2023 Food Waste Solutions Summit
May 16-18, 2023 | St. Louis, MO
Christy Cook
Founder and CEO
InvestHER Strategies
Bio:
Christy is a veteran of the corporate sustainability space where she has been working for almost 20 years. She went from creating sustainability solutions at one college campus to 8500 sites in North America across seven business sectors for Sodexo where she also developed the foundation for the largest food waste prevention program in the world.
As the VP of Customer Success for Leanpath, she led the account management team working directly with clients to make food waste prevention and measurement an everyday practice in the world’s kitchens.
Christy understands how to scale sustainable solutions in the corporate world to startups. She is the founder and CEO of InvestHER Strategies where she works with startups and small to medium enterprises to create a more sustainable future for their business while ensuring people and the planet thrive.
Schedule
Thursday, May 21
10:45am - 11:45am
“Crowd Control: Smarter Food Waste Strategies for High-Volume Events”
Breakout
From corporate conferences and conventions to large sporting events and concerts, events are among the most prolific—and most overlooked—generators of food waste. The combination of high-volume catering, cultural pressure to ensure tables are overflowing, and the push to craft memorable experiences creates a perfect storm of overproduction and excess. Yet these settings also present a uniquely concentrated opportunity: when meeting planners, venues, and the cities they operate in commit to doing things differently, the impact can demonstrate that sustainability and hospitality are anything but mutually exclusive. This session brings together practitioners across the events and hospitality industry to share the strategies, tools, and mindset shifts that are making a measurable difference—and how they can serve as best practices that inform other food waste situations.