years working as mentor and coach, focusing on winning performance and personal growth, for both business leaders and professional sports teams. Mateja holds a MSc in Business Administration and Marketing and speaks six languages. She lives in Switzerland, spending most of her free time outdoors with her dog, and practicing several sports.
Her personal quote and motto: Action always beats intention
Shailendra Mishra
Stephanie Race
Innovation Showcase
The Innovation Showcase aims to give startups with unique and interesting technologies, services, and products within the agriculture space the chance to present in front of our audience of investors and industry leaders.
Our esteemed Selection Committee will choose 5 finalists to take to the stage to present their vision of the future of the regenerative agriculture space. All applications are stage agnostic and can relate to any solutions within regenerative agriculture.
If you have an innovation within the agriculture space that you think would accelerate the transition towards regenerative agriculture, apply below.
Applications are now closed. Stay tuned for our Finalists!
Please note that all finalists must be registered and hold a valid event ticket to attend the event.
Selection Committee
Victoria McIvor
Tijl Hoefnagels
Daan Wilms Van Kersbergen
Murray Gray
Pieter van der Meche
Naeem Lakhani
Simon Evill
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Partners
Platinum Partners
Transparency-One
Website: https://www.transparency-one.com/
Consumers want products that are safe, sustainable, and responsibly sourced.
When making a purchase, consumers want to know where it was made, how it was made, and its impact on people and the planet. To deliver on these expectations and secure consumer trust, modern businesses must ensure their supply chains are transparent, connected, and compliant with consumer values.
Responsible sourcing requires collaboration with suppliers and among internal teams. It requires collecting and monitoring vast amounts of data to identify risks and assess compliance. In-depth and comprehensive supply chain knowledge is crucial to ensure products are safe, sustainable, and responsibly-sourced—from raw material to finished good.
Responsible sourcing is how successful businesses do business. Transparency-One arms you with the tools, data, and insights you need to provide consumers with the ethical products they value.
Nestlé
Website: https://www.nestle.com/
Nestlé is the world’s largest food and beverage company. It is present in 186 countries around the world, and its 276,000 employees are committed to Nestlé’s purpose of unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. Nestlé offers a wide portfolio of products and services for people and their pets throughout their lives. Its more than 2,000 brands range from global icons like Nescafé or Nespresso to local favorites. Company performance is driven by its Nutrition, Health and Wellness strategy. Nestlé is based in the Swiss town of Vevey where it was founded more than 150 years ago.
Gold Partners
Yara International
Website: https://www.yara.com/
Yara grows knowledge to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet. Supporting our vision of a world without hunger and a planet respected, we pursue a strategy of sustainable value growth, promoting climate-friendly crop nutrition and zero-emission energy solutions. Yara’s ambition is focused on growing a nature positive food future that creates value for our customers, shareholders and society at large and delivers a more sustainable food value chain.
To achieve our ambition, we have taken the lead in developing digital farming tools for precision farming, and work closely with partners throughout the food value chain to improve the efficiency and sustainability of food production. Through our focus on clean ammonia production, we aim to enable the hydrogen economy, driving a green transition of shipping, fertilizer production and other energy intensive industries.
Founded in 1905 to solve the emerging famine in Europe, Yara has established a unique position as the industry’s only global crop nutrition company. We operate an integrated business model with around 17,000 employees and operations in over 60 countries, with a proven track record of strong returns. In 2021, Yara reported revenues of USD 16.6 billion.
Ksapa
- Ksapa is an impact business. Our mission is to catalyze an economy-wide shift towards economically, socially and environmentally-sound operating and investment models. Working with business and investors as well as public organizations, Ksapa operates from offices in Paris, London and New York and delivers Human Rights/Sustainability/ESG Advisory, Innovative Solutions, Impact Investment Program Development and Advocacy. Indeed, every month, 4000+ decision-makers across the globe receive and use our resources to inform their approaches on such issues.
- With a dual Sustainable Development and Finance DNA, Ksapa combines diverse expertise via a team of multidisciplinary consultants, including cross-sector corporate responsibilityexperience, agronomy, investment and financing, digital solutions, development economics, non-financial analysis, etc. Thanks to a network of world-class partnering organizations and more than 150+ associated experts based across all continents, we offer global support, diverse expertise and tailored solutions with a proven operational impact, both locally and globally.
- A throughline in our approach is seeking concrete impact. That is why Ksapa designed the Scale Up Training, Traceability and Impact (SUTTI) initiative. We deliver in-person and digital training to smallholders in fragmented supply chains across Asia and Africa. SUTTI is designed for large-scale replicability and adaptability to various agricultural commodities, thanks to low tech-digital tools and innovative impact-linked finance. The program stands for regenerative agriculture, by improving the social and environmental performance of agricultural supply chains, positively impacting decent income, gender, health and safety, human rights, water consumption, chemical inputs, GHG emissions, soil regeneration, carbon sequestration and the fight against deforestation.
xFarm Technologies
Website: https://xfarm.ag/
xFarm Technologies is a tech company that aims to lead the Digital Transformation in agriculture through a Digital Ecosystem for Farm Management.
Tikehau Capital
Website: https://www.tikehaucapital.com/
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Quantis
Website: https://quantis.com/
Since 2006, we've approached environmental sustainability with the utmost scientific integrity and a steadfast mindset of reimagining what's possible. We have pioneered new approaches to business, anchored in the latest environmental science and established pre-competitive initiatives, to support companies in addressing climate change, water pollution and scarcity, biodiversity loss, and plastic pollution. Our expertise in agriculture, food, fashion, sporting goods, cosmetics, personal care, and finance provides us an unparalleled understanding of the drivers of transformational change and the obstacles that often stand in the way.
We enable science-driven business transformation by leveraging the best available data and metrics, and using these insights to shape actionable strategies that shift businesses toward operating within planetary boundaries. Quantis goes a step further, equipping our clients to establish and credibly communicate their sustainability strategies, goals and achievements internally and externally. Our clients choose Quantis because they are serious about reducing their environmental impacts. And we are serious about helping them do it. Our unique approach has resulted in long-term partnerships with influential industry players who share our vision for a planetary economy where nature, people — and business — can thrive.
BIOTREX
Website: http://www.biotrex.eu
Harada Corporation has been importing and exporting goods and technology as a bridge between Japan and the rest of the world since its establishment 99 years ago. We are now playing a role in promoting DGC Technology's BIOTREX technology in the European region. DGC was founded by a group of scientists specializing in complex systems.
BIOTREX was developed based on the research results of Dr. Kazunari Yokoyama. With more than 10 years experiences and 20,000 analyses, BIOTREX is a well-established method for soil microbial indicators in Japan. It is used by farmers engaged in regenerative agriculture, agricultural input suppliers, and as an environmental assessment tool for large corporations who take care of the use of lands. Under the name of SOIL PROJECT, producers who record a BIOTREX score above a certain level are given the SOIL MARK to prove to consumers that their crops and products are produced in an ecologically responsible manner.
regenagri
Website: https://regenagri.org/
regenagri is a regenerative agriculture initiative aimed at securing the health of the land and the wealth of those who leave on it.
It supports farms and organisations to transition to farming systems that increase soil organic matter, increase biodiversity, reduce GHG, sequester CO2 and improve water quality.
As of June 2022, approximately 1.2 million acres of land and 17.000 farms across Asia, Europe and Americas are under the regenagri program.
regenagri is outcome driven and built for continuous improvement. It provides a complete solution consisting of standards & methodologies, measurement & monitoring tool and support services (regenagri certifications, carbon credits verifications, technical advisory).
Support services are provided by Control Union, Peterson and key partners.
Agreena ApS
Agreena's mission is to drive the environmental and financial sustainability of agriculture. We do this by providing the rails on which agriculture must run to access new market opportunities. Today, we are a team of 50+ mission-driven professionals working every day to make hard-to-reach solutions accessible to individual farmers. Our founding goal to put farmers first remains our central ambition.
We are one of the first internationally accredited soil carbon programmes in the world and are Europe’s #1 funded certification company in agriculture. AgreenaCarbon is our certification programme created to financially support farmers’ transition from conventional farming practices to more sustainable farming practices. In doing so, we are giving farmers access to an additional revenue source in agriculture by connecting them to the voluntary carbon market.
Media Partners
EIT Food
Website: https://www.eitfood.eu/
EIT Food is the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community. We accelerate innovation to build a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for all.
Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, we invest in projects, organisations and individuals that share our goals for a healthy and sustainable food system. We unlock innovation potential in businesses and universities, and create and scale agrifood startups to bring new technologies and products to market. We equip entrepreneurs and professionals with the skills needed to transform the food system and put consumers at the heart of our work, helping build trust by reconnecting them to the origins of their food.
We are one of nine innovation communities established by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an independent EU body set up in 2008 to drive innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe.
Find out more at www.eitfood.eu or follow us via social media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram.
Loop Closing
Website: https://www.loopclosing.com
Loop Closing places commercially available composting machines where dumpsters once stood providing a path to zero waste. Instead of hauling food waste “away,” we compost it on-site where it’s generated, thereby elevating the use of food from heading to landfill/incineration. Our innovation is deploying a decentralized network that inclusively regenerates our soils, communities, and planet. Similar to distributing personal computers, scaling computing capacity far beyond mainframe computers, distributing on-site composting can scale composting capacity beyond centralized recycling infrastructure. In the US, it’s stuck at a recycling rate of 6% without a path to meet ReFED goals of 23% by 2030. LC’s decentralized approach provides a path to meet and exceed the ReFED goal.
reNature
Website: https://www.renature.co/
ReNature is an Amsterdam-based consulting firm supporting farmers and corporations to transition to regenerative agriculture systems. reNature utilizes the vast potential of regenerative agriculture in fighting today’s global challenges, namely biodiversity loss, food insecurity, poverty, and climate change. We rethink current farming systems, going beyond sustainability in designing and implementing diverse, regenerative systems on all scales. Alongside our partners, we enable farmers to adopt regenerative practices by offering them tools for implementation and capacity building and access to finance. This is achieved through Technical Advisory (context and market analysis prior to implementation), creating Model Farms (demonstration plots), establishing Farmer Training Programs (extensive ToT program to further reach farmers), and developing Transition Packages (full transition at landscape level).
Thought for Food
Website: https://thoughtforfood.org/
Thought For Food is the world’s pioneer and leader in next-gen innovation and startup acceleration for food and agriculture. We offer a truly-unique innovation engine that is powered by our TFF Challenge programs, our ever-growing TFF Community of 30K+ Millennial and GenZ talents in 175+ countries, and our first-of-its-kind innovation and collaboration platform called the TFF Digital Labs. Through our work, we engage next-gen innovators in every part of the world and catalyse them to create new ideas and solutions; we provide cutting-edge resources and learning experiences that empower entrepreneurs with the mindsets, skills and networks they need to lead and succeed; we provide wing-to-wing innovation programs that attract and support ventures at every stage – from ideation through to investment. In the past 8 years, we have helped to launch 60+ startups that have collectively raised $200M+, and accelerated 8K+ new business concepts.
SAI Platform
Website: https://saiplatform.org/
SAI Platform is one of the primary global food & drink value chain initiatives for sustainable agriculture, with the purpose of harnessing the collaborative power of our members to accelerate the widespread adoption of sustainable agriculture practices and the transformation to sustainable food systems.
One More Salary
Website: https://onemoresalary.com/
One More Salary is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in Sweden in 2017 and in Tanzania in 2019, based on the belief that poverty can be eradicated through sustainable income. Our vision is to eradicate poverty by promoting social entrepreneurship and creating income-generating activities in emerging and developing countries. We create opportunities for generating stable, decent and dignified income for the most vulnerable who have difficulty in creating a sustainable livelihood.
The Regenerative Agroforestry Podcast
Website: https://www.regenerativeagroforestry.org/
The Regenerative Agroforestry Podcast is a platform whose aim is to investigate the potential of Agroforestry as a key tool in the transition towards a Regenerative Food system. We currently achieve this by interviewing top experts and farmers in the field of Regenerative Agriculture.
Farmers Weekly
Website: https://www.fwi.co.uk/
Farmers Weekly is the leading UK media brand providing authoritative and independent news and information to farmers and agricultural businesses in print, online and at events. We aim to inspire better decision making and progressive action from farmers to ensure their businesses remain profitable and sustainable.
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast
Website: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com
In Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast show we talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return.
Why the focus on soil and regeneration? Because so many of the pressing issues we face today have their roots in how we treat our land, grow our food and what we eat. And it’s time that we, as investors big and small and consumers, start paying much more attention to the dirt/ soil underneath our feet.
Forum for the Future
Website: www.forumforthefuture.org
Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit with offices in London, New York, Singapore and Mumbai. We leverage our expertise in systems change and futures to accelerate change on global challenges, and to cultivate the capacity of organisations and individuals to create long-term and transformative change. For over 25 years, we’ve been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate transformation toward a just and regenerative future.
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