Overview
Cleantech Group, with the support of Silicon Valley Bank and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, invite industry professionals to the latest in its Power Breakfast series: Direct-to-Consumer Food Delivery Services: Growing Local Food Networks.
Successfully running since 2012, the Power Breakfast series is designed to give Bay Area cleantech leaders a platform for open and honest discussions about relevant topics.
Agenda
Direct to consumer (D2C) delivery models have disrupted consumer product industries from books and electronics to retail stores, web services, and increasingly food. Online sales of food and beverage growing at 19% year-on-year, making it one of the top five fastest growing online sales sectors in the US. The market size equates to $17.5 billion in 2018 and is expected to rise to $30 billion by 2021 in the US alone.
Our panel will explore how supply chain systems are adapting to D2C food models. The discussion will look at how innovative local delivery providers are solving the challenge of connecting local produce with local customers while keeping transportation costs low, but also how large food corporates are adapting infrastructure to provide online delivery services. We will ask what logistic, robotic, AI, or automation innovations are emerging to make these businesses run efficiently and with low food waste generation.
November 19, 2019
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Breakfast & Networking
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Panel Discussion
Chris Sworder
Lead Analyst, Agriculture and Food, Cleantech Group
Brook Porter
Founding Partner, G2VP
Aleks Strub
CMO, Imperfect Foods
Mike Xu
CEO, President & Founder, GrubMarket -
Open Discussion & Networking
Venue
The Power Breakfast will be located at Wilson Sonsoni Goodrich & Rosati’s San Francisco office:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
1 Market Street, 19th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Speakers
Speakers coming soon…
Brook Porter
Founding Partner, G2VP Speaker bioBrook Porter
A sought after investor and advisor for companies at the intersection of technology and sustainability, Brook Porter brings decades of high-tech energy, transportation and agriculture expertise to G2VP as a founding partner. Previously, Porter led multi-stage investments for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ $1B Green Growth Fund, which included Uber, Turo, Amprius, Bloom Energy, ChargePoint, INRIX, Farmers Edge, Kaiima, Proterra, Renmatix and Siluria.
A serial entrepreneur, Porter has also co-founded two alternative fuel companies: Intelligent Energy, a hydrogen fuel cell technology company acquired by UK-based Intelligent Energy and Primafuel, a biofuels solutions provider, now a subsidiary of Edeniq. During his time at Primafuel, Porter led all aspects of engineering and operations and played a critical role in multiple financings for the company. Brook was a co-developer of the ENV Fuel Cell Motorcycle, recognized by TIME magazine and Popular Science as one of the best inventions of 2005.
Brook holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, with an emphasis in environmental technology. He is named on multiple U.S. and international patents in the field of renewable energy, including energy conversion and catalysis.
Aleks Strub
CMO, Imperfect Foods Speaker bioAleks Strub
Aleks Strub is the Chief Marketing Officer at Imperfect. Having been in the food tech space for a number of years, she enjoys challenging the public perception of ugly food and bringing it to life with googly eyes. Imperfect is an online grocer creating a more sustainable and effective food system to better our communities and the environment. The company sources imperfect produce and surplus food directly from farmers, growers and food purveyors and delivers these goods directly to customers’ doors through a customizable subscription service.
Chris Sworder
Lead Analyst, Agriculture and Food, Cleantech GroupChris Sworder
Mike Xu
CEO, President & Founder, GrubMarketMike Xu
Sponsors
Thank you to our longtime Power Breakfast sponsors, Silicon Valley Bank and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Power Breakfast Sponsors
Silicon Valley Bank is the premier bank for technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity and premium wine businesses.
Read moreSilicon Valley Bank is the premier bank for technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity and premium wine businesses. Named one of the top financial services company for cleantech companies by the San Francisco Business Times, SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 28 U.S. offices and six international operations. (Nasdaq: SIVB) www.svb.com. Silicon Valley Bank is the California bank subsidiary and the commercial banking operation of SVB Financial Group. Banking services are provided by Silicon Valley Bank, a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System. SVB Private Bank is a division of Silicon Valley Bank. SVB Financial Group is also a member of the Federal Reserve System.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the leading law firm in the world advising enterprises devoted to development of energy and clean technologies and projects.
Read moreWilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the leading law firm in the world advising enterprises devoted to development of energy and clean technologies and projects. We represent a dynamic client base that includes more than 300 emerging companies seeking to be tomorrow’s energy and resources leaders, mature energy technology and project development companies, and major public companies developing winning strategies in energy and clean technologies. We offer the energy and clean tech industry unmatched experience gained in representing high tech companies in all phases of their growth cycle. For more information, visit www.wsgr.com