Twelve side events will be open to participants over the two days of the Forum.
Participants can join 12 side events over the two days of the Stockholm Food Forum.
Each session offers an hour-long deep dive into specific issues in a smaller, more focused setting.
Hosts include civil society groups and private companies, ready to push the conversation further.
Side event hosts include GAIN, Flora Food Group, GIZ, Dalberg & Accenture, Global Dairy Platform, CGIAR, Coop Östra, Formas, Villars Institute and the International Development Research Centre.
A Forum pass is required to attend side events.
09:15-11:45 & 14:30-17:00
Discover Stockholm’s Food Scene – A Taste of Innovation and Sustainability
Hosted by: Stockholm Business Region
People, planet, and prosperity: dairy’s contribution to a sustainable food system
Hosted by: Global Dairy Platform
Speakers: Dr. Mahya Tavan, Research Officer, Sustainable Nutrition Initiative®, Riddet Institute, Massey University; Dr. Stella Nordhagen, Senior Technical Specialist, GAIN; Dr. Ugo Pica-Ciamarra, Livestock Economist, FAO; Dr. Namukolo Covic, ILRI Director General’s Representative to Ethiopia; Gina Gutiérrez, Dairy farmer; Dr. Beth Bradley, Chief Science Officer, Global Dairy Platform (Moderator).
Food Systems Transformation – Putting Principles into Practical Action
Hosted by: GIZ
Speakers: Dr. Nicole Claasen (Moderator), Project Lead, GIZ; Gunn Jorid Roset, Director General, Norad; Dr. Gerd Fleischer, Director of Rural Development and Food Security, GIZ; Siny Samba, CEO, Le Lionceau; Neha Khara, Project Lead, GIZ; Greg S. Garrett, Executive Director, ATNi; Sibeso Mulele, Policy Officer, Ministry of Agriculture Zambia; Vitowe Batch, Project Lead, GIZ
Sustainable Eating: from Collective Dining to Collective impact
Hosted by: Sodexo
Speakers: Mouna Fassi Daoudi, Global Chief Sustainability Officer and President of Stop Hunger, Sodexo; Peter Mellin, CEO, Sodexo Sweden; Brent Loken, Global Food Lead Scientist, Global Science, WWF; Gustav Schultz, Sustainability Specialist, Cytiva Uppsala; Oscar Jonasson, Head Chef, Corporate Services Sodexo Sweden; Etienne Dufrenois, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Sodexo Continental Europe; Jessie Sommarström, Executive Chef & Nobel Banquet Chef, Sodexo Sweden.
Food cultures – a driver for sustainable and healthy food
Hosted by: Formas
Speakers: Line Gordon, Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Eva Monterrosa, co-founder of Food Culture Alliance; Elizabeth Mpofu, former General Coordinator of La Via Campesina, farmer and activist; Jonathan Eng, Senior Advisor Food Policy, Nordic Council of Ministers; Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Åsa Persson, Chair of the Swedish Climate Policy Council; Strategic Advisor & Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Moderator).
Unlocking the impact of AI: A Collaborative Dialogue to Explore Food Systems Applications and Partnerships
Hosted by: Dalberg & Accenture
Speakers: Juliana Weltman Glezer, Innovation Senior Manager, Accenture; Sofia Broderick, Sustainability Strategy Manager, Accenture; Michael Tsan, Partner, Dalberg; Annette Chau, Associate Partner, Dalberg; Niriksha Shetty, CEO, Precision Development; Kyriacos Koupparis, Tech & Innovation Leader, World Food Program.
Speakers: Shirley Tarawali, Assistant Director General and Secretary, ILRI Board of Trustees, ILRI; Jef Leroy, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, AoW Lead, Better Diets and Nutrition Science program; Simone Staiger/Lisa Fuchs, Multifunctional Landscape, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT; Selina Nkoile, Founder, Nashipai Maasai Community Projects; David Bennell, Managing Director, TIFS; Namukolo Covic, DG’s Representative office Ethiopia, ILRI.
Breakfast session – Scaling production within planetary boundaries to meet the shift to healthier diets: applying lessons from California’s almond industry for perennial crop producers and Mediterranean climate cropping systems
Hosted by: Almond Board
Speakers: Danielle Veenstra, Third-Generation Almond Farmer, Veenstra Farms and Senior Manager, Global Stewardship + Impact, Almond Board of California (Moderator); Michiel Bakker, President, Culinary Institute of America; Clarice Turner, President & Chief Executive Officer, Almond Board of California; Mike Briano, Chief Executive Officer, JSS Almonds and JSS Almonds Specialty Products; Dr. Dan Sonke, Chair, Environmental Stewardship Workgroup, Almond Board of California and Senior Director of Sustainability, Blue Diamond Growers.
COOP Certified Pasture Beef – a market-based solution combining biodiversity with great taste
Hosted by: Coop Östra
Speakers: Andreas Stenman, Managing Director, Coop Östra Försäljning AB; Maria Schultz, Deputy CEO, WWF Sweden; Pernilla Tidåker, Researcher Sustainable Food Systems, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Tomas Bertilsson, Restoration of High Nature Value grasslands, Uppland Foundation; Pernilla Wallstedt, Farmer; Brent Loken, Global Food Lead Scientist, WWF International; Anna Jamieson, CEO, Swedish Pasture Beef and Lamb Association (Moderator).
Hosted by: GAIN
Speakers: Atin Roy, Senior Vice President, Ogilvy Consulting; Ali Morpeth, Co-Founder, Planetary Alliance; Roby Bagindo, Influencer, Masak TV; Laura Wekesa, Marketing Advisor, GAIN; Eva Monterrosa, Program Lead, Consumer Demand Generation, GAIN. Co-founder, Food Culture Alliance (Moderator).
Advancing Planetary Health through Innovation in K-12 Education.
Hosted by: Villars Institute
Speakers: Prof. Corinna Hawkes, PhD Director, FAO Division of Food Systems and Food Safety; Alpha Sennon, Founder & CEO, WHYFARM; Lasse Leponiemi, Cofounder & Chair, HundrED; Sophie Healy-Thow, Founder, Act4Food.
Nourishing Nations across Africa, Asia and Latin America: how collective action can drive double-duty food policy change
Hosted by: IDRC
Speakers: Namokulu Covic, Director General’s Representative to Ethiopia, International Livestock Research Institute; Camila Corvalan, Universidad de Chile; Elaine Borazon, National Sun Yat-sen University; Samantha Nesrallah, Program Officer, IDRC (Moderator).
Beyond the Buzzwords: Separating “Junk Food” from “Processing for Good” – A Cross-Sector Dialogue on Ultra-Processed Foods
Hosted by: Flora Food Group
Speakers: Herman Betten, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Flora Food Group; Stella Nordhagen, Senior Technical Specialist, GAIN; Anindita Mehta, CEO, Consumer Education & Research Centre (CERC); Kevin D. Hall, Ph.D. NIDDK; Dhanush Dinesh, Founder, Clim-Eat