2021 THEME: RECOVERY, REGENERATION, REIMAGINING

September 13, 2021

DAY ONE - RECOVERY & REGENERATION

(All times are ET.)

10:45 AM

• EVENT APP GOES LIVE!, DAY ONE

11:00 - 11:18 AM

• WELCOME & THEME EXPLORATION, HIGHLIGHTS

  • Paul Ulanch (Executive Director, Crop Commercialization Program, NCBiotech)

  • Rohit Shukla (CEO, Larta Institute)

  • Looking Back to Move Forward

    • Robert (Bob) Morris, President, AndMore Associates, Inc.

11:18 - 11:40 AM

• THE ROLE OF INNOVATION IN THE FOOD SYSTEM

  • Introduction by Jack Bobo (CEO, Futurity)

  • Chavonda Jacobs-Young (Administrator, USDA)

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM

• THE ROLE OF INNOVATION IN THE FOOD SYSTEM, CONVERSATION WITH Jack Bobo (CEO, Futurity)

  • [Access Jack Bobo’s Report: The Role of Innovation in Transforming The Global Food System]

  • Krysta Harden (President & CEO, US Dairy Export Council)

  • Eric Schulze (VP of Product and Regulation, Upside Foods)

12:30 - 1:00 PM

• SPONSOR HIGHLIGHTS & LUNCH BREAK

1:00 - 2:00 PM

• MITIGATING THREATS: FARMING FOOTPRINT, SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES

  • Hosted by Adrian Percy (Chief Technology Officer, UPL)

  • The Suffering Soil

    • Neal Gutterson (Partner & CTO, Radicle Growth)

  • The Plant Pandemic: Assessing the threats and the plans to protect the crop agriculture

    • Amy Grunden (William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, NC State University)

  • Animal Agriculture: Protein PACT and the future of animal protein

    • Eric Mittenthal (Chief Strategy Officer, Sustainability, North American Meat Institute)

  • Supply Chain: A postmortem of COVID, a preview of the challenges to come

    • Sanjeev Krishnan (Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director, S2G Ventures)

  • Indoor Ag: What can be contained, can be sustained!

    • Nicola Kerslake (Founder, Contain, Inc.)

2:00 - 3:00 PM

• RECOVERY & REGENERATION: START-UPS AND SCALE-UPS ADDRESS OPPORTUNITIES

  • Hosted by Rohit Shukla (CEO, Larta Institute), Carlos Gutierrez (Chief Strategy Officer, Larta), and Paul Ulanch (Executive Director, Crop Commercialization Program, NCBiotech)

  • INNOVATION HIGHLIGHT: Phospholutions

  • Mitchell Hora (Founder/CEO, Continuum Ag)

  • Naveen Sikka (Founder & CEO, Terviva)

  • Han Chen (Co-Founder & CEO, Zeakal)

  • Joy Parr Drach (President & CEO, Advanced Animal Diagnostics)

3:00 - 3:30 PM

• INNOVATION VIDEOS

  • Introduction by Rohit Shukla (CEO, Larta Institute)

3:30 PM

• END OF DAY ONE