
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
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Tom Chi (Founding Partner, At One Ventures)
Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future
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Phil Boyer (Principal, Crosslink Capital)
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Dan Phillips (Managing Director, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures)
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Brett Brohl (Managing Director, Techstars Farm to Fork)
Topic Intro: Alternative Proteins Market Map
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Counterfactual Ventures (Huw Thomas, Co-Founder)
Panel: Sustainability of Protein: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat: Part 1
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Benjamina Bollag (Co-Founder & CEO, Higher Steaks)
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Krijn de Nood (Co-Founder & CEO, Meatable)
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Christie Lagally (Founder & CEO, Rebellyous Foods)
Panel: Breakthroughs in Proteins
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Dr. Matthew Zhao (Food Scientist, Big Idea Ventures)
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Dr. Dalal AlGhawas (Program Director, Big Idea Ventures)
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Dr. Zafer Bashi (ACRE Specialist, McKinsey)
Panel: Sustainability of Protein: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat: Part 2
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Phäedra Anestassia Randolph (Founder & CEO, Spero Foods)
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Dan Riegler (Co-Founder, Karana)
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Sunny Kumar (Founder, Black Sheep Foods)
Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 1
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Kula Bio (Bill Brady, Founding CEO & Director)
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New Age Meats (Brian Spears, Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 2
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Patch Organics (Patricia Trongone, Founder & President)
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Misfit Foods (Phil Wong, Co-Founder)
Keynote Speaker: Where AgTech Meets FinTech
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Maurits Lancee (Associate, Rabo Frontier Ventures)
Company Pitches: FinTech for AgTech
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Agryo (Isaque Eberhardt, Co-Founder & CEO)
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ProducePay (Ben Dusastre, Co-Founder & President)
Company Pitches: AgTech Data in LatAm
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auravant (Leandro Sabignoso, Founder & CEO)
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IZagro (Murilo Bettarello, Founder)
Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 3
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Revolution Gelato (Jared Olkin, Founder)
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GrainBridge (Faith Larson, Chief Strategy Officer)
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
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Sofia Elizondo (Co-Founder & COO, Brightseed)
Panel: Innovative CPG: Plant-Based Products for a Healthier World
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Natalie Cira T'17 (Director of The Garden Incubator, Purple Carrot)
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Cessna Mac (Investor, Powerplant Ventures)
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Daniel Bernstein (Co-Founder, We Are the New Farmers)
Panel: Traceability: Digitalization of the Food Value Chain
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Michael Pareles (Digital Strategy and Growth Lead, Bayer Crop Science)
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Lasse Köhler (Corporate Venture Capital, Maersk Growth)
Panel: A New Vision for Food Safety
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Yonathan Lapchik (CEO, SUKU)
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Erik Malmstrom (CEO, SafeTraces)
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Devendra Chandani (Co-Founder, Intello Labs)
Panel: The New Farming Economy
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Heather Onstott T'07 (Onstott Financial Consulting, Former CFO of Freight Farms)
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Russell Sprole (CFO, Full Harvest)
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David Farquhar (CEO, Intelligent Growth Solutions)
Panel: Robotics: Harnessing the Power of Technology
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Eric Adamson (Co-Founder & CEO, Tortuga AgTech)
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Sébastien Boyer (Co-Founder & CEO, Farmwise)
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Igino Cafiero (Founder & CEO, Bear Flag Robotics)
Company Pitches: Marketplaces, Analytics
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DeHaat (Shashank Kumar, Founder & CEO)
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FieldIn (Boaz Bachar, Co-Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: Analytics, Robotics
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BURRO (Charles Andersen, CEO)
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Cloud Agronomics (Mark Tracy, CEO)
Company Pitches: Digital Commerce and Data Analytics
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AgVend (Alexander Reichert, Co-Founder & CEO)
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ripe.io (Raja Ramachandran, Founder)
Company Pitches: Traceability
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AgNext (Taranjeet Singh Bhamra, CEO)
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AgTrace (Andre Maltz Turkienicz, Co-Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: New Cultivations
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Arugga (Iddo Geltner, Co-Founder & CEO)
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Myco Systemics (Gary Costner, Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: Data Analytics
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Augmenta (George Varvarelis, Founder & CEO)
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Rice Exchange (Stephen Edkins, Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: Data Analytics & Waste to Value
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Agrosmart (Mariana Vasconcelos, CEO)
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GSR Solutions (Dr. Anju Krivov, Co-Founder)
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
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Hemendra Mathur (Venture Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund)
Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future: India
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Mark Kahn (Managing Partner, Omnivore Ventures)
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Ganesh Kaveeshwar (Portfolio Manager, Social Alpha)
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Anurag Agarwal (Co-Founder, New Leaf Dynamic Technologies)
Keynote: AgTech Expansion to International Geographies
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Karsten Neuffer (COO International, Indigo Agriculture)
Fireside Chat: Technology Applications for Developing Nations
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Bill Scott (Senior Technical Advisor, Dexis Consulting Group)
Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future: LatAm
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Louisa Burwood-Taylor (Head of Media and Research, AgFunder)
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Rodrigo Santos (CEO, SOLINFTEC)
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Mariana Vasconcelos (Founder, Agrosmart)
Panel: Disruption in Food Supply Chains in the Asia-Pacific Region
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Rob Hulme (Asia Director, Beanstalk AgTech)
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Stephen Edkins (Founder & CEO, Rice Exchange)
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Siang Hee Tan (Executive Director, CropLife Asia)
Keynote: Empowering Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
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Francisco Jardim (Founding Partner, SP Ventures)
Fireside Chat: Investing and Entrepreneurship in the Wake of COVID-19
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Ed Roman (Managing Director, Hack VC)
Keynote: Food for Thought
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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