Thursday, June 6, 2024
Within the retail industry, food represents around a third of what we buy as consumers.
However, there are many areas of friction, caused in part by our population density and geographical area. There is also a “code” that remains a work in progress to ensure more fairness within the industry to help smaller producers and processors, which may facilitate these enterprises to scale more effectively.
Starting with a keynote address by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois – known as "The Food Professor" – and followed by a fireside chat with Dr. Charlebois and Gary Newbury, CCLP, this session will explore how the food industry works end to end, including the overall structure of flows between farm and fork, the challenges we face as a country and locally on the ground, the levels of waste and where this occurs across the supply chain, and where improved logistics planning and execution may be able to help producers, processors, wholesalers, retailers and consumers have better availability, waste less and have more innovation and choice.
Presented by:
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois
Director
Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Dalhousie University
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University.
Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability. He co-hosts The Food Professor podcast, discussing issues in the food, food service, grocery and restaurant industries and which is the most listened Canadian management podcast in Canada. Every year since 2012, he has published the now highly anticipated Canadian Food Price Report, which provides an overview of food price trends for the coming year. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, nationally as well as internationally. He has testified on several occasions before parliamentary committees on food policy-related issues as an expert witness. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces and other countries.
Gary Newbury, CCLP
Strategic Advisor/Delivery Executive
RetailAID Inc.
Gary’s international reputation for rapid business performance transformation and executing supply chain designs, consistently builds market prominence, shareholder value and consumer trust. Gary helps business leaders to navigate disruption and reinvigorate supply chain performance across the “make-move-sell” flow of manufacturing, 3rd party logistics, wholesaling, retailing & the last mile. Gary has an MBA and MSc (Supply Chain Management & Logistics) from Cranfield University, and is recently CCLP, CSCMP, PMP, LSSBB and Retail Management certified.
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