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With such diverse food, feed, and bio-based products sectors supported by farmers, processors, and others, Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector provide for Canadians and people around the world. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada delivers leadership in the sector to help spur growth, innovation, and sustainability practices. By driving innovation and ingenuity, the department seeks to build a world-leading agricultural and food economy for the benefit of all Canadians.

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The Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis covers the Upper Midwest region of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. The mission focuses on business and investment opportunities in technology, research and development, product commercialization, joint-ventures trade relationships, strategic partnerships, and both greenfield and financial investments between the Upper Midwest and Canada.

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The Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) of Global Affairs Canada helps Canadian companies and organizations succeed globally. Now more than ever, the TCS helps Canadian businesses grow with confidence by connecting them with international opportunities, funding and support programs, and our network of Trade Commissioners in over 160 cities worldwide.

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Protein Industries Canada (PIC) is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization created to position Canada as a global source of high-quality plant protein and plant-based co-products. It is one of five innovation Superclusters created by the Government of Canada.

PIC works with industry partners to create co-investment projects that have the potential to transform the agriculture and food production sector. These projects help establish new and existing businesses, incent innovation around science, processing, and product development, and build capacity in the plant-based protein sector.

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OCP North America is a subsidiary of the OCP Group, a global leader in plant nutrition and soil fertility solutions. With over a century of expertise in the market of phosphate and derivatives, the Group offers an extensive range of products to enrich soils and increase agricultural yields across five continents. Leveraging its presence in the US and Canada, OCP North America engages with growers and the complex web of companies that serve their needs, to assure that we are providing farmers with the right products, at the right time, and at the right price so they can be productive, innovative and profitable while contributing to more sustainable and environmentally responsible food systems.

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ISCA, Inc. is providing the next generation of insect control products for world agriculture by harnessing the power of pheromones and other naturally occurring compounds that manipulate the behavior of targeted insect species. These products thwart crop damage by preventing targeted pest insects from mating, repelling them from crops, or attracting them to minuscule amounts of killing agents while leaving honeybees and other wildlife unharmed. ISCA's insect control innovations are environmentally sustainable, cost-effective, and can be applied to both row and specialty crops. ISCA is headquartered Riverside, Calif., and has subsidiaries in the United States, Brazil, and India.

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Accelerator for U.S. Domestic Energy and Global Business Opportunities

The American-Made Challenges incentivize the nation's entrepreneurs to strengthen American leadership in energy innovation and domestic manufacturing. These new challenges seek to lower the barriers U.S.-based innovators face in reaching manufacturing scale by accelerating the cycles of learning from years to weeks while helping to create partnerships that connect entrepreneurs to the private sector and the network of DOE's National Laboratories across the nation.

The Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI) is a nonprofit corporation founded by the Minnesota Legislature in response to the farm crisis of the 1980s. Today, the organization supports entrepreneurs, business owners, and rural communities throughout the state by helping develop new and innovative value-added agricultural products. AURI’s mission is to foster long-term economic benefit for Minnesota through value-added agricultural products.

Big Idea Ventures is a venture capital firm with teams in Singapore and New York, combining capital and partnership to support and grow the world’s most compelling plant-based food companies and protein alternatives. Their first fund is the New Protein Fund (US$50M), anchored by major institutional investors including Temasek Holdings (global investment firm based in Singapore) and Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) Fortune 100 company. Big Idea Ventures made its first investment in Shiok Meats, the first clean meat company in Asia. The fund currently has 27 companies in its portfolio across cell-based and plant-based foods and is accepting applications for its next accelerator program.

Indigram Labs Foundation (ILF) was founded in 2015, as Technology Business Incubator with the support of NSTEDB, DST, GoI. We believe that entrepreneurs have a unique opportunity to make the positive global change while remaining profitable. They have the power to change lives and livelihoods in the communities and the country. We see them as the conduit for real change and development – a ripple effect that begins with the business and moves into the community at the grassroots level.

The OnRamp Agriculture Conference brings together the agriculture and food industries’ leading corporations, investors, and startups. The conference highlights innovations disrupting agriculture and the future of food, the leaders making such innovations possible, and how new technologies and business models will reinvent the industry.

The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) moves science to action on the front lines of environmental progress. Using Los Angeles and California as a testbed, IoES promises solutions for the broader world—and our commitment to communications makes sure our ideas are heard. IoES has pioneered a unique, hands-on approach to environmental research and practice. The students are paired off-campus with clients to solve real-world problems using the science, statistics and communications skills they’ve learned. A similar approach is taken at the graduate level.