Speaking Opportunities
If you are interested in being a speaker at TSC Summit 2021 contact
Erika Ferrin
Full Schedule
Sessions and speakers are subject to change. All times are CDT.
Webinar Access
Monday, May 10th
TSC Members and Invited Guests Only
Tuesday, May 11th
Registration Open to All
Wednesday, May 12th
TSC Members and Invited Guests Only
Thursday, May 13th
TSC Members and Invited Guests Only
Monday, May 10th
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The Sustainability Consortium’s Agricultural Metrics Workshop: Resiliency and Regeneration in the Age of Climate Change and Covid
This past year has yielded lessons learned regarding resiliency of global food systems. We’ve seen firsthand how disconnections between sustainability and supply chains manifest in disruptions, shortages, losses, and food insecurity. In the past year opportunities expanded for growers and companies to take part in regenerative agriculture. With so much change afoot it’s hard to keep track of what is being measured, who is measuring it, and how that gets translated into communications to retailers and consumers about product sustainability. In this year’s workshop we will take a closer look at what is happening both to ensure resilient and functioning food systems in the wake of climate and covid disruptions, what growers are saying about collecting and sharing farm data, and what new opportunities there are to participate in on the ground projects that scale resilient and regenerative agriculture.
Speaker(s):
Christy Slay, TSC
Drew Slattery, Trust in Food
Seana Day, Better Food Ventures
Rod Snyder, Field to Market
Teresa Garcia-Moore, TSC
Chris Fennig, MyFarms
Andrew Utterback, Ingredion
John Johnson, Agricola
Brett Kaysen, National Pork Board
David Gagner, NFWF
Kinsie Rayburn, Trust in Food
Tuesday, May 11th – Big Issues, Big Impacts
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Coffee with Colleagues
Log on early for a special networking session to meet your fellow TSC Summit attendees!
Speaker(s):
Sarah Lewis
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
CEO Welcome
Join TSC Chief Executive as he welcomes everyone to the 2021 TSC Summit.
Speaker(s):
Euan Murray, TSC
Elizabeth Sturcken, EDF
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Innovation Dialogues: Input Across the Value Chain
As one of their sustainability commitments, Partnering for Impact, in The Good Growth Plan, Syngenta launched their Innovation Dialogues. The Innovation Dialogues are designed to put Syngenta’s commitment to innovation for a more sustainable food and agriculture future into action. The goal is to bring together a group of prominent organizations across value chains to dissect and articulate diverse perspectives and work together to develop a framework for system level sustainability solutions. Join Syngenta and The Palladium Group for a quick case-study review of designing, implementing and actioning the Innovation Dialogues.
Speaker(s):
Liz Hunt, Syngenta
Eduardo Tugendhat, Palladium
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Resilient Supply Chains: Perspectives from Corporate, Investors and Consumers
The financial industry is stepping up to help with supply chain resilience and transparency. Join speakers from all sides of the business and financial industry to see what resources are available to companies, what supply chain resilience really means in the years of COVID, and why you should keep an eye on this sector for the future of sustainability.
Speaker(s):
Kevin Dooley, TSC
Randi Kronthal-Sacco, NYU Stern
Kelly Fisher, HSBC
Aarti Ramachandran, FAIRR
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Sustainability Takes Flight
Hear from the Director of Conservation Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Amanda Rodewald to learn the most recent trends in bird declines and how corporate efforts can support bird conservation as an indirect benefit of sustainability goals.
Speaker(s):
Christy Slay, TSC
Amanda Rodewald, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
11:20 AM – 11:50 AM
Healthy Soils and the Role They Play in Urban and Farm Communities
Soil is the great connector. How do we ensure that soil health is part of our environmental justice conversation? How do we create opportunities for land ownership and how do we teach people that healthy soil creates healthy communities? Join us for a discussion on soil, people and the connection between them.
Speaker(s):
Denise Abdul-Rahman, NAACP
Byron Rath, Soil Health
Sripriya, Navalpakam, Unilever
11:50 AM – 12:05 PM
Embedded Impact and Inclusiveness
Join Dr. Michael Crow, president of ASU, TSC’s co-founding institution, for a look into our global future.
Speaker(s):
Euan Murray, TSC
Michael Crow, ASU
Wednesday, May 12th – Deep Dives
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
EU Sustainable Policy Developments
Get in 60 minutes an update of both EC policy developments around sustainability reporting and the activities of the EU TSC office. The EC introduced many new proposals around voluntary and obligatory sustainability reporting on product, organization and investment level. You will get a quick overview of the most influential ones. Next you will be updated about recent THESIS implementation activities in Europe.
Speaker(s):
Koen Boone, TSC
Henk Westhoek, DG Sante, European Commission
Julia Chiu, Walgreens Boots Alliance
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Supply Chain Origins: Sustainability’s Challenge of Getting to the Root of Food and Fiber Production
Hear real examples of the challenges companies have faced when trying to trace their supply chain origins and what they found when they “arrived” at the source. Hear lessons learned from these examples and learn what sustainability issues were addressed as a result of knowing the geography of food and fiber origins. Learn highlights of TSC’s plans to transform the Commodity Mapping Tool and join breakouts to learn how you can take part in development and pilots.
Speaker(s):
Christy Slay, TSC
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Worker Health and Safety in a COVID-19 World
Too often, sustainability is thought of as environmental only, a plea to protect the planet. But we often forget about the social part of sustainability – the people, their safety and their livelihoods as they make and purchase the products we love. Join TSC and others for a discussion and a spotlight on worker health and safety and labor rights in today’s world.
Speaker(s):
Sarah Lewis, TSC
Brian Greene, HMTX Industries
Chad Coggin, Norcom Inc.
Mireya Reith, Arkansas United
10:45 AM – 11:05 AM
The Wastewater Challenge
Join us for an update on TSC’s Wastewater Challenge project and the Wastewater 101 Toolbox.
Speaker(s):
Karen Leonas, NC State
Molly Bombonato, TSC
Jyotsna Gopinath, NC State
10:45 AM – 11:05 AM
Kaiteki: Circularity in Plastic
Join us for an update on TSC’s Kaiteki project that is tackling circularity in plastic packaging.
Speaker(s):
Kevin Dooley, TSC
Bhavik Bakshi, Ohio State
11:05 AM – 11:25 AM
Responsible Pest Management
Join us for an update on TSC’s Responsible Pest Management Framework project.
Speaker(s):
Jennifer Shaw, Syngenta
11:25 AM – 11:45 AM
Green Chemistry
Green Chemistry: Hear a summary of TSC’s 2-year project that identified systemic barriers to green chemistry innovation along with key action areas to overcome them. We’ll also present our approach to using green chemistry to drive overall progress in sustainability and outline potential action items that TSC could pursue in 2021 to this end.
Speaker(s):
Christopher Helt, TSC
11:25 AM – 11:45 AM
Project Wearever
Join us for an update on TSC’s Project Wearever pilot project that is exploring using digital technology to track clothing use.
Speaker(s):
Kevin Dooley, TSC
11:45 AM – 12:05 PM
Small Format Circularity
Join us for an update on TSC’s Small Format Packaging project.
Speaker(s):
Paula Alexander, Clorox
Matt Kopac, Burt’s Bees
12:05 PM – 12:30 PM
Flexible Film and Regional Circularity
Join us for an update on TSC’s work with members and partners on circularity in flexible film.
Speaker(s):
Brent Heist, P&G
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM
Innovation Program Open House
Join the Innovation Program team to hear more about TSC’s Innovation Program and learn how to bring new projects to the table.
Speaker(s):
Sarah Lewis, TSC
Kevin Dooley, TSC
Chris Helt, TSC
Jen Park, TSC
Thursday, May 13th – Creating Leadership Through THESIS
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
THESIS Leadership
TSC’s THESIS team present upcoming activities, changes and opportunities related to our THESIS assessment program. We will focus on how we are moving THESIS forward, our annual revision process and our upcoming Leadership Assessment initiative.
Speaker(s):
Euan Murray, TSC
Christy Slay, TSC
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM
THESIS Impacts and Insights
This data-packed session will cover the latest impact from THESIS in 2020 alongside industry insights and best practices.
Speaker(s):
Kevin Dooley, TSC
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
THESIS User Case Studies
2020 was the first year THESIS users decided to tell their performance stories publicly. By 2021, THESIS case studies were identified as a credible source for ESG investing. Join TSC Impact Team Sr Director, Jessica Ginger, as we showcase THESIS user case studies, how companies are working to improve their sustainability performance, and how going public can accelerate those improvements.
Speaker(s):
Jessica Ginger, TSC
Zachary Kublanov, Humana Capital Partners
Maximus Kublanov, Humana Capital Partners
Kim Sundy, Kellogg
Jen Bowe, Ocean Spray
11:05 AM – 11:20 AM
Walmart’s Big Move to Gain Transparency into its Meat Supply Chains
Despite the global pressure and corporate commitments to improve the climate change and land use impacts of cattle production transparency into beef supply chains remains notoriously opaque. Across TSC’s Key Performance Indicators scores on beef production remain low year after year. While there is much effort underway to launch industry sustainability metrics in the US, Walmart decided to take matters into its own hands by purchasing beef processing and packing facilities while working with ranchers in their new supply chain to gain an understanding of how sustainable their production is. Hear about this new business venture and the sustainability insights gained from investing directly in their own supply cattle chain.
Speaker(s):
Euan Murray, TSC
Mikel Hancock, Walmart
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM
Local Impact, Greater Purpose with Ahold-Delhaize
Ahold Delhaize USA, the parent company of leading omnichannel grocery retailers Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop, unveiled new health and sustainability goals as part of a detailed, purpose-driven strategy to enable customers to make healthier choices, create greater product transparency, eliminate waste and taking bold climate action, all in support of developing a more sustainable food supply chain. The new goals are announced as research is showing that consumers are demanding healthier, more transparent product options. In fact, Ahold Delhaize USA proprietary research found that 43% of consumers feel sustainability is “extremely important,” up from 28% of consumers pre-pandemic.
Speaker(s):
Euan Murray, TSC
Brittni Furrow, Ahold-Delhaize
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM
TSC Member and THESIS Awards
TSC member awards are will now include select THESIS performance awards. Join us as we celebrate a year of achievement before turning our attention to what’s around the bend for 2021 and 2022.
Speaker(s):
Euan Murray, TSC
12:00 PM – 12:20 PM
THESIS Drop In Session
This open-door session is available to any TSC Summit 21 attendee to drop in for questions about THESIS with TSC’s THESIS Impact Team.
Speaker(s):
Jessica Ginger, TSC
Emily Powell, TSC
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Sustainability Leadership Institute – TSC All Access Members and Retailers Only
Come be a part of creating a new, ambitious narrative for sustainability where business is in mutual and regenerative relationship with humanity and the natural world. During this session, we will experience new ways of knowing through peer advising, speakers, and reflection. We will practice techniques for mobilzing others to a vision of a world where business is in mutual and regenerative relationship with humanity and the natural world.
Speaker(s):
Eric Martin, Adaptive Change Advisors
Trevor Rees, Enso Impact
Sarah Lewis, TSC
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