Special Event: Google’s Emily Ma talks with Dana Gunders
Special Event: Google’s Emily Ma talks with Dana Gunders
Past Event
Thursday April 7, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Location
VirtualGoogle recently announced two new pledges to reduce food loss and waste throughout their global operations. Join us on Thursday, April 7 for a special “fireside chat” with Emily Ma, Head of Google’s Food for Good, and ReFED’s Dana Gunders, as they discuss Google’s sustainability work, the need for innovation in the food waste space, and more.
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Google recently announced two new pledges to reduce food loss and waste throughout their global operations – by 2025, the company aims to cut food waste in half for each Googler and to send zero food waste to landfill.
What progress is Google making? What solutions is the company working on? And how can their efforts support your work?
Join us on Thursday, April 7 for a special “fireside chat” with Emily Ma, Head of Google’s Food for Good, and ReFED’s Dana Gunders, as they discuss Google’s sustainability work, the need for innovation in the food waste space, and more.
Panelists
Dana Gunders
Executive Director
Dana Gunders
Executive Director - ReFED
Dana Gunders serves as ReFED’s Executive Director. Dana is a national expert on food waste and one of the first to bring to light just how much food is lost throughout the food system. For almost a decade, she was a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She then launched Next Course, LLC to strategically advise on the topic. Some of her career highlights include authoring the landmark Wasted report and Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook, launching the Save the Food campaign with the Ad Council, testifying in Congress, consulting to Google, appearing on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and being a founding Board Member of ReFED.
Emily Ma
Head, Food for Good
Emily Ma
Head, Food for Good - Google
Emily Ma leads a cross-functional team at Google with the mission of organizing the world’s food information in service of building a future food system that is sustainable, nourishing and equitable for all. Her work on food systems started at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory. There, she led a number of early stage moonshots before working on food systems moonshots inspired by the Google Food team, focusing on reducing food waste and food insecurity and increasing data openness in the food system.
Prior, Emily helped bring a range of breakthrough technologies into the world including Loon internet balloons and Glass smart glasses. Emily started her career as a mechanical engineer at IDEO, a global design and innovation consultancy, during which she came to embrace the equal importance of human-centered design, engineering and business. With this, she returned to Stanford University to pursue her MBA and continues to actively teach entrepreneurship at the School of Engineering. She is the holder of seven patents spanning medical devices to consumer electronics.
Emily is also a Member of ReFED's Board of Directors.
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