The Future of Food and Beverage
This two-day business conference will highlight the practical steps key actors can take to build more sustainable, resilient and regenerative food systems. We’ll bring together leading brands and stakeholders to establish the main areas of opportunity and innovation within the food and beverage industry.

Regenerating nature

How to scale regenerative practices and integrate nature and biodiversity into broader climate strategy

Climate resilience

How business can deliver on climate transition plans and adapt sourcing practices to safeguard supply

Supply chain optimisation

How Food Tech and R&D can drive supply chain efficiency and sustainable innovation

From renovation to innovation

The steps to move beyond pilot programs and tinkering, to tangible action and real food system transformation

2025 speakers

Barbara de Penanster

Danone

Global Responsible Sourcing Director

Grant Sprick

Ahold Delhaize

Vice President Climate and Environment

Una Hrnjak

ALDI SOUTH Group

Director of International Sustainability

Rodolfo de Acutis

Nestlé

Sustainability Lead, Strategic Programs Lead & Global Nestle R&D PMO Lead

Erin Groot Hermsen

Unilever

Senior Sustainability Manager, Regenerative Agriculture

Irina van der Hoorn

Asahi Europe & International

Sustainability Lead

Mario Abreu

Ferrero

Head of Group CSR and Sustainability

Caroline Reid

Oatly

Senior Sustainability Director

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Agenda highlights

  • How to capitalise on commercial risk: The steps to build supply chain resilience and safeguard food security
  • Reality check: Is regenerative agriculture really going to fix our food system? 
  • EU agricultural policy: What’s the right balance between incentives, investments and regulation?
  • Beyond carbon: How to integrate and elevate nature and biodiversity within climate strategy
  • Integrating nature-based solutions: Best practice to regenerate nature and demonstrate impact
  • Food product reformulation: Practical examples that make food inherently sustainable 
  • 5 years to 2030: Are current climate commitments doomed?
  • Assess, validate, improve: How to harmonise approaches to on-farm sustainability assessments
  • Who’s financing innovation? How CVCs are revolutionising investment strategies
  • Modelling the path to net zero: How leading food brands are performing against their transition plans 
  • From data to information to action: How supply chain data can inform strategy, optimise sourcing and transform supply chains
  • EUDR limbo: What action should business take now to prepare amidst regulatory uncertainty? 
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Why attend?

Discover best practices from industry leaders and get in-depth guidance on how to effectively implement policies

Meet & network with an influential audience of key stakeholders, including NGOs, business, government and supply chain actors

Benchmark company performance amongst a room of your peers and discover where you should be focusing efforts

What's new this year:

The Other Room
We’re adding an additional space for discussion on some of the unspoken truths in sustainability. In these off-the-record sessions, we’ll ask attendees to share mistakes and freely speak their minds as we have pragmatic and honest conversation about the future.

Farmer focused
Only farmers can change farming. As a critical voice in these conversations, we’ll be incorporating more farmer perspectives throughout the two days to ensure the conversation is farmer focused and remains grounded in reality.  

Practical, focused problem solving
We’re taking a number of breakout sessions and revamping the format to utilise the full extent of the expertise in the room. This is to ensure we deliver real problem solving that tackles the critical business challenges and provides clear and practical outputs 

More networking, more connections
With increased schmoosing time, more side events and better networking options, we’re ensuring there’s the opportunity to make the connections that matter and build the partnerships that can really make a difference. 

 "As ever, Innovation Forum challenge us to think, discuss and explore our knowledge and understanding of key issues in sustainability across the food supply chain, at a well-considered interactive event."
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 "It was invaluable to come together to listen, learn, and reflect on the challenges and opportunities ahead."
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“I really enjoyed the event, the programme was superb, a great mix between inspirational and expert speakers.”
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"The event featured an impressive lineup of speakers and engaging discussions that inspired and motivated attendees to be a part of the movement for a more sustainable future."
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What’s different about this forum?

Innovation Forum is:
  • Candid: Entirely off-the-record discussion that enables open and honest disclosure from speakers and genuine participation from the audience.
  • Practical: A clear focus on the practical and actionable guidance that can drive change throughout industries and supply chains.
  • Focused: We provide enough time, resources and expertise to the issues that really matter. We don’t skate the surface, but get to the crux of the issues to provide in-depth, constructive discussion.
Innovation Forum is NOT:
  • A PR platform: Enthusiastic speakers are NOT given free rein to fill a session presenting their companies, allowing no time to actually get to the crux of the issues.
  • A talking shop: This is NOT an opportunity for a group people in a room to simply agree with everything said, regardless of outcomes.
  • All promise, no delivery: We will NOT promise what we can’t deliver. The issues covered are complex. They won’t be solved at a two-day conference. But we will help deliver progress through in-depth, constructive and practical advice around specific issues.

Who attends

World Cocoa Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
Rainforest Alliance
World Resources Institute
Neste
Rainforest Action Network
Bunge
McDonald’s
Olam
Novo Nordisk
Syngenta
BASF
Mars
Sime Darby
Unilever
Co-op
Danone
IKEA
The Consumer Goods Forum
Touton
PwC Belgium BV
ING
Solidaridad
PepsiCo
Pernod Ricard
J.P. Morgan
The Coca-Cola Company
Barry Callebaut
Ferrero
Carlsberg Group
Marks & Spencer
SAI Platform
Aberdeen Asset Management
Soil Association
BNP Paribas
Diageo
Mondelēz International
Kellogg Company
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Quantis
Bonsucro
The Mullion Group
Waitrose & Partners
Bayer Crop Science
One Acre Fund
Quorn
Anuvia Plant Nutrients
L'Oréal
Credit Suisse
Allianz Global Investors
Taylors of Harrogate
Delhaize
Givaudan
Cargill - sponsor page only
Yara International

The venue


Hotel Casa Amsterdam

Eerste Ringdijkstraat 4

Amsterdam
1097
Netherlands

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Get in touch

For any questions on The Future of Food and Beverage 2025 conference, please contact:

Hannah Oborne
Project Manager
hannah.oborne@innovationforum.co.uk

Or for information about sponsorship:

Anita Thomson
Chief Partnerships Officer
anita.thomson@innovationforum.co.uk

Sign up

Registration for the Future of Food and Beverage 2025 is currently open. To sign up, you can do so online here, or get in touch directly for details of group discounts. 

Join us for

  • In-depth guidance from industry leaders on how to effectively implement policies.
  • Networking with key stakeholders, including NGOs, business, government and supply chain actors.
  • An entirely off-the-record discussion that encourages open and honest disclosure from speakers and genuine participation from the audience

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