Webinar - Convergent Innovation: Decentralized brokerage, multi-sectoral platforms, and lasting socio-economic food systems transformation: The catalysis strategy

Decentralized brokerage, multi-sectoral platforms, and lasting socio-economic food systems transformation: The catalysis strategy

Exceptional Panel Discussion to address these issues within the COVID-19 context

Atefeh Ramezankhani, PhD

Senior strategy consultant with Deloitte’s innovation and business design practice

Atefeh Ramezankhani obtained her PhD in “Strategy and Organization” at Desautels faculty of management, McGill University. Her areas of expertise include ecosystem transformation and cross-sector business models for socioeconomic value creation. In her doctoral research, Atefeh combined mathematical modeling and ethnography methods to study the creation of a multi-sided market platform for convergent innovation as a pathway to address food system transformation in Canada. She also holds an MBA and BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

About the Series

The Convergent Innovation Webinar Series will feature cutting edge science, technology and innovation in agriculture, food and health domains as well as in the behavioural, commercial, social and complexity sciences. These, combined with traditions from around the world, will altogether articulate an interdisciplinary research and action strategy to transform agricultural products like pulses from undifferentiated commodities into higher-margin whole and value-added food products that support sustainable development and affordable healthcare. Progressively, programs in the CI-Food webinar series will be developed for other agricultural products with high CI potential, e.g., dairy, fruits, vegetables, and others.