Opening plenary: Innovation driving food systems transformation

09:0010:45
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The importance of innovation and partnerships for accelerating impact and transformation of our food systems: discussion about why food systems require pre-competitive and collaborative approaches to identifying, scaling, demonstrating and transferring solutions

Session topic overview
  • Adam Gerstenmier, Executive Director, Food Action Alliance
Fireside Chat
  • Adam Gerstenmier, Executive Director, Food Action Alliance
  • Wanjira Mathai
Keynote address
  • Bertrand Piccard, Initiator and Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation
10:40
Moderated panel discussion
  • Adam Gerstenmier, Executive Director, Food Action Alliance
  • Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, Executive Chair, Sahel Consulting
  • Marcel Beukeboom, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Rome, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality  
  • Saskia Nuijten, EIT Food
  • Achim Hupperts, VP Sustainability, DSM
  • Dr. Pádraic Flood, Team Lead Crop Genetics, Infarm
10:40
10:45
Closing remarks
  • Adam Gerstenmier, Executive Director, Food Action Alliance

Session speakers

Wanjira Mathai
Environmentalist and Activist
Bertrand Piccard
Initiator and Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation
Dr. Pádraic Flood
Team Lead Crop Genetics, Infarm
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli
Executive Chair, Sahel Consulting
Marcel Beukeboom
Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Rome, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
Richard Zaltzman
Interim COO, EIT Food
Achim Hupperts
Achim Hupperts
VP Sustainability, DSM
Adam Gerstenmier
Executive Director, Food Action Alliance

Session organizer

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