The Future of Food and Beverage Forum
11th - 12th May 2027
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Day 1
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Day 1
Tuesday 12th May 2026
Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:20am
Extreme weather, looming targets: What does it all mean for production and food security?
Plenary
9:20am - 10:00am
Resilience from farm to fork: How can we turn competing priorities into shared commercial value?
Plenary
10:00am - 10:40am
Show me the outputs: What has regenerative agriculture actually delivered?
Plenary
10:40am - 11:20am
Break and Speed Networking
11:20am - 11:50am
Competitiveness over climate: Has Brussels traded the Green Deal for a growth plan?
Plenary
11:50am - 12:30pm
Invest now, or pay later: How companies are embedding climate adaptation into wider business strategy
Plenary
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Breakout Round 1
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Science Based Targets 2.0: What companies are already changing on the ground
Breakout
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Nature’s bottom line: How is biodiversity loss already hitting yields, stability, and margins?
Breakout
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Climate-resilient crops: Will gene editing give Europe the competitive edge?
Breakout
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Breakout Round 2
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Climate risk modelling and scenario analysis: How business can plan for climate impact and supply shocks
Breakout
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Running dry: Are businesses underpricing water risk?
Breakout
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Feed is the footprint: How feed choices are becoming the biggest emissions lever for meat, dairy and aquaculture
Breakout
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Networking Break
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Breakout Round 3
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Climate shocks, long-term goals: How can business balance adaptation and mitigation?
Breakout
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Measuring what matters: Does proving regen cost more than doing it?
Breakout
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Beyond chemical inputs: Where are biostimulants and biopesticides already delivering?
Breakout
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Breakout Round 4
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Sustainability without the stick: How can the ‘business case’ unlock budget beyond compliance?
Breakout
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Banking on nature: How to separate real markets from the next offset catastrophe
Breakout
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Low-carbon fertiliser: What the carbon border tax means for nitrogen costs and farm-level emissions
Breakout
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Networking Drinks
Day 2
Wednesday 13th May 2026
Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:40am
Farmers on the frontline: What CAP reform means for livelihoods, supply security, and the next generation
Plenary
9:00am - 9:40am
Innovation, R&D and commercial strategy: How is consumer demand driving sustainable growth?
Plenary
9:40am - 10:20am
From data to decisions: How digital tools are boosting on-farm knowledge, data, and communication
Plenary
10:20am - 10:50am
Networking Break
9:40am - 10:20am
A market for regen: Who’s actually going to buy it?
Plenary
10:50pm - 11:25pm
Soil as an asset: How healthy soil is starting to affect land values, lending and insurance
Plenary
10:50pm - 11:25pm
From shelf space to shared value: How retailers are partnering with brands to drive sustainable growth
Plenary
11:25am - 12:00pm
Who pays, who gains? Are ‘incentives’ really incentivising, or just splitting the cost?
Plenary
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch
11:25am - 12:00pm
Clearer claims, quieter brands: What does EmpCo mean for the future of food marketing?
Plenary
1:40pm - 3:10pm
Roundtable Sessions
1:00pm - 2:30pm
a) EUDR, five months in: What’s worked, what hasn’t and what’s next
Roundtable
1:00pm - 2:30pm
b) Science Based Targets 2.0: FLAG Ask Me Anything
Roundtable
1:00pm - 2:30pm
c) Campaigner perspectives: What brands are still getting wrong
Roundtable
1:00pm - 2:30pm
d) Trading down: Who loses when shoppers can’t afford sustainable?
Roundtable
1:00pm - 2:30pm
e) Carbon removals in action: How brands can demonstrate credibility in insetting
Roundtable
1:00pm - 2:30pm
f) Livestock: How Europe can cut emissions without cutting herds
Roundtable
1:00pm - 2:30pm
g) Climate culture: Is climate risk still the sustainability team’s problem?
Roundtable
1:00pm - 2:30pm
h) Blue food: Where seafood fits in the protein debate
Roundtable
1:00pm - 2:30pm
i) Fewer spreadsheets, better decisions: Where AI is cutting the cost of supply chain data, traceability, and risk?
Roundtable
3:10pm - 3:40pm
Closing Remarks