REDEFINING SHARED VALUE
INNOVATION TOWARDS
A NET POSITIVE FUTURE
16-17 October 2024
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2024 OVERVIEW
The future of coffee is replete with overwhelming promises, and highly targeted and science-based digital and technology innovation. However, reality does not paint a rosy picture. With the difficult challenges of Climate change, soil and water depletion, lowering supply, decrease in global coffee prices and increasing consumer demand for sustainable coffee, the perpetuation of poverty-stricken smallholder farmers, something has to change.
World Coffee Innovation Summit 2024 “Redefining Shared Value: Innovation Towards a Net Positive Future” will convene global leaders, stakeholders and innovators to showcase various scalable innovations, their impact on traceability and sustainability, their capabilities to mitigate climate and financial risks, and fostering regenerative solutions. By integrating a shared value approach within the corporate business model, innovative solutions will drive not only business but also environmental and social value for farming communities. This net-positive economic approach helps to create a sustainable future for coffee and contributes to the overall well-being of society.
2024 SPEAKERS
Dr. Florika Fink-Hooijer
Director-General, Environment Department
European Commission
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
Former Chairman
UK Climate Change Committee (The CCC)
House of Lords
H.E. Johnston Busingye
High Commissioner for the Republic of Rwanda to the United Kingdom
Sylvia J. Megret
President and Chief Executive Officer
ACDI/VOCA
Dr. Jennifer “Vern” Long
Chief Executive Officer
World Coffee Research
Dr. Parmesh Shah
Global Lead for Data-Driven Digital Agriculture and Innovations
The World Bank
Graham Turnock
Integrated Accelerator Team Leader, Special Advisor
European Space Agency (ESA)
H. E. Alex Assanvo
Executive Secretary
Cȏte d’Ivoire Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI)
Tim Scharrer
COO and Regional Director Europe and North America
Volcafe
Pablo von Waldenfels
Director Corporate Responsibility
Tchibo GmbH
Laurent Sagarra
Vice President Sustainability
JDE Peet’s
Roberto Alonso Vega Alfaro
VP of Global Coffee Agronomy, R&D and Sustainability
Starbucks
Manfred Borer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive officer
Koltiva
Jari Partanen
Board Director
EBRD
Andrea Geremicca
Director General
European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability (EIIS)
Chris Southworth
Secretary General
ICC United Kingdom
Thomas Bagge
Chief Executive Officer
Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA)
Sophie Aujean
Director Global Advocacy
Fairtrade International
Paul Rooke
Executive Director
British Coffee Association (BCA)
Dr. James Gimase
Chief Research Scientist
Coffee Research Institute
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
Ashley Olson Onyango
Head of Financial Inclusion & AgriTech
GSMA (Mobile for Development)
Dominic Robinson
CEO
Soil Association Certification
T.J. Ryan
Chief of Party of Philippine Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise Project
ACDI/VOCA
Peter Nestor
Global Head of Human Rights
Novartis
Josep Garí
Head of Climate, Forests & Land
United Nations / UNDP
Juliette Caulkins
Executive Director
B Lab Europe
Grainne Lynch
Business Transformation Lead
IBM Consulting
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2024 KEY THEMES
- EUDR COUNTDOWN, WELCOME CSDDD: Navigating climate policy and regulatory risks as a pathway towards a positive impact on the ground
- COFFEE SCIENCE & INNOVATION: Unlocking the potential of Genomics in coffee breeding and other climate science breakthroughs for a more climate resilient variety in the international market.
- REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE: Investing in scalable nature-positive production and incorporating it into climate strategy across the sustainable supply chain.
- NATURE CAPITAL, BIODIVERSITY & NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS: Finding solutions to address societal challenges involving actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified ecosystems, benefiting people, business and nature at the same time.
- CARBON MARKETS: Navigating opportunities in natural-based solutions and Scaling climate impact through carbon markets.
- SCALING UP TRANSPARENCY PLATFORMS: Tackling Traceability, Monitoring and Measurement platforms for assess real impact and regulatory compliance.
- AGRICULTURE FINANCE: Leveraging Advanced Technologies including Fintech to improve smallholder farmers’ access and climate risk coverage.
- DATA AND DIGITALISATION: Fuelling transparency and traceability of the supply chain and supporting decarbonisation.
- INNOVATION SHOWCASE: How advance technologies deliver transparent, trustworthy and scalable nature-based and engineered solutions.
- CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION: Sharing best practices and innovations with other sectors and accelerating progress towards a net positive future
2023 SPEAKERS
Dr. Qu Dongyu
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Director-General
Anthony Hobley
Inevitable Policy Response & World Economic Forum (WEF)
Senior Strategic Advisor
Dr. Leonard Mizzi
European Commission (EC)
Head of Unit, INTPA
Vanusia Nogueira
International Coffee Organization(ICO)
Executive Director
H.E. Teferi Melesse Desta
Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Markus Leitner
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom
H.E. Hajime Hayashi
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
H.E. Mrs. Carmen María Gallardo
Ambassador from the Republic of El Salvador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Mr Manoah Esipisu
High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya to the United Kingdom
H.E. Guisell Morales-Echaverry
Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom
Paul Rooke
British Coffee Association (BCA)
Executive Director
Melissa Duncan
Fairtrade International
Executive Director
William Kennedy
Bloomberg
Senior Executive Editor
Nigel Hunt
Reuters
Global Soft Commodities Correspondent
Anna R Rios
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Climate Change Senior Specialist
Katherine Stodulka
Systemiq
Partner, Director, Blended Finance
Gert van der Bijl
Solidaridad
Senior EU Policy Advisor
Dr. Martina Bozzola
International Trade Centre (UN/WTO)
Senior Advisor Sustainability and Livelihood
Dr. Alvaro Lario
International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)
President
Professor Mark Maslin
University College London (UCL), Natural History Museum of Denmark
Earth System Science
Cedric Lombard
Impact Finance
Founder and Co-CEO
Juan Cabrera
IoD Natural Resources Group; Government Blockchain Association (GBA); WBAF
Vice Chair; Vice President for the UK; Business Consultant
Jo Paisley
GARP Risk Institute (GRI)
President
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
UK Climate Change Committee (The CCC)
Former Chairman
Abdelrahman Fathalla
Guillam Coffee House
Founder
Dejene Dadi Dika
Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union(OCFCU)
General Manager
Shooka Bidarian
Manoto TV
Environmental Correspondent
Clive de Ruig
ICE Benchmark Administration
President
Alp Somyurek
Turkish Coffee Culture And Research Association
UK Representative
Baroness Sandy Verma
Former Minister for Energy & Climate Change and International Development
Member UK House of Lords
Thomas Vaassen
Meridia
Co-founder and CEO
Dr. Qu Dongyu
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Director-General
Anthony Hobley
Inevitable Policy Response & World Economic Forum (WEF)
Senior Strategic Advisor
Dr. Leonard Mizzi
European Commission (EC)
Head of Unit, INTPA
Vanusia Nogueira
International Coffee Organization(ICO)
Executive Director
H.E. Teferi Melesse Desta
Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Markus Leitner
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom
H.E. Hajime Hayashi
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
H.E. Mrs. Carmen María Gallardo
Ambassador from the Republic of El Salvador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Mr Manoah Esipisu
High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya to the United Kingdom
H.E. Guisell Morales-Echaverry
Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom
Paul Rooke
British Coffee Association (BCA)
Executive Director
Melissa Duncan
Fairtrade International
Executive Director
William Kennedy
Bloomberg
Senior Executive Editor
Nigel Hunt
Reuters
Global Soft Commodities Correspondent
Anna R Rios
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Climate Change Senior Specialist
Katherine Stodulka
Systemiq
Partner, Director, Blended Finance
Gert van der Bijl
Solidaridad
Senior EU Policy Advisor
Dr. Martina Bozzola
International Trade Centre (UN/WTO)
Senior Advisor Sustainability and Livelihood
Dr. Alvaro Lario
International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)
President
Professor Mark Maslin
University College London (UCL), Natural History Museum of Denmark
Earth System Science
Cedric Lombard
Impact Finance
Founder and Co-CEO
Juan Cabrera
IoD Natural Resources Group; Government Blockchain Association (GBA); WBAF
Vice Chair; Vice President for the UK; Business Consultant
Jo Paisley
GARP Risk Institute (GRI)
President
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
UK Climate Change Committee (The CCC)
Former Chairman
Abdelrahman Fathalla
Guillam Coffee House
Founder
Dejene Dadi Dika
Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union(OCFCU)
General Manager
Shooka Bidarian
Manoto TV
Environmental Correspondent
Clive de Ruig
ICE Benchmark Administration
President
Alp Somyurek
Turkish Coffee Culture And Research Association
UK Representative
Baroness Sandy Verma
Former Minister for Energy & Climate Change and International Development
Member UK House of Lords
Thomas Vaassen
Meridia
Co-founder and CEO
Dr. Qu Dongyu
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Director-General
Anthony Hobley
Inevitable Policy Response & World Economic Forum (WEF)
Senior Strategic Advisor
Dr. Leonard Mizzi
European Commission (EC)
Head of Unit, INTPA
Vanusia Nogueira
International Coffee Organization(ICO)
Executive Director
H.E. Teferi Melesse Desta
Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Markus Leitner
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom
H.E. Hajime Hayashi
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
H.E. Mrs. Carmen María Gallardo
Ambassador from the Republic of El Salvador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Mr Manoah Esipisu
High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya to the United Kingdom
H.E. Guisell Morales-Echaverry
Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom
Paul Rooke
British Coffee Association (BCA)
Executive Director
Melissa Duncan
Fairtrade International
Executive Director
William Kennedy
Bloomberg
Senior Executive Editor
Nigel Hunt
Reuters
Global Soft Commodities Correspondent
Anna R Rios
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Climate Change Senior Specialist
Katherine Stodulka
Systemiq
Partner, Director, Blended Finance
Gert van der Bijl
Solidaridad
Senior EU Policy Advisor
Dr. Martina Bozzola
International Trade Centre (UN/WTO)
Senior Advisor Sustainability and Livelihood
Dr. Alvaro Lario
International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)
President
Professor Mark Maslin
University College London (UCL), Natural History Museum of Denmark
Earth System Science
Cedric Lombard
Impact Finance
Founder and Co-CEO
Juan Cabrera
IoD Natural Resources Group; Government Blockchain Association (GBA); WBAF
Vice Chair; Vice President for the UK; Business Consultant
Jo Paisley
GARP Risk Institute (GRI)
President
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
UK Climate Change Committee (The CCC)
Former Chairman
Abdelrahman Fathalla
Guillam Coffee House
Founder
Dejene Dadi Dika
Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union(OCFCU)
General Manager
Shooka Bidarian
Manoto TV
Environmental Correspondent
Clive de Ruig
ICE Benchmark Administration
President
Alp Somyurek
Turkish Coffee Culture And Research Association
UK Representative
Baroness Sandy Verma
Former Minister for Energy & Climate Change and International Development
Member UK House of Lords
Thomas Vaassen
Meridia
Co-founder and CEO
Dr. Qu Dongyu
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Director-General
Anthony Hobley
Inevitable Policy Response & World Economic Forum (WEF)
Senior Strategic Advisor
Dr. Leonard Mizzi
European Commission (EC)
Head of Unit, INTPA
Vanusia Nogueira
International Coffee Organization(ICO)
Executive Director
H.E. Teferi Melesse Desta
Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Markus Leitner
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom
H.E. Hajime Hayashi
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
H.E. Mrs. Carmen María Gallardo
Ambassador from the Republic of El Salvador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Mr Manoah Esipisu
High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya to the United Kingdom
H.E. Guisell Morales-Echaverry
Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom
Paul Rooke
British Coffee Association (BCA)
Executive Director
Melissa Duncan
Fairtrade International
Executive Director
William Kennedy
Bloomberg
Senior Executive Editor
Nigel Hunt
Reuters
Global Soft Commodities Correspondent
Anna R Rios
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Climate Change Senior Specialist
Katherine Stodulka
Systemiq
Partner, Director, Blended Finance
Gert van der Bijl
Solidaridad
Senior EU Policy Advisor
Dr. Martina Bozzola
International Trade Centre (UN/WTO)
Senior Advisor Sustainability and Livelihood
Dr. Alvaro Lario
International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)
President
Professor Mark Maslin
University College London (UCL), Natural History Museum of Denmark
Earth System Science
Cedric Lombard
Impact Finance
Founder and Co-CEO
Juan Cabrera
IoD Natural Resources Group; Government Blockchain Association (GBA); WBAF
Vice Chair; Vice President for the UK; Business Consultant
Jo Paisley
GARP Risk Institute (GRI)
President
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
UK Climate Change Committee (The CCC)
Former Chairman
Abdelrahman Fathalla
Guillam Coffee House
Founder
Dejene Dadi Dika
Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union(OCFCU)
General Manager
Shooka Bidarian
Manoto TV
Environmental Correspondent
Clive de Ruig
ICE Benchmark Administration
President
Alp Somyurek
Turkish Coffee Culture And Research Association
UK Representative
Baroness Sandy Verma
Former Minister for Energy & Climate Change and International Development
Member UK House of Lords
Thomas Vaassen
Meridia
Co-founder and CEO
Dr. Qu Dongyu
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Director-General
Anthony Hobley
Inevitable Policy Response & World Economic Forum (WEF)
Senior Strategic Advisor
Dr. Leonard Mizzi
European Commission (EC)
Head of Unit, INTPA
Vanusia Nogueira
International Coffee Organization(ICO)
Executive Director
H.E. Teferi Melesse Desta
Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Markus Leitner
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom
H.E. Hajime Hayashi
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
H.E. Mrs. Carmen María Gallardo
Ambassador from the Republic of El Salvador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Mr Manoah Esipisu
High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya to the United Kingdom
H.E. Guisell Morales-Echaverry
Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom
Paul Rooke
British Coffee Association (BCA)
Executive Director
Melissa Duncan
Fairtrade International
Executive Director
William Kennedy
Bloomberg
Senior Executive Editor
Nigel Hunt
Reuters
Global Soft Commodities Correspondent
Anna R Rios
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Climate Change Senior Specialist
Katherine Stodulka
Systemiq
Partner, Director, Blended Finance
Gert van der Bijl
Solidaridad
Senior EU Policy Advisor
Dr. Martina Bozzola
International Trade Centre (UN/WTO)
Senior Advisor Sustainability and Livelihood
Dr. Alvaro Lario
International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)
President
Professor Mark Maslin
University College London (UCL), Natural History Museum of Denmark
Earth System Science
Cedric Lombard
Impact Finance
Founder and Co-CEO
Juan Cabrera
IoD Natural Resources Group; Government Blockchain Association (GBA); WBAF
Vice Chair; Vice President for the UK; Business Consultant
Jo Paisley
GARP Risk Institute (GRI)
President
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
UK Climate Change Committee (The CCC)
Former Chairman
Abdelrahman Fathalla
Guillam Coffee House
Founder
Dejene Dadi Dika
Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union(OCFCU)
General Manager
Shooka Bidarian
Manoto TV
Environmental Correspondent
Clive de Ruig
ICE Benchmark Administration
President
Alp Somyurek
Turkish Coffee Culture And Research Association
UK Representative
Baroness Sandy Verma
Former Minister for Energy & Climate Change and International Development
Member UK House of Lords
Thomas Vaassen
Meridia
Co-founder and CEO
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The coffee industry navigates tracing beans from global farms to European cafes amidst new sustainability regulations, a complex challenge. Read the whole article here
REUTERS
The European Commission said on Wednesday that financial institutions are not backing the EU's new deforestation law, which has faced a backlash from producing countries concerned it will create unfair trade barriers. Read the whole article here
AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
Africa's largest coffee producer is set to bear the brunt of Brussels's new traceability directives. Consequently, it has begun to turn its attention to India and China. Read the whole article here
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