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Commercial Focus: After a difficult year for the sector, how can industry regain commercial ground in 2021?

Panel:
Chair: Nicki Hunt, Director of Membership and Commercial Engagement, FDF
Ash Amirahmadi, Managing Director, Arla Foods
Kate Nicholls, Chief Executive Officer, UKHospitality
Clodagh Sherrard, Director, Levercliff

After a difficult commercial year for many businesses, particularly those in food service, what does 2021 hold for the sector? How will retailers be re-positioning following a turbulent year, how can the food service sector recover and what does post-pandemic purchasing look like for the consumer?

Recorded 02/12/20

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 The Food and Drink Manufacturing Sector: Immediate Needs for an Automated and Digitised Future?

Panel:
Chair: Helen Munday, Chief Scientific Officer, FDF
Ben Ramsden, Partnership Manager - Food & Drink, Digital Catapult
Keith Thornhill, Head of Food and Beverage UK and Ireland, Siemens Digital Industries
Mike Wilson, Chief Automation Officer, MTC

In 2020, interest in automation and digitisation has peaked in the sector, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis and the upcoming changes that will come from the UK’s final exit from the EU. The current climate has also shed light on the need to address weaknesses in the supply chain. Despite the fact that the sector responded well to the unexpected challenges, many businesses worry about how future shocks might affect them. The obvious answer seems to be the application of technology to achieve agile manufacturing systems and supply chains. But is the food and drink manufacturing sector ready for this shift? What are the more immediate on-site technical needs that the sector will need to fulfil? What challenges will the sector face in meeting these requirements?

Currently, the UK manufacturing sector ranks 22nd worldwide for robot units installed per 10,000 employees (85 units) and the food and drink sector is one of the least automated manufacturing sectors across the world (Source IFR). Our panellists will discuss the on-site technical requirements that will need to be met for the sector to be able to integrate into a digital supply chain, as well as how to build capabilities to address the immediate threat to labour shortages.

Recorded 02/12/20

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Sustainability: Plastic and Packaging Update

Panel:
Chair: David Bellamy, Senior Environment Policy Manager
Nick Brown, Sustainable Packaging Director- Coca-Cola European Partners, Great Britain
James Skidmore, Head of Consulting, Valpak
James Bull, Head of Packaging, Tesco

Plastics and packaging and balancing safety and shelf life with environmental protection is manufacturers’ next biggest concern* Our panel will be looking at this from the perspective of the producer, consumer and compliance and is sure to generate plenty of debate as we face into issues such as the single use plastics tax and whether Covid has set back progress on reducing plastic use.

Recorded 01/12/20

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 Sustainable Healthy Diets

Panel:
Chair: Kate Halliwell, Head of UK Diet and Health Policy, FDF
Will Nicholson, Project lead – investor metrics, The Food Foundation
National Food Strategy team, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (speaker name TBC)

The global food system is set to face unprecedented pressures over the coming decades. As part of this, a transition towards a more ‘sustainable healthy diet’ to improve the environmental impact of the food system is of growing interest to businesses, policy makers, NGOs and the public. Our expert panel will discuss the role of food and drink manufacturers to help deliver change, and perspectives on how this could be taken forward in the upcoming National Food Strategy.

Recorded 01/12/20 

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Climate & Carbon Net Zero: How food & drink producers can work towards Net Zero

Panel:
Chair: Emma Piercy, Head of Climate Change & Energy Policy, FDF
Julie Gartside, European Operations Manager: Advisory Services - Carbon & Energy Management, SLR
Andrew Bright, Director, ITPEnergised
Karen Fisher, Special Advisor, WRAP
Adam Wray-Summerson, Chartered Engineer, Clarke Energy

This session will explore the opportunities and challenges facing the food and drink manufacturing sector as the pace to decarbonise accelerates to net zero by 2050. The scope for reducing onsite emissions will be discussed as well as strategies to look at wider supply chain emissions. The role of government policy and the regulatory framework will be examined, with a view to identifying the key policy asks the sector needs to see in the forthcoming Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy expected in Spring 2021.

Recorded 01/12/20

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In this week's podcast Tim Rycroft sits down with Ian Wright CBE Chief Executive of FDF to discuss the latest from the food & drink industry

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Recorded 03/12/20

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Ahead of the FDF report due for release in December, Emma Piercy Mark Corbett and Emma Mansbridge discuss Net Zero in food and drink manufacturing.  

Recorded 20/11/20

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This is the latest episode of Food & Drink Federation podcast featuring Ian Wright, CEO and key policy staff providing an update on the current situation with the latest guidance from UK Government and stakeholders and what this means for your business and the food and drink industry.

In addition we will also be looking at the latest Brexit developments.

The audio is from the weekly FDF Covid19 webinar originally broadcast 11th November 2020.

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In the second edition of FDF Wales monthly podcast Pete Robertson is joined by Bobby Manseh who leads the food and drink  packaging  strategy team at AMRC.

Recorded 03-11-20 

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This is the latest episode of Food & Drink Federation podcast featuring Ian Wright, CEO and key policy staff providing an update on the current situation with the latest guidance from UK Government and stakeholders and what this means for your business and the food and drink industry.

In addition we will also be looking at the latest Brexit developments.

The audio is from the weekly FDF Covid19 webinar originally broadcast 27th October 2020.

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More from FDF on Brexit

Please visit our website for more details of future and upcoming events and to view the slides from this update    www.fdf.org.uk