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The 2011 Abergavenny Food Festival Conference takes place on Friday 16 September.
Venue: St Mary's Priory Centre,
Monk Street, Abergavenny.
Cost: £95.00 (includes free stroller tickets to the Abergavenny Food Festival (Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 September).
Changing Attitudes to Local Food
Miller Research is proud to host the 5th annual Food Festival Conference. This year, we asked what you wanted to talk about, and many of you suggested "changing attitudes".
- What makes people change their behaviour about food?
- How can those involved in local food production (producers, markets etc) change the attitudes and behaviours of their consumers?
So, we aim to find out!
Here are some issues we'll be looking at:
- Selling an image – how major retailers persuade us to choose certain brands or types of food
- Taking the plunge – how we convert aspirations into action around buying local food
- How festivals and markets can work together to change people's attitudes
- Food waste – what can be done with it / about it?
Read the full conference agenda here
We have a great line-up of speakers, workshops, dems and food.
Confirmed Speakers
Siemon Scamell-Katz
Founder, TNS Magasin. Retail "crusader, pioneer and gentlemanly capitalist".
Crusader, pioneer and gentlemanly capitalist Siemon is the Founder of TNS Magasin, the international shopper strategy consultancy, and Global Director of TNS Retail and Shopper Area of Expertise.
Find out more about Siemon Scamell-Katz here
David Fell
Green Economist and Food Strategist
Brook Lyndhurst Ltd
David Fell is founder and director of Brook Lyndhurst. An economist, he has spent many years studying consumer behaviour, initially from an economic perspective, and for the past decade or so from a sustainability perspective.
Find out more about David Fell here
Kate Bull
Peoples Supermarket
Kate is a co-founder of The Peoples Supermarket in Holborn, London. A community supermarket that highlights the possibilities of consumer power and challenges the status quo.
Find out more about Kate Bull here
Charlie Hicks
Greengrocer extraordinaire, broadcaster and supplier of veg to the stars.
Charlie Hicks runs a Bristol based supply company delivering fruit and vegetables to some of the better hotels and restaurants across the south west and south Wales (including the Hardwick and The Walnut Tree).
Find out more about Charlie Hicks here
John Griffiths
Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development
John was recently appointed as Minister in the re-named Welsh Government, taking on this high profile role from Jane Davidson, who stepped down at the end of the last session.
Find out more about John Griffiths here
Steve Garrett
Social Entrepreneur
Riverside Community Market Association
Farmers' Markets and Local Economic Regeneration – Fact or Fantasy?: Steve currently lives in South Riverside, a culturally diverse inner-city neighborhood of Cardiff. As Founding Director of RCMA Social Enterprise Ltd., Steve Garrett has steered the award-winning Riverside Market through its thirteen years of growth.
Find out more about Steve Garrett here
Meilyr Ceredig
FBA – Fork2Fork
Meilyr Ceredig joined FBA in 2010 from international integrated communications company Grayling. In his past role as head of the Cardiff office he strategically directed all of Grayling’s clients in Wales.
Find out more about Meilyr Ceredig here
Tickets
Tickets this year are only £95. You get to discuss hot topics with leading practical experts, enjoy a locally sourced lunch, work on solving issues in workshops, and finish off with an excellent glass of wine at the end of the day.
Buy now – limited to only 75 places!
For more details, or to discuss special requirements, please contact Claire@miller-research.co.uk
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