Agenda
Day 0
Tuesday 26th May 2026
Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
5:00pm - 6:00pm
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
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
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
Plenary
12:15pm - 1:15pm
1:15pm - 2:00pm
1:15pm - 2:00pm
Regen reality check: How far are commitments translating to real world investment, impact and ROI?
FAIRR Initiative | Taylor Farms
Breakout
1:15pm - 2:00pm
Cutting through the AI BS: What will be the real use, and when? What does AI get wrong, and right?
Cargill | Watershed
Breakout
1:15pm - 2:00pm
The other room
2:00pm - 2:45pm
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Supply shed collaboration: How to address the barriers to scaling regenerative approaches within sourcing regions
Simple Mills | Keurig Dr Pepper | Sand County Foundation
Breakout
2:00pm - 2:45pm
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.
Breakout
2:00pm - 2:45pm
The other room
2:45pm - 3:30pm
3:30pm - 4:15pm
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Breakout
3:30pm - 4:15pm
How to align on GHG reduction, climate adaptation, and farmer livelihoods in regenerative sourcing?
Mars | ofi
Breakout
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Farmers don’t need your charity: How to make the economics of farming work for farmers
Heifer International
Breakout
3:30pm - 4:15pm
The other room
Day 2
Thursday 28th May 2026
Time
Session title
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
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
1:30pm - 3:00pm
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Roundtable A: Focus group: Young consumers and what they want from their food labelling and contents
The Hershey Company
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
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
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Roundtable D: Closing the gap: How do we create the conditions for women to lead in agriculture?
Heifer International
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
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
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Roundtable
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