Breaking Tradition, Breaking Bread

Sam Hill, Xenia Klinge

Zusammenfassung
This talk explores food waste in the bread-and-baked goods industry, highlighting technological and design approaches from an AI project to reduce waste and promote a circular economy. It also discusses shifting societal consumption towards a regenerative economy.
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Vortrag
Englisch
Conference

In this talk, we will explore the impacts of consumption, with a focus on food waste from the bread-and-baked goods industry. The beginning of the discussion will review recent technological approaches deployed in an AI project promoted by the BMUV initiative Green-AI Hub Mittelstand.  In this project, the DFKI collaborates with Brammibal’s Donuts (Berlin) and Foodtracks (Münster) to reduce food waste while also evaluating approaches towards a circular grain/wheat economy.

The talk will then transition to the use of design and human-in-the-loop approaches that enable users of these technological advancements to make more reliable decisions when it comes to predicting food quantities, minimizing waste, and maximizing sales.

Furthermore, the talk will transition away from technology as the only solution to reducing waste. We will discuss the need to shift society away from our current means of consumption by thinking about new narratives and behaviors that lead to a “regenerative society and economy”, a new approach for people, brands, and businesses to envision what a desirable future might look like and to move beyond the standard “sustainability” framework.