Bluestone Brewing was established 2013 on a small working family farm in Pembrokeshire. The brewery is extremely environmentally conscious with bi-products from brewing being re-used on the farm, spring water from their own well and solar power used to generate electricity. In 2018 they were the first brewery in the world to be awarded the Green Key Accreditation, an international award recognising environmentally sustainable businesses.
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Natalie Campbell
Natalie Campbell is an award-winning social entrepreneur and broadcaster. She is Co-CEO of Belu Water, a drinks business that puts people and the environment first. To date Belu has given WaterAid over £5.2m to bring clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene to everyone, everywhere.
Prior to this Natalie led on insight and innovation for The Royal Foundation and co-founded A Very Good Company (AVGC), a global social innovation agency that worked with brands (e.g. Virgin Media, Marks & Spencer, W Hotels and Channel 4) to embed purpose and sustainability practices.
Jamie Burrows
Jamie Burrows is the Founder & CEO of Vertical Future, a leading vertical farming technology and research company, designing and providing hardware and software solutions to vertical farms on a global scale. Jamie has over 15 years of experience and prior to setting up Vertical Future, he worked in Life Sciences at EY, Deloitte, and the UK Department of Health. His experiences in health system improvement translated over to Vertical Future, with the company’s goal being population health improvement through proving better infrastructure for food and pharma.
Jamie is also a graduate of the prestigious Leadership Enrichment and Development (LEAD) programme at the U.S. Air Force Academy and holds an Honorary Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from Buckingham University and a Masters in Energy, Trade, and Finance from Cass Business School, London.
Mattie Yeta
Mattie Yeta is the Head of Sustainability for Defra IT and a PhD researcher specialising in corporate sustainability and green economics and national recovery. She chairs the Defra e-Sustainability Alliance, a network of 300 private sector organisations working with the United Nations and other stakeholders. She led the creation of the Cabinet Office One Government Cloud Strategy Sustainability Workstream, the UK Government’s sustainable technology report 2017 and the Sustainability industry guide to help businesses achieve sustainable outcomes.
Her work is driven by a passion for building a better world through business, partnerships and innovation. Committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for organisations, Mattie received the “industry sustainability leader of the year” award, the Civil Service award as “highly commended”, Defra’s corporate services award for “leading through change,” and was a nominee for “the most influential women in UK tech.”
Mattie has substantial experience and expertise in sustainable development at both the strategic and delivery levels across the public and private sector and has led substantive change in the Sustainable Development arena. Through her career she has obtained significant experience in stakeholder engagement, including at senior executive levels, strategy development, influencing and drafting industry policy, project and programme management, people management and development experience combined with strong coaching and motivational capabilities.
Natasha Schwarzbach
Natasha Schwarzbach is a member of PepsiCo’s Global Sustainability Agriculture team and is the strategic global lead for a variety of sustainable commodities including palm oil and cane sugar to help meet PepsiCo’s public sustainability and policy commitments.
Natasha has a breadth of experience and a passion for addressing sustainability issues with a focus on delivering successful programs that drive measurable environmental, economic and social impacts through effective engagement and strong collaboration. She is Co-Chair of the RSPO’s Shared Responsibility Working Group and initiated the development of the NDPE Implementation Reporting Framework, the Palm Oil Collaboration Group and developed a number of landscape programs within Indonesia and Mexico that supports conservation and smallholders within palm and cane sugar.
Natasha is on the Bonsucro Member Council, Chairs the Buyers Group and is actively involved in the Interlaken Steering Group and the Consumer Goods Forum – Deforestation Coalition of Action.
Sibéal Bird
Sibéal Bird is responsible for the execution of the Beyond the Horizon sustainability strategy at Kerry Group, a world leader in Taste and Nutrition. Sibéal is focused on creating
significant, positive impact on the environment and society, by driving the ambition of providing sustainable nutrition to over 2 billion people by 2030 .
Sibéal is an ambitious and pragmatic sustainability professional with over 10 years’ experience working at some of the world’s biggest food and drinks companies to provide strategic guidance in helping develop and implement innovative strategies to transform businesses and operations towards triple-bottom line sustainability.
Sibéal has a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from the University of Maynooth in Ireland and a Master’s degree in Business Sustainability from the Smurfit Graduate Business School at University College Dublin in Ireland
Dr. Emma Keller
Emma leads the sustainability agenda across Nestlé UK & Ireland, focusing on delivering the ambitious net zero climate commitment and driving the business to be a force for good. Prior to joining Nestlé last year, Emma led a team at WWF on food system transformation and before that was in Unilever’s sustainability team working on delivering the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan.
rePurpose Global Partners with SF London to Remove Plastic Waste from Nature
rePurpose Global, the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform, has pledged to remove 100 plastic wrappers, bags, and packaging waste destined for landfill on behalf of each attendee amounting to 40-60,000 pieces of plastic waste as part of a partnership with Sustainable Foods London conference and exhibition.
For every visitor that attends the event, held on 30-31 March at Islington Business Design Centre, the company will remove 100 pieces of plastic waste destined for landfill in Bogota, Colombia, and convert it into plastic wood used for the construction of homes, and even park benches.
rePurpose Global’s Chief Advocacy Officer and Co-founder, Peter Wang Hjemdahl said: “Sustainable Foods London is deeply committed to creating genuine environmental and social impact while sparking important conversations. We are really excited to partner with them and enable the removal of 100 plastic packets on behalf of each attendee. We hope this pioneering move inspires events, brands, and platforms to take responsibility and take real action.”
rePurpose Global is dedicated to reducing waste, reviving lives, and restoring nature’s balance. Through its pioneering ecosystem of solutions that span across advisory, action, and advocacy, the organisation helps people and companies calculate, reduce, and offset their plastic footprint while empowering grassroots innovators on the cutting edge of solving for the planet’s future.