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Catherine Weetman talks to Elis Joudalova about OLIO, the #1 sharing app. OLIO connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. OLIO can also be used for non-food household items.
Elis looks after Market Growth & Partnerships for OLIO, and has kickstarted, grown and managed strong food sharing communities in Jersey, Guernsey and Stockholm. Elis is a sustainability, food waste and circular economy change-maker with a contagious passion for food, environment, community empowerment and systems thinking. She loves inspiring and empowering people and businesses to make a change, focuses on the long term vision and has a unique entrepreneurial approach to solving problems.
On top of that, Elis has been helping The Prague Innovation Institute in analysing CE initiatives, to support the City of Prague’s strategy for a Circular Economy.
We’ll hear how OLIO got started, using Lean Innovation principles and a great example of a Minimum Viable Product to test the concept. We find out how it works in practice, and what motivates people and businesses to use OLIO. And Elis explains how it’s evolved, how it’s managing to be COVID-secure, and shares her top tips for going circular.
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Read on for more on our guest and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention.
Links we mention in the episode:
- CILT International – Catherine’s 15 minute webinar on ‘Why Successful Businesses are Circular and What that means for Supply Chains’ (Catherine’s section starts at 4:45 https://www.facebook.com/ciltinternational/videos/2979685385684431
- Elis Joudalova on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/elis-joudalova-95a10563/
- OLIO website https://olioex.com/
- So how does OLIOs food sharing app actually work? Check out this 30-second video.
About Elis Joudalova
Elis is a sustainability, food waste and circular economy change-maker with a contagious passion for food, environment, community empowerment and systems thinking. Elis enjoys public speaking and loves inspiring and empowering people and businesses to make a change. She believes in genuine collaboration and disruptive innovation. Her key strengths are her unique entrepreneurial approach to solving problems and long term visionary thinking.
Elis has kickstarted, grown and managed strong food sharing communities in Jersey, Guernsey and Stockholm with the aim to reduce and solve the issue of food waste via her involvement and several roles in the OLIO start up. She was a finalist of the Jersey Pride Awards in 2017 and 2018 under the Environmentalist of the Year category.
She he was invited to be a speaker at the 10th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region that aimed to reinforce cooperation in the region via embracing the concept of circular economy in order to tackle common challenges.
In 2020 Elis was selected into the EMF’s programme designed to empower the next generation of circular economy leaders and pioneers.
Recently Elis became a member of the founding team of the new ambitious community initiative and SDGs think tank that focuses on solving urgent societal issues and connecting the missing dots.
About OLIO
OLIO began as a food sharing app, connecting neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. OLIO can also be used for non-food household items.
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