Plant Futures Is Headed to GreenBiz
A preview of what we’re excited to learn, listen for, and bring back to our community
Why GreenBiz Matters
Photo by Colin Lloyd (@onthesearchforpineapples)
GreenBiz brings together the people shaping how sustainability shows up inside companies, supply chains, and institutions. It is where climate commitments begin to translate into real decisions about food, materials, procurement, and communication.
For Plant Futures, GreenBiz matters because it sits at the intersection of ideas and action. It is a space where sustainability leaders, emerging voices, and decision makers are grappling with the same core question: how do we move sustainability from intention to practice?
As an organization working across food systems, higher education, and partnership building, we see GreenBiz as a key moment to listen, learn, and connect campus rooted work to the broader systems shaping food, agriculture, and climate.
What We’re Looking Forward To
As sustainability becomes more integrated across organizations, the work is getting more complex and more collaborative. Communication, coordination, and credibility now matter just as much as ambition.
This year, we’re especially excited to spend time in two GreenBiz tracks that closely reflect where sustainability work is heading across food, agriculture, and consumer goods, and the questions we hear most often from students, partners, and practitioners navigating this space.
Comms with Confidence
This track focuses on how sustainability leaders communicate clearly and credibly within complex organizations and to audiences who may not work directly in sustainability.
We’re particularly interested in how organizations navigate trust, transparency, and relevance as sustainability becomes embedded across teams and functions, especially when climate and food system work is no longer confined to a single department.
Sessions we’re paying close attention to include:
When Sustainability Isn’t Their Day Job: Engaging the Unengaged
Telling Compelling, Credible, and Compliant Sustainability Stories
How These Whole Foods’ Sustainability Leaders Adopted Frontier Tech Before It Hit the Market
These conversations feature perspectives from organizations including Kite Insights, McCormick & Co., Hower Impact, Mill, and Amazon Grocery, offering insight into how communication, innovation, and decision making intersect across food systems.
Regenerating Nature
This track centers on how regenerative approaches can move beyond pilots to create meaningful, landscape level impact.
We’re drawn to discussions that emphasize collaboration across supply chains, alignment between companies and producers, and the practical realities of scaling regenerative and biodiversity focused initiatives in ways that work for people and ecosystems.
Sessions of interest include:
How Mad Agriculture, Whole Foods, Oatly & Co. Lead Landscape Level Regeneration
Nature and Biodiversity Pathways: Building Scalable, Collaborative Approaches
These sessions bring together organizations including Mad Agriculture, Whole Foods, Oatly, Trellis Group, Lundberg Family Farms, and Procter and Gamble to explore how companies and partners are working together to support regeneration through coordinated strategies and long term commitments.
Phoenix Sundown, photo by Matthew Hamilton (@thatsmrbio)
Looking Ahead
As we head to Arizona, we’re looking forward to learning alongside sustainability leaders working at the intersection of food, agriculture, and climate. We’ll be sharing takeaways from GreenBiz that highlight emerging approaches, challenges, and opportunities shaping what’s next for sustainable food systems and climate leadership.
