2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 23-25, 2025 | Seattle, WA
Hyatt Regency Seattle
David Ly
Senior Manager, Business Initiatives
ReFED
Bio:
David Ly serves as Senior Manager, Business Initiatives at ReFED, where he collaborates with businesses to accelerate their efforts to reduce food waste. He leads the design and delivery of Business Services offerings, providing custom analytics, capacity building, and strategic advisory support to help organizations prioritize and adopt solutions.
David earned his Bachelor in Supply Chain Management from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He began his career in management consulting at Deloitte, then spent five years with General Mills and Hormel Foods in innovation, brand management, and consumer insights. After returning to Carlson for his MBA as a Social Venture Fellow, he launched a social enterprise focused on making technology accessible to small businesses.
In addition to his role at ReFED, David teaches Creative Economies as an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Schedule
Wednesday, May 20
11:00am - 12:00pm
“Making Measurement Matter: From Compliance Pressures to Operational Impacts”
Breakout
For many organizations, building a reliable food waste tracking system is time-consuming, technically complex, and difficult to sustain—which makes it all the more important to understand what you get out of it. When it’s done right, the answer is a lot: actionable data that drives operational improvements, stronger ESG and sustainability disclosures, and a foundation for navigating a regulatory environment that is becoming more demanding by the year. This session helps attendees cut through the noise: understanding what regulatory requirements are actually on the horizon, how the evolving GHG Protocol methodology relates to food waste accounting, and how to build measurement models that serve multiple outcomes at once—so that the effort of tracking waste pays dividends well beyond the compliance checkbox.