Discuss how their strategy is shifting from procurement KPIs from lowest price to ‘total value’
Examine how businesses, investors, and farmers can measure the value of regenerative practices, assessing both resilience and profitability across supply chains.
- Discover frameworks for calculating regenerative metrics at farm, brand, and investor levels.
- Understand holistic resilience indicators, adoption rates, and incentive structures that reward sustainable practices.
- Explore risk-sharing models that strengthen confidence and make farms, supply chains, and businesses more resilient and profitable.
Roberta McDonald
Director of Programme
Agreena
Roberta McDonald is a Sustainable Agriculture Leader with over a decade of experience enhancing sustainability in agriculture. As Director of Program at Agreena in Copenhagen, she leads the science, standards and data quality teams in the development of certified carbon farming solutions. Her background includes roles at Devenish and Aurivo Dairy Co-op in Ireland, focusing on innovative solutions and farmer-led initiatives. With a Nuffield scholarship, PhD in Agricultural Sciences and a strong connection to her dairy farm upbringing, Roberta is dedicated to empowering farmers and advancing sustainable food systems.
Harry Farnsworth
Regenerative - Carbon Bank
Rabobank
Sophie Robins
Technical Lead - Food Systems UK & Europe
Forum for the Future
Melissa Comellas
Global Regenerative Agriculture Manager
Malteurop
Agreena
Website: agreena.com
Headquartered in Denmark, Agreena is powering the global transition to regenerative agriculture, operating Europe’s leading soil carbon programme. Through its flagship AgreenaCarbon project, which is the first large-scale agricultural cropland initiative registered under Verra's world-renowned Verified Carbon Standard, Agreena collaborates with thousands of farmers across 4.5 million hectares of arable land in 20 markets.
Agreena finances farmers’ transition to sustainable practices, measures and verifies the climate impact with field-level accuracy, and offers climate solutions to corporates to achieve their sustainability goals.
Agreena’s holistic solution is built on three pillars: farmer engagement, which provides essential financing, knowledge, and resources to support growers in making impactful change; scalable dMRV, integrating satellite imagery, ground-level soil sampling and proprietary AI models to precisely quantify practice changes and carbon outcomes at scale; and verified carbon and environmental data, empowering companies to make credible sustainability claims, support farmer-led climate action and access high-integrity carbon credits.
Irina van de Hoorn
Global Sustainability Lead
Asahi Group Holdings
Supplier Risk Management: Mapping Vulnerabilities Beyond Tier 1
Explore how companies can uncover hidden risks deeper in the supply chain, beyond direct suppliers, to strengthen resilience and prevent disruption.
- Learn why the most critical risks often exist beyond Tier 1 suppliers.
- Discover tools and partnerships for mapping multi-tier supply chains effectively.
- Understand how to identify hidden single points of failure in ingredient sourcing.
Fabrício Peres
Founder
FP Strategic Advisor
Examine how AI-powered tools and data-driven approaches enhance supply chain responsiveness, helping brands anticipate challenges and make informed strategic choices.
- Explore how AI forecasting, modelling, and digital twins strengthen supply chain adaptability.
- Identify areas where AI adds impact by streamlining routine tasks and enabling higher-level decisions.
- Discover how organisations are cultivating a culture of analytical agility to stay ahead of disruptions.
Sohard Aggarwal
Global Head - Digital Manufacturing (Strategy and Transformation)
Reckitt
Haresh Ratnasabapathy
Global Procurement Lead – Godiva & Centre of Excellence
pladis Global
Frank Omare
Global Value Advisor Lead for Procurement
SAP
Discover how AI is revolutionising traceability, risk forecasting, and decision-making in agriculture, linking digital insights with practical regenerative practices.
- Explore how AI enhances traceability, verification, and risk forecasting across food systems.
- Understand how climate mapping powered by machine learning predicts droughts, floods, and crop stress.
- See real-world examples of AI supporting farmers and corporates in building resilient, climate-smart practices.
Moderator
Fabrício Peres
Founder
FP Strategic Advisor
Richard Anscombe
Business Manager UK
xFarm Technologies
A graduate of Harper Adams Agricultural College Richard’s career spans both the Agriculture and IT sectors. Working in the commercial field based team at Norsk Hydro Fertilisers, now YARA, Richard then joined a subsidiary IT company, Innovation Systems, which was set up to market the Warehousing and Distribution Software systems, that the parent company developed, into the UK market. After 20 years in IT, with clients spanning the Agri-Food sectors,Richard joined Fram Farmers in 2010, one of the UK’s largest buying Group Cooperatives, as their CEO. Attending Harvard Business School’s Leadership Best Practice Course and Cambridge University Institute of Sustainability Leadership gave Richard both insight and incentive to focus much of his consultancy work into Agri-Food sustainability. Richard joined x-Farm in March of this year as their UK Business Manager to lead an important element of xFarm’s strategy as they enter the UK market with their Farm Management Information System, and Farm Analytics, which enables Grain Trading, Animal Feed, Maltster’s and Food Manufacturing Companies to manage and measure their Scope 3 emissions. XFarm enjoys the support of over 600,000 farmers across Europe and South America.
Richard was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Agricultural Societies ( FRAgS) in 2024 in recognition for his work and support for the Next Generation working within Agriculture and enjoys mentoring younger Managers and Directors as they navigate their careers.
Phil Harris
Chief Revenue Officer
Arva Intelligence
Senior executive with deep experience in environmental markets, capital markets, financial technology, blockchain, digital supply chains, and food traceability. Specializes in corporate development, revenue strategy, commercial growth, and scaling technology solutions across global industries, with a strong track record in sales leadership, partner engagement, and investor support.
Axelle Bodoy
Global Head of Regenerative Agriculture
Louis Dreyfus Company
xFarm Technologies
Website: xfarm.ag
xFarm Technologies is a tech company driving the digital transformation of the agri-food sector, helping farmers and supply chain stakeholders improve efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness through advanced digital solutions and Digital Transformation programs.
Its technologies — integrating management platforms, IoT sensors, and data analytics tools — enable the optimization of processes and resources, enhance profitability, and strengthen the resilience of agri-food supply chains.
With its headquarters in Switzerland and presence across Europe and LATAM, xFarm Technologies currently supports over 600,000 farms in more than 100 supply chains, covering 14 million hectares.
Examine how AI-powered tools and data-driven approaches enhance supply chain responsiveness, helping brands anticipate challenges and make informed strategic choices.
- Explore how AI forecasting, modelling, and digital twins strengthen supply chain adaptability.
- Identify areas where AI adds impact by streamlining routine tasks and enabling higher-level decisions.
- Discover how organisations are cultivating a culture of analytical agility to stay ahead of disruptions.
• Understand how soil measurement and real-time data are improving visibility across agricultural supply chains, helping brands track soil health, carbon, and ecosystem performance.
• Discover how regenerative sourcing strengthens supply resilience, supporting more stable yields, reduced input dependency, and climate-adaptive farming systems.
• Explore how verified soil data enables better decisions for companies and farmers, turning soil health insights into measurable outcomes for sustainability and procurement strategies.
Annie Leeson
CEO & Co-Founder
Agricarbon
Annie Leeson is Co-Founder and CEO of Agricarbon. She's leading the company’s rise as a global expert in direct soil carbon measurement. With 17 years in biochemistry, marketing, and strategy consulting, she was driven to innovate after seeing the lack of scalable nature-based decarbonisation solutions. Agricarbon now supports regenerative farming and carbon markets with trusted, science-backed data.
Agricarbon
Website: agricarbon.co.uk
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Dundee, UK, Agricarbon provides direct soil carbon measurement services for regenerative agriculture programmes, carbon projects, and environmental markets. The company designs statistically robust sampling strategies, conducts mechanised deep-core sampling, and performs industrialised laboratory analysis to generate high-integrity datasets capable of supporting long-term monitoring and carbon accounting. Agricarbon operates laboratory facilities in the United Kingdom and the United States and provides measurement services across Europe and the Americas.
Explore strategies ingredient companies use to reduce risk and maintain stability amid global disruptions, volatility, and supply shocks.
- Learn strategies to minimise risk from disruptions and global volatility.
- Understand how nearshoring, multi-sourcing, and inventory approaches can stabilise supply chains.
- See practical examples from beauty, F&B, and pharma sectors tackling real-world challenges.
Sana Ashraf
Senior Global Strategic Category & Sourcing Manager
Regeneron
Kashif Patel
Global Strategic Buyer
Decathlon
Ambar Arif
Procurement Supply Chain and Commercial Leader
Mars
Humna Khan
Head of Procurement and Product Performance
Abbott Lyon
See how parametric insurance provides instant, automated payouts for climate events, removing delays and simplifying risk management.
- Experience a simulated climate event to understand parametric triggers in action.
- Learn how contracts automatically trigger payouts without adjusters or paperwork.
- Visualise instant payouts through a dashboard demonstrating real-time insurance response.
Edgar Aguilar
Value Chain Resilience Specialist
United Nations Development Programme, Insurance and Risk Finance Facility
Edgar Aguilar co-leads UNDP Insurance and Risk Finance Facility’s work on resilient food systems as Value Chain Resilience Specialist based in Rome, Italy. Within his role, Edgar advice governments and insurers on how to combine agricultural insurance into solutions with other financing instruments such as debt and guarantees to serve millions of smallholder farmers,
Previously, Edgar worked for the International Labour Organization (ILO) at its Regional Office for Africa in Côte d’Ivoire for 10 years, where he facilitated public and private partnerships to increase access to finance to agricultural value chains. Supporting the ILO Impact Insurance Facility, Edgar has worked closely with the insurance industry, financial institutions, and value chain players developing risk management solutions for smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America in key value chains such as cocoa, coffee, tea, and cotton. Edgar holds a master’s degree in Rural Development for Southern Countries and an engineer diploma in Agriculture. He speaks Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Italian.