BusinessIN - Sustainable Food Systems

Date

07.03.2024 13:30 - 18:30

Location

Asilo Ciani, Viale Carlo Cattaneo 5 6900 Lugano

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Reaching sustainable food systems is a challenge for all the players along the value chain from food production to food consumption. Technological innovation can support companies in their appropriate use of water, energy, pesticides, fertilizers, packaging materials and in reducing, monitoring, managing, recycling and upscaling waste as well as using alternative sources and technologies of food production.

This Networking Series event powered by Innosuisse proposes to ask the right questions about the sustainability of the agrifood system through the use of limited, reusable or recyclable resources, the decrease and valorization of waste and alternative food production.

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PROGRAM

1.30 Registration, welcome coffee and visit of the startup exhibition
2.00-4.15 Plenary

2.00-3.15 Welcome by Suzanne Hraba-Renevey President & Co-Founder of BusinessIn

The canton of Ticino and the City of Lugano: a hub for food innovation
Stefano Rizzi, Director of the Economic Division of the Department of Finance and Economy, Canton of Ticino
Lorenzo Ambrosini, Managing Director Agire Foundation

Setting the scene - Why do we need innovation in the food sector?
Christina Senn-Jakobsen, Managing Director, Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley

The sustainability journey of Mulino Maroggia from grain transformation to the shop shelves
Stefan Birrer, Managing Director, Bühler Group
Alessandro Fontana, Director Mulino Maroggia
Mattia Keller, CEO Migros Ticino

3.15-4.15 Round table

Moderated by Ludovica Donati, Member Board of Directors, Bites of Transfoodmation
With Fabian Wahl, Member of the Executive Board, Agroscope
Matteo Vanotti, CEO, xFarm
Franz Seubert, co-Founder & Managing Director, PlanerAI
Walfredo della Gherardesca, CEO & Co-founder, Genuine Way
Simone Pedrazzini, Director Quantis

4.15-5:00 Coffee Break, speed ​​dating and visit of the startup exhibition

5.00-6.00 Breakouts

Breakout 1
Lifestyle Tech Competence Center Foodtech Award
Disruptive solutions in the food retail industry
Jelena Tasic Pizzolato Managing Director at Lifestyle Tech Competence Center
Daniel Protz, CEO & Founder, FlavorWiki
Michela Papandrea, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, SUPSI

Breakout 2 International Perspectives
Kathrin Rüegg, Innovation & Technology Advisor, Innosuisse
Agnieszka Kosinska-Cagnazzo, Swiss National Contact Point for Food, Agriculture and Climate
Euresearch (TBC)
Mélusine Perrier, Project Manager Switzerland Global Enterprise

Breakout 3 Innovation tools
Innovation Booster “Swiss Food Ecosystems” & “Future Food Farming”
How to nurture crazy ideas for wicked problems,
building future scenarios for which to act and get funding today!
Marina Helm-Romaneschi, Marketing & Innovation Strategy Manager, Swiss Food Research

Breakout 4 Sustainable Food System Transformation Case Studies
1. Vitiprotect: AI-based on-farm innovation for sustainable viticulture
Salome Schneider, Project Leader, Weinbauzentrum Wädenswil
Kathleen Mackie-Haas, Team Leader, Agroscope
Saurabh Pandey, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder, databaum
Winegrowers from Ticino
2. Swiss Lachs: resource friendly technologies to provide high-end salmon
Claudio Ferro, Head of BU Food&Pharma, AFRY Switzerland Ltd
Marcel Rüegg, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Swiss Alpine Fish, Lostallo

6.00-6.30 Plenary

Reaching sustainability: Walking the Talk
Rethinking the entire food supply chain to make the EPFL campus more sustainable
Bruno Rossignol, Head of EPFL's Catering and Shops Unit
Rémy Tranchida, Chef Native Restaurant FoodLab EPFL, SV group

6.30-7.30
Cocktail, networking and visit of the startup exhibition

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