{"id":9375,"date":"2023-03-29T07:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9375"},"modified":"2023-03-29T07:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:24:29","slug":"mfre-speaker-series-revolutionizing-the-dairy-industry-with-sustainable-plant-based-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9375","title":{"rendered":"MFRE speaker series: Revolutionizing the Dairy Industry with Sustainable Plant- Based Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis week&#8217;s MFRE seminar is all about Revolutionizing the Dairy Industry with Sustainable Plant-Based Alternatives. Join us as we welcome\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAACgQnoEBFZnUURQWzGhIRnoalV66ApO7jfc\">Vanita Gurnani<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAG3bnUB_P-arjYvFfbIr3yCUdVcL6jw8D8\">Sunny Gurnani<\/a>, Co-founders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/plantveda\/\">Plant Veda<\/a>, who will be sharing their insights and experiences in this rapidly growing industry with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=mfre&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7046585103136800769\">MFRE<\/a>\u00a0student\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/events\/revolutionizing-dairy-industry-sustainable-plant-based-alternatives\">Revolutionizing the Dairy Industry with Sustainable Plant- Based Alternatives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Friday, March 31<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0,2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: 3:00-4:30 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: MCML 160<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vanita Gurnani<\/strong>\u00a0is a successful entrepreneur and innovator who has co-founded three vegan companies across India, the USA, and Canada. One of her notable ventures is Plant Veda, a Vancouver-based plant-based dairy company. Her expertise in product development has led to the creation of multiple award-winning products.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her business acumen, Vanita holds double masters in Computer Science and Home Science. As a mother of three vegan kids, she is passionate about promoting plant-based living and sustainable practices<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunny Gurnani<\/strong>\u00a0is a vegan entrepreneur and co-founder of Plant Veda, a plant-based dairy company located in Vancouver, Canada.\u00a0\u00a0After working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, he made the shift to the vegan industry. With his expertise, Sunny helped launch several award-winning vegan products and has conducted various seminars to educate people on the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle, including reversing heart disease and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he holds a Master&#8217;s degree in Computer Science and is certified in Plant-Based Nutrition from eCornell. As a father of three vegan children, Sunny is committed to promoting a sustainable and healthy lifestyle through his work.<\/p>\n<p>For information about the upcoming MFRE Speakers, Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/speaker-series\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Olivier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivier Ntwali, BSc Ag. Econ, MFRE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Academic Program Manager | Master of Food and Resource Economics| Land and Food Systems| The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | 348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada | Cell 604-771-8961 |\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca\">olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0|<a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis week&#8217;s MFRE seminar is all about Revolutionizing the Dairy Industry with Sustainable Plant-Based Alternatives. Join us as we welcome\u00a0Vanita Gurnani\u00a0and\u00a0Sunny Gurnani, Co-founders\u00a0Plant Veda, who will be sharing their insights and experiences in this rapidly growing industry with the\u00a0MFRE\u00a0student\u201d Revolutionizing the Dairy Industry with Sustainable Plant- Based Alternatives Date: Friday, March 31th\u00a0,2023 Time: 3:00-4:30 pm&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions\/9376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}