Panel on Food Startups & Collaborative Innovation: Why the collaboration of diverse actors is the “secret sauce” of food system transformation

Description

This panel will bring together diverse food system actors to discuss how collaboration across various sectors and scales of the food system is the key ingredient for its transformation towards sustainability.  

Representatives from academia, the food-startup community as well as from the more mainstream food industry will reflect on how various formats of collaboration produce benefits for the involved parties but, furthermore, become an imperative for the fundamental transformation and innovation of our dysfunctional contemporary food systems. 

Our panelists will not only offer potential collaborative pathways and innovative practices but will also highlight the many challenges sustainable food system actors are facing. 

Panelists:

Lisa Reiss, Co-Founder of Smiling Food

Richard Petrasek, Sustainability Expert and Researcher at FiBL Austria

Wolfgang Fojtl, Owner and CEO of Verival

 

The discussion will be led by Petra Wolkenstein and Michael Kubiena, Konsultori Partners and experts in growth and organization design.

 

 

Agenda:

• Welcome and Introduction
• Panel Discussion
• Q & A
• Closing