2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 23-25, 2025 | Seattle, WA
Hyatt Regency Seattle
Gabrielle Tiven
Senior Partner
LIDD
Bio:
Gabrielle Tiven is a Senior Partner at LIDD, a supply chain management consulting firm, where she spearheads the firm’s initiatives with nonprofit organizations that run supply chains. She works with food banks of all sizes, along with other charitable food distributors, on network studies, distribution center design, and overall supply chain strategy. She also conducts research into food loss and waste in the manufacturing and distribution sectors. Recent clients include ReFED, WWF, Food Banks Canada, and God’s Love We Deliver.
Gabrielle got her start in warehouse design at FreshDirect, a pioneering online grocer in NYC, and later worked in product development at Amazon Robotics. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Schedule
Tuesday, June 24
11:00am - 12:00pm
[Breakout Session I] Subtle but Successful: Hidden Solutions to Food Waste
With all of the buzz around artificial intelligence and new tech-based platforms, the business as usual, common sense solutions can get overlooked—even when they can hold the potential to drive massive reductions in food loss and waste. Just take a look across the supply chain and you’ll see simple practices that are having a big impact, and they’re available and ready to scale right now. Join this session to hear about the best practices and standard operating procedures that are making a real difference in food companies across the country, from manufacturing to foodservice to retail.