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