An event to address the food waste prevention in urban systems like supermarkets and street markets through research and applied solutions, which will be shared by Swedish and Brazilian experts.
Topics such as regulation and tax benefits for food donations, management tools for supermarkets, zero waste, voluntary agreements, circular farming systems and innovations will be addressed.
International webinar, February 12th, 2021. Check out our speakers and the program below.
11:30 am - 11:50 am GMT
João Flávio is na agronomist with a doctorate in Phytopathology from the University of São Paulo – USP/ ESALq. He held a Post-Doctorate at UMR Innovation, in Montpellier, France, Where he has scientific work on foods from biodiversity and Braziian territories. He has been a researcher at Embrapa since 1994. From May 2009 to Auguts 2015, he was Chief-General of Embrapa Agrossilvipastoril, being one of the responsible for the creation and implementation of the research center, involving the physical infrastructure of the experimental field and laboratories. the hiring human resources and implementing the research center and technology transfer agenda of the research center.
11:50 am - 12:15 am GMT
Arash is Councilor at Courbevoie and Lawyer at the Paris Bar Association. He fights against food waste, and as a consequence of this fight, a law was passed on February 3, 2016 in which supermarkets can no longer throw food in the trash, under the fine of 10,000 Euros. He published his book by Fayard - "Manifesto against food waste" which received the Edgar Faure award for best political book of the year.
Leonardo is an Industrial Chemist with a MBA in Sustainable Development from Fundação Getúlio Vargas, has 40 years of experience in quality systems, supply chain and sustainability. He worked for major port companies such as: AMBEV, Nabisco, Kraft Foods and General Mills. Manages the Sustainable Development area for Latin America based in Brazil. Chairman of the AMCHAM sustainability committee, vice president of GTPS, advisor to ENACTUS Brasil and local mentor to One Young World Brasil and Ambassador of Refúgio 343.
12:20 am - 01:00 pm GMT
PhD student and assistant professor in Waste Recovery at Borås University, Sweden. He has a degree in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on water resources from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a master's degree in waste recovery from the University of Borås. He has experience in the areas of organic waste, and the use of agro-industrial waste, acting mainly on the topic of life cycle analysis.
The importance of the segment in combating food waste
PhD student in business from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PPGA / UFRGS), Brazil, in the area of Innovation, Technology and Sustainability. In her thesis, she analyzes, through institutional theory, the action of sustainable entrepreneurs bringing solutions for food waste. She was a visiting student at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and at the University of Guelph (Canada). Her recent publications address food waste solutions in a developing country, how digital business platforms can reduce food waste and loss, consumer food waste in different restaurant settings and sustainable business processes from generating ideas to impact measurement.
The importance of the segment in combating food waste
He works as a manager at a Coop supermarket store in Gotland - an island that belongs to Sweden and has approximately 60,000 inhabitants. He has been working at this store for 3 years making it one of the best in terms of sustainability in Sweden, with a focus on zero waste. In 2019 they received an award for the best in Sweden in terms of sustainability, as well as the best store management.
Zero Waste Case - Stora Coop Visby
Graduated in International Relations from Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (2009). She is Master in Scientific and Technologibal Policy from UNICAMP (2014). She has been working with innovation since 2010, having worked in the Minas Gerais Government, India Brazil Chamber of Commerce, Unicamp´s Innovation Agency, Samsung and Makro Atacadista.
Brazilian Initiatives - Makro
Ricardo Salazar is Whywaste's General Manager for Brazil. Bachelor of business administration having made a career in large companies such as BBA Creditanstalt, Itau, Odebrecht Engenharia e Construção and UBS Investiment Banking operating in Brazil and abroad. Entrepreneur since 2012 having founded Estoks Logística Reversa and Omniturn. He is enthusiastic about any subject that combines innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability.
Brazilian Initiatives - Whywaste
Head of expansion for Whywaste Sweden in Gothenburg. She is the biggest fan of Greta Thunberg. She focus on living in an environmentally friendly way and reducing food waste for supermarkets around the world. She doesn't beat around the bush, she does! If the door is not open, she enters through the window. The opportunity to build a strong movement against food waste with a focus - togetherness - as a mindset, is something that really gives her goose pumps.
Brazilian Initiatives - Whywaste
01:05 pm - 01:45 pm GMT
Celso servide as Adviser to the Office and Director of Professional Qualification in the same secretariat.
Case São Paulo
Carlos Henrique is Master's student in Process Engineering - UFPA. Master MInd Lince - The Napoleon Hill Fundation. Specialist in Business Logistics from Estácio de Sá. Specialist in Production Engineering by Estácio de Sá. Advisor at the Secretariat of Rural Production - Creator and Coordinator of the State Program to Combat Food Waste and Loss. Active in the fight against food and nutritional insecurity in the State of Amazonas. Member of Citizenship Action. University Professor since 2015, working in Administration courses, Logistics Technologist, Quality Management Technologist - Uninorte. Volunteer Professor –IFAM, Federal Institute of Amazonas - Logistics and Telecommunications Technologist. Creator of the Extension Project - Reverse Logistics and Solidarity. Professor of the Management and Business Axis at Senac / PF.Teacher - SENAC - National Service for Commercial Learning.
Case Manaus
Case Paraná
Master's student in the Sustainable Destinations Development Program at the University of Uppsala, Campus Gotland. Co-creator and collaborator of Impact Project together with Mariana Domingues and Mayara Genaro.
Case Gotland
Kristina works as a project manager and logistics researcher. She has been doing research on food logistics for years. Her dissertation focused on how food producers, wholesalers and retailers can reduce food waste and the climate impact of transport on their logistics systems. Kristina is project manager for Sweden's largest food waste fighting project, Resvinn.
Resvinn
01:50 pm - 02:30 pm GMT
Teresa holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Hertie School (Germany) and a is a Social Public Policy analyst at the Brazilian Ministry of Citizenship.
Tax Benefits and the new Law
Gustavo holds a PhD in business administration, with a concentration in marketing, from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV - EAESP). He was a visiting researcher at the Cornell University School of Agriculture, where he conducted research on the behavior of food consumption. He also led projects in the European Union - Brazil Sector Dialogues on food waste. Journalist and master in administration at UFRN, he has been an analyst at Embrapa since 2006 and is currently part of the RD&I team at Embrapa Alimentos e Território, Embrapa's newest research center.
Circular Systems
Tova is a MSC in Environmental Engineering and is a food waste expert working both with statistics and food reducing measures as well as food waste picking analysis. She i salso the Secretary of the Swedihs Voluntary Agreement for reducing food waste where partners from the whole food chain as well as authorities are working to reduce the food waste in Sweden.
Voluntary Agreements
02:45 pm - 03:20 pm GMT
João Zeni is Director of Sustainability for Latin America at Electrolux, has been working with corporate sustainability for more than 14 years, going through previous experiences in the financial and telecommunications markets, being responsible for the strategic sustainability management of large multinationals. Environmental Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná PUC PR, Occupational Safety Engineer from the Federal Technological University of Paraná, studied Sustainability for Executives at Cambridge University and Leading Sustainable Corporations at Oxford University.
Diego has a degree in advertising, with a specialization in Business Administration from FGV. His professional journey started early, at the age of 14 at ABN bank. After that, he went through consultancies and the financial market until he reached the universe of entrepreneurship, founding his first company in 2011, the Collective Mídia Sustentável. This operation is present in more than 10 airports in the country. In his newest venture, he founded 100% livre, a company that was born from the dream of offering consumers food totally free of pesticides, with much more flavor and ready for consumption. In this journey, it works in partnership with Embrapa, using technologies that, combined with the Brazilian experience in Agribusiness, result in higher quality products, 100% natural and with minimal impact on the environment during the production process.
Francisco holds a PhD in Productin Enginnering from the Graduate and Research Program (COPPE) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
Kelly Dalben is president of ISBE - Swedish-Brazilian Institute of Circular Economy and Sustainable Development and a senior consultant on issues of non-generation of waste in Brazil for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency since 2015. She is an entrepreneur, activist for matters of combating food waste, which boosted bilateral cooperation on this topic, uniting Swedish and Brazilian actors. Today at ISBE she is the leader of the Connection Sweden and Blue Sys programs that place the final consumer as protagonists of the issues of sustainability and responsible consumption.
03:25 pm - 03:30 pm GMT
