Leadership Breakfast: How Secure is the UK’s Food Supply Chain?

A Private Leadership Breakfast for Senior Industry Leaders

This year's impacts on agriculture and food production show how quickly climate-related disruption can affect supply chains, operations and business performance.

Yet the greatest risks often sit beyond direct operations, hidden away from view within supplier networks, logistics, and concentrated sourcing regions.

For senior leaders, the challenge is no longer whether climate risk will affect supply chains, but whether organisations have the visibility needed to anticipate and adapt around disruption before it happens.

This invitation-only breakfast will bring together a select group of senior leaders for an open and honest discussion about what resilience looks like in practice and how organisations can better prepare for an uncertain future.

What to Expect

This is a working breakfast, a facilitated peer-to-peer discussion where every participant is encouraged to share their experience, insights, and questions.

Attendance is intentionally limited to 20 senior leaders to maintain conversation quality and enable meaningful interaction among participants.

About the Discussion

Hosted by Smart Resilience and moderated by Jonathan Horrell, this conversation will explore:

What recent food system disruption can teach us about wider business resilience

How climate risks are creating vulnerabilities across supply chains and operations

Where organisations have the greatest visibility gaps today

The challenge of managing risk beyond direct operations

How businesses are adapting to increasing uncertainty

Opportunities for collaboration, resilience and long-term planning

The discussion will draw upon findings from the forthcoming Smart Resilience Climate Exposure Index, which examines climate-related risk across thousands of supplier locations worldwide.

What You'll Leave With

Practical insight into emerging climate risks

New connections facing similar challenges

A better understanding of supply chain exposure

Valuable connections with senior leaders across sectors

The opportunity to help shape future Smart Resilience leadership discussions

The Smart Resilience Leadership Breakfast Series exists to foster meaningful conversations between senior leaders and build a community focused on resilience, adaptation and long-term business success.

Guest Speaker - Mike Barry

Mike Barry is Co-founder of Planeatry Alliance which provides advisory services to bridge the gap between organisations, sustainability and health to drive transformative change in food systems. Mike has been instrumental in developing, launching and implementing Marks and Spencer’s ground-breaking sustainability programme, Plan A.

In ten years, Plan A delivered £750m of net business benefit and over the years won 230 awards.

Moderated by Jonathan Horrell

Jonathan Horrell is Commercial Advisor for Food & Beverage at Smart Resilience and brings more than 30 years of leadership experience across sustainability, corporate affairs and food supply chains.

He has held senior roles including Group Head of Sustainability at Weir Group and Global Director of Sustainability at Mondelēz International, where he led sustainability strategy across the value chain, from agricultural sourcing to post-consumer waste.

Hosted by Smart Resilience

Smart Resilience helps organisations understand, quantify and manage climate risk through advanced climate risk intelligence and analysis.