2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 23-25, 2025 | Seattle, WA
Hyatt Regency Seattle
Kate Gaertner
Founder & CEO
TripleWin Advisory
Bio:
Kate Gaertner is the founder and CEO of TripleWin Advisory, a corporate sustainability consultancy that helps businesses measure and manage their environmental footprints, embrace circular business models, and deliver sustainability education to their workforces. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and as a Technical Advisor to the Loopt Foundation, supporting zero-waste goals in manufacturing. A frequent speaker and media contributor, Kate has published articles in TIME, Forbes, Fast Company, Real Leaders, GreenBiz, and more.
Kate is the author of Planting a Seed: 3 Simple Steps to Sustainable Living, a 2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner, and a contributing author to Bruce Nagy’s book, Proven Climate Solutions, Leading voices on how to accelerate change. She has been named one of the Global 50 Women in Sustainability by SustainabilityX Magazine.
She holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Management from the University of Wisconsin, an MBA from the Wharton School, and an AB from Dartmouth College. She lives in Boston with her husband and two children.
Schedule
Wednesday, June 25
10:45am - 11:45am
[Breakout Session III] From the Ground Up: Empowering Frontline Workers to Reduce Food Waste
Often the best solutions come from the people who are closest to the problem. Empowering frontline workers to develop strategies for addressing food loss and waste has surfaced creative and highly scalable solutions across the food system—in one case, driving more than a 70% reduction in wasted food within a manufacturing line. Join some of these frontline workers from U.S. Food Waste Pact signatory companies to hear how they’ve led high-impact work from the ground up—and how the Pact’s newly launched employee engagement toolkit can help your business.