RSPO At Palmex 2025: Driving Digital Transformation For A Sustainable Palm Oil Industry Theme: “Beyond Traceability: Tech Strategies For A Sustainable Palm Oil Industry”
Charting the Course for Sustainable Palm Oil
As palm oil continues to face global scrutiny from both environmental and ethical perspectives, it’s clear that sustainable palm oil is no longer a choose-but rather a must. To keep pace with rapid change, traceability is just the first step: within the palm oil sector, the time is now to advance to broader and tech-enabled systems that create measurable and scalable impact.
During Palmex Indonesia 2025, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) will host a seminal talkshow called “Beyond Traceability: Tech Strategies for a Sustainable Palm Oil Industry.” This interactive session will describe how emerging digital technologies are disrupting existing sustainability practices throughout the palm oil value chain, from plantation to plate.
In addition to compliance, market access, and stakeholder expectations will shift for all sectors in light of global environmental policy shifts (e.g., EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)) and increases in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) standards. For the palm oil sector, sustainable palm oil cannot be a value-add, but must instead be the minimum.
But real sustainability goes further. It demands systemic transformation driven by data, integration, and innovation. The industry must transition from basic traceability systems to digital ecosystems that provide real-time visibility, credible compliance, and inclusive benefits, especially for smallholder farmers.
What is “Beyond Traceability”?
While traceability allows monitoring of product journey from plantation to product, it does not change other serious problems like:
Verification of land legality and preventing deforestation.
Support smallholder inclusion for sustainability programs.
Transparent auditable data for ESG reporting.
Break data silos for integrated decision-making.
So, “Beyond Traceability” means using digital tools like geospatial monitoring, remote sensing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and mobile data collection to create a stronger, transparent, and equitable palm oil industry.
RSPO’s Digital Leadership
As a multi-stakeholder platform promoting sustainability, RSPO has played a role in the industry’s movement toward technological digital transformation. In accordance with the Principles & Criteria, RSPO works with its members to apply technology solutions that will improve transparency, ensure regulatory compliance, and build consumer and investor trust.
From satellite-based deforestation alerts to digital farmer traceability platforms, RSPO members are pioneering tools that make sustainability not only visible—but verifiable and scalable.
Talkshow Highlights
Moderator:
- M. Windrawan Inantha, Deputy Director, Market Transformation (Indonesia), RSPO
Speakers:
- Irfan Bakhtiar, Climate and Market Transformation Program Director, WWF Indonesia
- Ainu Rofiq, Co-Founder and Board Member, Koltiva
- Pujuh Kurniawan, Indonesia Sustainability Lead, Group Sustainability, Wilmar International
Guiding themes of discussion will include:
- The current needs of the palm oil industry with respect to digital infrastructure
- Examples of influential collaboration between NGOs, tech providers, and businesses
- Innovations that are rapidly improving transformation – and lessons learned
- The digital inclusion of smallholder farmers and other vulnerable stakeholders
This interactive session is designed to make cross-sector collaboration visible, and to attract diverse voices together to co-create solutions that address the industry’s most difficult sustainability challenges.
Reasons to Attend?
Whether the participants are agribusiness leader, sustainability strategist, technology builder, or policy makers, this talkshow presents a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital future of palm oil sustainability.
All participants will benefit from:
- Insight into the global regulatory trends, and EUDR compliance strategies.;
- Living case and pathways to digital tools.;
- Understanding of traceability technologies – what is working, and what is next?
- Networking and partnering with sustainability leaders.
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