Mr. Lloyd Day will be featured as a panelist during the opening fireside chat titled Setting the Scene: Canada’s Challenges and Opportunities in Feeding the World Sustainably which will kick off day 1 of Canadian Agri-Food in a Sustainable World. Mr. Day has served in various roles throughout his career, starting by working with the Governor of California, and later becoming the Deputy Secretary of International Trade and Investment for California. Following this, he was Administrator of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, then the Head of Federal Government Affairs at Syngenta, and most recently the Deputy Director General at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).  

The Canadian Agri-food in a Sustainable World conference is hosted by the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and the Centre for Agri-Food Benchmarking and will be held on October 2 and 3, 2024 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The conference will address the definition of sustainability in the context of agri-food, how the sector should balance economic productivity with environmental sustainability, and how agri-food policy should be revamped to address sustainability.  

Mr. Day is one of three new conference speakers confirmed this week including Nick Betts, Managing Director of the Canadian Alliance for Net Zero Agri-food (CANZA) and Charles-Antoine St-Jean, Chair of the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board (CSSB). Mr. Betts will be featured as a panelist on day 1 during the Ag Policy Exchange where panelists will debate whether sustainability should be Canada’s #1 competitive advantage. Day 1 (Oct. 2) will feature seven sessions which will consider tensions, challenges, and opportunities for sustainability in the context of the agri-food sector. Day 2 (Oct. 3) will be hosted by the Centre for Agri-food Benchmarking and will focus on the rapidly changing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) requirements in both a national and global context and with respect to the role of the National Index on Agri-Food Performance. Mr. St-Jean will be joining on day 2 and will be part of the first panel, National and Global ESG Context.  

To see the full list of speakers, session descriptions, and schedule visit the event website. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more information on conference speakers and sponsors. Register today.