They discuss how Project Delta built an “air traffic control” system for the world’s surplus food. They also discuss the origins of Chorus, X’s moonshot to give every object a voice which is now focused on optimizing global supply chains using advanced sensors and orchestration software.

For more on the future of food waste, tune into Episode 6 of the Moonshot Podcast, “Trash to Treasure”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgRASA92Dco

Video Segmentation

00:00 - Introduction

01:38 - The origins of Emily’s passion for food waste

04:07 - Why food waste is such a big problem

07:09 - How Emily wound up at X

10:24 - Google Glass in early food waste prototypes

12:06 - Emily’s “waste audit” sifting through physical trash

15:08 - How food is wasted in every phase of the production process

20:36 - An “air traffic control” system for the world’s surplus food

23:54 - How X’s food waste technology helped tackle that surplus

29:25 - What the team learned by working in the field

30:40 - Food waste “nodes” to reroute surplus food

33:34 - Applying X’s food waste technology outside the U.S.

35:41 - The team’s early vision for a supply chain moonshot - Chorus

39:56 - How Chorus evolved from the Delta team

41:26 - How Delta graduated to Google

45:06 - Emily’s fondest moonshot memories

46:54 - The importance of play when taking moonshots

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