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  • Virtual - 2 Days
    Wednesday
    May 3
    2023

    2023 Women in Global Development Leadership Forum

    Your ticket to the 2023 Women in Global Development Leadership Forum gets you six months of exclusive leadership development opportunities (March-August, 2023)

    The WILD Forum connects visionary people from across the global development sector to exchange ideas, tools, and perspectives, empowering you to become the best leader you can be.

    You’ll gain transformative insights to be more effective in the work that you do, and to foster a culture of inclusive leadership within your own organization and across the sector.

    Join 1,300 women and men from 125+ countries. Together, we’re building a global community of people committed to multiplying their own impact – so we can address the world’s toughest problems, faster.

    How you’ll learn, share and connect

    The WILD Forum brings you content and speakers that offer concrete and transferable learning in fun, inspiring formats.

    Another advantage? You’ll connect with others in an authentic way – which makes the WILD Forum one of the best networking events of the year.

    Thank you to the global community who shapes our program. More than 75 speakers bring their knowledge, lived experience and research to refine the WILD Forum conversation.

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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Wednesday
    May 3
    2023

    Take Action in Building a Gender-Empowered Financial System

    Part of a Women-Focused SME in Asia or Africa, with ambitious plans to unlock capital for your business? Find out if you make the cut at the Orange Bond Initiative™ webinar and be part of the next game-changing Orange Bond. WLB6 is part of the WLB Series, which has a proven record of mobilizing US$128 million with zero defaults, positively impacting over 1.3 million women across Asia-Pacific and Africa, and working at an intersection of gender equality and climate action. Enterprises that have been part of our previous issuances have enjoyed accelerated growth and global brand recognition through the bond series. Seize your chance to be a part of a transformational movement, geared at creating a more equitable financial system.
    Time: 12:00 AM
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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Wednesday
    May 3
    2023

    Investing for Climate Impact through Food Waste Solutions

    Investing for Climate Impact through Food Waste Solutions

    Despite the fact that real progress has been made over the past two decades, it’s now abundantly clear that the climate crisis is no longer a future concern. It’s happening now, and we must act more boldly to address it by investing in for-profit and nonprofit enterprises that offer immediate, rapid, and large-scale solutions to climate change – like food waste reduction. In the United States alone, an estimated 35% of all food ends up uneaten annually, producing more greenhouse gas emissions than 42 coal-fired power plants. Uneaten food is the number one product entering landfills, where it decomposes and generates methane, an anthropogenic greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

    The good news? The problem of food waste is eminently solvable – it’s literally low-hanging fruit. Food waste reduction solutions already exist, and many of them are “shovel-ready,” just needing implementation rather than invention to reap big benefits. And by preventing food waste from going to landfill – through prevention and diversion – we can reduce atmospheric methane concentrations in just a decade or two, which is critical for limiting warming by 2050.

    Join Impact Entrepreneur for a Building an Impact Economy webinar, co-hosted by ReFED, a nonprofit working to reduce food loss and waste in the U.S. food system. We’ll explore the connection between food waste and the climate, present a range of solutions for fighting it – from breakthrough innovations to basic best practices – and share opportunities for you to support the effort right now.

    Featured Guests

    Dana Gunders serves as Executive Director of ReFED, the national nonprofit working to end food waste by advancing data-driven solutions. Dana is a national expert on food waste and was one of the first to bring to light just how much food is lost throughout the food system. For almost a decade, she was a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She then launched Next Course, LLC to strategically advise on the topic. Some of her career highlights include authoring the landmark “Wasted” report and Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook, launching the “Save the Food” campaign with the Ad Council, testifying in Congress, consulting to Google, and being a founding Board Member of ReFED. She was also called “the woman who started the waste-free movement” by Consumer Reports.

    Arthur Chow is a Vice President at S2G Ventures supporting the Food & Agriculture strategy. His responsibilities include evaluating and executing investments as well as managing and supporting portfolio companies. Arthur began his career in investment banking at UBS and later joined Frontenac, a middle market private equity firm, where he focused on food and consumer buyouts. Seeking operating experience, he worked for the Kraft Heinz Company and managed a $2 billion commercial P&L within the Foodservice business unit. Arthur then joined S2G prior to pursuing his MBA, where he primarily spent time working with several early-stage consumer-focused food companies including Tovala, Once Upon a Farm, and Dom’s Kitchen and Market. Arthur received a BBA from the University.

    Kate Leadbeater is Head of Marketing for Flashfood, where she leads marketing and customer experience. Flashfood is an app that seeks to end retail food waste by making near-dated groceries an affordable source of healthy food for its 2.5 million users. Flashfood is available in more than 1,600 grocery stores across North America and has saved more than 80 million pounds of food from landfill since it was launched in 2018. Prior to pursuing her passions for food and sustainability at Flashfood, Kate spent eight years at award-winning ad agency DDB Worldwide as VP Digital, working with clients from a variety of sectors from CPG to tourism. She has studied communications and media at the University of Toronto and Montreal’s Concordia University and was a guest lecturer at the University of Alberta’s MBA program. When Kate’s not solving marketing problems, you’ll find her gardening, making messes in the kitchen with her 6-year-old, and advocating for the changes we need to tackle the climate crisis.

    Time: 12 – 1:15pm EDT

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