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The Zero Hunger Formula
A new global initiative and IBCircle's role in it
IBCircle Business & Technology Focus + Holiday Function · Mon, Nov 9, 2026
Join us for a very different start to the Holiday Season. Richard Lackey, Founder and Chairman of the World Food Bank, will introduce the Zero Hunger Formula — a data-driven, AI-based global initiative launching in 2027, with a goal of ending hunger worldwide. IBCircle has been appointed by the World Food Bank as the business community supporting this initiative — so our members won't just hear about it. You'll help shape it.
THE CONVERSATION
An intimate, interactive evening — not a lecture — around five questions:
- What global transformations lie ahead in agriculture, food production and supply chains?
- How can AI and data make a goal as large as Zero Hunger measurable?
- What is a realistic timeframe for this — and what has to go right?
- Where are the opportunities for business, from food and logistics to technology and finance?
- How will the IBCircle community be involved — and how can you make a global impact through it?
THE WHITE PAPER
- IBCircle members will be invited to comment on, edit and contribute to the Zero Hunger Formula White Paper — a rare chance to help shape a global initiative from the start. Not yet a member? Join before the event and your perspective can be part of it too.
FEATURED SPEAKER
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Richard Lackey — Founder & Chairman, World Food Bank · CIO of Oracle Trade Group and Times Future Newsletter · Board Member of IAAIR and OpenAg.ai — providing a uniquely global perspective spanning food security applied artificial intelligence, robotics, and international capital markets. Richard brings an extraordinary breadth of board-level experience across the world's most consequential institutional challenges. (Bio)
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See Richard's TEDxWilmington talk "Zero Hunger Formula" (access here)
OUR HOSTS
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Ski Muir Milburn (Bio) — serial cleantech entrepreneur, CEO Emeritus of Eberspaecher VAIREX and a long-standing IBCircle Board Member.
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Catherine Milburn (Bio) — recently retired after 19 years as Senior Instructor and Faculty Director, Center for Education on Corporate Social Responsibility, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado.
- Both are avid skiers, cyclists and globetrotters — ask about their latest adventures.
WHY THIS ROOM IS DIFFERENT
★ TWICE AWARDED ★
Business Networking Organization of the Year
Global Innovation & Excellence Awards · 2025 & 2026
IBCircle events attract global executives, serial founders, and sophisticated investors who value substance over small talk. Attendance is intimate by design — space is strictly limited to preserve the quality of conversation.
BEYOND THE EVENING
IBCircle will produce a full Think Tank Report from this discussion, distributed to our membership, our wider network, and Colorado's international
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