The Future of Food and Beverage Forum USA

27th - 28th May 2026

Minneapolis, USA

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

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What to expect from this type of session...

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

Pedro Amaral 

Mars

Associate Director – Head of Cocoa Climate Sustainability

Speaker
Paula Rueda 

ofi

Regional Partnerships Manager

Speaker

Previous session:

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

Next session:

Farmers don’t need your charity: How to make the economics of farming work for farmers

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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
Scaling innovation beyond pilots: How to build sustainability into R&D for long-term strategic advantage 
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? 
Starbucks | Walmart | Mars | Ceres
Plenary
10:10am - 10:55am
Speed Networking and Break
10:55am - 11:45am
Opportunity in crisis: How to reframe sustainability as resilience, risk mitigation and commercial advantage 
Sprouts Farmers Market | The Hershey Company | Rabobank | McDonald's
Plenary
11:45am - 12:15pm
The future of US food policy: What does it all mean for food production? 
USDA-NRCS
Plenary
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Lunch break
1:15pm - 2:00pm
Breakout track 1 
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout track 2 
2:45pm - 3:30pm
Networking Break
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Breakout track 3 
4:15pm - 5:00pm
A market for regen: Who’s actually going to buy it? 
Meijer | SIMPLi
Plenary
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Networking drinks 
Networking
Day 2

Thursday 28th May 2026

Time
Session title
Session theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:45am
The say-do gap: Are young consumers buying more 'sustainable' ? 
Dole Food Company | McCain Foods | The Center for Food Integrity | Fairtrade America
Plenary
9:45am - 10:30am
Unlocking the commercial opportunity in innovation: How to align R&D, agriculture and nutrition 
Post Holdings, Inc. | The J.M. Smucker Co.
Plenary
10:30am - 11:00am
Networking Break
11:00am - 11:45am
Investing in resilience: How blended capital, venture funding and partnerships can work together to scale resilience? 
Transformational Investing in Food Systems | SVG Ventures | Danone | Sand County Foundation | The Rockefeller Foundation
Plenary
11:45am - 12:30pm
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
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch break
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Roundtable sessions 
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Wrap-up and closing remarks 
Plenary

Contact

For any questions on this event, please contact:

Hannah Oborne

Senior Project Manager

Contact Hannah 

Anita Thomson

Chief Partnerships Officer

Contact Anita 

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