Keynote speakers
Annika Carlsson-Kanyama
Annika Carlsson-Kanyama is currently a Research Director at the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), Energy and Environmental Security Group, in Stockholm. Her research deals with mitigation and adaptation to climate change, energy and food security as well as well as environmental impacts from consumption patterns. She collaborates with researchers from several disciplines including the behavioural sciences and has conducted studies related to energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from food products life-cycles for the last decade.
Liz Sharples
Liz has worked as an academic at Sheffield Hallam University for 24 years, where she first taught Food and Beverage Management for the Hospitality Subject group and now is Subject Team Leader for the Events Management group within the Sheffield Business School. Previously she worked as a Catering Officer in the public sector and as a Hotel Manager for the Jarvis Hotel group.
Liz’s personal research and consultancy area lies in the area of Food and Wine Tourism and Food and Wine Festivals and Events.
She is particularly interested in the relationships between local food, the environment, communities and celebration. She has published at an International level with a wide range of collaborators, her most recent book being 'Food and Wine Festivals around the World', co-edited with Michael Hall and published by Elsevier in 2008.
She is a regular presenter/key note speaker at national and international conferences, and has acted as an advisor/consultant to a number of national organisations. Currently she sits as Vice Chair on the Regional Committee and Food Policy group for the National Trust for Yorkshire and the North East and is an advisor to the Ludlow Marches Food and Drink Festival in Shropshire. She is also a director of a new national members association - Taste Real Food UK, which launched in 2009.