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Jamie Crummie

Topic

Sustainability, Food Waste

Job Title

Co-founder and Director

Company

Too Good To Go

Location

London, United Kingdom

Language

English

Why?

A Trailblazing Activist, Food Waste Warrior, One Young World’s Entrepreneur with a strong vision and mission for the planet. He wants to inspire and empower everyone to take action against food waste.

Speaking Topics

  • Scaling food waste problem and how to tackle it with accessible technology 
  • Interconnection of the food waste and climate change
  • An indirect impact of food waste on society 
  • Inspiring and empowering people to take action against food waste
  • Consumer trends regards to a sustainable way of eating: demand and consumption of various products
  • Shifting consumer consciousness: eating in a more sustainable way
  • Concept of Too Good To Go
  • Shifting the way that we perceive sell-by dates: changed it from the best before to best before but good after

Expert Profile

Jamie is the Co-founder of Too Good To Go, the world’s largest marketplace for surplus food. The app lets consumers buy unsold food from restaurants and retailers so that it doesn’t go to waste. Too Good To Go is active in 17 countries and has over 40 million users. The app has data measuring how many meals they have saved from more than 60,000+ supermarkets, restaurants, bakeries, hotels and other food businesses fighting food waste, among which are M&S, Carrefour, Lidl, PAUL, etc.

With a background in human rights, he has previously worked as a Field researcher on the Refugee Rights Data Project (RRDP)  for Refugee Rights Europe.

He was named in Forbes 50 Next class of 2021, One Young World’s Entrepreneur of the Year in August 2020, one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in February 2019.