CHOCOVISION 2012

“Balance the Challenge. From cocoa to chocolate – Strategy. Sustainability. Success.”

About 200 international business leaders and key stakeholders came together for the 1st CHOCOVISION conference to discuss opportunities and issues facing the cocoa and chocolate industry going forward. The conference was held under the theme “Balance the Challenge: From cocoa to chocolate - Strategy, Sustainability, Success.”

Activist and musician Sir Bob Geldof and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus inspired participants with remarkable keynote speeches. “The biggest challenges in the world today can only be overcome when the big players - governments, corporations and NGO’s - find a way to work together strategically,” Sir Bob Geldof said in his speech. At the end of the three-day conference, William Guyton, President of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), announced the establishment of CocoaAction, a global platform for building a rejuvenated and economically viable cocoa sector through increased cooperation between industry members and the governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.

Keynote Speakers

Mamadou	Sangafowa Coulibaly	Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Sir Bob	Geldof	Singer, Songwriter and Political Activist

Speakers

More than 30 high-level speakers discussed topics such as: rising demand, supply constraints, lack of sustainability in the cocoa sector, rise of new chocolate consumption markets, changing consumer needs and behavior.

Juan Carlos	Ardila	Colcocoa / Cafexport
Vinita	Bali	Britannia Industries
Jerome	Barra	Firmenich
John P.	Bilbrey	The Hershey Company
David	Bosshart	Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
John	Chuang	Petra Foods Ltd.
Alexandre	Costa	Cacau Show
H. Sona	Ebai	African Cocoa Initiative
Professor Claudio	Ferri	University of L’Aquila
Anthony	Fofie	Ghana Cocoa Board
Jim	Goldman	Godiva Chocolatier
Dr. Lee Choon	Hui	Malaysian Cocoa Board
Andreas	Jacobs	Barry Callebaut AG
Barbara	Janom Steiner	Canton of Grisons
Harriet	Lamb	Fairtrade Foundation
Guillaume	Le Cunff	Nestlé Nespresso
Lazare Essimi	Menye	Republic of Cameroon
John	Morris	KPMG
Solange	N’Guessan	UCAS
Mireille	Perrin Decorzent	WWF International
Barry	Parkin	Mars, Inc.
Joe	M. Prendergast	Credit Suisse
Bharat	Puri	Mondelēz
Urs	Rohner	Credit Suisse
Haig	Simonian	The Financial Times
Juergen	Steinemann	Barry Callebaut
Dieter	Weisskopf	Lindt & Sprüngli
Prof. Muhammad	Yunus	2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate