The Future of Food and Beverage Forum USA
27th - 28th May 2026
Minneapolis, USA
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Day 0
Day 1
Day 2
Day 0
Tuesday 26th May 2026
Time
Session title
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
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
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Regen reality check: How far are commitments translating to real world investment, impact and ROI?
FAIRR Initiative | Taylor Farms
Breakout
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Converging climate priorities: How to align on GHG reduction, climate adaptation, and farmer livelihoods in regenerative sourcing?
Mars | ofi
Breakout
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Cutting through the AI BS: What will be the real use, and when? What does AI get wrong, and right?
Cargill | Watershed
Breakout
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Resilient supply: How to link input efficiency and sustainable innovation for more secure supply chains
CHS Inc. | Bormann Ag and University of Minnesota | SLR Consulting
Breakout
1:50pm - 2:40pm
Breakout track 2
1:50pm - 2:40pm
Supply shed collaboration: How to address the barriers to scaling regenerative approaches within sourcing regions
Simple Mills | Keurig Dr Pepper | Sand County Foundation
Breakout
1:50pm - 2:40pm
Farmers don’t need your charity: How to make the economics of farming work for farmers
Heifer International USA | Guentzel Family Farms LLC | Danone
Breakout
1:50pm - 2:40pm
Let’s be honest about soil health: Leveraging ag-tech for simple, comparable metrics that can drive farmer collaboration and profitability
Front Porch Farms | Grain Millers, Inc. | Biome Makers
Breakout
2:40pm - 3:10pm
Networking Break
3:10pm - 3:40pm
From ambition to ROI with Sustainability Fusion: Measuring the enterprise value of sustainability investments
Deloitte | ADM
Plenary
3:40pm - 4:10pm
The ‘’wild west” of supply sheds: Upstream vs downstream, where should you invest?
3Degrees | Therm
Plenary
4:10pm - 4:50pm
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
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. | 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
Plenary
10:45am - 11:35am
The Debate Room: The truth about biodiversity: Everyone talks about it, but no one knows how to deliver it at scale
Preferred by Nature
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
11:35am - 12:25pm
The Debate Room: Not all processed food is bad: How do we have a better conversation about health outcomes?
The Nourishment Economies Coalition
The other room
12:25pm - 1:25pm
Lunch
1:25pm - 2:55pm
Roundtable sessions
1:25pm - 2:55pm
Roundtable A: Young consumers and what they want from their food labelling and contents
The Hershey Company
Roundtable
1:25pm - 2:55pm
Roundtable B: Beyond carbon: What does credible nature measurement actually look like?
The Nourishment Economies Coalition
Roundtable
1:25pm - 2:55pm
Roundtable C: Are we facing a mounting water crisis and what can we do about it?
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) , University of Colorado–Boulder | Irrigation Innovation Consortium, Colorado State University
Roundtable
1:25pm - 2:55pm
Roundtable D: Closing the gap: How do we create the conditions for women to lead in agriculture?
Heifer International USA
Roundtable
1:25pm - 2:55pm
Roundtable E: Circular agriculture: Building resilient revenue models with by-products
Taylor Farms
Roundtable
1:25pm - 2:55pm
Roundtable F: Food security in practice: How humanitarians and the private sector can collaborate to build resilience and scale impact for crisis-impacted communities
World Food Programme
Roundtable
1:25pm - 2:55pm
Roundtable G: From emissions to impact: How can alcohol beverage brands turn circularity into commercial advantage?
Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
Roundtable
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Wrap-up and closing remarks
Plenary