WE Lead Change
Meet the team! Hear the stories behind the movement from the women who lead the programme. WE Lead Food, together!
Join us for this webinar to hear and discuss what and who it takes to lead change in our food system in the 21st Century - if we want to have new results, we must do things differently. We know our food system is broken and we're all continuously evolving our role in the shift required to deliver an inclusive, sustainable and resilient system. The women who created and continue to deliver WE Lead Food have rolled up their sleeves and put in their heads, hands and hearts for decades to make our food and our planet better for us and for all.
Grab your lunch and log in to be inspired and to inspire. We're all in this together!
The speakers from the Team:
Dr. Josune Latasa Sada
Head of innovation in Precision Nutrition - IMDEA Food Institute. Head of Education Programmes EIT Food UAM-IMDEA Food. María Jesús (aka Josune) has a Ph.D. in Pharmacy, specializing in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Her research work focused on the effect of diet on the regulation of microRNAs and other non-coding RNAs. Maria works on Research, Development and Innovation activities to promote innovation around nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics to implement Precision Nutrition – based strategies. She is also involved in management and implementation of educational activities around Food Innovation through international and national programmes.
Prof. Milena Corredig
Enterprise Professor and iFOOD Centre Leader, Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, a regular contributor to WE Lead. Milena has held numerous academic positions as professor and research Chair in Dairy Science and Technology. She was also Vice President of Research and Development for GayLea Foods, a dairy processing cooperative operating in Ontario, Canada. She has extensive mentoring experience and is the editor of three research journals. Her experience includes building programs, research partnerships, developing new initiatives. Her passion is food processing and the development of nutritious and sustainable food solutions.
Dr. Shima Barakat
Founder and CEO of Cambridge BAST Ltd. Until spring 2024 she was an Associate Professor and Director of the Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Programme at the University of Cambridge. She has personally supported over 200 start-ups and 650 entrepreneurial women. Her work for the last 30 years has focused on helping organisations ‘start right’ or develop their practices to embed sustainability at the heart of what they do. Her work focuses on global challenges, and the ecosystem and education/training needs of entrepreneurs and their ventures in providing solutions to such big challenges.
Your Zoom link will be sent to you via email once you have registered.
We'll run the event two times: 24th April and 29th May, 2025. The talks will be the same. Q&A will be open to all. Feel free to come again if you attended in April but now have new questions.
This webinar is part of a large family of WE Lead Food training courses and a rapidly growing community of change makers who are women and totally awesome. If you would like to know more about other WE Lead Food initiatives and for more information about the next global WE Lead Food programme see: https://learning.eitfood.eu/courses/we-lead-food Also look out for in-person, local workshops coming near you, in local languages - Itlay, Spain, Poland, Serbia and Portugal are in the planning.
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