The Pre-Summit event will serve as the preparatory meeting for the Food Systems Summit in September by consolidating all of the substantive work of the Summit into a common vision and setting a tone of bold ambition and commitment to action. Given the richness of ideas coming through the Summit’s workstreams and self-organizing constituency groups over the past year, the main program sessions will serve to surface their key content and enable the exchange and engagement across all stakeholders.

Affiliated parallel sessions will serve a key complementary role in bringing out additional valuable ideas and offering a platform to convene actors around the world to ensure more voices and ideas are heard, and more actors are thinking about how to take action in their own contexts.

Please note that the official Pre-Summit programme will run each day from 9:00am-7:30pm CEST, and the Secretariat has therefore structured three times for affiliated sessions in the morning, mid-day, and evening in order to avoid any overlap with the main sessions. Given the high volume of proposed sessions, the Secretariat has also sought to accommodate sessions in time zones to work for the organizers and avoid scheduling overly similar sessions in the same time frame.

Programme:  Main Programme (Tentative)  |  Affiliated Sessions (Tentative)