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Tackling Food Waste Through Tech and Consulting

Benjamin Lephilibert, Founder & CEO, LightBlue Consulting

02-Nov-23 10:00

Tackling Food Waste Through Tech and Consulting

LightBlue Consulting is a UN-awarded organisation specialised in food waste prevention in over 20 countries. With key partnerships across hotels, restaurants, and international organisations, they bring sustainability and business excellence together. Their FIT Food Waste Monitoring Tech provides data-driven solutions to commercial kitchens, generating tailored weekly reports in nine languages to reduce food waste and associated costs.

Founder Benjamin Lephilibert has trained over 2000 culinary professionals and is a frequent international speaker on food waste prevention. Benjamin was in KL recently to speak at Kita Conversations by Kita Food Festival.

Kita Conversations is an on-going dialogue on all thing’s food related with the goal to build an open platform for people working in the food and beverage industry, plus anybody interested in where food comes from, to discuss the future of food.

Produced by: Richard Bradbury

Presented by: Richard Bradbury


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Categories:  foodenvironmentmarketsinternationaltechnology

Tags:  ofbbb2023food waste preventionbusiness excellencedata-driven solutionscommercial kitchensinternational partnershipsculinary trainingglobal impactsustainability





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