Thanks Anthony. So my name's Emily, I'm here from MSD Animal Health. I'm also joined today by my lovely colleague, Alex.

Give us a wave, Alex. We like to talk to people, so if anybody has any questions for us, please come and find us over the next couple of days. We would love to talk to you.

So I'm gonna start with a bit of a video. Bear with me while I press play. We are all products of two fundamental influences, nature and nurture.

At MSD Animal Health, we combined our heritage of scientific excellence and our dedication to fostering innovation in the fields of animal data and DNA intelligence. By offering unparalleled life cycle knowledge and transparency, we bring clarity and certainty to our understanding of livestock and companion animals. Delivering true farm to fork traceability, increasing operational efficiency, advancing animal health and well-being, promoting trust in food, and enabling a more sustainable future.

True knowledge, empowering better choices. So that's a very corporate introduction. And for anybody that is familiar with MSC animal health, you're probably thinking.

Hang on, this is a bit slow. So what? So, so, so why is somebody who I think works for a pharmaceutical company sort of talking about people, animals, and smart technology.

I think some of the words in that video were traceability within the food chain, trust the DNA DNA. So we'll come on to that. I'm just going to start with a bit of an overview as to sort of why I'm here and what my sustainability journey has been within MSD to give you a bit of a flavour for sort of where we've been as a company and where we're going.

Anthony talked about what we've seen over the past 12 months from his side of things, and he asked us when the speakers to sort of maybe mention what's changed for your company since you were last here last year. So I joined MSD in 2019. I was originally part of the equine team.

I had 12 months roll and then COVID hit. So like a lot of people had a bit of a chance to sort of think about what's important to me as a person, what are my values, you know, I go to work every day. Does the job I do align with with me and what I want to achieve, I suppose, what my goals are.

And I started to ask some questions. I was annoying person I was like, What's MSC doing a sustainability? Who can I talk to?

Tell Like a meeting let's have a virtual meeting, love a virtual meeting. And I took me a while, but I managed to uncover what MSD is doing around sustainability. So whilst we are doing a lot of things, one thing we're not very good at doing is talking about it.

So that is internally, I think Alex would agree. And also externally as well. So when I I can't remember how I found out about this forum last year, but I wanted to speak.

I have got things to say, but it took that long for me to get permission from the company to talk about sustainability because things have to be signed off work for a big global company. I couldn't, I didn't I didn't get the sign off in time. So that changed because now I've had the sign off this year had a bit more time to plan.

And so we kind of gone from we had a few years ago, we had one lady who had a sustainability role within the company, a global role. Jessica, she lives in the states. She's very nice.

And now we're a head count of 3, so that's a bit. Soon to be before. I'm not in a sustainability role.

I now work on the ruminant team, but I am the livestock sustainability lead for the UK. I'm also part of a wider European, well, you're so you're, Russia. Asia and the Middle East.

So different people from across those markets and we're all part of like a project team and we're running different projects around sustainability and looking at the moment, sort of what's going on in different markets to do with what our customers want and what our customers' goals are in terms of sustainability and things. So that's one of the projects we're working on at the moment. So that's a bit of a background as to why I'm here talking to you.

And one of the reasons why I wanted to move on to the ruminant team from the equine team is because I really feel like my job has a purpose. So the tagline, I suppose you could say for everybody on the ruminant team, Alex is on the ruminant team too, is that we are protecting livestock today for everybody's tomorrow and I think we've talked a bit already so far this morning about food supply and the challenges that we have around that as our population increases and really for me, this is really aligned with what I think sustainability means to me. I'm really passionate about food and farming.

So a bit of a bigger view of MSD animal health. We are a global company. And yes, historically, we are a pharmaceutical company.

And now we also have some digital products and services as well. So in 2019, the company So I think had a bit of a think about where do we want to be in the future? Do we still want to be here as a company?

Yes, our pharmaceuticals always the answer. No. What else can we do?

So we also have We have a variety of different species portfolios. So we've also got swine, poultry, companion animal ruminants and aqua and the company purchased technology, different technology companies to complement each of these species portfolios. So that's why I'm here talking to you about technology.

So I was a bit of a long winded explanation. So we are still very much a research and development company. We have research and development sites across the world.

We also manufacture globally as well. So both for our biopharmaceutical portfolio and for our animal health intelligent portfolio as well. In the UK there are we also have human health, probably should mention that it's quite a big part of the company.

So MSD is like the UK, UK company, but the mothership is. So that's like the big global company and the human health side of the business is absolutely massive. So globally 69,000 employees and this is our sort of employee footprint in the UK.

So that's relevant because when we report on our ESG, we are doing so as the mothership. So there isn't a separate ESG report just with animal health side of the business when we report in it's as a whole company. And this has already been mentioned.

So that sort of The the one health and sort of sustainability, how we're all linked as humans, animals and the environment and that those relationships within that and the complexities within there. And now that we have technology, which I'm going to come on to. Talked about and I think this really makes MSD stand apart from other companies because we also have different ways now to sort of connect and facilitate that connection between human humans, animals, and the shared environment and hopefully moving towards a smarter and more sustainable future.

So we have 4 animal health sustainability pillars within the business, and I'm mainly going to talk about animal health and welfare. That's been touched on again this morning. I'm also looking at sustainability with the supply chain with a livestock focus.

Another good thing about being a global company is that we get to sort of see what's going on everywhere else in the world. And now that there are more people in sustainability roles, and we will actually talk to each other and we get to sort of learn and be inspired by what's happening in other markets across the world. So two of my sort of highlights I suppose in this slide is quite busy.

There's lots of words is what's going on in New Zealand. So don't know if anyone's been to New Zealand, but there's a lot of sheep and they're trying to eliminate polystyrene from their coal chain by using what unfortunately now is a waste product, and that's the wolf from the sheep. Another one to do with products and packaging would be in Germany.

And it started off in Germany and also Switzerland and Austria. They're using reusable and returnable boxes to get our products from manufacturing sites out to our delivery partners and removing trying to remove cardboard from that process. In the UK, MSD supported nowhere.

I don't know if any of the vets more aware of this. This was launched, I think, in November last year, which is a livestock vaccination guideline, really trying to support that preventative health message moving as far away as we come from sort of firefighting within the veterinary industry in terms of animal disease and really sort of promoting that preventative approach. I have got some more information on this.

If anyone's interested. I've got some bits and bobs to give out. I'm really from a from a ruminant perspective then, so the business unit that I work in and Alex works in, we're really putting prevention first and we want to futureproof livestock production in the UK and really.

Marry up that that scientific background that we have as a pharmaceutical company with the data now that we have with the technology platforms that we have as well. So I mentioned that MSD purchased some. Technology companies to complement our different species portfolios.

The ones that I'm going to talk about today are on the left and for the livestock. I haven't got all day we talk to you about all the other ones as well, because I think it's really interesting. And so entityem is a company based in, it was a company based in Dublin and by MSD and I'm going to talk to you about that DNA technology.

And then I'm also going to talk to you about all flex, which is monitoring technology for cattle. So I think Lores kind of touched on this earlier. So he talked about the challenges that we face within the veterinary industry.

This has been reframed as a mega trend, but it's kind of the same thing. So why does MSD exist? Well, we exist to support the industry in finding more sustainable solutions to the challenges that we face.

So the demands that we have for For food, you know, there's going to be 9 billion people by 2050, so the predictions say how do we feed all those people we can't keep, we can't grow the herd. In fact, I think somebody said I can't remember that the dairy industry, the herds reduced by 26% over the past 20 years or something, but yet we're still producing the same amount of milk. Food safety is still going to be it's going to continue to be an issue.

There's all sorts of things in the media. They love to spin a negative story about food safety and apparently I've read something recently about now since Brexit, the UK is more at risk for. Things basically go wrong within the food supply chain because we're we're out of the European loop now.

So that's a shame. So what do we know? We know that healthy animals are more sustainable.

They're more productive, and they generate lower emissions. And what we want to do is improve improve this relationship because now we have the data and we can sort of Almost like put our money where our mouth is. So if you're going to vaccinate a herd of animals coming on to the technology, what changes can you make on farm to be more sustainable?

Well now with technology improvements we can, we can show that something tangible to show that you can be more sustainable within farming. So the first bit of technology I'm going to talk about is DNA trace back. So this is the company that's based in Ireland.

I was very lucky enough to visit these technology wizards in April and hopefully, well, I'm not going to talk too much about it because this is not my area of expertise. This is not where I work, but it's really interesting technology. Hope you'll find it interesting and hopefully I'll do them justice.

But if anybody is interested in it, I can put you in touch with the team in. Dublin. But I'm going to let Tom Kerridge tell you a bit more about it, he's probably more eloquent than me.

Mhm. There is nothing better than a hunk of prime steak, wonderfully marbled. It's almost entirely dependent on how it's produced.

M&S have complete control of this entire journey. So I'm here in the Cory Farm, your name by the way. Let's find out a little bit more about it.

Welcome to Cowley Farm. Thank you very much. I, I do a bit of cooking.

I do a little bit of cooking. From a chef's point of view, consistency is key for everything. Yeah, doesn't matter whether it's a rib eye steak, a bit of mince or a cereal, you can always tell comes from a place where it's well we and every step that we got.

Look at these guys. So from an M&S point of view, there's complete traceability. Absolutely unrivalled traceability.

Every single piece of meat from calf to supermarket. What it's been fed, everything about it, each different count. Yeah, Ben Marks and Spencer's do that.

A friend and then they're more responsive to me than my dogs actually. So Hopefully that gives you a bit of an idea of what the technology does. It's very complicated, but in a nutshell we can trace by using DNA we can map the genetics of animals within the food chain, and we can really give retailers and processors that that trust for the consumer so that you can really know from farm to fork where your food comes from.

In Ireland in recent years, there was a bit of controversy around a lot of controversy around people selling Irish pork and it turned out it wasn't Irish at all. It's come from somewhere else. So now I think whether or not it's the legislation that changed or something.

Changed in Ireland. And now if you're going to say that you have you're selling Irish pork, actually has to be Irish, and they have to use DNA technology to prove that. So it's about giving the consumers trust in where their food comes from.

And I think since COVID, there's certainly been A lot more awareness and more talk around what's on your plate, what are you eating. People seem to care a bit more hopefully I think they do and they want to know as well that the animals have been well looked after and that they're coming from a reputable and a reliable source. So the second piece of technology I'm gonna talk about is Sense hub.

Hands up who wears a smartwatch. Oh God, I didn't charge mine. I always, I often don't charge it.

I do have one. So these cows are wearing collars, and one way to think about this technology is like Fitbits for cows. But actually what we're talking about is precision farming.

So really, well, for me certainly when when somebody says prevision precision farming, I think a great big huge sort of tractor combine harvester kind of thing with like a technology dashboard inside that looks like a ship. But now with the advent of technology and the advancing. Technological advancements, and we can now talk about livestock farming sort of in the same way when we talk about precision farming.

So what is sensor and how does it work? Apologies to some of the vets in the room, Rob, you might have seen this already, I don't know. And so in a nutshell, the cows were collars or ear tags, and the machine sort of wants they've been dressed with their colours of the tags in 5 to 7 days, the machine essentially learns the behaviours of that cow.

So it does that by monitoring different cow states. So it monitors for rumination, heavy breathing, eating, and activity. And then what you end up with is a platform.

So farmers can have the app on their phone or they can have they have a desktop version as well, and it basically gives them actionable data that they can use predominantly for heat detection within a dairy herd, but there is also a sense of beef as well. So what does that really mean for farm clients as one of my colleagues likes to say, oh, yeah, it's brilliant. You don't have to, you know, stand and watch your cows and wait to see if they're in heat, you can be watching Clarkson's farm instead inside watching Clarkson's.

What he's trying to say is you can work in. A different way. So if if the the platform is picking up when your cows are in heat, you've got time to do other things as well.

And it means that those animals that are having silent heats also get picked up and should be served at the same time. As a byproduct of that, because of the way that sense of monitors the cows, they're also being monitored for health at the same time. So what what the feedback we get from a lot of farmers is, well, it's great for heat detection, but it's brilliant as well because it picks out when there's there's something that's potentially going to be going wrong within within theirhood.

So MSD our customers are vets. So what does this mean from a veterinary perspective? So this is a a screenshot on the left of .

A graph for a cow and on the right is a bit of an explanation of sort of what happened. So this is a veterinary practise down south. They're very sort of technology focused, and they work really closely with their farm customers who have a sense of.

So in a nutshell, A cow, she had, she had a calf 16 days prior on the graph, and she'd been treated for matritis, but she wasn't really doing very well. So you can see the purple line is her daily rumination. And the orange, if it's bright enough, is her activity.

So you can see that her rumination and her activity start to drop off, then it really sort of drops off a cliff. So this cow will then have an alert will have been created and it will pinged off to the farmer to say this cow is in distress. So Mr.

Farmer phoned his vet. The vet came along and she had an RDA, so she was operated on. So that is in the very bottom of the dip.

You can see them from from the data because we can see what she's up to, and she's obviously feeling a lot better and almost immediately her rumination and her activity start to peak, and the farmers then able to track her recovery and can see that she's she's doing a lot better. So this is an example of how Our veterinary customers can work in a different way with the farmers, and they can use the information that Sensor provides to track. So progress of those animals after treatment.

So what we're doing at the moment with our customers is we're asking them to come on a journey with us and to learn more about our monitoring technology solutions. So what we're doing is we're having conversations around why their farm clients use monitoring and how this fits in with that. Activities in practise and how they can sort of maybe offer different services and sort of thinking a bit more outside the box and how they can use those insights to support clinical decisions.

So we're always trying to move away from Firefighting and sort of treating diseases and moving as much as we can towards prevention and sense of sort of really supports that approach. So in a a summary, in a nutshell. MSD has technology solutions really to trace sort of from from birth to table, I suppose, animals in the food chain.

So we go from ID at birth and then monitoring, monitoring and sort of tracing throughout the animal's lifetime. They then enters obviously processed for sale and we can use that DNA based traceability. As well So what we would like you to do is ask you to join us at the frontier of the possible.

There's so many more exciting things to come from MSD in the next few years in terms of our technology offering. So hopefully you found that interesting.