What does the road towards regional food security in APAC look like? What drivers of change and technologies will get us there? What mindsets and skills do we need to foster to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? How should we design and think systematically about innovating for the future of agrifood?

In GROW’s NURTURE Series, four thought leaders from the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development; Padang & Co; Echos; and Arup will deliver talks to share their insights on these questions and more. The talks aim to support agrifood innovators in APAC and inspire entrepreneurs to help shape a more sustainable, resilient, and innovative food system. Each talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A.

This event page is for the third talk of the NURTURE Series—Designing Desirable Futures by Juliana Proserpio (Co-founder & Chief Design Officer at Echos).

About Juliana:

Juliana Proserpio is an entrepreneur and educator. She is the co-founder and Chief Design Officer of ECHOS, an innovation lab and its business units: Echos -School of Design Thinking – a school that puts innovation in practice, and Echos – innovation projects. Over the last 9 years, Juliana has worked to develop an innovation ecosystem in Australia, Brazil, and recently in Portugal to foster the power of design for desirable futures.

Sign up for the other 3 talks in the NURTURE Series:

Innovating to Achieve Regional Food Security by Armen Harutyunyan (Senior Advisor at UNDP)

Sept 2, 2:30pm SGT

What does a roadmap towards regional food security look like? Armen Harutyunyan explores different perspectives of the roadmap towards regional and national food security in Singapore and beyond. He'll also discuss key drivers of change and how technologies in digital farming, supply chain management, and alt. protein will help us achieve global food security.

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Food—The Sustainability Imperative by Adam Lyle (Co-founder & Executive Chairman at Padang & Co.)

Sept 9, 2:30pm SGT

Since the United Nations adopted the 17 SDGs in 2015, global progress has been poor overall and is uneven across regions. At current rates, it will take the world another 74 years to achieve the targets. Adam Lyle will discuss how innovation in the Agri-Food sector is not only to key achievement of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), but is also inextricably connected to success in the other 16 SDGs. The secret sauce is a new way of thinking.

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Future of Food Manufacturing in Cities by Chintan Raveshia (Cites Planning & Design Lead at Arup)

What does a self-sufficient food manufacturing city look like? Chintan Raveshia, Cites Planning & Design Lead at Arup, envisions what urban food manufacturing looks like in cities and shares the frameworks Arup has built as smart city planners for major cities like Singapore. His talk will present future scenarios of food industrial estates and ask the tough questions required to build urban food manufacturing hubs.

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The NURTURE Series is organized by GROW, Singapore's first agrifood tech impact accelerator backed by AgFunder, one of the most active agrifood tech VCs in the world. Keep up to date with GROW events and join our GROW community here.