Fast Forward 2030 Co-Creation Session: Future of Farming & Food

Calling all change-makers!

We’ve teamed up with Goodsted and The Impact Founders to host a series of innovative new events that bring the impact entrepreneurship community together to co-create new solutions to social & environmental problems.

How it works:

- 3 impact entrepreneurs share their story & put forward a challenge 

- Speakers brainstorm solutions with audience members in breakout groups 

- After the event, volunteer to help! 

Theme:

This month we will be exploring the future of farming & food. With CO2 levels & the global population rising we need to find better ways to feed ourselves without harming the planet. Fortunately brilliant minds are building solutions with a wide range of approaches.

Speakers

Lorenzo Conti, Crover

When grains are stored for long periods of time up to 20% can be lost to insects & mould. During his doctorate in granular physics at the University of Edinburgh, Lorenzo Conti developed a technological solution: the Crover, a small robotic device that monitors the grain & provides real-time data. The system allows farmers, brewers, & grain merchants, to identify adverse conditions in their stock. The potential for the technology is substantial. In one year one Crover could save up to 380 tonnes of grain.

Lorenzo's Challenge: TBA

Domini Hogg, Tried & Supplied

After working as a tea sommelier, Domini founded Tried & Supplied to help the food service industry support local, innovative producers by providing an efficient & sustainable purchasing solution. By better sourcing & procurement, the purpose-built platform & Food Web makes the food supply chain more eco-friendly, and through the use of improved software and data management, it breaks down silos, offers actionable insights, and encourages the connected, collaborative thinking so urgently needed to regenerate our broken food system.

Domini's Challenge: TBA

Simon Evill, Ooooby

Simon is an experienced impact investing professional regenerating landscapes, ecosystem processes and soil through profitable, replicable, symbiotic farming enterprises. He believes that socially, ecologically and financially sustainable livelihoods are founded on regenerating the world’s biospheres. Ooooby (Out of our own backyards) makes local food convenient & affordable by linking local food producers through an innovative low-cost distribution service. This increases the strength of local economies and provides more nutritious and better tasting food.

Simon's Challenge: TBA

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Fast Forward 2030 is a network of transformative entrepreneurs hosted by the IGP. The mission is to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs to use the power of business as a force for good.