Evolving Food Futures & Chefs’ Manifesto London Action Hub : Industry Professionals

Hungry for change? Join chefs, growers, educators, and others shaping a better food future—share ideas, explore projects, and get inspired to build it together.

Chefs’ Manifesto and OmVed Gardens invite you to their annual conference to explore dietary diversity & how to impact change in the system.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided for registered attendees. Please select the tickets for the sessions you wish to attend

PROGRAMME TOPICS

Morning Session
Hands-on knowledge exchange and discussions around menu development and behaviour change, exploring how chefs can make diverse diets more delicious, accessible, and affordable for communities.

Afternoon Session

An industry-focussed deep dive on food policy and systems change, with a workshop to share, build, and support actions chefs can take to tackle key challenges and drive change towards Good Food for All.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
Rediscovering Ingredients for Health, Taste and the Planet | A more biodiverse pantry cooking demo & dialogue with Chef Vanshika Bhatia and Conor Spacey

Behaviour Change on the Menu | Keynote with Dr. Christina Vogel

This session explores why chefs need to lead on shifting eating behaviours, the importance of people and planet health, food culture in the UK (is the food system structured in such a way that it encourages good choices?), is there restrictive legislation that needs to change? How can chefs be a part of good change? What role does heritage, education, family experience, and culture play in the decisions we make?

Growing Power: Seeding a Good Food for All Future | Panel

With voices from London, Ireland, Peru and Kenya, this session explores how chefs, growers and food activists are championing biodiversity, celebrating local and diaspora food cultures, and responding to polycrises through seeds, storytelling, and solidarity.

The Garden is a School: School Meals Lunch by OmVed Gardens

Digesting UK Food Policy | Keynote by Joss MacDonald

Facilitated workshop exploring how we can bring the National Food Policy recommendations to life in our workplaces, kitchens and communities through grassroots/bottom-up strategies, and what collective action we can take to better apply political pressure to duty bearers/top-down.

About the organisers:

The Chefs’ Manifesto is a chef-led project that brings together 1600+ chefs from around the world to explore how they can help deliver a sustainable food system. As chefs bridge the gap between farm and fork, the Chefs’ Manifesto empowers chefs with a framework tied to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London dedicated to exploring the connections between food, ecology and creativity for health and climate resilience. We are on a mission to inspire ecological awareness and action, and deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with the natural world.

As a registered Community Interest Company, all our activities prioritise social and ecological objectives. Whether collaborating with chefs, creatives, gardeners, or schools, OmVed Gardens is a hub for education, connection, and action. We aim to inspire individuals and communities to reimagine their role in building a healthier, more resilient world.

We work to increase biodiversity - of species, seeds, food systems, and participation, through regenerative gardening, seed saving, habitat creation, and ecological education. Our space serves as a living example of how urban areas can be transformed into thriving ecosystems that support both human and non-human communities.

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