THANK YOU FOR JOINING US IN 2023
The Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit welcomed over 450 leaders from the entire agrifood supply chain, across three days of insights, critical thinking, optimism, and vital discussions needed to transform our food system.
Key themes and takeaways addressed over the three days included:
- Collaboration, trust, openness, and consistency are crucial. Working together is the cornerstone of progress in the journey towards sustainability, and is critical for scale.
- Actively listening to the needs and concerns of farmers is vital to build solutions that not only address their challenges but also share in the risks and rewards of a more regenerative future.
- The time is now! Perfection isn’t needed to start working and drive change. We must implement at scale and continue to make progress towards strengthening the resilience of farming communities worldwide.
Thank you to all our speakers, partners, and attendees for making the Regenerative Agriculture & Food Systems Summit Europe such an educational, thought-provoking, and industry shaping few days!
We look forward to welcoming you back next year with even greater representation from farmers and farming organizations, academics, policymakers, and more!
2024 KEY CONTENT
- WORKSHOP: FRAMEWORKS FOR REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
Identify various Regenerative Agriculture frameworks available to you. Understand how to effectively apply current frameworks, and successfully align and collaborate on different approaches with SAI Platform at their pre-event workshop on Tuesday, 3 September.
- GAIN PRACTICAL INSIGHTS FROM PIONEERING FARMERS
Identify unfair distribution of margins within the value chain and deep dive into farmer roadblocks throughout their regenerative journeys with the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture, AgriCircle, and Regeneration Academy.
- EXPLORE STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING SUPPLY CHAIN VISIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY
Join Climate Farmers, The Green Farm Collective, Mars and Doktar as they discuss watertight strategies to achieve sufficient supply chain visibility and transparency by identifying key data points needed to enable effective traceability, leveraging novel tools for tracking and reporting chain of custody, and identifying technological solutions available for capturing and managing supply chain data.
- WORKSHOP: INTEGRATING BIODIVERSITY AND NATURE INTO CLIMATE STRATEGIES
Discover how to embrace a more holistic approach with real-world examples of successful climate strategies, understand the critical importance of water management in the context of biodiversity and climate strategies, and mitigate water risks using innovative approaches.
- EUROPEAN POLICY: UNDERSTANDING THE LANDSCAPE
Identify strategies for policy responses and get ahead of the curve as Gijs Schilthuis, Head of Unit Policy perspectives, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development at the European Commission discusses the implications of the ever-changing Farm to Fork legislation and what’s next for the EU agricultural policy.
- USING TECHNOLOGY AS AN ENABLER TO GROWERS
Identify ways to give your growers greater assurance that their data is their own and enable investment and traceability by making aspects of grower data available to other stakeholders in the value chain with Accenture, Louis Dreyfus Company, and The Nature Conservancy.
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OUR 2023 SPEAKERS
George Lamb
Alex Godfrey
Pascal Chapot
Stéphane Hallaire
Anastasia Volkova
Anastasia Volkova, PhD, is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and engineer committed to developing technology that empowers the agriculture industry to help solve the global climate crisis. She is CEO and Co-Founder of Regrow Ag, an award-winning SaaS provider that enables organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their agricultural supply chains and build climate change resilience by incentivizing the adoption of regenerative farming practices.
Since Regrow’s launch in early 2021, Dr. Volkova and her team have raised $55M in Series A and B funding, and have nurtured Regrow into a global company trusted by some of the world’s leading CPGs, food companies, and ecosystem market developers, including General Mills, Cargill, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, and South Pole. Regrow delivers environmental data that makes it possible for organizations to analyze scope 3 sourcing regions, report emissions, and plan sustainability investments, and supports the execution of producer incentive programs that reduce on-field emissions. It pioneered the development of digital MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) software for agriculture, bringing transparency and credibility to agriculture-based carbon reductions and removals. Regrow’s best-in-class MRV was honored as a Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Idea.
A 2022 Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst and Forbes Technology Council member, Dr. Volkova is a respected thought leader and innovator in regenerative agriculture and sustainable food sourcing. She has been recognized as one of The Australian’s Top 100 Innovators, MIT’s “35 Under 35” Innovators (2020), and BBC’s “Top 100 Women” (2020).
Franco Costantini
Harry Farnsworth
Matteo Vanotti
Philippe Birker
Joseph Gridley
Annie Leeson
Thijs van Ballegoijen de Jong
Graham Wilkinson
Kelly Ann Ross
Lesley Mitchell
Lucas Urbano
In this position, Lucas leads the implementation of Unilever's regenerative agriculture strategy. The program has a pipeline of over 90 projects, mobilising suppliers in 27 different cultures.
These projects are developed in partnerships with brands such as Knorr and Hellman’s, as well suppliers, farmers and external partners. The program's primary objective is to positively impact the agricultural supply chain through sustainable practices.
His professional objective is to help companies create an innovative, healthy, and sustainable food system. With over 15 years of professional experience in large corporations, he has held procurement, operations, strategy, and sustainability positions, leading projects that built sustainable supply chains for fruit and dairy. He also worked with the decarbonisation of operations and worked on consolidating the companies' climate strategies.
He carries a giant curiosity, which is why, in parallel to his work, he is still studying for his PhD in sustainability strategy implementation.
Eric Soubeiran
Eric started his career in strategy consulting and merger and acquisitions and held several general management positions, including at Danone where he lastly oversaw the sustainability strategy of the company. Eric joined Unilever in 2021 and is now Managing Director Unilever Climate & Nature Fund & Vice President Business Operations Sustainability.
In this capacity, he leads the delivery of several of the major Sustainability goals and transformations for Unilever’s value chain, as well as Unilever's Climate & Nature Fund, an impact-led investment platform to accelerate solutions for protecting the health of our planet. The Fund, which was announced in 2020 has a mandate to spend EUR 1 billion, using the power of Unilever’s brands over this decade to make meaningful progress.
Eric also serves as non-executive director of The Carbon Trust and The Gold Standard Foundation.
Andrew Voysey
Usama Asif
Usama has 15 years of deep procurement experience across wide variety of multi-billion-euro portfolios including agricultural commodities, chemicals, packaging as well as services and capital expenditure. He believes procurement has the opportunity to lead in the design of any company's future economic model and not only how that contributes internally to top and bottom line but also how it incentivizes and drives value externally. He has deep expertise in partnership ecosystems development and value chain transformations.
As Procurement Head for Nutrition Business Group, he has responsibility for procurement strategy development and implementation including competitive buying, sustainability, value chain interventions, partnerships, resilience, and digital transformation agenda. This encompasses working with over 3000 supply partners across the globe to help land our Force for Good Foods strategy. In this capacity, his team leads implementation of Unilever’s Regenerative Agriculture program working closely with our key suppliers.
Adele Jones
Alastair Trickett
Martina Henry
Anne van Doorn
Dr. Eoghan Finneran
Myriam Sainz
Dr. Saskia Visser
Tanzer Bilgen
Aleksandra Zaborowska
Jocelyn Orr
Aurelie Oberti
Ben Makowiecki
Nathalie Meurer
Nathalie Meurer is a graduate of the business school HEC Paris and holds a DECF, a state diploma in accountancy. During the first decade of her career, she worked in the international financial sector.
At the auditing and consulting firm Coopers & Lybrand, she worked in Düsseldorf, Germany, then in France and Austria.
From 2001 to 2007, Nathalie Meurer took over as the Financial Director of Fnac in Portugal, where she set up an innovative structure dedicated to sustainable development, and later Fnac in Italy, notably developing online commerce.
Returning to Paris in 2007, she held the position of Financial Director of the Surcouf brand, owned by the Fnac group.
In 2008, Nathalie Meurer was appointed Vice President of Finance for the ready-to-wear brand Celio, where she guided strategic and audit actions as a member of the executive committee.
When she joined Moët Hennessy in 2015, she took over audit and internal control, bringing her expertise and knowledge of selective distribution to the group’s Wine and Spirits division.
Since spring 2022, as a member of the Maison Hennessy Management Committee, Nathalie Meurer has been in charge of Sustainable Development and H2030 Projects, the Maison’s strategic roadmap for the next ten years, which she is supporting in its deployment.
Hennessy's ambitious strategy and commitments in environmental and societal responsibility and transition are major pillars of the Sustainable Development department.
Felix Ricken
Dana Rakha-Michalon
Dana manages the work on scaling Regenerative Agriculture in OP2B with an aim to catalyze collective investments in landscape projects with leading business. She also manages the work on driving alignment of an integrated Reg Ag measurement architecture in WBCSD, with 50 member companies and 20 ecosystem partners participating in consolidating measurement frameworks as well as strengthening the measurement infrastructure.
Dana is an agronomist and landscape architect, specialized in environmental management. Prior to joining WBCSD, she has worked for 10 years managing large-scale landscape projects in France and the Middle East. She also holds an MBA with a specialization in Strategy & Multinational Enterprise Management from EMlyon Business school.
Robert Horster
Gupse Suren
Arjen Verschere
Helaina Black
Anco van Schaik
Boris Spassky
Richard Zaltzman
Jolijn Zwart- van Kessel
Diego Moreno
Gisela Noble
Georgina Bray
Charlie Whitmarsh
Eric Servat
Elizabeth Claridge
Matthew Ryan
Tom Curtis
Patrick Barker
Michael Kavanagh
