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ReFed Food Waste Summit 2025
We are proud to be apart of the ReFED Food Waste Summit 2025 in Seattle – the premier food waste event that convenes food businesses, funders, solution providers, innovators, policymakers, nonprofits, & more.
June 23-25, 2025 | Seattle, WA
Hyatt Regency Seattle
When: June 11-13
Where: Baltimore Convention Center
Not able to make it? Get in touch with us using the form here to learn more about the topic.
More details about the conference can be found on ReFed here:
ReFED 2025 Food Waste Solutions Summit
Help us make a difference.
Calling all United States food manufacturers and distributors!
Join our study to assess food loss and waste within the U.S. manufacturing and distribution sectors.
The Project – LIDD is collaborating with ReFED to explore loss and surplus in food manufacturing and distribution in the U.S. This effort will contribute to updating ReFED’s Insights Engine which estimates food waste in the country broken down by food type, supply chain stage, causes, and destinations.
The Ask – We invite companies to take part in a 1-hour interview where we’ll discuss the quantities, causes, and destinations of food loss and waste in your operations. We’ll also explore any solutions you’ve implemented to prevent or divert waste.
Who? – We are looking to interview inventory control leads, C-suite finance, or operations leaders in U.S. food manufacturing and distribution companies.
Why Participate? – Make a valuable contribution to a meaningful cause. ReFED’s database and reports provide actionable industry insights and effective solutions for reducing food waste and minimizing environmental impacts.
Confidentiality – All identifying information from participating companies will remain confidential and anonymized in the report. Any business insights shared by ReFED will be published only in aggregate form, ensuring anonymity.
For more information contact: g[email protected]
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Gabrielle spearheads LIDD’s initiatives with non-profit organizations that run supply chains. She works with food banks, food rescue organizations, food pantries, and similar organizations to use LIDD’s expertise to help address food insecurity. She guides organizations on network studies, distribution center designs, and overall supply chain strategy, and conducts research in food loss and waste in manufacturing and distribution.
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Gabrielle Tiven is a Senior Partner at LIDD and spearheads the firm’s initiatives with non-profit organizations that run supply chains. She works with food banks, food rescue organizations, food pantries, and similar organizations to use LIDD’s expertise to help address food insecurity. She guides organizations on network studies, distribution center designs, and overall supply chain strategy, and conducts research in food loss and waste in manufacturing and distribution. In addition to working with clients, Gabrielle helms parts of LIDD's administration and management, currently overseeing the firm's human resources and legal departments. Gabrielle got her start in warehouse design at FreshDirect, a pioneering online grocer in NYC, and later worked in product development at Kiva Systems, now Amazon Robotics. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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