Program - AgTech NEXT AgTech NEXT In-Person & Virtual Agrifood Event

AgTech NEXT 2022 Program

AgTech NEXT 2022 will feature globally recognized organizations and leaders who are catalyzing efforts to reinforce the resiliency of our food system, and who are reimagining what is possible in technology, trade, and talent, to ensure a future where nutritious food is sustainably produced and accessible for all.

Tuesday October 11, 2022 · 5:00 - 6:30 pm

@ Benson Hill

5:00-6:30 pm Opening Reception

Wednesday October 12, 2022 · 8:00 am - 7:00 pm

@ Danforth Plant Science Center

8:00-8:40 am Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:45-9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks

Stephanie Regagnon, Executive Director Innovation Partnerships, Danforth Plant Science Center
Mac Marshall, Vice President, Market Intelligence for the United Soybean Board

9:00-11:15 am Finance: A Call for Creative Capital

Realizing the disruptive potential of our current moment requires strategic contributions by inventive investors who can support and guide entrepreneurial efforts.

Keynote Presentation 9:00-9:25am

Nancy Pfund, Founder & Managing Partner, DBL Partners

Spotlight 9:30 - 9:55am

CoverCress, Bayer CropScience, Bunge & Chevron Partnership

Mike DeCamp, President & CEO, CoverCress, Inc.
Jennifer Ozimkiewicz, Senior Vice President, Bayer CropScience
Fernando Candia, Vice President of Carbon Solutions, Bunge
Winnie Lieu, General Manager of Downstream Strategy, Chevron

10:00 - 10:25am 39 North Refresh & Recharge Break

Panel Discussion 10:30 - 11:15am

Adam Bergman, Managing Director, Clean Energy Transition Group & Global Head of AgTech Investment, Citi - Moderator
Martha Schlicher, PhD, Entrepreneur in Residence, BioGenerator
Sanjay Wagle, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Lightsmith Group
Jason Wrone, Partner, Open Prairie

11:15-12:25 pm Networking Lunch

12:30-2:45 pm Talent: Inclusion & Intentionality

The development of a diverse talent pool, informed by a variety of lived experiences and perspectives, is critical for maximizing the value and potential of the agriculture and food industries.

Keynote Presentation 12:30 - 12:50pm

Julie Borlaug, President, Borlaug Foundation; CIMMYT Advisor

Spotlight 12:55 - 1:20pm

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Food, Agriculture and Nutrition (FAN) Innovation Center

Remarks by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Founder & CEO of the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation
A dialogue between Julie Borlaug and Amy Funk, Director of the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Innovation Center.

1:25 - 1:55 pm 39 North Refresh & Recharge Break

Panel Discussion 2:00 - 2:45pm

Natalie Self, Senior Vice President, Equitable Economic Impact, Cortex Innovation Community – Moderator
Justin Raymundo, Director of Regional Workforce Strategy, BioSTL
Dessa Kopp, Vice President, Talent Management, Post Holdings, Inc.
Nick Speed, Founder & Executive Director, Ujima STL

3:30–4:45 pm Trade: Pursuing Equity & Efficacy

How can technological and social innovations be leveraged to improve outcomes for global agricultural trade systems, which are vulnerable to emerging risks and limited by historical inequities?

Panel Discussion 3:30 - 4:30pm

Kenneth Zuckerberg, Lead Analyst & Senior Economist, CoBank - Moderator
Shannon Hauf, Senior Vice President & Head of Seed Production Innovation, Bayer Crop Science
Nicholas Brozovic, PhD, Director of Policy, Daugherty Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska
Lisa Safarian, President and COO, Pivot Bio

4:45-6:00 pm Networking Reception

Thursday October 13, 2022 · 8:00 - 11:00 am

@ Danforth Plant Science Center

8:00am Networking Breakfast

8:55 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks

9:00-11:15 am Technology: Radical Collaboration Required

Despite rapid technological advancement, is a lack of collaboration between traditionally disparate industry sectors preventing the discovery of meaningful solutions to contemporary agri-food problems?

Keynote Presentation 9:00 - 9:25am

Cynthia Rosenzweig, PhD, Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies & the co-located Columbia University Earth Institute’s Center for Climate Systems Research; and World Food Prize Laureate, 2022

Spotlight 9:30-10:05am

Subterranean Influences on Nitrogen and Carbon (SINC) Center, a new center of excellence at the Danforth Plant Science Center

Remarks by Rebecca Bart, PhD, Associate Member, Danforth Plant Science Center & Co-director, SINC Center followed by a dialogue between:
- Bob Morris, President, AndMore Associates, LLC - Moderator
- Rebecca Bart, PhD, Associate Member, Danforth Plant Science Center & Co-director, SINC Center
- Ryan Bond, PhD, Sr. Director, Global Proprietary Business Development and Innovation and the lead for Biologicals and Soil Health, Nutrien Ag Solutions
- Daniel Schachtman, PhD, Director of the Center for Biotechnology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10:05 - 10:25 am 39 North Refresh & Recharge Break

Panel Discussion 10:30 - 11:15am

Allison Miller, PhD, Member, Danforth Plant Science Center & Professor of Biology, Saint Louis University - Moderator
Vasit Sagan, PhD, Acting Director, Taylor Geospatial Institute
Pablo Sobron, CEO, Impossible Sensing
Matt Bechdol, CEO, GRYFN

11:20am - 1pm Optional Networking Lunch and Tours of the Danforth Center

To be available online as a live stream and playback recording until October 20, 2022