BONUS EPISODE live from SIAL 2023: Santiago Espinosa, CEO Todos Comemos & Retail Guru Carl Boutet

Welcome to a special summer bonus episode of The Food Professor podcast recorded live in our on-site podcasting studio at the SIAL Food Innovation show in Toronto.  Over three great days in May, Sylvain and I met dozens of food innovators and thought leaders; these are their stories.  We're sure you will enjoy hearing these incredible interviews as much as we enjoy hosting the conversations. Stay tuned for season four of The Food Professor podcast, Canada's top food industry and Canadian-produced independent management podcasts, when we return live on the mic Thursday, September 21stOn this episode meet Santiago Espinosa, CEO Todos Comemos & Retail Guru Carl BoutetIf you like what you heard, please follow us on Apple, Spotify, or your favourite podcast platform so that you can catch up with all our great interviews, including celebrity chef, restauranteur and entrepreneur Chuck Hughes from Montreal.Have a safe summer, everyone.About SantiagoJesus follower, happily married, Dad and entrepreneur. Building TodosComemos to transform the food industry in LATAM taking it from 1 to 1000 in the premade food spectrum.<br /><br />Formerly Co-founder & CEO of enlau.co now Ubanku, Delirato, El Cotero. M.A, B.A. Economist.Check out the amazing chocolate covered raspberry: https://www.franui.store/en/ About CarlAs the founder and chief strategist of Studio Rx, I deliver prescriptive retail experience strategies that combine art and science, design, data, and technology with purpose. <br /><br />I have over 25 years of experience in advising senior retail leaders and brands on how to build better business strategies that leverage their combined choices of technology, analytics, and design. <br /><br />I also work with companies that wish to best tailor their solutions to address the needs that matter most to retailers.<br /><br />I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and insights on retail innovation, marketing, and global trends as an educator, speaker, and author. I teach master's level courses on innovative retail technologies and business models at McGill University and the Asian Institute of Technology. I am also a frequent contributor to media outlets, and the author of The Great Acceleration: The Race to Retail Resilience. <br /><br />My work has been recognized by Rethink Retail and numerous global events as one of the most influential and impactful retail thinkers in the world.About UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe &