The Future of Food and Beverage Forum USA

27th - 28th May 2026

Minneapolis, USA

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Cutting through the AI BS: What will be the real use, and when? What does AI get wrong, and right?

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These focused, problem-solving sessions tackle critical business challenges and provide clear and practical outputs.

Matt Wood 

Cargill

Vice President, Sustainability – Data, Digital & Analytics

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Yubing Zhang 

Watershed

Head of AI and Data Products

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Previous session:

Converging climate priorities: How to align on GHG reduction, climate adaptation, and farmer livelihoods in regenerative sourcing?

Next session:

Resilient supply: How to link input efficiency and sustainable innovation for more secure supply chains

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Day 0

Tuesday 26th May 2026

Time
Session title
Session theme
Session type
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Pre-event UMN Forever Green Research Field Tour 
Workshop
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Pre-conference Networking Drinks
Day 1

Wednesday 27th May 2026

Time
Session title
Session theme
Session type
8:30am - 8:55am
Risk, resilience and return: How can we place farmer priorities at the heart of the food system? 
CMB Farms | Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative
Plenary
8:55am - 9:25am
From ambition to scale: How is collaboration accelerating regenerative impact? 
PepsiCo North America | Walmart
Plenary
9:25am - 10:10am
Food security at 2+ degrees: How can leading brands make their supply chains more resilient through adaptation? 
Sam's Club, Walmart | Mars | Ceres
Plenary
10:10am - 10:50am
Speed Networking and Break
10:50am - 11:40am
Opportunity in crisis: How to reframe sustainability as resilience, risk mitigation and commercial advantage 
The Hershey Company | Rabobank | McDonald's | SLR Consulting
Plenary
11:40am - 12:00pm
The future of US food policy: What does it all mean for food production? 
USDA-NRCS
Plenary
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch break
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Breakout track 1 
1:50pm - 2:40pm
Breakout track 2 
2:40pm - 3:10pm
Networking Break
3:15pm - 4:00pm
The ‘’wild west” of supply sheds: Upstream vs downstream, where should you invest? 
3Degrees | Therm
Plenary
4:00pm - 4:45pm
A market for regen: Who’s actually going to buy it? 
Meijer | SIMPLi | PepsiCo
Plenary
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Networking drinks 
Networking
Day 2

Thursday 28th May 2026

Time
Session title
Session theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:30am
The say-do gap: Are young consumers buying more 'sustainable' ? 
Dole Food Company | The Center for Food Integrity | Fairtrade America
Plenary
9:30am - 10:15am
Unlocking the commercial opportunity in innovation: How to align R&D, agriculture and nutrition 
Post Holdings, Inc. | The J.M. Smucker Co. | Plug and Play Tech Center
Plenary
10:15am - 10:45am
Networking Break
10:45am - 11:35am
Investing in resilience: How blended capital, venture funding and partnerships can work together to scale resilience 
Transformational Investing in Food Systems | ING | Danone | Sand County Foundation | The Rockefeller Foundation
Plenary
10:45am - 11:35am
The Other Room: The truth about biodiversity: Everyone talks about it, but no one knows how to deliver it at scale 
The other room
11:35am - 12:25pm
From talk to traction: We keep talking about collaboration, what do we actually need to see this in action? 
Lamb Weston | ADM | General Mills | Future500 | JBS
Plenary
12:25pm - 1:25pm
Lunch break
11:35am - 12:25pm
The Other Room: Not all processed food is bad: How do we have a better conversation about health outcomes? 
The other room
12:25pm - 1:05pm
Break
1:05pm - 2:35pm
Roundtable sessions 
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Wrap-up and closing remarks 
Plenary

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For any questions on this event, please contact:

Hannah Oborne

Senior Project Manager

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Anita Thomson

Chief Partnerships Officer

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