Shaping the food and drink sustainability transition
Sustainable Foods returns for its 4th annual edition on 28-29 January 2025! Featuring a senior VIP summit, alongside a bustling side exhibition, Sustainable Foods convenes senior executives across the value chain working on the design and implementation of sustainable and regenerative food systems.
Welcoming global policy makers, food and drink multinationals, agribusinesses, technology firms, financiers, and investors, Sustainable Foods is the primary platform to drive tangible change and decisive business outcomes for the sector. We are hard at work curating our biggest and most prestigious event yet! Make sure you register soon to secure the best possible price, and we look forward to welcoming you to our 4th edition in January!
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Henry Dimbleby
Managing Partner, Bramble Partners
Henry Dimbleby
Managing Partner, Bramble Partners
Co-founder of Leon, food campaigner, speaker and non-executive director.
Before founding Leon, Henry worked at Bain & Company, working on private equity transactions and helping large companies to develop their strategies. Previously he was a journalist at the Daily Telegraph and a commis chef at the Michelin-starred Inn on the Park restaurant in London.
Henry is a regular speaker on how to create a purpose-lead business and how to create a better food system. He is the co-founder and chair of Chefs in Schools and sits on the board of Rockfish. He also advises the CEOs of a handful of high growth leisure businesses.
James Bailey
Executive Director
Waitrose
James Bailey
Executive Director
Waitrose
Elaine Hindal
CEO
British Nutrition Foundation
Elaine Hindal
CEO
British Nutrition Foundation
Elaine joined the British Nutrition Foundation in 2022. Previously, Elaine was Chief Executive of The Drinkaware Trust, and prior to that, Director, External Affairs at The Children’s Society. Elaine is a former trustee of learning disability charity, Mencap, and is a trustee of the drug and alcohol treatment charity, Change Grow Live.
Previously, Elaine’s career included senior marketing and commercial roles with Nokia, Cadbury Schweppes plc, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, The Coca–Cola Company, Beiersdorf AG and Boots plc. She has worked in markets across the globe and lived in Europe and the USA.
Baroness Minette Batters
Managing Director
Barford Park Ltd
Baroness Minette Batters
Managing Director
Barford Park Ltd
Minette Batters was the first woman to be elected President of the National Farmers’ Union in 113yrs. She’s represented the interests of over 46,000 farming businesses across England and Wales through unprecedented times, navigating the challenges of Brexit, Covid 19 and the war in Ukraine. During this time, she worked with four Prime Ministers – three of them in one year – and six Defra Secretaries of State. She stood down from the post in February 2024.
Campaigning about the importance of British food and farming and its ability to achieve Net Zero has been a key driver for Minette. In 2020 she led the NFU on one of the most successful campaigns ever seen, bringing together a coalition of chefs, including Jamie Oliver, farmers, environmentalists, consumer groups and animal welfare experts – resulting in over one million people signing the NFU food standards petition. Minette also co-founded ‘Ladies in Beef’ and the Great British Beef Week. She has regularly engaged with different media, including frequent appearances on the ‘Today’ programme, ‘Question Time’, ‘Any Questions’, ‘Desert Island Discs’, Woman’s Hour and other national print and broadcast media. She is currently writing a monthly piece for Country Life magazine.
Minette is mother to twins and is a tenant farmer, on the Longford Estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire. She began farming in 1998 having sold her house and negotiated the farm business tenancy, starting with fifteen beef cows but fulfilling a lifetime ambition to farm. Today the farm has a Spring and Autumn calving Aberdeen Angus beef herd, arable crops and a few sheep. The business is widely diversified, with a wedding and events venue in a 17th century tithe barn, holiday cottages, and winter grazing for polo ponies, alongside a recently restored walled garden growing native British flowers. Minette trained as a Cordon Bleu chef, and was a former amateur jockey, riding 30 point to point winners, alongside working for champion National Hunt racehorse trainer David Elsworth.
She’s an ambassador for Farm Africa and a passionate advocate and fundraiser for the Junior Diabetic Research Foundation. She’s run in four marathons, raising over £100,000 for charity. In 2021 Minette was made a Deputy Lieutenant to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and in July 2024 she was made a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords.
Karen Betts OBE
Chief Executive
food & drink federation
Karen Betts OBE
Chief Executive
food & drink federation
Karen joined FDF in December 2021. Prior to this, she was the Chief Executive of the Scotch Whisky Association for four years, representing the Scotch Whisky sector in the UK and export markets worldwide.
Before joining the SWA, Karen was a diplomat in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for 16 years, where she held a variety of posts in London and overseas, including as British Ambassador to Morocco and Counsellor to the British Embassy in Washington. She was also posted to the UK’s Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels and to the British Embassy in Baghdad.
In London, Karen served in the Cabinet Office and for the Joint Intelligence Committee, as well as in several roles in the Foreign Office. Before joining Government, Karen was a lawyer at Clifford Chance, working in London and Hong Kong. Karen is an Adviser to the UK Government’s Board of Trade.
Simon Roberts
CEO
Sainsburys
Simon Roberts
CEO
Sainsburys
James Mayer
President
Danone (UK and EIRE)
James Mayer
President
Danone (UK and EIRE)
Stéfan Descheemaeker
CEO
Nomad Foods
Stéfan Descheemaeker
CEO
Nomad Foods
Lorna Schneider
Chief Quality & Sustainability Officer
Hilton Food Group
Lorna Schneider
Chief Quality & Sustainability Officer
Hilton Food Group
Simon Roberts
CEO
Sainsburys
Simon Roberts
CEO
Sainsburys
James Mayer
President
Danone (UK and EIRE)
James Mayer
President
Danone (UK and EIRE)
Stéfan Descheemaeker
CEO
Nomad Foods
Stéfan Descheemaeker
CEO
Nomad Foods
Simon Roberts
CEO
Sainsburys
Simon Roberts
CEO
Sainsburys
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