Join us on Sunday, November 19, 2023
Time: 3:30 PM EST
Online event on ZOOM
Guest Speaker: Sara Roversi
President of Future Food Institute and Paideia Campus, Pollica – Italy
Please register ahead of time. After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail of your registration.
Zoom registration link: click here.
Organized by the Consulate of Italy, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan, in collaboration with the Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation (IACLCF).
The VIII Week of Italian Cuisine in the World (SCIM23), which will take place from 13 to 19 November 2023, celebrates the theme ”At the Table with Italian Cuisine: Health with Taste.“The topic aims to draw attention to loyalty and the use of quality Italian products.
“The Extraordinary Italian Taste, an extraordinary plan to support the Made in Italy brand’s internationalization and promote High Italian Cuisine (Alta Cucina Italiana).
Sara is an experienced social entrepreneur, thought leader in the food ecosystem, and founder of systemic projects of integral ecological regeneration. As a seasoned growth expert, she works with globally recognized, high-profile think tanks on setting the agenda for the sustainable food industry.
Described as a game-changer who knows how to drive change, she has a flair for exploration and prosperity thinking.
Over the past 10 years, she has focused on a mission to take food leaders and youth to the next phase of action through education, research projects, and innovation challenges.
In 2013, she founded Future Food: a purpose-driven ecosystem facilitating positive transformation in life on earth, promoting food innovation as a strategic element to achieve sustainable and impactful growth, and in 2020 after the pandemic broke out, she birthed the Pollica – Paideia Campus, a Mediterranean Living Lab, a prototype of a sustainable village, where one can learn a new kind of sociality and live the concept of integral ecology, combining environmental protection and human health, regeneration of the territory and citizens’ well-being, social justice, and climate change.
She manages the secretariat of the Italian Emblematic Communities of the Mediterranean Diet UNESCO, she recently co-founded the goodaftercovid19.org initiative and, among others, she is also a member of the Google Food Lab, partner and board member of the Food For Climate League; Ambassador of the Agrifood Tech & Wellbeing thematic area of the Federated Innovation project @MIND; and President of the Scientific Committee of “Fondazione Italia Digitale”.
