Main Conference Day 1
- Thiet Nguyen - Vietnam Country Director, Rainforest Alliance
- A comprehensive overview of the EUDR
EUDR/CS3D/FLR/Glyphosate
- Eileen Gordon-Laity - Secretary General, European Coffee Federation (ECF)
- Examining anti-deforestation efforts in Asia Pacific countries (Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Thailand, China) and whether momentum continues regardless of regulatory changes
- Practical approaches to greenhouse gas emissions tracking that deliver business value beyond compliance
- Carbon sink potential: Leveraging coffee farming's environmental benefits as a market differentiator.
- Supply chain integrity: Building traceability systems that serve multiple business objectives beyond regulatory requirements.
- Gideon Balasingam - Manager, MEL and ICT, Fairtrade NAPP (Asia Pacific)
- Thibaud Vantalon - Machine Learning Expert, CGIAR
- Forward-looking projections on Arabica and Robusta price trends and movements across major exchanges.
- Quantitative predictions of global production versus consumption patterns for the upcoming 12-24 months.
- Harvest cycle projections: exploring country-by-country production forecasts accounting for weather patterns, flowering reports, and regional challenges.
- Growth projections for different market segments: specialty vs. commercial or instant coffee, and their price points
- Judy Ganes - President & Co-Founder, J Ganes Consulting LLC
- Thiet Nguyen - Vietnam Country Director, Rainforest Alliance
Drive regenerative agriculture in coffee farming: Investing over CHF 1 billion to accelerate the transition to a regenerative food system and ambition to achieve Net Zero, focusing on improving soil health, protecting biodiversity, and enhancing water conservation.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Committing to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 by capturing and storing more carbon in the soil, working with farmers to help protect agricultural lands, enhance biodiversity, and help prevent deforestation by planting more than 20 million trees at or near their coffee farms.
Improve farmers' livelihoods: Empowering farmers with training, technical assistance, and high-yielding coffee plantlets to help them transition to regenerative coffee farming practices and improving their livelihoods.
NESCAFÉ Plan in Vietnam: Launched in Vietnam in 2011 in Central Highland provinces, NESCAFÉ Plan has improved quality of life and livelihood of coffee farmers and coffee communities, benefiting more than 21,000 4C farmer households, upskilling them with digital tools in farming management, increasing their income by 30-150% and improving their occupational health and safety knowledge and conditions. In addition, the program also accelerates the transition to regenerative agriculture for low-carbon and resilient coffee farms by distributing more than 86 million high quality & drought-resistant coffee plantlets, conducting more than 467,000 training sessions on sustainable and climate resilient farming techniques, reducing 40% - 60% water for irrigation and 20% chemical fertilizers/ pesticides & planting 2.3 million trees in coffee farms by 2027 to capture carbon and support biodiversity.
- Why regenerative agricultural practices and crop diversification are essential solutions for breaking unsustainable cycles.
- How to negate the overuse of fertilizers, thus limiting chemical residue issues and long-term environmental damage.
- Collective action initiatives that address both economic sustainability and environmental stewardship across the entire coffee value chain.
- Regenerative agriculture coffee guidelines for Vietnamese producers.
- Do Ngoc Sy - Asia Pacific Sustainability Manager, Jacob Douwe Egberts
- Trung Pham - Country Representative - Vietnam, Global Coffee Platform
- Timen Rasmus ter Meulen Swijtink - Founder & Managing Director, Lacàph
- Tam Nguyen - CEO, TMT Consulting
- Agro-Tech: How the digital transformation of agriculture is reshaping the coffee farmer's role from operational to strategic farm managers.
- Outlining the benefits of AI-Assisted crop selection, screening, pre-selected enzymes and yeasts, as well as scoring and grading quality.
- How AI can drastically improve operational efficiency and traceability throughout the supply chain.
- Jeremy Choong - CEO and Owner, Paksong Coffee
- Thiet Nguyen - Vietnam Country Director, Rainforest Alliance
