Upcoming training and events.
Food Sustainability Challenge Pitch Day
Food Sustainability is a key focus for Singapore. Food waste is one of the biggest waste streams in Singapore whilst there are many families who need quality food on a daily basis. The challenges focuses on encouraging social entrepreneurship within the food waste reduction and food waste upcycling space.
Is there a way to REDUCE & UPCYCLE food wastage by using technology or other means to upcycle food waste?
How can we positively impact the underprivileged people in Singapore?
LIFES WEBINAR SERIES V
JUST DABAO
In this weekly webinar series, we feature innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are making a positive difference in the food sustainability space. This series intends to cover a wide range of topics such as alternative and novel foods, solutions for urban food security, innovations for the future, social impact through food entrepreneurship, and food as a culture identity.
About Just Dabao
Just Dabao, a government grant recipient, is a social impact start-up that tackles food waste issues in Asia. With a mission to rebuild sustainability as people’s first choice without compromising on lifestyle choices, Just Dabao is formed through collaboration with various entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers who want to make an impact. Its unique and innovative concept backed by strong leadership has helped grow the company very quickly by getting over 250 merchants onboard and over 7,000 customers in just the last 6 months.
Speakers:
Jennifer (Co-Founder of Just Dabao)
Mei Shuen (Intern at Just Dabao)
LIFES WEBINAR SERIES IV
EDIBLE GARDEN CITY
In this weekly webinar series, we feature innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are making a positive difference in the food sustainability space. This series intends to cover a wide range of topics such as alternative and novel foods, solutions for urban food security, innovations for the future, social impact through food entrepreneurship, and food as a culture identity.
About Edible Garden City
Edible Garden City believes that growing one’s own food will allow one to reconnect with nature, conserve natural resources and cultivate a sense of community. It comprises of individuals from all walks of life coming together to share their passion for finding a solution to Singapore’s food security and waste management challenges.
Speakers:
HK (Art Director at Edible Garden City)
LIFES WEBINAR SERIES III
LIGHTBLUE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING
In this weekly webinar series, we feature innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are making a positive difference in the food sustainability space. This series intends to cover a wide range of topics such as alternative and novel foods, solutions for urban food security, innovations for the future, social impact through food entrepreneurship, and food as a culture identity.
About LightBlue
LightBlue is a for-profit social enterprise designs and implements solutions to cut operational expenses, increase employees’ efficiency and loyalty, and improve the reputation of organisations operating more responsibly. It has developed FIT Food Waste Monitoring Technology and methodologies to minimize food waste for international hotel groups, restaurants, international organisations, government agencies, and higher education, as well as supporting The PLEDGE™ on Food Waste certification and benchmarking system.
Speakers:
Benjamin Lephilibert (Founder and Managing Director of LightBlue)
The Nasi Lemak Breakdown
The Nasi Lemak Breakdown
Ever wondered what it takes to serve that plate of Nasi Lemak on your table? Follow the journey of a plate of Nasi Lemak along the supply chain, from the paddy fields and egg farm to the packing and selling in stores.
Discover the sustainability obstacles along the way, all while consuming your own plate of nasi lemak!
LIFES WEBINAR SERIES II
THE RICE TRADER
In this weekly webinar series, we feature innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are making a positive difference in the food sustainability space. This series intends to cover a wide range of topics such as alternative and novel foods, solutions for urban food security, innovations for the future, social impact through food entrepreneurship, and food as a culture identity.
About The Rice Trader
It is a weekly publication that covers development across all major rice markets, provides special analysis and reports on key markets and trends in prices. The Rice Trader is also well-known for the TRT World Rice Conference, an annual gathering for professionals from the global rice trades. The Rice Trader aims to provide market intelligence and networking opportunities to all business elements in the global rice trade.
Speakers:
Subra (Vice President at The Rice Trader)
LIFES WEBINAR SERIES I
In this weekly webinar series, we feature innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are making a positive difference in the food sustainability space. This series intends to cover a wide range of topics such as alternative and novel foods, solutions for urban food security, innovations for the future, social impact through food entrepreneurship, and food as a culture identity.
About Altimate Nutrition
What started out as an entrepreneurial programme in college soon grew into a full-fledged venture into the horizons of alternative protein. Altimate Nutrition was founded to challenge the status quo in the food industry, with the hopes of creating innovative novel food products that can alleviate food and nutrition insecurity.
Speakers:
Gavriel (Co-Founders of Altimate Nutrition)
John (Co-Founders of Altimate Nutrition)
Second LIFES Dialogue
Second LIFES is a dialogue session with a panel and a curated audience with businesses or interests in the food waste sector. The key objective is to contribute to the creation of businesses with societal impact and discuss opportunities for innovations.
Panelists:
Irsyad Ramthan (Interseed)
Shen Ming Lee, Chief Marketing Officer (CRUST)
Betty Lu (Confetti Snacks)
Augustine Quek, Professor from NUS
Under 30 Hawker Chat Competition
Under 30 Hawker Chat Competition
Welcoming videos from the public for the ‘Under 30’ Hawker Chat
Find out what motivated the hawkers to make the career change/ what’s the biggest challenge they faced.
Find out if they eat their own food/ what’s their favourite meal.
What’s your favourite thing about eating at a hawker? What’s one thing you don’t like about eating at a hawker centre?
If you had the chance to redesign the hawker centre, what would you do?
What do you do outside of your work as a hawker?
Explore the idea of a lifestyle article on hawkers under 30 with media.
System Innovation Workshop on Food Production
In this blended interactive session using Miro collborative platform, we will use a System Innovation canvas to understand the different aspects, highlighting an interesting dynamic. This activity will help us to become better aware of both our own and the shared cognitive patterns, alongside how they affect the food system here in Singapore.
Panelists:
Marisa Agrasut
Anna Itkin
Mapping the stakeholders in the system
The aim of this session is to gain a deeper understanding of the stakeholders in a given system. This is done by creating a diagram consisting of the various individuals and organizations that have a role in the system we wish to change and eliciting their values, models, incentives, and power dynamics.
Panelists:
Jack Sim (BoP Hub)
Yan Liu (BoP Hub)
TEDxESSEC Asia Pacific 2021
How can we reconcile progress and sustainability?
For an inspiring hour and a half, four speakers leverage their know-how and expertise to debate sustainability in their line of work and the world we live in.
Founders Food Conversation Series
Building awareness about the sustainability issues in Singapore’s food system and how we can get around it to ultimately answer our big question: How might we diversify the food source and work to reach 30% locally-grown nutrition supply by 2030?
We’ll be interviewing Food Founders to share more about this topic and how they are contributing to Singapore’s Food security.
Food Sustainability Challenge
Food Sustainability Challenge
Calling for aspiring social innovators! If you have an interest in starting a social enterprise within the food sector, we invite you to send in your pitch and stand a chance to win attractive prizes! Grab the opportunity to meet seasoned social entrepreneurs, experts, and investors within this field!
Hungry for Disruption: Opportunities for a Better Food Future
Hungry for Disruption: Opportunities for a Better Food Future
Passionate about food and environmental sustainability, hungry for knowledge and eager to contribute to innovative solutions? Want to know how scientific and technological advances can help reimagine our food system to create a more sustainable and inclusive future?
SDG Global Festival of Action 2021: How to use the Iceberg system thinking model to understand complex social problems
System thinking is a way of approaching problems that examine how various elements within a system relates to or influence one another – it could be an organization, an eco-system, or supply chain, or a city or nation. In this workshop, we will guide participants to apply the Iceberg Model to understand a global issue – food systems.
Enabling Green Innovation – a sharing by Interseed
What is green innovation? Where do we begin exploring the green innovation landscape and what does it mean to enable green innovation and entrepreneurship in Singapore and Southeast Asia? The Co-Founder and COO of Interseed, Irsyad Ramthan, shares his insights on the green innovation landscape in this sharing.
Meet-up with Mentors
Meet our mentors in person and let them help you to refine your project idea and grant you exclusive access to their pool of resources. Take this chance to learn about social system innovation methodologies and the stellar mentorship team at JISSI. Meet like-minded participants and get match-made to potential teammates if you have yet to form your A-team. Best of all, get personally connected to a mentor and get the guidance you need to level up your R&G Innovation Challenge grant application.
Jack and the Beanstalk: Rethinking Social Innovation for Optimal Impact
In this showcase of proven social solutions, renowned social entrepreneur Jack showed us how to reach the kingdom of giants and leverage feasible solutions such as:
Treadle pumps & solar irrigation (Proximity Designs)
Low-cost solar panels (SELCO)
Alternatives to Single Use Plastics (WWF)
Micro-loans for water (Water.org)
Drawing on his decades of experience, Jack has developed a philosophy and strategy for maximising social impact – “standing on the shoulders of giants”. Instead of starting from scratch, social innovators can create immediate impact and scale quickly by innovating upon existing practices.
Introduction to Social System Innovation
An exclusive online information session with prominent and accomplished social entrepreneurs and experts in five fields namely, Water and Sanitation, FoodTech and AgriTech, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship and 17 SDGs, and COVID-19 Job Creation.