2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 11-13, 2024 | Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Convention Center
Josh Domingues
Founder & Executive Chairman
Flashfood
Bio:
Josh Domingues is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Flashfood, a mobile marketplace that strives to eliminate retail food waste by connecting communities with discounted food nearing its best-by date, while earning grocery operators greater profits.
Josh founded Flashfood in 2016 after reading about the environmental effects of food waste. Determined to make a difference, Josh often cites that if international food waste were a country, it would be the third leading cause of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions behind the US and China. Josh leads corporate strategy for Flashfood, which has diverted more than 100 million pounds of food from landfills and has made groceries more affordable for hundreds of thousands of families.
Flashfood is available in over 2000+ stores across Canada and the US and counts Stop & Shop, The GIANT Company, Meijer, Tops Friendly Markets, Giant Eagle, Stop & Shop, Hy-Vee, SpartanNash and Loblaw Companies Limited among its partners.
Josh earned a Bachelor of Commerce Cum Laude (Finance and Management Science) from Saint Mary’s University, Josh worked as an investment advisor before becoming a management consultant and VP at a boutique firm.
Schedule
Wednesday, June 12
9:00am - 10:30am
Mainstage 1 | The Road to Scale: Accelerating Action for Lasting Impact
Mainstage Session
Food waste is a solvable problem, and dozens of high-impact solutions already exist. So what will it take for the food system to finally start adopting them at scale? Our opening session will dig into the answer from a few different angles. We’ll hear an opening keynote from ReFED’s Dana Gunders and be welcomed to the Summit by a White House representative. Then we’ll hear from a series of innovators about how they were able to get their solutions to “break through” with end users. And we’ll close with a keynote by a special guest. As Dana famously said in her opening remarks at last year’s Summit, the time for pilots is over – we know what works, so let’s start doing it.