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ProPak Asia 2025 presents a webinar session:
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Food (in)security in an exciting world: ways ahead for the food industry and Asia’s food citizens
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Hear from leading regional food experts and influencer’s on what’s going down in global food security, and what this means for the Asian agrifood industry and consumers. After short opening thoughts from each speaker, the panel will debate with the audience and each other on where the food industry can and should go, on burning issues like plant-based, deeptech breakthroughs, greenwashing vs authentic sustainability, and the exciting and scary convergence of food and drugs. What are success strategies for the industry to create more value while regenerating people and planet? How should youth engage with the food system as activists, and as a career?
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Founder, Cornucopia FutureScapes
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Luke leads Cornucopia, a Singapore-based, globally oriented foresight and strategy practice advancing future-readiness, sustainability, and innovation in food-energy-water and urban systems across the public, private, and people domains. He is an international keynote speaker and acknowledged thought leader on emerging opportunities in food systems transformation and sustainability, on corporate and national success strategies amid the “polycrisis”, and on leading with foresight. He has authored book chapters on the future of Asian food security and on global water futures; developed scenarios on geopolitics, carbon markets, and sustainable development; and advised on strategies for food system transformation and product and value chain innovation. Luke serves as corporate adviser and resident futurist to a range of entities, advising and supporting G/B-to-G/B collaborations and investments in strategic sectors across ASEAN and emerging markets.
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Food Security Adviser, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies and Senior Consultant, NIE International Pte. Ltd., Nanyang Technological University
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Professor Teng is internationally recognized for his expertise in Food Security, AgTech, Biotechnology applications in agriculture, Digitalization in agrifood systems and Smart/Precision farming. He has done project work in over 40 countries and has published over fifteen books and over two hundred technical papers. Prof Teng is also Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS – Yusof Ishak), and Senior Fellow at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). Additionally he advises several agtech startups (Tropic BioSciences UK, AgriG8 Singapore, Rize, Singapore) and venture funds (Wavemaker Impact and Milltrust International), and is a Director in Terrasys Innovation Ventures and Chair of Asia Biobusiness Pte. Ltd. Singapore.
Paul previously held leadership positions in the Worldfish Centre (Deputy Director-General), the International Rice Research Institute (Programme Leader), Monsanto Company (Asia-Pac VP), The National Institute of Education Singapore and U.S. universities (Minnesota, Hawaii).
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Founder & CEO at Green Queen, Ekowarehouse & Source Green
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2021 Women of Power, 2019 GEN T Honoree, V Label Global Hero, 2 x TEDx Speaker, and Serial social entrepreneur & trends forecaster: Sonalie Figueiras is a sustainability expert, food futurist and eco-powerhouse who has been inspiring global audiences for over a decade with practical steps on how to fight climate change. Known as the Green Queen of Asia, she is the founder and Editor in Chief of the award-winning Green Queen - the region’s first impact media platform that educates millions of readers on the connection between health, sustainability and the environment and showcases future solutions. She is also the co-founder and CEO of organic sourcing platform Ekowarehouse and climate tech SaaS Source Green, which help consumer brands quit plastic packaging thanks to proprietary plastic reduction software. In addition, Sonalie is a global keynote speaker and an advisor to multiple mission-driven startups and NGOs, and a venture partner to several VC funds.
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Professor Christiani Jeyakumar Henry
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Former Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Centre ,A*STAR
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He was the founding Director of the Clinical Nutrition Research Centre, Singapore, and Director of UKs first functional food Centre in Oxford .He obtained his MSc and PhD in Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was a Board member of UK Food Standards Agency, He is internationally recognised for his work on melding the Science of Food and nutrition, His numerous awards include- Institute of Food Technologists (USA) -W.K. Kellogg International Food Security Award & Lectureship (2019), The prestigious Niigata International Food Award 2018 known as "Asian World Food Prize". In 2024 he was made a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition -The Highest award in Human Nutrition. He Continues to be a Member of the IUFoST Task Force on “Food processing for Nutrition, diet and Health”.
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