Why does Sustainability Matter in Bio-Based Ingredients?

​​Sustainability is rapidly becoming a defining priority in industrial biotechnology influencing investment, regulation, consumer expectations, and the long-term viability of bioprocesses. As the industry shifts toward more responsible innovation, teams are increasingly expected to understand and quantify the environmental impact of their decisions from the earliest stages of development.

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This webinar is for:

• Startups building novel food ingredients, precision fermentation or biotech platforms

• Corporate teams leading innovation in food and bio-based materials searching for ways to measure their sustainability

• Investors and partners enabling faster, smarter and more sustainable scale-up 

• Anyone interested in applying LCA principles to complex, capital-intensive R&D

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In this webinar we will explore:

• Why sustainability matters now — environmental pressures, regulatory momentum, consumer expectations, and costly R&D decisions

• ​​How sustainability is being implemented today — research advances, emerging assessment methods, localised sourcing, and process optimisation

• ​​The current challenges in quantifying environmental impact — data limitations, inconsistent frameworks, and barriers to adoption in bioprocessing

• ​​What’s next for the industry — tools enabling faster, more accessible environmental insights (including platforms like Foresight), cross-industry collaboration, sustainable protein research, and growing efforts toward standardisation

Featuring:

• Ahmad Mahmoud Kobeiter Abiad - Sustainability Specialist, New Wave Biotech

• Lucas Eastham, Lead Scientist in Fermentation, The Good Food Institute

• Dr. Diogo Pinto, Project Acquisition Co-Ordinator, Bio-Based Europe Pilot Plant

• Ben Williams, CTO, Sun Bear Biofuture

• Dr. Sandra Chauruka, Manager in Process Chemistry & Scale-up, CPI

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