Watch the entire sold-out NYC summit from September 2017, including fireside chats with Kimbal Musk, Dan Barber, Tom Colicchio, Sam Kass, and Tom Vilsack. The entire agenda is below:
Food Tank Summit: New York City
“Focusing on Food Loss and Food Waste” in partnership with ReFED, The Fink Family Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation
September 13, 2017 | 9:30AM to 6:00PM | The Greene Space
9:30am, Welcome and Introduction:
- Joan Briggs, Executive Director, The Fink Family Foundation
- Chris Cochran, Executive
Director, ReFED - Danielle Nierenberg,
President, Food Tank
10:00am, a Fireside Chat featuring Tom Vilsack, President and CEO, U.S. Dairy Export Council, and Tom Colicchio, Chef and Owner, Craft restaurants & ‘wichcraft. Moderated by Venessa Wong, Deputy Business Editor, BuzzFeed
10:30am, Panel 1: Cultivating Creative Partnerships and Leadership
Moderator: Jocelyn Zuckerman, Writer, 2017 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, and Contributing Editor, Modern Farmer
Panelists:
- Karl Deily, President of Food Care, Sealed Air
- Jude Medeiros, Regional Vice President – Schools, Sodexo
- Lynette Johnson, Executive Director, Society of St. Andrew
- John Boyd, Jr., Founder and President, National Black Farmers Association
- Pete Pearson, Director, Food Waste, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
- Amy Keister, Vice President, Consumer Engagement, Compass Group
11:25am, Networking Break
11:40am, Panel 2, Creating Better Opportunities to Prevent Waste & Loss
Moderator: Helen Hollyman, Editor-In-Chief, MUNCHIES, VICE Media, LLC.
Panelists:
- Brian Wansink, Professor and Director, Cornell University Food and Brand Lab
- Brian Roe, Professor, Department of Agriculture, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University
- Clare Miflin, Associate, Kiss + Cathcart, Architects; Founder, Woven
- Tony Hillery, Founder & Executive Director, Harlem Grown
- Konstantin Zvereff, Founder and CEO, BlueCart
- Emily Bachman, Compost Program Manager, Zero Waste Programs, GrowNYC
12:35pm, Panel 3, Financing Waste and Loss Prevention
Moderator: Stephanie Strom, Food Business Writer, The New York Times
Panelists:
- Gigi Lee Chang, Managing Director, FoodFutureCo
- Ron Gonen, Co-Founder and CEO, Closed Loop Partners
- Justin Kamine, Partner, KDC Ag – Kamine Development Corporation
- Tinia Pina, Founder and CEO, Re-Nuble
- Alison Grantham, Director, Food Systems Research and Development, Blue Apron
- James Rogers, Science Director and CEO, Apeel
1:30pm, Lunch
2:30pm, a Fireside Chat featuring Kimbal Musk, Co-Founder, The Kitchen
Moderated by Diane Brady, Journalist, Bloomberg; Founder, dB Omnimedia
3:00pm, Panel 4: Fighting Food Waste in Cities
Moderator: Eillie Anzilotti, Assistant Ideas Editor, Fast Company
Panelists:
- Elizabeth Balkan, Director of Policy, Office of the Commissioner, NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY)
- Monica Munn, Senior Program Associate, The Rockefeller Foundation
- Antonio Reynoso, District 34 Council Member, New York City Council
- Christine Datz-Romero, Co-
Founder and Executive Director, Lower East Side Ecology Center - Jilly Stephens, CEO, City Harvest
- Mark Chambers, Director, Mayor’s Office of Sustainability at NYC Office of the Mayor
3:55pm, Networking Break
4:10pm, Panel 5: Creating a Waste and Loss Free World
Introduction: Devon Klatell, Associate Director, The Rockefeller Foundation
Moderator: Kim Severson, Reporter, The New York Times
Panelists:
- Prasanta Kalita, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Bonnie McClafferty, Director, Agriculture for Nutrition Global Program, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
- Carina Millstone, Executive Director, Feedback
- Loren Cardeli, Co-Founder & President, A Growing Culture
- Kavita Shukla, Founder & CEO, Fenugreen
5:15pm, a Fireside Chat featuring Sam Kass, Chef, Entrepreneur, and Founder, TROVE, and Dan Barber, Chef and Co-Founder, Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Moderated by Ruth Reichl, Eater, Cook, Food Writer, and PBS Host
5:45pm, Closing and Thanks
Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank
