Agenda

All times in EDT (GMT -4).

Tuesday, May 5

The Next Generation

Ag and Food Economy

12:00 pm - 12:20 pm

12:20 pm - 1:00 pm

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm

5:15 pm - 5:45 pm

5:45 pm - 6:15 pm

6:15 pm - 6:45 pm

6:45 pm - 7:15 pm

Opening Remarks by Tuck Food and Ag Club Leadership

Keynote: Ag's Future for Food and Materials

Tom Chi (Founding Partner, At One Ventures)

Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future

Phil Boyer (Principal, Crosslink Capital)
Dan Phillips (Managing Director, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures)
Brett Brohl (Managing Director, Techstars Farm to Fork)

Topic Intro: Alternative Proteins Market Map

Counterfactual Ventures (Huw Thomas, Co-Founder)

Panel: Sustainability of Protein: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat: Part 1

Benjamina Bollag (Co-Founder & CEO, Higher Steaks)
Krijn de Nood (Co-Founder & CEO, Meatable)
Christie Lagally (Founder & CEO, Rebellyous Foods)

Panel: Breakthroughs in Proteins

Dr. Matthew Zhao (Food Scientist, Big Idea Ventures)
Dr. Dalal AlGhawas (Program Director, Big Idea Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Bashi (ACRE Specialist, McKinsey)

Panel: Sustainability of Protein: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat: Part 2

Phäedra Anestassia Randolph (Founder & CEO, Spero Foods)
Dan Riegler (Co-Founder, Karana)
Sunny Kumar (Founder, Black Sheep Foods)

Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 1

Kula Bio (Bill Brady, Founding CEO & Director)
New Age Meats (Brian Spears, Founder & CEO)

Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 2

Patch Organics (Patricia Trongone, Founder & President)
Misfit Foods (Phil Wong, Co-Founder)

Keynote Speaker: Where AgTech Meets FinTech

Maurits Lancee (Associate, Rabo Frontier Ventures)

Company Pitches: FinTech for AgTech

Agryo (Isaque Eberhardt, Co-Founder & CEO)
ProducePay (Ben Dusastre, Co-Founder & President)

Company Pitches: AgTech Data in LatAm

auravant (Leandro Sabignoso, Founder & CEO)
IZagro (Murilo Bettarello, Founder)

Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 3

Revolution Gelato (Jared Olkin, Founder)
GrainBridge (Faith Larson, Chief Strategy Officer)

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Wednesday, May 6

Innovations in Agriculture

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm

5:15 pm - 5:45 pm

5:45 pm - 6:15 pm

6:15 pm - 6:45 pm

6:45 pm - 7:15 pm

7:15 pm - 7:45 pm

Keynote: Harvesting Nature’s Intelligence

Sofia Elizondo (Co-Founder & COO, Brightseed)

Panel: Innovative CPG: Plant-Based Products for a Healthier World

Natalie Cira T'17 (Director of The Garden Incubator, Purple Carrot)
Cessna Mac (Investor, Powerplant Ventures)
Daniel Bernstein (Co-Founder, We Are the New Farmers)

Panel: Traceability: Digitalization of the Food Value Chain

Michael Pareles (Digital Strategy and Growth Lead, Bayer Crop Science)
Lasse Köhler (Corporate Venture Capital, Maersk Growth)

Panel: A New Vision for Food Safety

Yonathan Lapchik (CEO, SUKU)
Erik Malmstrom (CEO, SafeTraces)
Devendra Chandani (Co-Founder, Intello Labs)

Panel: The New Farming Economy

Heather Onstott T'07 (Onstott Financial Consulting, Former CFO of Freight Farms)
Russell Sprole (CFO, Full Harvest)
David Farquhar (CEO, Intelligent Growth Solutions)

Panel: Robotics: Harnessing the Power of Technology

Eric Adamson (Co-Founder & CEO, Tortuga AgTech)
Sébastien Boyer (Co-Founder & CEO, Farmwise)
Igino Cafiero (Founder & CEO, Bear Flag Robotics)

Company Pitches: Marketplaces, Analytics

DeHaat (Shashank Kumar, Founder & CEO)
FieldIn (Boaz Bachar, Co-Founder & CEO)

Company Pitches: Analytics, Robotics

BURRO (Charles Andersen, CEO)
Cloud Agronomics (Mark Tracy, CEO)

Company Pitches: Digital Commerce and Data Analytics

AgVend (Alexander Reichert, Co-Founder & CEO)
ripe.io (Raja Ramachandran, Founder)

Company Pitches: Traceability

AgNext (Taranjeet Singh Bhamra, CEO)
AgTrace (Andre Maltz Turkienicz, Co-Founder & CEO)

Company Pitches: New Cultivations

Arugga (Iddo Geltner, Co-Founder & CEO)
Myco Systemics (Gary Costner, Founder & CEO)

Company Pitches: Data Analytics

Augmenta (George Varvarelis, Founder & CEO)
Rice Exchange (Stephen Edkins, Founder & CEO)

Company Pitches: Data Analytics & Waste to Value

Agrosmart (Mariana Vasconcelos, CEO)
GSR Solutions (Dr. Anju Krivov, Co-Founder)

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Thursday, May 7

International AgTech Developments

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

1:15 pm - 1:45 pm

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm

5:15 pm - 5:45 pm

Keynote: AgTech Investing in India Versus Developed Economies

Hemendra Mathur (Venture Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund)

Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future: India

Mark Kahn (Managing Partner, Omnivore Ventures)
Ganesh Kaveeshwar (Portfolio Manager, Social Alpha)
Anurag Agarwal (Co-Founder, New Leaf Dynamic Technologies)

Keynote: AgTech Expansion to International Geographies

Karsten Neuffer (COO International, Indigo Agriculture)

Fireside Chat: Technology Applications for Developing Nations

Bill Scott (Senior Technical Advisor, Dexis Consulting Group)

Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future: LatAm

Louisa Burwood-Taylor (Head of Media and Research, AgFunder)
Rodrigo Santos (CEO, SOLINFTEC)
Mariana Vasconcelos (Founder, Agrosmart)

Panel: Disruption in Food Supply Chains in the Asia-Pacific Region

Rob Hulme (Asia Director, Beanstalk AgTech)
Stephen Edkins (Founder & CEO, Rice Exchange)
Siang Hee Tan (Executive Director, CropLife Asia)

Keynote: Empowering Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

Francisco Jardim (Founding Partner, SP Ventures)

Fireside Chat: Investing and Entrepreneurship in the Wake of COVID-19

Ed Roman (Managing Director, Hack VC)

Keynote: Food for Thought

Dana Worth (Vice President of Strategic Sales and Partnerships, Impossible Foods)

2020 Virtual Summit on AgTech Concluding Remarks by Tuck Food and Ag Club Leadership

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