The world's food system is being redesigned around three forces at once: business models that create value for society as well as shareholders, capital that rewards long-term resilience, and intelligent technology that makes manufacturing smarter, safer and more productive.
Few places are better placed to bring these together than Dubai, a global food trade hub investing in local manufacturing capacity, advanced industry and the talent to run it. Food sovereignty here does not mean closing borders. It means building capability: the ability to make more of what a nation eats, at scale and profitably.
This roundtable brings together the CEO who redefined purpose-led business at Unilever, the thinker who gave the world the language of sustainable business, and one of the world's leading roboticists. Together they set out the terms of a new food compact: what the food factory of the next decade looks like, who will fund it, and why the Gulf can lead rather than follow.