BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:39@concordiafoodcoalition.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260928T170000 DTSTAMP:20260901T142314Z URL:https://concordiafoodcoalition.com/events/financing-food-security-syst ems-at-the-50th-parallel-and-beyond/ SUMMARY:Financing food security systems at the 50th parallel and beyond DESCRIPTION:Join Concordia's Climate Business Institute (CBI) at John Mol son School of Business for its Sustainability in Business conference. Eac h 45-minute panel will include time for Q&\;As.\n\nMonday\, September 2 8\, 2026\n\n3 – 5 p.m.\n\nConcordia Conference Centre\nJohn Molson Build ing.\, 9th floor\n1450 Guy St.\, Montreal\n\nPanel 1: Building fresh food systems in Grand Nord\nThe panel will discuss the price of food\, emission s\, product freshness and how to attract investors and financing with blen ded finance and transition to indigenous finance.\n\n Amr Addas\, senior director\, Sustainable Finance and Insights\, Farm Credit Canada\n Amanda Richardson\, executive director\, Centre for Agri-Food Benchmarking\n Cl aude Trépanier\, president\, Système Rhizoviva Inc.\n\nPanel 2: Communit y-designed financial instruments\nThe panel will discuss community-led fin ancial instruments specifically developed for financing fresh food product ion initiatives in local communities.\n\n Réjean Nguyen\, senior directo r\, Impact Investing and ESG Integration\, Addenda Capital\n Anne-France Bolay\, Senior Advisor\, Responsible Investment\, AlphaFixe Capital\n Mar ie-Josée Parent\, chief operations &\; impact officer\, Raven Indigeno us Impact Foundation\n\nhttps://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/jmsb/climate-bus iness-institute/2026/09/28/financing-food-security-systems-at-the-50th-par allel-and-beyond.html ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://concordiafoodcoalition.com/wp-content/up loads/2026/09/images.jpg CATEGORIES:Presentations and Panels LOCATION:Concordia Conference Centre\, John Molson Building.\, 9th floor 14 50 Guy St.\,\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1M8\, Canada X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=John Molson Building.\, 9th floor 1450 Guy St.\,\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1M8\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIU S=100;X-TITLE=Concordia Conference Centre:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR