Feeding the Future: Innovating Urban Food Systems

Anniversary Event

By 2050, urban living will be the reality for almost 70 percent of the global population.

As cities continue to grow, it becomes crucial to ensure that citizens not only have adequate housing and public services but also access to safe and affordable food. Join us for an engaging event that unites diverse perspectives from Switzerland and the Bay Area, exploring the latest advancements and solutions for a more sustainable urban food system.

Speakers

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Jonelle Simunich
Co-Founder and Executive Director at [y]our 2040
Jonelle is a futurist, entrepreneur and urban strategist focused on life in and around cities. She co-founded [y]our 2040 to evolve a better understanding of the future to help rapidly transition towards positive outcomes for people, place and planet. Her expertise in architecture, urban planning, and foresight enables her to support a variety of companies, community and cities to shape our collective built future.
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Bettina Scharrer
Senior Research Scientist at Universität Bern
Bettina Scharrer is an environmental historian and senior research scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern with a focus on agricultural policy and problem areas of the agro-industrial food system as well as possible transformation approaches. She is currently leading a project on urban food systems and one on interactions between production, processing and trade in the Swiss dairy and meat sector.
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Robin Bertschinger
Co-Founder & Co-CEO at UMAMI AG
Robin Bertschinger is Co-founder and CEO of UMAMI AG. He leads the young company together with his Co-founder Denis Weinberg. To ensure that Umami can continue to produce the purest food with exceptional taste in the future, Robin is making sure that the team has all the resources available to work towards their shared goal: to become the most sustainable producer of natural foods.