Food & Nature
Overview
According to recent research by GlobeScan, there is a wide gap between how much APAC consumers desire a healthy and sustainable lifestyle and their actual behaviour. Enabling consumers to live more healthy and sustainable lives, of which diets are a crucial element, is not only crucial for our collective future, but also represents an immense opportunity for companies to maintain a competitive advantage and keep pace with the fast evolving sustainability agenda.
Learnings
- What role do businesses play in inspiring consumer behaviour change for healthy and sustainable living?
- How can brands capitalise on the opportunity brought by an increased focus on sustainable lifestyles and diets as an avenue to health?
- A correct diet not only enhances health and wellness, but can also change the way businesses are run.
Post Event Actions
- Consider how food is perceived as a topic of thought leadership in business.
Speakers
MODERATOR
Alvin Lee
Senior ESG & Communications Manager
Green Monday Group
Alvin Lee
Senior ESG & Communications Manager
Green Monday Group
Alvin heads Green Monday’s corporate partnership division. With experience as a local green culture and tourism journalist and as a lobbyist for animal welfare organisations, Alvin has always been passionate about biodiversity and environmental education. He is also a permaculture PDC graduate for sustainable living design.
Juliana Lam
Founder and President
INNOTIER Limited
Juliana Lam
Founder and President
INNOTIER Limited
Juliana Lam is the Founder and Chairman of Julius Group Holdings Ltd, an OEM gloves manufacturer. Her manufacturing legacy was deeply influenced since her father’s gloves manufacturing company since 1963. She has over 20 years of manufacturing experience in gloves & accessories industries and had managed over 20 gloves factories in China and South East Asia countries. Julius Group is a forward-thinking company that believes in transforming the conventional gloves manufacturing business with ESG (environment, social and governance) as their core values and has equipped with the most advanced E-TECH double-rail production system hanging on ceiling. Building best efficiency through big data and constant innovations in the industry is her belief in nowadays industrial mind, as well as partnering with top retail brands globally. She is working tirelessly to reinvent and build sustainable business through technologies and innovative solutions. Juliana was the only female award winner among the few Young Industrialist Awards of Hong Kong in 2014 and the first female President of The Association of Hong Kong Gloves Traders Limited.
Juliana is also the Founder and President of UK born retail brand INNOTIER, an innovation-driven company with a mission to develop products that help people live in more sustainable lives with the global top technologies as foundation.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
We believe that a truly innovative approach to technology can have a big impact on the world. It can impact people and the planet and ensure a sustainable future for all. We also believe that we can only do this if we have a truly global mindset.
Alice Liang
Chief Proposition Officer
AIA
Alice Liang
Chief Proposition Officer
AIA
Alice Liang, Chief Proposition Officer of AIAHK & Macau, leads the Health & Wellness and Wealth Management functions and has overall leadership responsibility for product, ecosystem and planning tools across local and GBA markets.
She has held senior leadership positions focused on Proposition, Wealth and A&H in Asia and UK.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
Strengthened public awareness on healthier lifestyle and disease prevention for more people to live healthier, longer, better lives in Hong Kong.
Patrick Stevens
Head of Real Estate
PURE Group
Patrick Stevens
Head of Real Estate
PURE Group
With over 10 years’ experience integrating wellness into the commercial real estate landscape Patrick is currently Head of Real Estate at Pure International. Through this time, he has witnessed dramatic changes to the way health and fitness facilities are delivered and used.
While Covid 19 has presented the biggest challenge ever faced by the fitness industry, it has also accelerated the growth in demand for health and wellbeing.
He believes landlords, occupiers, and service providers must now work alongside to ensure wellness facilities are provided at the scale and nature that the market requires.
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