An agenda built through deep collaboration with our community to ensure every session delivers substance over soundbites. You’ll hear from true subject matter leaders via candid case studies, collaborative roundtables, and varied panel discussions, enabling greater access to the insights you need to accelerate towards a more resilient food future.
• Reframe sustainability initiatives as tools for business continuity, input security, and cost avoidance rather than long-term compliance.
• Identify which sustainability investments deliver measurable near-term financial benefits during inflation, trade disruption, and supply shocks.
• Apply CFO-level decision frameworks that keep strategic programs funded when budgets tighten.
Biodiversity, Water, and Nature : Not a New Frontier in Disclosures, but a Solution to Current Crises
• Understand why water risk is becoming a top operational and financial priority in North America.
• See how investments in biodiversity and nature-based solutions are already protecting supply chains.
• Explore how TNFD frameworks and verification are being applied in practical, commercially relevant ways.
• Scale digital infrastructure across grower networks to improve visibility, reduce reporting demands, and accelerate data capture.
• Strengthen data systems so information is consistent, trusted, and useful for sourcing decisions, risk management, and transparent sustainability reporting.
• Leverage emerging technologies, such as soil sensors and predictive analytics, to identify soil health risks early and guide the most effective interventions.
• Co-design practices with growers based on real farm contexts, ensuring sustainability changes fit operational constraints, risk tolerance, and regional economics, not one-size-fits-all mandates.
• Close the perception gap on incentives, examining how sustainability payments and programs are experienced at the acre level and why headline commitments often fail to drive real behavior change.
• Build durable value propositions for growers, moving beyond symbolic payments to structures that meaningfully reward participation through improved margins, risk reduction, and long-term farm viability.
• Separate politically driven localization narratives from sourcing strategies that are commercially viable.
• Build multi-source procurement models that balance cost, security, and long-term supply continuity.
• Explore how companies are planning diversification timelines when domestic capacity does not yet exist.
• Understand how global food companies are managing conflicting requirements across quality, packaging, disclosure, and additives.
• Distinguish which regulatory pressures require technology solutions versus procurement, sourcing, and organizational change.
• Learn where regulatory divergence introduces operational risk and where it can be leveraged for competitive advantage.
Table 1: Scope 3 and Compliance: Turning Obligation into Opportunity
• Map and measure Scope 3 emissions across the value chain to identify hotspots.
• Align compliance strategies with broader sustainability goals to avoid siloed reporting.
• Engage suppliers and customers in collaborative emissions reduction programs.
Table 2: Financing Sustainable Innovation : Unlocking Capital for Climate Solutions
• Leverage green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, and blended finance to fund innovation.
• Build investment cases that demonstrate both environmental impact and financial returns.
• Partner with public and private stakeholders to scale breakthrough technologies.
Table 3: Bio-Circularity: Designing Regenerative Systems
• Integrate bio-based materials into product design to reduce reliance on finite resources.
• Establish closed-loop processes that minimize waste and maximize reuse.
• Collaborate across industries to create circular supply chains and shared infrastructure.
Table 4: Science-Based Targets as a Strategic Compass
• Set ambitious, science-based targets aligned with the 1.5°C pathway.
• Embed SBTi commitments into corporate strategy and governance structures.
• Monitor progress transparently and communicate results to stakeholders.
Table 5: Climate Mitigation vs. Adaptation: Striking the Right Balance
• Prioritize mitigation to reduce emissions while simultaneously planning for adaptation.
• Assess climate risks to operations and supply chains to build resilience.
• Integrate adaptation measures into long-term investment and infrastructure planning.
• Show how ingredient, commodity, and brand owners are partnering directly with growers to make regenerative practices work economically at the farm level.
• Explore how collaboration, innovation, and industry alignment are enabling regenerative agriculture to move from pilots to commercial-scale adoption.
• Connect on-farm outcomes such as resilience and ROI with supply chain security, climate goals, and evolving consumer and brand expectations.
Join this dynamic breakfast session featuring a series of short talks and breakout discussions from trailblazing women across food and agriculture. From personal journeys to practical insights, this breakfast offers a rich tapestry of experiences designed to empower and engage professionals at every stage of their career. Let's build a dialogue that celebrates resilience, innovation, and the power of female voices.
This candid, audience-led session puts the most pressing food system challenges front and center. Drawing on questions raised throughout Day 1, audience members will tackle what's really holding industry progress back. Expect honest perspectives, practical solutions, and fresh thinking designed to move beyond theory and into action. Come ready to challenge assumptions, share hard-won insights, and help shape the conversations that will define a more resilient food system.
• Discuss how and whether attitudes towards Scope 3 are transforming at the board level, in order to better judge market signals for future innovation in key categories and technologies.
• Determine how significant investments in Scope 3 have driven tangible business outcomes for multinationals over the past few years.
• In the run-up to COP30, debate how food businesses can regain the narrative momentum around the scaling of climate-smart, regenerative, and nature-positive investments for the benefit of the full value chain, from farm gate to plate.
• Prepare for regulatory, trade, and geopolitical changes reshaping global food and agriculture systems.
• Leverage innovation, cross-sector collaboration, and policy engagement to strengthen long-term agricultural resilience.
• Develop strategies to absorb economic volatility and cost pressures while maintaining sustainable growth and competitiveness.
Optics vs. Outcomes : Navigating Shifting Consumer Demands on Health, Ingredients, and Sustainability
• Identify which consumer signals are genuinely influencing purchasing decisions in a high-price environment.
• Learn how brands are adjusting reformulation and messaging strategies around health, ingredients, and sustainability.
• Evaluate whether current responses to clean label, MAHA, and wellness trends reflect broad consumer demand or amplified minority voices.
• Hear first-hand testimony on how input inflation, tariffs, and delayed returns are reshaping farmer decision-making.
• Examine financing, incentive, and risk-sharing models that actually work within tight on-farm margins.
• Redefine what a fair and durable value exchange looks like between growers, manufacturers, retailers, and policymakers.
• Evaluate how biologicals and biostimulants perform as nutrient efficiency and cost reduction tools in real farm settings.
• Identify the data and proof points that successfully drive grower confidence and adoption.
• Connect biological inputs, precision agriculture, and seed innovation into an integrated soil and yield strategy.
• Clarify what "resilience" actually means for the US food system across security, affordability, environmental limits, and farmer viability.
• Examine where supply-chain partnerships are sufficient, and where policy direction, regulatory clarity, and standardized approaches are essential.
• Confront the real cost of inaction, including who ultimately funds transition from the status quo, over what timeframe, and with what accountability.
• Reframe sustainability initiatives as tools for business continuity, input security, and cost avoidance rather than long-term compliance.
• Identify which sustainability investments deliver measurable near-term financial benefits during inflation, trade disruption, and supply shocks.
• Apply CFO-level decision frameworks that keep strategic programs funded when budgets tighten.
Biodiversity, Water, and Nature : Not a New Frontier in Disclosures, but a Solution to Current Crises
• Understand why water risk is becoming a top operational and financial priority in North America.
• See how investments in biodiversity and nature-based solutions are already protecting supply chains.
• Explore how TNFD frameworks and verification are being applied in practical, commercially relevant ways.
• Separate politically driven localization narratives from sourcing strategies that are commercially viable.
• Build multi-source procurement models that balance cost, security, and long-term supply continuity.
• Explore how companies are planning diversification timelines when domestic capacity does not yet exist.
• Understand how global food companies are managing conflicting requirements across quality, packaging, disclosure, and additives.
• Distinguish which regulatory pressures require technology solutions versus procurement, sourcing, and organizational change.
• Learn where regulatory divergence introduces operational risk and where it can be leveraged for competitive advantage.
• Show how ingredient, commodity, and brand owners are partnering directly with growers to make regenerative practices work economically at the farm level.
• Explore how collaboration, innovation, and industry alignment are enabling regenerative agriculture to move from pilots to commercial-scale adoption.
• Connect on-farm outcomes such as resilience and ROI with supply chain security, climate goals, and evolving consumer and brand expectations.
• Hear first-hand testimony on how input inflation, tariffs, and delayed returns are reshaping farmer decision-making.
• Examine financing, incentive, and risk-sharing models that actually work within tight on-farm margins.
• Redefine what a fair and durable value exchange looks like between growers, manufacturers, retailers, and policymakers.
• Evaluate how biologicals and biostimulants perform as nutrient efficiency and cost reduction tools in real farm settings.
• Identify the data and proof points that successfully drive grower confidence and adoption.
• Connect biological inputs, precision agriculture, and seed innovation into an integrated soil and yield strategy.
• Clarify what "resilience" actually means for the US food system across security, affordability, environmental limits, and farmer viability.
• Examine where supply-chain partnerships are sufficient, and where policy direction, regulatory clarity, and standardized approaches are essential.
• Confront the real cost of inaction, including who ultimately funds transition from the status quo, over what timeframe, and with what accountability.
• Scale digital infrastructure across grower networks to improve visibility, reduce reporting demands, and accelerate data capture.
• Strengthen data systems so information is consistent, trusted, and useful for sourcing decisions, risk management, and transparent sustainability reporting.
• Leverage emerging technologies, such as soil sensors and predictive analytics, to identify soil health risks early and guide the most effective interventions.
• Co-design practices with growers based on real farm contexts, ensuring sustainability changes fit operational constraints, risk tolerance, and regional economics, not one-size-fits-all mandates.
• Close the perception gap on incentives, examining how sustainability payments and programs are experienced at the acre level and why headline commitments often fail to drive real behavior change.
• Build durable value propositions for growers, moving beyond symbolic payments to structures that meaningfully reward participation through improved margins, risk reduction, and long-term farm viability.
Optics vs. Outcomes : Navigating Shifting Consumer Demands on Health, Ingredients, and Sustainability
• Identify which consumer signals are genuinely influencing purchasing decisions in a high-price environment.
• Learn how brands are adjusting reformulation and messaging strategies around health, ingredients, and sustainability.
• Evaluate whether current responses to clean label, MAHA, and wellness trends reflect broad consumer demand or amplified minority voices.
Table 1: Scope 3 and Compliance: Turning Obligation into Opportunity
• Map and measure Scope 3 emissions across the value chain to identify hotspots.
• Align compliance strategies with broader sustainability goals to avoid siloed reporting.
• Engage suppliers and customers in collaborative emissions reduction programs.
Table 2: Financing Sustainable Innovation : Unlocking Capital for Climate Solutions
• Leverage green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, and blended finance to fund innovation.
• Build investment cases that demonstrate both environmental impact and financial returns.
• Partner with public and private stakeholders to scale breakthrough technologies.
Table 3: Bio-Circularity: Designing Regenerative Systems
• Integrate bio-based materials into product design to reduce reliance on finite resources.
• Establish closed-loop processes that minimize waste and maximize reuse.
• Collaborate across industries to create circular supply chains and shared infrastructure.
Table 4: Science-Based Targets as a Strategic Compass
• Set ambitious, science-based targets aligned with the 1.5°C pathway.
• Embed SBTi commitments into corporate strategy and governance structures.
• Monitor progress transparently and communicate results to stakeholders.
Table 5: Climate Mitigation vs. Adaptation: Striking the Right Balance
• Prioritize mitigation to reduce emissions while simultaneously planning for adaptation.
• Assess climate risks to operations and supply chains to build resilience.
• Integrate adaptation measures into long-term investment and infrastructure planning.
Join this dynamic breakfast session featuring a series of short talks and breakout discussions from trailblazing women across food and agriculture. From personal journeys to practical insights, this breakfast offers a rich tapestry of experiences designed to empower and engage professionals at every stage of their career. Let's build a dialogue that celebrates resilience, innovation, and the power of female voices.
This candid, audience-led session puts the most pressing food system challenges front and center. Drawing on questions raised throughout Day 1, audience members will tackle what's really holding industry progress back. Expect honest perspectives, practical solutions, and fresh thinking designed to move beyond theory and into action. Come ready to challenge assumptions, share hard-won insights, and help shape the conversations that will define a more resilient food system.
