How to Fuel Food’s Future
October 6, 2022
How digital agriculture can sustainably fuel food’s future.
Our global food system uses significant energy to feed the world, powering everything from essential fertilisers to machinery required for food’s growth and distribution.
Production agriculture has been on an ongoing evolution of optimization towards increased productivity and sustainability. Increasing pressures from climate policy, rising energy prices and inflation have led us to another critical inflection point. While some pressures may alleviate, it’s also now clear that the food system is being dramatically impacted by machines, software and new autonomous tech.
Can this new tech help the food system promote sustainability, while also managing cost pressures? And how can we attract the talent the food system needs to put this tech to work?
Join CityAge and EMILI on October 6 for a look at how digital agriculture can sustainably fuel food’s future.
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Themes will include:
- Driving better digital connectivity throughout rural areas
- How to accelerate the implementation of IOT, AI and other technologies building the future food system
- How to better integrate and share data throughout food’s value chain
- How to get new technologies into the market faster
- How to build up food security, while prioritizing sustainability
- How tech developers and farmers can work together to retrain workers and build technology that integrates into growers’ workflow
- The role of food and beverage manufacturing in ensuring sustainability
SPEAKERS & GUESTS
Matthew Hudson
Co-Director, Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Liz Hunt
Head, Sustainable & Responsible Business, Syngenta
Gary Lewis
President, Bio-Agtive Emissions Farming
Alex Smith
Senior Food & Agriculture Analyst, The Breakthrough Institute
Warren Bills
CCCCHead of Marketing & Commercialization, Precision AI Inc.
Kate Skotheim
Ag Stream Manager, Creative Destruction Lab
Sebastien Boyer
Co-Founder & CEO, FarmWise
Steve Liang
Founder & CTO, SensorUp
Misty Tucker
Global Industry Principal Expert, Agriculture, Planet Labs
Rose Cooperrider
Senior Enablement Consultant, SkyWatch Space Applications
Sangeeta Lalli
Public Policy Director, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods
Hank Venema
CEO & Senior Engineer, Strategic Systems Engineering Inc
Zahra Alani
Broadcast Meteorologist & Communications Strategist, CityAge Anchor CityAge
PROGRAM
Anchor Welcome & Introduction
11:35am Opening Presentation: Warren Bills, Head of Marketing & Commercialization,
Precision AI
Panel 1: How to Fuel the Future’s Food System
Soaring energy prices, on top of other input costs, are placing pressure on the agricultural sector globally. As the global population heads for 10 billion and we reduce energy inputs, what tools will be most helpful to build efficiencies?
- Matthew Hudson, Co-Director, Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Sebastien Boyer, Co-Founder and CEO, FarmWise
- Liz Hunt, Head of Sustainable & Responsible Business, Syngenta
- Panel Host: Alex Smith, Food & Agriculture Analyst, Breakthrough Institute
Presentation by: Sangeeta Lalli, Public Policy Director, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods
Fireside Chat: Gary Lewis, President, Bio-Agtive Emissions Farming
Presentation by: Kate Skotheim, Ag Stream Manager, Creative Destruction Lab
Panel 2 : How Geospatial + Data Can Grow More Food
The global food system needs to increase yields at the same time as it decreases resources used as inputs. How can the promise of geospatial, precision agriculture, and related data technologies increase how much food our farmers produce?
- Steve Liang, Founder & CTO, SensorUp
- Rose Cooperrider, Senior Enablement Consultant, SkyWatch Space Applications
- Misty Tucker, Global Industry Principal Expert, Agriculture, Planet Labs
- Host: Hank Venema, CEO, Strategic Systems Engineering Inc
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