From Hype to Harvest: Scaling AI Across the Food Value Chain

03 Jun 2026
NPD Discovery Roundtables

• Pilot purgatory - Promising AI pilots that never scale. What’s blocking progress, and what does it take to move beyond experimentation?

• The expertise paradox - AI needs human knowledge to be valuable, but human experts don’t always welcome it. How to combine the best of human expertise and AI to innovate bigger and faster?

• Resilient by design - Supply chain disruptions are no longer the exception. How to leverage AI to predict better, react fast and protect margins?

Speakers
Alberto Prado
Alberto Prado, Former Vice President, Global Head of R&D Digital & Partnerships - Unilever