Holly Freishtat
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- Milken Institute1h 0m
Transforming Food for a Healthier Future | Global Conference 2025
Holly Freishtat, Alice Hm Chen, Sarah Mastrorocco, Ashley Tyrner-Dolce, Aaron Wiese
Industry leaders from Centene, Hy-Vee, FarmboxRx, and Instacart are redefining healthcare strategy by treating food as a primary preventive tool rather than a mere treatment, leveraging data to prove that medically tailored nutrition significantly reduces chronic disease costs. This shift is driven by evidence that 50% of U.S. adults suffer from preventable diet-related conditions, prompting payers and retailers to integrate food access into care management despite regulatory ambiguities surrounding "healthy" food definitions under changing SNAP and Medicare Advantage rules. As the sector targets a 2035 vision of seamless access, stakeholders are balancing urgent clinical outcomes with the complex logistics of scaling personalized nutrition interventions across fragmented state policies.
- Milken Institute47 min
Innovations to Build Food Resiliency | Asia Summit 2022
Holly Freishtat, Beverley Postma, Ian Roberts, Pier Luigi Sigismondi, Sunny Verghese
Industry leaders from OLAM International, Dole, and Euler Group convened to address the deepening global food insecurity affecting 345 million people by outlining aggressive strategies to decarbonize agriculture and digitize smallholder supply chains. These executives detailed concrete commitments, including OLAM's accelerated net-zero timeline and AI-driven agronomy tools, Dole's direct sourcing shifts to bypass intermediaries, and Euler Group's push for rapid technology scaling in cellular agriculture. The panel concluded that overcoming the current crisis requires consolidated capital and mandatory transparency measures like carbon labeling to transform the sector from an extraction-based model to a resilient, inclusive ecosystem.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
The Future of Food Retail | Global Conference 2024
Holly Freishtat, Jason Buechel, Nancy Dalton, Rodney McMullen, Leslie Sarasin
Retail leaders including Kroger's Rodney McMullen and Amazon's Nancy Dalton discuss a fundamental shift where food retailers evolve into healthcare hubs by integrating nutrition data, expanding SNAP access, and treating food as medicine to combat chronic disease. The industry is simultaneously restructuring supply chains from "just-in-time" to resilient models while deploying hyper-local AI for personalized assortments and launching urban "Daily Shop" formats to serve diverse consumer needs. These strategic pivots aim to align 82% of retailers with dietitian-led wellness programs, reduce a third of global food waste, and build a "healthiest workforce" through data-driven benefits that address the intersection of convenience, health, and sustainability.
- Milken Institute45 min
Decarbonization and the Path Towards Sustainable Food Systems | Asia Summit 2024
Holly Freishtat, Vijay Iyengar, Brian Kernohan, Dan Pathomvanich, Melody Wan, Siddharth Jain
Addressing the critical contribution of food systems to global greenhouse gas emissions, the event convened stakeholders to align on strategic decarbonization pathways including dietary shifts, regenerative agriculture, and waste-to-value technologies like biochar. Speakers detailed the necessity of reforming subsidies, implementing true cost accounting, and leveraging carbon markets to ensure smallholder farmers receive fair compensation for soil health and biodiversity outcomes. The consensus emphasized that achieving net-zero targets by 2050 requires systemic integration of financial incentives, standardized data disclosure, and retailer commitment to value nature-positive practices throughout the supply chain.