Anthony Hobley, Senior Strategic Advisor, Inevitable Policy Response; Former Executive Fellow, World Economic Forum (WEF)

The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, Former Chairman, UK Climate Change Committee (The CCC)

Dr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Dr. Leonard Mizzi, Head of Unit, INTPA, European Commission (EC)

Vanusia Nogueira, Executive Director, International Coffee Organization (ICO)

Professor Mark Maslin, Earth System Science, University College London (UCL); Natural History Museum of Denmark

H.E. Hajime Hayashi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

H.E. Mrs. Carmen María Gallardo, Ambassador from the Republic of El Salvador to the United Kingdom

Shooka Bidarian, Environmental Correspondent, Manoto TV

Dejene Dadi Dika, General Manager, Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union (OCFCU), Ethiopia

Clive de Ruig, President, ICE Benchmark Administration

• How do the recent EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and EUDR impact agriculture and specifically the coffee industry?
• How can we avoid reputational damage in terms of deforestation claims?
• How do we ensure that our data sets are reliable and trustable in sustainable and ethical sourcing from the coffee origin and forecasting the future?

Speakers:

Paul Rooke, Executive Director, British Coffee Association (BCA)
Gert van der Bijl, Senior EU Policy Advisor, Solidaridad
Dr. Martina Bozzola, Senior Advisor Sustainability and Livelihood, International Trade Centre (UN/WTO)
Thomas Vaassen, Co-founder and CEO , Meridia

• How do you balance economic and ecological well-being which has emerged as a critical concern for governments worldwide?
• How does innovation spur investments that will lead to a more sustainable and transparent supply chain to promote ethical sourcing?
• How do governments of the global north share their innovative technologies to the developing nations in the global south to adopt relevant policies in making efficient use of their natural resources?

Speakers:

Baroness Sandy Verma, Member UK House of Lords, Former Minister for Energy & Climate Change and International Development
H.E. Teferi Melesse Desta, Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
H.E. Markus Leitner, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom
Juan Cabrera, Vice Chair; Vice President for the UK; Business Consultant, IoD Natural Resources Group; Government Blockchain Association (GBA); WBAF

H.E. Mr Manoah Esipisu, High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya to the United Kingdom

H.E. Guisell Morales-Echaverry, Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the United Kingdom

Jo Paisley, President, GARP Risk Institute (GRI)

Shooka Bidarian, Environmental Correspondent, Manoto TV

Abdelrahman Fathalla, Founder, Guillam Coffee House

• Impacts of Blended Investing: Accessing global coffee finance in a changing power asymmetry.
• Does linking ethical investing with the certification of coffee enhance credit outcomes for small farmers?
• The question of scalability and affordability of financing platforms. Unlocking the Impact investing potential.
• How do we finance the transition from conventional to regenerative?

Speakers:

Melissa Duncan, Executive Director, Fairtrade International
Anna R Rios, Climate Change Senior Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Cedric Lombard, Founder and Co-CEO, Impact Finance
Katherine Stodulka, Partner, Director;, Blended Finance, Systemiq

Alp Somyurek, UK Representative, Turkish Coffee Culture and Research Association

Dr. Alvaro Lario, President, International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Joseph de Villiers, CEO and Founder, World Coffee Alliance (WCA)