Examine how AI-powered tools and data-driven approaches enhance supply chain responsiveness, helping brands anticipate challenges and make informed strategic choices.
• Understand how soil measurement and real-time data are improving visibility across agricultural supply chains, helping brands track soil health, carbon, and ecosystem performance.
• Discover how regenerative sourcing strengthens supply resilience, supporting more stable yields, reduced input dependency, and climate-adaptive farming systems.
• Explore how verified soil data enables better decisions for companies and farmers, turning soil health insights into measurable outcomes for sustainability and procurement strategies.
Annie Leeson is Co-Founder and CEO of Agricarbon. She's leading the company’s rise as a global expert in direct soil carbon measurement. With 17 years in biochemistry, marketing, and strategy consulting, she was driven to innovate after seeing the lack of scalable nature-based decarbonisation solutions. Agricarbon now supports regenerative farming and carbon markets with trusted, science-backed data.
Olivier Marchand is Regenerative Agriculture Manager at Nestlé, with over 20 years of experience driving sustainability, quality, and responsible practices across value chains.
With a strong background in purchasing, quality assurance, and agriculture, he has worked across Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, bringing a global and cross-cultural perspective. He focuses on strengthening traceability, sustainability, and trust, helping meet growing consumer expectations around product origin, production methods, and social responsibility.
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Dundee, UK, Agricarbon provides direct soil carbon measurement services for regenerative agriculture programmes, carbon projects, and environmental markets. The company designs statistically robust sampling strategies, conducts mechanised deep-core sampling, and performs industrialised laboratory analysis to generate high-integrity datasets capable of supporting long-term monitoring and carbon accounting. Agricarbon operates laboratory facilities in the United Kingdom and the United States and provides measurement services across Europe and the Americas.
Explore strategies ingredient companies use to reduce risk and maintain stability amid global disruptions, volatility, and supply shocks.
See how parametric insurance provides instant, automated payouts for climate events, removing delays and simplifying risk management.
Edgar Aguilar co-leads UNDP Insurance and Risk Finance Facility’s work on resilient food systems as Value Chain Resilience Specialist based in Rome, Italy. Within his role, Edgar advice governments and insurers on how to combine agricultural insurance into solutions with other financing instruments such as debt and guarantees to serve millions of smallholder farmers,
Previously, Edgar worked for the International Labour Organization (ILO) at its Regional Office for Africa in Côte d’Ivoire for 10 years, where he facilitated public and private partnerships to increase access to finance to agricultural value chains. Supporting the ILO Impact Insurance Facility, Edgar has worked closely with the insurance industry, financial institutions, and value chain players developing risk management solutions for smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America in key value chains such as cocoa, coffee, tea, and cotton. Edgar holds a master’s degree in Rural Development for Southern Countries and an engineer diploma in Agriculture. He speaks Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Italian.
Examine how modern insurance solutions are shifting from reactive payouts to proactive protection, supporting supply chain resilience and long-term business stability.
Sébastien Roumegous is a soil specialist and impact entrepreneur focused on scaling regenerative agriculture. As CEO of BIOSPHERES, Europe’s leading regenerative agriculture company, he supports businesses and public actors in transitioning toward high-performing, ecosystem-restoring farming systems.
With over 15 years of experience across 22 countries and 200,000 hectares in transition, his work combines technical expertise with a pragmatic, field-driven approach to improve soil health, biodiversity, and farmers’ livelihoods. Raised in a farming environment in southern France, he brings a grounded, results-oriented perspective to large-scale agricultural transformation. He recently published his first book on regenerative agriculture.
Olivier Marchand is Regenerative Agriculture Manager at Nestlé, with over 20 years of experience driving sustainability, quality, and responsible practices across value chains.
With a strong background in purchasing, quality assurance, and agriculture, he has worked across Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, bringing a global and cross-cultural perspective. He focuses on strengthening traceability, sustainability, and trust, helping meet growing consumer expectations around product origin, production methods, and social responsibility.
Biospheres is a leader in large-scale regenerative agriculture, with over 15 years of experience restoring agricultural ecosystems worldwide. The company supports organizations in achieving direct, measurable positive impacts on the environment, CO₂ emissions, and the sustainability of their supply chains.
Driven by a passionate and technically expert team of around 70 professionals, Biospheres operates projects in more than 25 countries across four continents. The company has offices in France, Poland, Romania, Hungary, India, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the United States, enabling strong regional expertise and close collaboration with partners and farmers.
Combining deep agroecological expertise with supply chain know-how, the team works collaboratively to design and implement regenerative agriculture strategies adapted to diverse agricultural contexts. Biospheres is capable of working across a wide range of crops and farming systems, delivering tailored solutions that ensure both environmental impact and effective implementation on the ground.
Explore how brands and traders collaborate to build resilient supply chains that withstand disruptions and drive long-term continuity.
