One third of food is wasted globally. We are currently producing enough for 10 billion people but failing to make use of it. The cost for the environment is severe - if food waste was a country it would be the third biggest emitter of carbon dioxide. How do we make fighting food waste profitable? Join us if you want to learn about setting up a business to fight food waste from a panel of entrepreneurs tackling the issue from different angles and asking how can we tap into this $1 trillion opportunity.

Fast Forward 2030 is a progressive network of transformative entrepreneurs hosted by the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London. The network exists to tackle the causes and consequences of environmental degradation, economic inequality and social injustice. We encourage enterprises that challenge the status quo and deliver sustainability and prosperity for all. There is great power in business for change and we harness it with the tenacity and determination of activists.

Your ticket for this event includes:

· Great talks and Q&A from our guest speakers

· Networking and chatting with speakers, and the board members of Fast Forward 2030

· Free sustainably sourced food & drinks including delicious canapés made from food surplus by Elysia Catering, wine and beer made from surplus bread by Toast Ale.

Chair

Solveiga Pakstaite - Founder at Mimica

Mimica is developing a temperature-sensitive indicator cap or label for food freshness. It reduces food waste by showing you when your food actually spoils, rather than relying on the wasteful worst-case scenario expiry date.

Speakers

Marc Zornes - Co-Founder at Winnow Solutions

Winnow provides the most accurate and profitable way to reduce food waste in your kitchen. Now enabled with cutting-edge AI technology.

Jessica Barlow - Head of Communications at Karma

With the Karma App, you can find delicious surplus food from restaurants, cafes and grocery stores to enjoy at half the regular price.

Sophie Andre - Founder at Elysia

Elysia is a catering company with a sustainable focus. They make artisan breakfasts & canapés with local and in season surplus produce. They will also be catering the event.

Ed Grimes - Business Development Director UK at Wasteless

Wasteless are helping food retailers and suppliers recapture the full value of their perishable products and reduce food waste through AI-powered dynamic pricing.

UN SDG Target 12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses

UN SDG Target 2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.

"Today, a little over 820 million people suffer from hunger, corresponding to about one in every nine people in the world" - FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2019. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019.