The Future of Food and Beverage Forum USA

27th - 28th May 2026

Minneapolis, USA

Speakers

Burgess Davis 

PepsiCo North America

Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo North America

Stephanie Holodinsky 

McCain Foods

Sr. Director, Global Scientific and Regulatory Affairs

David Spitzley 

Starbucks

Climate and Nature Director

Kaitlin Campbell 

Walmart

Director, Surety of Supply

Brandon Lombardi 

Sprouts Farmers Market

Chief Legal and Sustainability Officer

Michelle French 

ADM

Senior Director of Global Sustainability Programs

Justine Li 

IFF

SVP Global Key Accounts and Sustainability

David Bennell 

Transformational Investing in Food Systems

Managing Director of Investor Relations

Nick Martin 

Post Holdings, Inc.

Vice President, Corporate Sustainability

Xavier Roussel 

Dole Food Company

Chief Marketing and Sustainability Officer

Whitney Mayer 

The Hershey Company

Head of Global Sustainability

Jay Watson 

General Mills

Director Regenerative Agriculture

Trudy Slagle 

Lamb Weston

Sr. Director Environmental Social Governance Administration

Troy Daniell 

USDA-NRCS

State Director

Sarah Fox 

JBS

Senior Director Sustainable Food Systems

Pedro Amaral 

Mars

Associate Director – Head of Cocoa Climate Sustainability

Ryan Smith 

Danone

Director, Agriculture impact and partnerships

Erik Petrovskis 

Meijer

Director of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability

Wyatt Maysey 

Taylor Farms

Director of Sustainability

Carin Gerhardt 

SVG Ventures

Director of Corporate Programs

Gabrielle Valerie Basuki 

Plug and Play Tech Center

Corporate Innovation- Food and AgTech

John Tinsley 

Therm

Vice President and Co-Founder

Kelly Leighton 

The Center for Food Integrity

Executive Director

Joel Lisonbee 

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) , University of Colorado–Boulder

Senior Associate Scientist

Amy Kremen 

Irrigation Innovation Consortium, Colorado State University

Associate Director

Amanda Archila 

Fairtrade America

Executive Director

Allie Stauss 

Keurig Dr Pepper

Sustainability Manager, Nature+ Supply Resilience

Andrew Taggart 

The Hershey Company

Manager - Enterprise Sustainability Strategy and Packaging Commercialization

Leah Wolfe 

Simple Mills

Senior Manager of Sustainability and Mission

Meryl Richards 

Ceres

Program Director, Food and Forests

Joe Clifford 

FAIRR Initiative

Senior Analyst

Dwane Roth 

Front Porch Farms

Regenerative Farmer

Seanicaa Edwards Herron 

Freedmen Heirs

President & CEO

More speakers to be announced 

Advisory group

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27-28 May, 2026

Minneapolis, USA