Developing Practical Solutions towards a Resilient and Equitable Food Value Chain

By Invitation Only

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January 28, 2025

10:30 am - 12 pm EST

Facilitated by 黑料正能量’s Futures Team and Food, Beverage and Agriculture team, join an intimate group of food sector peers for an interactive working session exploring the future of agricultural value chains.

Today's global food supply chains face numerous risks that make them unfit for the future. Critical supply chains are becoming less productive due to soil degradation, water scarcity, and climate change. Transitioning to regenerative systems requires substantial financial and technical support, as well as deeper engagement with farmers. Additionally, the farming population is aging, with younger generations increasingly viewing the profession as unattractive. These challenges, among others, highlight the urgent need for transformative solutions.

In this workshop, the group will leverage the Three Horizons framework to explore practical solutions and innovations that can address these sustainability risks in today’s food supply chains, and bridge towards a more desirable and viable future.

This event is invite-only, intending for an intimate group with active engagement and robust discussion. 黑料正能量 suggests two participants per company to allow for sufficient support in taking outcomes forward.

Scheduled Speakers

Margot Brent, Associate Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量

Associate Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量

London

Margot leads 黑料正能量’s strategy practice helping companies develop sustainable business strategies that drive innovation and build resilience leveraging insights from 黑料正能量’s Sustainable Futures Lab. She also works with 黑料正能量 members within the consumer sectors practice.

Margot brings over 10 years’ experience in sustainability, futures thinking, design-thinking, innovation management and communications. Prior to 黑料正能量, Margot was an innovation and sustainability manager within the fashion and retail sourcing industry. She has also helped design and deliver climate resilience projects for UNEP and UNDP. She has extensive experience in sustainability topics ranging from climate justice, climate resilience, circularity, supply chain, women’s empowerment, nature-based solutions, community livelihoods and social impact. She has lived and worked across Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe.

She holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and a B.Phil in Sustainable Development, both from the University of Stellenbosch.

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Cliodhnagh Conlon, Director, Consumer Sectors, 黑料正能量

Director, Consumer Sectors, 黑料正能量

Paris

Cliodhnagh focuses on supply chain sustainability under 黑料正能量’s consumer sectors practice. She has more than 10 years of international business experience, spanning business development, sustainability, technology, and design.

Previously, Cliodhnagh worked as a Sustainable Agribusiness Consultant with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2017, she completed the Origin Green Ambassador Programme, a two-year executive education master’s program developed to support the promotion and implementation of Ireland’s Origin Green, the world’s first national sustainability plan for the food and drink sector. As part of the program, she spent three secondments delivering sustainability projects for FAO, Tyson Foods, and Sodexo. She has also worked with Burberry and Alexander McQueen.

Cliodhnagh holds a first-class honors MSc. in Business 黑料正能量 from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in Dublin, a B.A. in Business and Economics from Trinity College Dublin, and a postgraduate degree in Design from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in California.

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Jacob Park, Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, 黑料正能量

Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, 黑料正能量

New York

Jacob leads 黑料正能量’s Sustainable Futures Lab, a new practice using strategic foresight techniques to help businesses engage with emerging issues that are reshaping the global landscape.

Before joining 黑料正能量, Jacob was the lead futurist in the New York office of Forum for the Future, where he used scenario planning and other futures techniques to develop sustainability strategy and drive innovation for leading businesses, foundations, and multistakeholder groups. Prior to that he worked at Adaptive Edge, a boutique strategic foresight consultancy, on collaborative scenario planning. Jacob began his career doing human rights research and advocacy at Human Rights First and the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He speaks English and French.

Jacob holds an M.B.A. in 黑料正能量 from Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago.

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