Upcycled Ingredients Summit - WEB

May 31–June

UPCYCLED INGREDIENTS SUMMIT

Effectively upcycling byproducts and side streams into edible ingredients and consumer products, reducing food waste and achieving net-zero goals.

INDUSTRY LEADING SPEAKERS

KAITLIN MOGENTALE Founder and CEO Pulp Pantry

ANGIE CRONE CEO Upcycled Food Association

VERONICA FIL Co-Founder and CEO Grounded Foods

ANNA HAMMOND Founder and CEO Matriark Foods

DR. LARA RAMDIN Board Member Upcycled Food Foundation

JAKE LOPATA Founder and CEO Xoca World

OUR MISSION

Whether you're an established food and beverage brand looking to incorporate upcycled ingredients into your product lines or an upcycling startup looking to scale, this event will equip you with the actionable insights and partnerships needed to succeed.

Kalyb Sims, Conference Producer, Future of Food

With sustainability as a top priority for brands globally, upcycling side streams of food production is an increasingly popular avenue for brands to achieve their sustainability goals and reduce food waste, yet the upcycled food and beverage sector faces challenges which must be addressed for the industry to reach its full potential. As the sector continues to grow, developing the supply chain, added-value ingredients, consumer engagement, and mutually beneficial partnerships will be critical to creating a circular food economy that not only meets the needs of the consumer but also achieves net-zero goals.

This summit will bring together leading food and beverage brands and producers with innovative ingredient suppliers and solutions providers to explore opportunities in upcycling food production side streams into new consumables in the FMCG sector. This event will facilitate collaboration and provide actionable insights to allow companies to pinpoint waste streams with untapped potential, identify successful partnerships to achieve scale, overcome formulation challenges, and reduce food waste across the entire supply chain.

Future of Food Team

WHY ATTEND

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Learn valuable insights on scaling production to tap into new markets, drive down costs, increase operational efficiency, and push the needle of our food system towards a circular economy.

Discover innovative processing methods, equipment, and solutions to inform your future investment decisions to mitigate challenges arising from supply chain constraints.

Build effective collaborations across the value chain to uncover best practice insights and establish critical business partnerships.

Explore branding strategies to effectively enhance consumer acceptance and adoption through positioning, certification, and terminology.

MAKE THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS

The Upcycled Ingredients Summit is focused on facilitating the connections needed to accelerate innovation and partnerships within the industry.

To ensure all our guests can gain the most value from the networking opportunities available, all attendees will have access to a meeting scheduler platform, which allows you to create a customised meeting schedule, ensuring you to connect directly with the industry stakeholders that are most critical in building your business.

YOU WILL MEET:

Considering that more than 30% of food is lost and/or wasted, upcycled foods have an annual economic potential value of $700 billion globally.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2019)

Leaders in C-Suite, Sustainability, Innovation, R&D, Product Development & Marketing from the following:

ƒ Independent food and beverage brands

ƒ Multinational food & beverage brands

ƒ Ingredient suppliers

ƒ Equipment & solutions providers

ƒ Investors

ƒ Market insights analysts

ƒ Consultants

INDUSTRY LEADING SPEAKERS

ANGIE CRONE

CEO, Upcycled Food Association

Angie is the interim CEO of the Upcycled Food Association, the only food industry association dedicated to catalyzing the upcycled economy. UFA is a network of more than 260 businesses from around the world, collaborating to empower consumers to prevent food waste with the products they buy.

VERONICA FIL

Co-Founder and CEO, Grounded Foods

Veronica is the Co-Founder and CEO of Grounded Foods, makers of plant-based cheese made from upcycled cauliflower and hemp. Grounded is free from dairy / nuts / soy / gluten / GMO, and exists to make plant based cheese more appealing, affordable and accessible to a widespread audience than it's ever been before.

JAKE LOPATA

Founder and CEO, Xoca World

Jake Lopata is the Founder and CEO of Xoca World. The result of a collaboration among a team of experienced entrepreneurs and chocolate makers, Xoca World is bringing to market a line of unique, all-natural beverages made from the discarded and underappreciated parts of the cacao pod.

CAROLINE COTTO

Co-Founder and COO, Renewal Mill

Caroline Cotto is the CO-Founder and COO of Renewal Mill, a next generation ingredients company that's reducing food waste by upcycling the byproducts of food manufacturing into high quality ingredients and products. Before Renewal Mill, Caroline worked at the White House for Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign and the United Nations World Food Programme. Caroline also serves as Board President of the Upcycled Food Association and was named one of Forbes 30 under 30.

INDUSTRY LEADING SPEAKERS

ANNA HAMMOND Founder and CEO, Matriark Foods

Anna is the founder and CEO of New York based Matriark Foods, a company that upcycles farm surplus and fresh-cut produce trimmings into healthy affordable products for institutional foodservice, retail, and emergency food providers. Matriark Foods is certified: Carbon Neutral, Upcycled, 1% for the Planet, and Women-Owned Business, and was peer-selected for impact investment funding in 2021.

LARS OLTMANNS Founder and CEO, UP TO GOOD Energy

Lars is the CEO and founder of Atlanta-based UP TO GOOD Energy. UP TO GOOD is a craft brewed clean energy drink made from upcycled cascara with the caffeine content of a double shot of espresso. The better-for-you drink is available online and in Whole Foods Market stores in the Southeast US.

EVA GOULDBOURNE Board President, Upcycled Food Foundation and CEO, Littlefoot Ventures

Eva Goulbourne is the CEO & Founder of Littlefoot Ventures. Littlefoot Ventures represents a culmination of knowledge and experiences from Eva’s 13 years as a food systems practitioner. She was a founding team member of ReFED. Prior to this she worked at the World Economic Forum serving on the food and agriculture team. She also serves as Board President for the Upcycled Food Foundation.

BEN STONE Sales and Operations Manager, Blue Stripes Urban Cacao

Ben is the Sales and Operations Manager at Blue Stripes Urban Cacao, a Hershey-backed startup that makes cacao water, snacks, and chocolate bars using 100% of the cacao plant. He wears many hats, owning sales, supply chain, product placement, operations & inventory for the upcycled cacao brand.

CAROLINE DAVIDSON

Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships, SPINS

Caroline Davidson is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships for SPINS, working with national and global partners on collaborative and custom data insights and solutions. She has vertically integrated SPINS data into new sectors of the industry through partnerships with brokers, distributors, ingredient suppliers, biotechnology firms, associations, and other ecosystem partners in the industry. She has spent the majority of her career in the health & wellness industry working for a wide array of emerging and legacy CPG companies, as well as several years as a personal trainer and personal chef.

INDUSTRY LEADING SPEAKERS

DAVID CZINN President and Co-Founder, D'vash Organics

David Czinn is President and Co-Founder of D'vash Organics. D'vash Organics is a Los Angelesbased vegan superfood company that produces sweeteners, marinades, and dressings from upcycled produce, thereby reducing food waste. D'vash products can now be found in over 10,000 retail locations across the US.

JEREMY KAYE Co-Founder, The Spare Food Co

Jeremy is the co-founder and CEO of Spare Food, a culinary innovation company with the mission to shift our culinary culture to reduce food waste and help reverse climate change. Their first product is Spare Tonic, an upcycled whey beverage. Jeremy has extensive experience leading global innovation initiatives for mission-driven organizations, from startups and foundations to Fortune 100s.

SHEETAL BAHIRAT Founder and CEO, Hidden Gems Beverage Co

Sheetal Bahirat is the Founder and CEO of Hidden Gems Beverage Co (Reveal). Hidden Gems is a beverage company that is creating a more sustainable food system by finding creative ways to use the parts of food we commonly throw away such as avocado seeds. Reveal is their first line of beverages made from upcycled products.

JACKIE BOWEN MPH, MS Executive Director, Clean Label Project

Jackie is the Executive Director of Clean Label Project™, a national nonprofit with the mission to bring truth and transparency to food and consumer product labeling by testing consumer products for industrial and environmental contaminants. She has over a decade of experience in food safety.

DR. LARA RAMDIN Board Member, Upcycled Food Foundation

Dr. Lara Ramdin is a passionate leader with 20 years of global experience in product development and innovation. She is the Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Nutrition and Wellness Scientist at Dole Sunshine Company and sits on the board of the Upcycled Food Foundation.

INDUSTRY LEADING SPEAKERS

STU STRUMWASSER

Founder & Managing Director, Green Circle Capital Partners

Stu is the founder and managing director of Green Circle Capital Partners and runs the GC Foodtech Ventures fund. It focuses on seed and series A stage ventures in the tech-enabled food & bev CPG space as well as food safety, food waste, and supply chain efficiency ventures.

CAU Ê SUPLICY

Founder and Chairman, Barnana

Brazilian-born, former professional triathlete, Cauê, is the visionary behind Barnana, the #1 organic plantain chip brand in the U.S. Cauê is proud that Barnana has experienced rapid growth while strictly maintaining the core value of paying smallholder farmers a 30% premium for growing organic bananas and plantains using regenerative methods. His passion for upcycling bananas and plantains into delicious snacks helped catalyze the burgeoning upcycled food movement.

KAITLIN MOGENTALE

Founder and CEO, Pulp Pantry

Kaitlin is the founder and CEO of Pulp Pantry, an upcycled snack brand that reclaims fruit and vegetable fiber as the base ingredient for healthy chips. Pulp Pantry won a 2022 Expo West NEXTY award for best salty snack, and secured investment on Season 13 of Shark Tank.

SWETHA MAHADEVAN Head of Product, Compound Foods

Swetha Mahadevan is Head of Product at Compound Foods. Compound Foods, a food-tech startup focused on creating coffee without coffee beans through fermentation. It’s a beanless approach that protects coffee ritual, farmer livelihood, and our precious planet.

REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING

9:00 9:05 9:15 9:40 10:05 10:30

Opening remarks

The food waste problem – past, present and future

• Understating the true scale & impact of the food loss & waste problem

• Exploring innovative solutions to solve food loss & waste

• How a multi-pronged approach can solve the food waste challenge

The role of upcycling as the most impactful and scalable solution to the food waste challenge

Microphone Angie Crone, CEO, Upcycled Food Association

• Identifying the impact of upcycling on food loss & waste and climate change so far

• How the Upcycled Food Association is driving growth in the upcycling industry

• How effective collaboration can accelerate the upcycled food economy

Building a scalable sourcing process for side streams

Microphone Kaitlin Mogentale, Founder and CEO, Pulp Pantry

• The Pulp Pantry journey so far

• Successfully integrating side-streams into functioning value chains

• Lessons learned from co-developing process solutions with sourcing partners

From restaurant to retail: the Grounded Foods case study

Microphone Veronica Fil, Co-Founder and CEO, Grounded Foods

• Key steps in Grounded Foods’ journey from restaurant concept to retail

• Identifying the right channel and go to market strategy for your product

• Lessons learned from scaling internationally

NETWORKING BREAK AND PRESCHEDULED MEETINGS

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11:30 AGENDA DAY ONE MAY 31, 2023

Mitigating procurement challenges for upcycled inputs

• Managing supplier redundancy to plan for limited availability of upcycled materials

• How to work with co-manufacturers to identify and solve inefficiencies in procurement strategy

11:55 12:20 12:45 13:05 14:00

Effectively developing your supply chain to achieve scale

Microphone Cauê Suplicy, Founder and Chairman, Barnana

• Lessons learned from an upcycling pioneer

• How Barnana developed a farm-to-shelf supply chain with over 1500 individual farming families and lessons learned

• Assessing the right partnerships to scale your brand

Weighing up trade-offs: formulation, sustainability, and price

• Balancing sustainability with the taste and texture expectations of consumers

• How to prioritize sustainability whilst keeping cost of goods sold low

Upcycling novel ingredients: the Reveal avocado seed brew case study

Microphone Sheetal Bahirat, Founder and CEO, Hidden Gems Beverage Co

• Upcycling novel ingredients: Origin story of Reveal

• Overcoming product development challenges to effectively launch an upcycled food product

• Working towards reverse logistics with business model innovation

LUNCH BREAK

Optimizing sustainability with upcycled, alternative ingredients

Microphone Swetha Mahadevan, Head of Product, Compound Foods

• Compound Foods’ R&D journey so far in making beanless coffee

• Identifying similar flavor compounds in more sustainable crops to effectively create upcycled products with alternative ingredients

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14:25 14:50

Overcoming supply chain constraints to achieve scale

Microphone Ben Stone, Sales and Operations Manager, Blue Stripes Urban Cacao

• How to select partners to effectively meet procurement needs for your upcycled product

• Using on-farm processing to mitigate inconsistency in raw materials

• How to manage alternative suppliers to enable scale while keeping costs down

Scaling production to be commercially viable

Microphone Jake Lopata, Founder and CEO, Xoca World

• Considerations to make when developing a scalable ingredient production process

• Lessons learned from key phases in their scaling journey so far

• How to manage sourcing when increasing production to achieve scale

15:15 16:15 17:15 17:20

NETWORKING BREAK AND PRESCHEDULED MEETINGS

Roundtable discussion: the challenges of scaling and R&D

Microphone Sheetal Bahirat, Founder and CEO, Hidden Gems Beverage Co

Jake Lopata, Founder and CEO, Xoca World

• Scaling manufacturing to meet commercial requirements

• How shelf life and formulation requirements impact growth strategy

• How to develop effective partnerships to source byproducts at scale

Closing remarks

Close of conference day 1

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REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING

9:00 9:05 9:30 9:55

Opening remarks

Looking to the future: The next frontier of upcycling

Microphone Eva Gouldbourne, President, Upcycled Food Foundation and CEO, Littlefoot Ventures

• How industry collaboration can accelerate the upcycled economy to reduce food loss and waste

• Key risks and growth opportunities for category expansion of upcycled products

• The future of upcycled foods – where do we go from here?

Moving towards a circular economy with business model innovation

Microphone Anna Hammond, Founder and CEO, Matriark Foods

• Using public-private partnerships and nimble processing to divert food from the landfill at scale

• Validating true product impact with a third party life cycle assessment

• The role of upcycled brands in creating a circular economy

Identifying suitable side streams with potential to reduce food waste

Microphone Lars Oltmanns, Founder and CEO, UP TO GOOD Energy

• The UP TO GOOD Energy story so far

• Key considerations – identifying side streams with climate impact and commercial potential

• How to work with other brands to align messaging around a novel ingredient

10:20

NETWORKING BREAK AND PRESCHEDULED MEETINGS

11:20

Understanding the state of the market as influenced by the values-driven consumer

Microphone Caroline Davidson, Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships, SPINS

• YoY pricing and distribution growth trends and other sales metrics

• How natural vs specialty vs conventional products are performing across whole store

• The performance of food products certified Upcycled vs other values-driven certifications

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11:45 12:10

The status of consumer engagement in the upcycled foods movement

Microphone Dr. Lara Ramdin, Board Member, Upcycled Food Foundation

• How consumers are engaging with upcycled products currently

• Overcoming key hurdles to mass adoption, such as neophobia

• Opportunities for increased engagement through positioning

PANEL Engaging the consumer – challenges and tested tactics

Microphone Veronica Fil, Co-Founder and CEO, Grounded Foods

Lars Oltmanns, Founder and CEO, UP TO GOOD Energy

Caroline Cotto, Co-Founder and COO, Renewal Mill

• Overcoming negative perception of waste

• Positioning sustainability and nutrition at the forefront of branding

• Effective branding strategies: certification, terminology, and consumer perception

12:55

LUNCH BREAK

13:55

Identifying successful partnerships to streamline processes and effectively achieve scale

Microphone David Czinn, President and Co-Founder, D'vash Organics

• The D’vash Organics story so far

• How to identify growth opportunities in existing partnerships

• How this strategic partnership enabled scale & other operational benefits

14:20

A new model of collaboration and investment

Microphone Jeremy Kaye, Co-Founder and CEO, The Spare Food Co

• The Spare Food Co story up until now

• Considerations made when forming strategic partnerships to enable growth

• Relationship with investor/manufacturer as model for other upcycling companies

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14:45

PANEL Raising investment as an upcycled brand

Microphone Moderator: Stu Strumwasser, Founder & Managing Director, Green Circle Capital Partners

Panelists: TBA

• Examining the halo effect and value of upcycling as part of a brand positioning

• Navigating the tension between ESG and impact concerns and bottom line

• Attracting mission-driven investors with upcycled products

15:30

NETWORKING BREAK AND PRESCHEDULED MEETINGS

16:00

Mitigating inconsistencies in supply with on-site processing

Microphone TBA

16:25

PANEL Food safety considerations in the upcycled movement

Microphone Jackie Bowen MPH, Executive Director, Clean Label Project

Kaitlin Mogentale, Founder and CEO, Pulp Pantry

More Panelists: TBA

• The realities of perishables in upcycled foods

• How to mitigate risks from upcycled ingredients by updating your HACCP program

• How to implement HARPC preventative controls before sourcing

17:10 17:15

Closing remarks

Close of conference day 2

PARTNER WITH US

As an event partner, you will be positioned as a critical player in accelerating the transition to an innovative and more sustainable food system. Don't miss the opportunity to leverage this platform to showcase the benefits of your product, service, and company to our audience of decision makers.

Reach out to understand how partnering with the Future of Food Series can act as an extension and amplification of your current marketing, branding, and CSR efforts.

I look forward to hearing from you!

BENEFITS OF PARTNERING

M Connect with C-level executives from the food & beverage industry who are looking to invest in innovative ingredients, products, platforms and processes.

M Secure an exhibition booth to showcase your expertise and increase your visibility to position yourself as the company of choice.

M Position yourself as a thought leader through an exclusive presentation or panel discussion to share your expertise and insights with an engaged audience.

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VENUE & HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

Conference Venue: The Hatchery Chicago, 135 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60612

Hotel Accommodation: Hyatt House Chicago - Medical / University District

Address: 1835 W Harrison Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60612

Reservations: 1-888-591-1234

American Conference Institute is pleased to offer our delegates a limited number of hotel rooms at a negotiated rate. To take advantage of these rates, please contact the hotel directly and quote the group code “G-EACC”.

Please note that the guest room block cut-off date is May 12th, 2023. After that date OR when the room block fills, guestroom availability and rate can no longer be guaranteed.

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Harnessing the power of novel ingredients & data to create a healthier and more sustainable food system.

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Harnessing the power of sustainability across the entire value chain to achieve net-zero plans and meet consumer demand.

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Connecting innovative brands with investors and corporates to accelerate business partnerships.

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Optimising processing and manufacturing technology to increase the scale and efficiency of food production.

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