Food for Thought:
A Conversation-Driven
Dining Experience
A Conversation-Driven
Dining Experience
📅 8 June 2026
🕒 10:30 AM - 1:15 PM
📍 LT21, Taylor's Lakeside Campus
By invitation only
What to Expect on Day 1
A curated experience where food, dialogue, and reflection come together to explore a deeper ESG question:
"Are we solving the right problem?"
A Five-Course Sustainability Journey
Each course is paired with an idea, turning food into a conversation about systems, choices, and the future we want.
A Provocation-Led Dialogue
A guided conversation exploring food, sustainability, and the overlooked tensions within today's ESG landscape.
A Closing Act of Visible Impact
A circular fashion showcase and impact walkabout featuring community entrepreneurs and KUAT Mini.
Day 1 Programme & Dining Journey
A shared journey from arrival to reflection and visible impact.
10:30 AM
👤 Registration & Networking
Arrival and registration at LT21 Foyer, followed by networking and booth showcase featuring Taylor's Community entrepreneurship participants and KUAT Mini.
11:00 AM
🎤 Opening Performance: Voices That Matter
A reflective performance that sets the tone for the day's conversation through music and expression.
11:10 AM
📷 Group Photo & Video
Short opening group photo and video segment.
11:15 AM
🍴 Course 1 • Popiah Kangkung & Banana Peel
The Food-Stress Nexus
11:20 AM
📊 Leadership Framing: Then, Now & What We're Learning
A short framing on Taylor's ESG journey and key learnings to date.
11:25 AM
🍴 Course 2 • Tempe with Satay Pineapple Sauce
Rethinking Protein
11:30 AM
💬 Provocation Dialogue
Are We Solving the Right Problem?
A facilitated dialogue on food, sustainability, and overlooked challenges within the broader ESG conversation.
12:20 PM
🍴 Courses 3 & 4
• Mushroom Arancini
• Mushroom Rendang with Watermelon Rind
• Mushroom Rendang with Watermelon Rind
12:35 PM
👤 ESG Perspective Swap & Reflection
A reflection moment to explore fresh ideas and new perspectives inspired by today's dialogue.
"If you were the Group Sustainability Officer of Taylor's Education Group, what is one radical change you would make to create a regenerative future for the younger generation?"
🏆 Top 3 responses will receive a prize.
🏆 Top 3 responses will receive a prize.
12:40 PM
🍴 Course 5 • Fish-Collagen Jelly +
Vegan Meringue Lemon Cake with
Candied Lemon Peel
Vegan Meringue Lemon Cake with
Candied Lemon Peel
Innovation at the intersection of Tradition
& Sustainability
& Sustainability
12:45 PM
👗 Finale: Style Meets Impact
A fashion showcase in collaboration with MayaMode, refugee communities, and Taylor's Design School, featuring 8 circular fashion pieces.
12:55 PM
📷 Group Photo & Video
Closing group photo and video.
1:00 PM
⭐ Vote for Your Favourite Denim Design
Participants place their lanyards on the voting board outside as they exit.
1:15 PM
👥 Impact Walkabout
Continued booth showcases at LT21 Foyer featuring Taylor's Community entrepreneurship participants and KUAT Mini.
Leadership Framing
Our ESG co-chairs frame the purpose of today's conversation and Taylor's ESG direction.
Dr Lydia May Wong
Co-Chair, ESG Festival
A champion of systems thinking and sustainable transformation, driving purpose-led leadership across Taylor's Education Group.
Karl Engkvist
Co-Chair, ESG Festival
A global sustainability leader advancing responsible innovation and education for a more equitable and resilient future.
Opening Performance: Voices That Matter
Day 1 begins with a reflective opening performance that sets the tone for the conversation ahead.
More than a ceremonial start, it offers a moment of pause — reminding us that sustainability is not only about systems, metrics, and strategy, but also about dignity, belonging, and the future we are shaping together.
Through music and expression, the performance brings a human dimension into the room before the main provocation begins, inviting guests to listen with greater care to the lived realities that often sit beneath ESG language.
The performance is presented by refugee students in collaboration with students from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SLAS).
The Main Provocation
At the centre of Day 1 is a shared question: Are we solving the right problem?
Through dialogue and reflection, this experience invites leaders and changemakers to look beyond the surface of ESG and confront the deeper tensions in food systems, sustainability, and the choices we normalise every day.
Through dialogue and reflection, this experience invites leaders and changemakers to look beyond the surface of ESG and confront the deeper tensions in food systems, sustainability, and the choices we normalise every day.
Meet the Speakers
Voices from governance, sustainability, business, and systems thinking
— each bringing a different lens to the conversation.
— each bringing a different lens to the conversation.
Datin Sunita
Rajakumar
Founder & Chairperson,
Climate Governance
Malaysia (CGM)
Anita Ahmad
CEO
Yayasan MBSB
Bea Camacho
Director
Southeast Asia
IDEO Consulting
Ong Yee Lian
Group Chief Sustainability
& Communication Officer,
GAMUDA
Moderated by
Dr Ong Kian Ming
Dr Ong Kian Ming
Dr Ong Kian Ming convenes policy, governance, and system-thinking conversations with rigour and humanity.
Style Meets Impact
The Day 1 close brings the conversation into visible form through a circular fashion showcase created with MayaMode, refugee communities, and Taylor's Design School.
Sustainability is not only discussed — it is worn, made, reimagined, and lived.
Sustainability is not only discussed — it is worn, made, reimagined, and lived.
