Agenda

Day One | Monday, September 11, 2017

  • Special Content Session: Meet the Canadian Delegation (By Special Invitation Only)

  • Registration & Networking

  • Welcome & Retrospective

  • Spotlight #1: View from the Farm with Garret Riekhof, GR Farms, Higginsville, Mo.

  • Spotlight #2: Insights on Food Labeling Strategies with Patrick Moorehead, Label Insight

  • Company Showcase Session #1: Farm & Food : Ingredients and Markets with New Sources with Aspire, Bonumose, & Bugeater Foods

  • Networking Break

  • Company Showcase Session #2: Farm & Food: Decontamination and Disease Detection with NanoGuard, SnapDNA, & SomaDetect

  • Exhibits & Networking Break

  • Spotlight #3: Entrepeneur Alumnus John Sorenson, Vestaron

  • Company Showcase Session #3: Farm & Food: Input Markets, Beneficials & Biologics with 3Bar Biologics, Amebagone, Bee Vectoring Technology, Beeflow, & NovoBind

  • Opening Reception at the Missouri History Museum

Day Two | Tuesday, September 12, 2017

  • Registration & Networking Breakfast

  • Welcome Remarks

  • Opening Keynote: Adrian Percy, Head of Research and Development, Bayer AG, Crop Science

  • Exhibits & Networking Break

  • Disruptive Dialogue: Soil Health and Input Management with Moderator, Pete Nelson, AgLaunch, Ryan Bond, Koch Agronomic Services, Nicholas Goeser, National Corn Growers Association, Poornima Parameswaran, Trace Genomics & Steve Swaffar, No-till on the Plains

  • Networking Break

  • Company Showcase Session #4: Feast of Data: Input Market - Genetics with Agribody Technologies, New West Genetics, & Powerpollen

  • Regulatory Update with Deepti Kulkarni, Sidley Austin LLP

  • Networking Lunch

  • Spotlight 4 & 5: Feast of Data: Data and Machine Learning in the Great Outdoors with Bill Danker, Syngenta & Data and Machine Learning Inside the Bubble with Nicola Kerslake, New Bean Capital

  • Company Showcase Session #5: Feast of Data: Forecast & Visualization with Climate Forecast Applications Network, Farmin, iVache, Sencrop, Visual Farms, & Wisran

  • Company Showcase Session #6: Farm and Food: Recovery of Inputs with Compact Membrane Systems & Renix

  • Special Content Session: Presented by Sidley Austin LLP

  • Special Content Session: Presented by Argentina Investment & Trade Promotional Agency

  • Special Content Session: Presented by ARPA-E

  • Networking Reception & Tours of Danforth Plant Science Center

Day Three | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

  • Networking Breakfast & VIP Investor Breakfast (Library: by Special Invitation Only)

  • Exhibits, Networking, & Special Content Sessions: FFAR, Bryan Cave & Evogene, University Showcase

  • Special Content Session: Presented by Foundation for Food & Agriculture

  • Special Content Session: University Showcase Presented by TechAccel

  • Special Content Session: Presented by Bryan Cave

  • Exhibitions & Networking Break

  • Spotlight #6: View from the Farm with Jen Wagner-Lahr, AURI

  • Disruptive Dialogue: Showcase Highlights & Trends to Watch with Han Chen, ZeaKal Inc., Matt Crisp, Benson Hill, Jacqueline Heard, Anterra Capital, Ron Meeusen, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, LLC, Mat Müller, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, & Vonnie Estes, Independent Consultant

  • Networking Lunch & Closing Remarks

  • Exhibitions & Networking