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

Brandon Lombardi 

Sprouts Farmers Market

Chief Legal and Sustainability Officer

Terryn Lawrence 

Rabobank

EVP & Chief Sustainability Officer

Xavier Roussel 

Dole Food Company

Chief Marketing and Sustainability Officer

Stephanie Holodinsky 

McCain Foods

Sr. Director, Global Scientific and Regulatory Affairs

David Spitzley 

Starbucks

Climate and Nature Director

Mikel Hancock 

Walmart

Senior Director Sustainable Food and Agriculture

Kaitlin Campbell 

Sam's Club, Walmart

Director, Pantry Sourcing

Illya Thomas 

The J.M. Smucker Co.

Vice President Research & Development

Michelle French 

ADM

Senior Director of Global Sustainability Programs

Nick Martin 

Post Holdings, Inc.

Vice President, Corporate Sustainability

Whitney Mayer 

The Hershey Company

Head of Global Sustainability

Jason Bell 

SLR Consulting

Head of Energy Advisory, Americas

Sarela Herrada 

SIMPLi

Co-Founder

Jessica Rivas 

McDonald's

Director, Climate and Nature Sourcing Transformation

David Bennell 

Transformational Investing in Food Systems

Managing Director of Investor Relations

Justine Li 

IFF

SVP Global Key Accounts and Sustainability

Jay Watson 

General Mills

Director Regenerative Agriculture

Trudy Slagle 

Lamb Weston

Sr. Director Environmental Social Governance Administration

Alexander Bashian 

The Rockefeller Foundation

Director of Innovative Finance

Sarah Fox 

JBS

Senior Director Sustainable Food Systems

Troy Daniell 

USDA-NRCS

State Director

Pedro Amaral 

Mars

Associate Director – Head of Cocoa Climate Sustainability

Ryan Smith 

Danone

Director, Agriculture impact and partnerships

Matt Wood 

Cargill

Vice President, Sustainability – Data, Digital & Analytics

Paula Rueda 

ofi

Regional Partnerships Manager

Erik Petrovskis 

Meijer

Director of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability

John O’Connell 

Plug and Play Tech Center

Director

Wyatt Maysey 

Taylor Farms

Director of Sustainability

Michael Miller 

3Degrees

Senior Account Executive

John Tinsley 

Therm

Vice President and Co-Founder

Courtney Hall 

CHS Inc.

Director, International Business Development

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

Michaelyn Baur 

Heifer International USA

Senior Country Director

Amanda Archila 

Fairtrade America

Executive Director

Amy Kremen 

Irrigation Innovation Consortium, Colorado State University

Associate Director

Sarah Basiri 

Biome Makers

CRO

Andrew Taggart 

The Hershey Company

Manager - Enterprise Sustainability Strategy and Packaging Commercialization

Donna Kilpatrick 

Heifer International USA

Director of Regeneration

Allie Stauss 

Keurig Dr Pepper

Sustainability Manager, Nature+ Supply Resilience

Sophia Weiss 

Grain Millers, Inc.

Director of Sustainability and Regenerative Agriculture

Nancy Bohl Bormann 

Bormann Ag and University of Minnesota

Regenerative Farmer and Researcher

Heidi Peterson 

Sand County Foundation

Vice President, Agricultural Research & Conservation

Yubing Zhang 

Watershed

Head of AI and Data Products

Leah Wolfe 

Simple Mills

Senior Manager of Sustainability and Mission

Brendon Steele 

Future500

Vice President

Emily Johannes 

Farm Journal

Senior Vice President

John Larson 

American Farmland Trust

Senior Vice President

Christi Bland 

CMB Farms

Farmer

Meryl Richards 

Ceres

Program Director, Food and Forests

Joe Clifford 

FAIRR Initiative

Senior Analyst

Kathleen Boomer 

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

Scientific Program Director

Dwane Roth 

Front Porch Farms

Regenerative Farmer

Jennifer Mlezcko 

Preferred by Nature

Director, Sustainability Advisory

Michael Crinion 

Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative

Farmer

Chris Oskam 

Tony's Chocolonely

Head of Sustainability

More speakers to be announced 

Advisory group

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27-28 May, 2026

Minneapolis, USA